Vic Brookes
Vic Brookes is a qualified counsellor and coach and is currently working on a qualitative post-graduate thesis exploring how ADHD adults experience engagement with professional support.
Vic took a break from work when their daughter was born, and works part-time around her in order to home-educate. Vic has learned a lot about demand avoidance and working with it rather than against it, situational mutism, speech and language differences such as difficulty processing abstract questions (blank levels 3 and 4), gestalt language processing, monotropic thinking, and sensory differences – including interoception. They also have an interest in poly-vagal theory and find that it really helps people understand themselves better.
Vic has been working online as a counsellor and a coach since 2023 and began with Genius Within in September 2023. They report, “I love it here; the neuro-affirming culture is refreshing, and it’s great being in a place where being non-binary feels not only accepted but supported. I really like the CPD too! To date, I’ve worked with a variety of clients including NHSE and those completing accountancy exams and supporting with studies as well as work and lots of other individuals in various work environments/scenarios.”
Vic has a wealth of professional experience in the neurodiversity field, as well as lived experience. They have worked in personal care and support for adults with learning disabilities, as a youth worker, a teaching assistant and a canoe/kayak instructor! Vic is inspired to help people learn the ‘how-to’ for all the things they have been unable to do and felt guilt/shame for; or how not to do those things and live well anyway!
When Vic is coaching at their best, they engage and connect well with their coachees. They are able to explore what is going on for them from angles they have not yet considered, or problem-solve ones they have considered and discarded
Qualifications
Transformation Academy Life Coaching Certification
ILM Advanced Neurodiversity Strategies
Level 7 PG Dip in Psychotherapeutic Counselling
MBACP, including membership to the coaching division
