Meet Amanda

BSW Intern

Meet Amanda, social work student intern, providing accessible neurodivergent affirming and trauma informed counselling services.

Amanda Broderick, an autistic, disabled, white bodied female who is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Social Worker degree from Dalhousie University. She is completing a practicum placement with a clinical social work focus in Shelley Restall’s Counselling practice.

Amanda is passionate about supporting late diagnosed autistic females (including self-diagnosed, exploring neurodivergence), to build a life that is based on self-knowledge, self-acceptance, creating systems of neurodivergent affirming support for daily life, and de-constructing internalized ableism that is self-limiting.

Currently accepting new clients~ click the link below to book now!

Amanda’s Specialty Counselling Services

Amanda provides Individual Counselling & Parent Specific Support through VIRTUAL SESSIONS ONLY.

Amanda provides support from a framework of neuroaffirming, trauma informed, disability justice oriented, and anti-ableist approaches in all work she engages in.

Amanda supports everyone she works with from a starting place of meeting you where are currently and then collaboratively and compassionately co-constructing how you reach your goals in therapy.

Amanda’s Formal Training & Experiences

Formal Trainings:

  • Bachelor of Social Work Program Dalhousie University (Anticipated Completion Date: August 2025)

  • Counselling Techniques Certificate Wilfrid Laurier University

  • Completion Date: June 2025

  • 84 Hours

  • Trauma Certificate Wilfrid Laurier University, (84 hrs June 2025)

  • 84 Hours Counselling Skills Level 1 Certificate, Dalhousie University

  • Counselling Skills Level 2 Certificate Dalhousie University

    Completed Winter 2023 (Completed Fall 2023 )

  • Brief Solutions Focused Therapy Dalhousie University (Completed Spring 2024)

  • Bachelor of Social Work Program, PreRequisites University of Waterloo

  • 10 Advanced Training Courses, Including Individual, Group and Family Counselling

  • Post Graduate Certificate - Community and Social Service Management Conestoga College

“I am passionate about supporting neurodivergent people (including self-diagnosed, exploring neurodivergence), to build a life that is based on self-knowledge, self-acceptance, creating systems of neurodivergent affirming support for daily life, and de-constructing internalized ableism that is self-limiting. I have a lifetime of lived experiences with AFAB Autism and 25 years experience supporting other Neurodivergent people.”

~Amanda Broderick, BSW Intern

Therapy, Counselling Services with Amanda Broderick

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.

  • It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.