by Tanya Hicks
Everything here is still being checked.
Research and practice development at the intersection of neuroaffirming counselling and rights-based Behaviour Support. See also For organisations.
This is practice-development work. It is not treatment-validation research, and it is not evidence that any developing framework is already a validated intervention.
A proposed direction, not a claim of candidature
A possible PhD-by-publication pathway remains a future direction, subject to university admission and requirements. The professional books translate the work for practice. Peer-reviewed publications and an integrating exegesis carry the doctoral contribution.
Access Before Intervention
Conceptual framework, therapeutic access, formulation and hidden access-cost measurement.
Behaviour Makes Sense
Critical neuroaffirming PBS review, rights, restrictive-practice reduction and implementation quality.
Beyond Regulation
Nervous System Nourishment evidence review, practice guide and later co-design and evaluation.
Practice That Holds
Supervision, workforce capability, shared and asynchronous environments and implementation systems.
Commercial publication does not itself establish peer review or doctoral equivalence. The final portfolio must meet the selected university’s current requirements.
Grounding disciplines
- Therapeutic relationship and skills
- Assessment and formulation
- CBT, ACT, mindfulness and narrative practice
- Human development
- Trauma and crisis
- Mental-health counselling
- Alcohol and other drugs
- Research design and critical appraisal
- Supervised placement
How to read a claim on this site.
Well-supported in the existing literature.
Promising or debated; not settled.
Original synthesis under development and critical review.
Where this is heading
- Nervous System Nourishment
- Access and conditions
- Masking and therapeutic access
- Behaviour in context
- Hidden access costs and the Ledgers
- Implementation
- Future co-design and evaluation
- PhD by Publication