BIO

Dr. Raymi Doyle is a psychotherapist and neuroinclusive consultant at ‘the space between us’, providing clinical, educational and supervisory support internationally to neurodivergent individuals, professionals & organisations since 2005. Raymi opened a private practice in 2011 to provide clinical and supervisory support for both neurodivergent children, adults & couples. Noticing a gap in training professionals he developed a bespoke autism training programme delivered through higher education to a range of professionals. This has exponentially grown to presenting and chairing on national/international conferences as well as guest peer reviewed international articles for over a decade, where he has won awards for his service.  

Raymi self-funded and completed his doctorate in 2022 called “Bridging the Gap between the Autistic, the Therapist, and the Theoretical Perspective”, which explored the relational space between neurotypes across numerous clinical practices within a multicultural study. This was one of the first studies to explore neurodivergent therapists. This ultimately led to developing his conceptual framework on ‘neurotransception’, developing a co-constructivist grounded theory to work across imposing power dynamics, and ultimately identifying himself as neurodivergent. 

Raymi has developed a relational debriefing model that he has successfully piloted, and has integrated this within his neuroinclusive consultancy service, as well supporting novice neurodivergent researcher-practitioners in their own research journeys, that he offers adjacent to his clinical practice.  

Raymi has also recently published a chapter ‘Neurotransception: A Conceptual Framework to Negotiate Relational and Power Dynamics that Exist across Divergent Neurotypes’ in the book ‘the neurodivergent reader’ edited by Damian Milton the founder of double empathy problem. 

TALK OVERVIEW

Neurotransception: bridging the relational gap between divergent neurotypes. 

This workshop introduces the conceptual framework of neurotransception developed by Dr. Raymi Doyle from his doctoral research, and later published in ‘the neurodivergent reader’ 2025.  

We will first examine how a comprehensive assessment can assist the therapist in mapping out the relational dynamics across systems, before moving on to reflect on our own positions of power, and how that may manifest across a therapeutic dyad. 

By applying the concept of spaciousness, we will look at how some intervention can be applied within a relational context of neutralizing neurobiological signals and power dynamics, before ending on how this can all be integrated within our practice, followed by a Q&A. 

Learning Objectives

1. Outline the core principles of neurotransception and how it manifests through neurobiological signaling within the relational dynamics across a therapeutic dyad. 
2. Identify the role of a comprehensive assessment when mapping out the relational dynamics that may be occurring across the systems that neurodivergent individuals may interact with. 
3. Reflect on our implicit and explicit positions of power that may feed into both the neurodivergent internal and other’s external reactive positions within the context of neurotransception and the social hierarchies that we may inhabit. 
4. Introducing the concept of spaciousness and how therapeutic intervention may be applied across conflicting power positions across divergent neurotypes. 
5. Briefly explore how working with neurotransception can be standalone or integrated across various therapeutic modalities.