Neuronormative therapy models create hidden obstacles when counselling autistic individuals. Psychotherapy /Counselling has historically centred non-autistic experiences. Bolton (2022) describes how the field has used a neuronormative frame that subtly positions autistic experience as something to be corrected or reduced, rather than understood. Even approaches considered non-pathologising, such as person-centred therapy, have often relied on medicalised language within its l