About Neurodivergent Support
NDspt
Neurodivergent Support (NDspt) offers affirming, person-centred support for autistic and neurodivergent adults. We provide coaching, mentoring, non-clinical counselling, and advocacy, helping individuals, professionals, and organisations build confidence, navigate challenges, and achieve meaningful progress. Rooted in lived experience, we tailor every step to individual needs, values, and preferred pace.
Meet the Mind of NDspt
At Neurodivergent Support (NDspt), we’re proud to work with a diverse team of volunteers, collaborators, and friends who share our commitment to creating a more understanding and inclusive world.
Our team brings together a wide range of lived experiences, professional backgrounds, and neurodivergent perspectives. Together, we combine knowledge, creativity, and compassion to provide practical, person-centred support for every individual we work with.
Each of us plays a unique part, whether guiding, mentoring, listening, or leading new ideas, and it’s this shared diversity of thought that truly defines the minds of NDspt.
Andi Kirkham MCMA
Co-Founder | Neurodivergent Specialist (Neurodivergencist)
Guidance Coach
Andi is the co-founder of Neurodivergent Support (NDspt) alongside Ash, and a passionate advocate for neurodiversity. As an autistic professional with deep lived experience, Andi brings empathy, understanding, and authenticity to every aspect of his work. His world revolves around neurodivergency, supporting others to find strength, identity, and balance through person-centred approaches.
Guided by a strong moral compass and a belief in fairness and justice, Andi strives to make positive change even when others may not see the same path. Many people often view him in ways that don’t truly reflect who he is, often through misunderstanding or a lack of real empathy in communication. Andi recognises that communication is rarely linear, and that misinterpretation often happens when people struggle to connect with different styles of language or expression. This awareness deepens his patience and reinforces his commitment to helping others find understanding beyond words.
With both lived and learned experience, Andi has worked extensively in disability services and retail, developing a grounded understanding of accessibility, teamwork, and human connection in fast-paced and often challenging environments. Alongside a history of working with animals through training and care, he brings patience, calm, and intuition to everything he does.
Occasionally, the team has to remind Andi that he isn’t Superman, and that it’s okay to apologise or say no when dates clash. Away from NDspt, he’s a dedicated fan of both the Bristol Pitbulls and Sheffield Steelers ice hockey teams, and a proud champion of community, inclusion, and individuality.
Ash Hudson
Co-Founder | aspiring music therapist and neurodivergent consultant
Guidance Coach
Ash Hudson is a musician whose career charts both artistic evolution and personal resilience. Beginning with piano lessons in 1994, he quickly gravitated toward acoustic guitar before fully committing to electric guitar at 13, developing a largely self-taught style rooted in instinct and persistence.
Forgoing a traditional school music pathway, he moved straight into formal training at college from 2002 to 2005, studying under accomplished lecturers including renowned guitar virtuoso Ray Fenwick. He later attended Colchester Institute (2006–2008), where his professional trajectory accelerated, and he received the tutelage and mentorship of Charles Hedger, and Jim Davis.
During this period, Hudson co-founded the band Access Denied, recording an EP, securing a deal with Matchbox Recordings, and performing extensively, with highlights including an English tour, and supporting bands such as KOOPA, and an upcoming and hot uprising and unsigned band at the time, Enter Shikari, on numerous occasions. His work earned him an endorsement from Adam Black Guitar Company to name but a few large equipment names, marking a high point in his early career.
Behind the scenes, however, mounting mental health challenges led to a diagnosis of Bipolar II Disorder alongside Obsessive Compulsive Disorder upon exiting university in 2008/9. What followed was an incredibly turbulent decade of navigating treatment, identity, and recovery, an experience that would ultimately reshape his path.
Ash emerged from this period with a renewed focus, and after enjoying several years in successful employment ventures as a freelance Class 2 HGV Driver agent, he most recently transitioned away from traditional industry routes to pursue stability and purpose through registering his own media business, and pursuing a dual-pronged approach to his new path of self-employment. Under the mentorship of Dr Andi Kirkham, he assisted in co-founding NDSPT and began training with the Complementary Medical Association. Today, he works as an aspiring music therapist and neurodivergent consultant alongside Andi
and many of his professional peers and contacts, drawing on lived experience to support others navigating similar challenges.
Blending musicianship with advocacy, Ash’s journey reflects a commitment not only to creative expression, but to meaningful change within the mental health and neurodivergent landscape.
Jet
Personal Assistant | Administrator | Lived Experience Professional
Jet is currently exploring his neurodivergent identity while providing essential support as Andi’s personal assistant and administrator. Alongside his professional role and the development of his own business within NDspt, Jet brings a profound understanding of the neurodivergent community, shaped by personal experiences with family and friends. His lived insight and compassionate approach make him an invaluable part of the team.
Jet’s diverse interests include cooking and baking, crafting and selling wax melts, enjoying music, and actively participating in the Mr. Cub UK competition.
He values social connection, loves spending time with friends, and finds calm in the outdoors and nature. Dyslexia never stops Jet from writing up detailed notes and reports, though he often wonders, with a smile, how Andi manages to spell things quite so badly.
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