People with Asperger's often face similar problems, such as:

• Learning to live away from their parents
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Feelings of anger, depression and anxiety
• Changing habits such as compulsive behaviour, diet, sleep and activity.

Coaching is designed to help the family and the individual support the person in overcoming these problems and build a satisfactory life.

Coaching aims to help people to find their own best way forward. It can come to you via the phone, or face to face if you live close enough to one of our coaches. Sometimes we use teleconferences, and sometimes we meet in groups. Sometimes I work with person with Asperger's, and sometimes it seems better to work with the family or just the parents.

We know that there are ways to develop positive thought patterns and that these techniques can make tremendous differences to individuals. Aiming at something specific is the first step to getting it.

It is difficult to get financial support for Asperger’s unless the person goes into a crisis. Families are left holding the baby anyway, so I focus first on coaching families, though I still coach individuals who want to move forward

Coaching is a 'barefoot solution': it is cheap, accessible, and flexible to the person's needs because it can be designed around the particular way of life people have found. It is also a learnable process.

Constant information from me helps you to reflect upon your own influence and what you stand for. Because of this, you will strengthen your boundaries, and so each of you will also strengthen your expectations.

I often use DISC profiling to kick start the process, because it gives such useful information.

All families are unique, so the outcomes are individual. Everyone will choose their own future.

Family life is a constant negotiation, and the outcomes belong to the family. The process can be influenced: more skills, awareness, understanding and information will help you to develop your family so that each of you are supported and protected and so that each person's way of life does not harm the others.

Specifically, you can expect:

• improved communication/fewer rows
• better awareness/less anxiety
• increased commitment/less excusing
• more shared ambitions/fewer conflicts
• more satisfaction/less frustration.