Thank you for visiting the website for Inspiring Progress CIC , my name is Natasha and I am passionate about empowering people on the autism spectrum to lead a positive and confident life. As well as providing empowering interventions, Inspiring Progress CIC also ensures that our clients complete their coaching with us whilst still being able to maintain the true essence of who they are: An individual with autism who now also happens to have the social skills needed to navigate this socially demanding world

Due to the changing nature of the world around us all our services are delivered online , we use remote platforms such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom

In the early part of my professional career I worked as a recruitment consultant supporting young people aged 16 -24 into apprenticeships.

I then moved into Further education where I worked initially as a Learning Mentor and then trained as a health and social care lecturer, a role that involved supporting a range of adults with varying needs, including supporting individuals with an autism spectrum disorder and students with mental health needs

In 2011 I decided to establish an organisation that would focus solely on providing coaching that would support people on the autism spectrum or people who live with/ engage with individuals on the autism spectrum

In 2013 Inspiring Progress secured a contract with the department of work and pensions (The Job Centre) where we ran an intervention

that actively supported job seekers with ASD/social and communication difficulties/mental health issues, into employment and apprenticeship positions. Inspiring Progress has also worked with Watford Stop Gap , an organisation that supported 16 - 25 yrs with ASD through a range of different programmes

Inspiring Progress CIC has also delivered autism awareness training to a range of different organisation such as a well known recruitment consultancy and our local Home Start team.

I have received training in supporting people with ASD and learning difficulties and I have also received Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) training. My complimentary skill to my experience is that I am a qualified Image Consultant