Customized Trainings

There is no single way to create a neurodivergent-affirming therapeutic practice.

Our practices are shaped by the people we serve, the environments we work within, and our own ways of understanding and relating to neurodivergence. Personalized trainings offer space to look thoughtfully at your practice as a whole—from the first interaction a client has with you to the relationships that develop within the therapy room.

As a high-masking AuDHD clinician whose practice is devoted to working with neurodivergent people, my approach to training brings together lived experience, years of clinical work, specialized training, and an ongoing commitment to understanding the nuances of autism and ADHD.

Together, we can get curious about what is already working in your practice or agency, where there might be room for change, and how to create more accessible and affirming experiences for the neurodivergent people you serve.

Trainings can be tailored to the needs of your individual practice, group agency or organization and may include education on:

Initial contact

Creating websites, forms and communication practices that are accessible and welcoming to neurodivergent clients and clearly convey an approach grounded in non-pathologizing, neurodivergent-affirming care.

Intake process

Structuring intake processes to reduce unnecessary barriers and make them as accessible, predictable and adaptable as possible. This includes proactively communicating what clients can expect and offering clear, thorough information about everything from services and paperwork to what it will be like to arrive at the office.

Office environment

Creating physical environments that thoughtfully consider sensory needs and preferences, with opportunities for flexibility, choice and individualized accessibility.

Relationship building

Exploring ways of establishing therapeutic relationships with high-masking neurodivergent clients, including how masking, past relational experiences and differences in communication or processing may shape connection within therapy.

Strengths-based perspectives

Moving beyond deficit-based understandings of neurodiversity to recognize and honor neurodivergent ways of thinking, communicating, connecting, relating and experiencing the world, while remaining attentive to each client's individual strengths, needs and challenges.

Curiosity

Cultivating curiosity and openness as a clinician rather than relying on assumptions about what neurodivergence is supposed to look like. Exploring how we can better understand and connect with each client's unique experience of their neurodivergence.

Understanding high-masking autism and ADHD

Building a more nuanced understanding of how autism and ADHD may present in individuals whose traits have historically been overlooked or misunderstood, including the experiences and impacts of masking. This may also include exploring thoughtful, affirming ways to begin conversations with clients about possible neurodivergence.