Therapists, Educators, & Professionals
You’re in this business because you care—but the harder you work, the more you realize your schooling didn’t prepare you to meet autistic and ADHD needs. What’s more, you’re exhausted from the demands of your career. You’re not alone!
I offer personalized education detailing how it really feels to be in school and therapy as a neurodivergent person. You’ll learn the history and tenets of disability justice, the problems with pathologizing difference, and meaningful techniques for maximizing student wellness. Together, we’ll develop a neurodiversity-friendly practice you can feel proud of.
What would you like to talk about?
- Accessibility: Identify ways to adapt your office, classroom, events, communications, and processes so they maximize connection and participation.
- Accommodations (that actually work): Decades of institutional discrimination mean your student or client may not even get a diagnosis, much less a useful doctor’s note. Break down barriers by learning how to personally accommodate their differences—no bureaucracy required.
- Autistic/ADHD experiences in school and therapy: Which techniques maximize connection and learning? Which make it harder? Why do some autistic and ADHD students struggle with well-regarded modalities like CBT? What invisible struggles could your students and clients be contending with?
- Building trust: You do this work out of kindness, but at the end of the day, our educational and mental health systems have done serious harm to neurodivergent communities… and that harm prevents students and clients from opening up. Turn your good intentions into flourishing relationships by learning to successfully and truthfully tell clients, “You are safe with me.”
- Neurodivergent myth-busting: Do autistic people lack empathy? Should ADHDers simply try harder? Is “indistinguishable from their peers” a valid measure of functioning—or even an ethical one?
- Problems with the pathology model: Why do research results and lived experience so rarely match up? Is “disabled” a dirty word? How can reframing our perception of autism, ADHD, and their associated struggles help to make those struggles go away?
- Spiky cognitive profiles: Why do we struggle to tie our shoes one minute and complete complex arithmetic the next?