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Helping You Thrive at Your Pace in a Demanding World

Most of our clients seek sensory comfort and improved executive functioning whether it’s from neurodivergence, trauma or underlying mood disorders and/or addiction. And sometimes it’s all of this. All at once. Treatment is sometimes necessary. Here we offer additional support and in between session self-help. Most are derived from clinical experience supporting neurodivergent clients, Autistics and ADHDers, and those seeking support for attachment based trauma and C-PTSD.

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Raising Mixed-Race Children

Sometimes, good intentions, love and living in the right neighborhood works well when your child is still an infant. Until it doesn’t.

In this course we draw upon insights from helping disciplines such as sociology, psychology and social work to learn a framework that will support your children’s identities and help you develop a deeper understanding of the issues they face in today’s changing racial climate. You’ll be able to identify common and contemporary issues regarding racism and/or oppression of minorities and gain confidence in relevant discussions related to authenticity, privilege, intersectionality and colorism to help your children navigate their space as they mature to adulthood. You will also be able to distinguish nuanced experiences that counter typical Black/White binary racial discourse.

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Vitality, Inspiration and Restorative Practice

Healing is paradoxical. Many of the rules that we accumulate to live a life that is better than our childhood is to avoid the experiences that we perceive as root causes. Unfortunately, avoidance not only exacerbates our distress, but it doesn’t build capacity, bandwidth or ability.
Engaging in acts that provide inspiration, curiosity and purpose may have nothing to do with your childhood wounds, but it can provide healing.
This is one of my favorite videos because Isabella Ducrot expresses so well the impact of value/worthwhile activity on identity, emotional well-being, purpose, motivation and regulation.

My prompt is to enjoy this video as though you were in Italy at Isabella’s table and let yourself soak up her wisdom.

Attachment and its Significance to Autism/ADHD

It’s not uncommon that Autism and/or ADHD keep company with other conditions, experiences and sources of distress.
Many autistics and ADHDers have attachment/relational wounds for a variety of reasons. This is a significant part of our coaching as we extend our realm of influence and interaction to know what is possible.

I stumbled on this video which was about a father’s love for his two minute old newborn (that he reflects upon in the context of his religious beliefs). I am showing it to you to see the impact we have on each other through our nervous systems from a very early time in our lives. It’s engrained. We will work with this in our coaching.

"Noticing" without Judgment

Noticing doesn’t sound like a very formidable task. We open our eyes and observe. But ever think about doing this in a non-judgy way?

Just noticing without really investing in what you are seeing? Without evaluating, getting invested in the outcome? Not such big deal if you’re passing time at the airport.

But ever think about what that’s doing on the inside? All that analyzing? For one thing, it takes up quite a bit of energy. For another, we just reinforced our hypervigilance and negativity about the world.

This handy video is pretty awesome at introducing how you can notice without all that intensity.

Let Music Do The Work For You

This piece speaks for itself. I caught the tail end of an introduction on NPR about Les Greene and this incredible music and knew I had to share it with everyone.

That snippet had to do with Les Greene’s vision for this piece as a moment to take ourselves out of reality in the midst of darkness. That’s the power of music and this is ideal when you can’t use your words. Let the music invite you to scream out all of the pain and any pent up emotion.

Les Greene & The Swayzees.
(2026 Tiny Desk Contest finalists).

I love how it looks like the world is falling apart outside the window.

(Watch out for the mic toss! The horns! The voice! Wow!!)

Enjoy.

P.S. This one was my favorite, but you can watch other music entries here.

Daily Grounding Practice

Meditation is a foundational practice for autistics, adhders, audhders and other neurodivergents to prevent burnout, increase focus and gain consistent access to their executive functions (e.g. reality checking, perspective taking) and even empathy. Of course, neurotypicals and anyone wanting to manage overwhelm can benefit.

In the normal scheme of things, we would shake off the accumulation of stress hormones that result from “keeping it together” all day. But we don’t. Repair and self-soothing allows us to refuel so that we increase our resilience and energy reserves to manage future threats, and, of course, to do the things we love.

Using Self-Directed Commands to Manage Stress

Autogenic training is a deep and powerful relaxation technique that can help you attain a mellow tranquil state. It involves a series of repeated self-commands. It should not be used with certain health conditions such as severe heart problems, psychosis, diabetes, paranoia, or dissociation. An experienced therapist can help you monitor and implement the practice.

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