Navigating Neurodivergence: Practical Strategies for Therapists | 1.5 Credit Hours | February 18th | 12:00-1:30 PM

Navigating Neurodivergence: Practical Strategies for Therapists 📅 Date: Wednesday, February 18th 🕓 Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST 📍 Location: Virtual 🎤 Facilitator: Ashley Esry, LICSW, LCSW, LCAS Navigating Neurodivergence is a clinically grounded training designed to help mental health professionals better understand, assess, and support neurodivergent clients through an affirming, strengths-based lens. This training explores neurodivergence as a natural variation in brain functioning, including autism, ADHD, learning differences, and overlapping presentations, while addressing common misconceptions and systemic barriers within mental health care. Through clinical examples and applied strategies, this training supports ethical, inclusive, and effective practice that honors neurodivergent identities rather than pathologizing them. Clinicians will leave with increased confidence, practical tools, and a clearer framework for building strong therapeutic relationships with neurodivergent clients. Learning Objectives: Identify key characteristics and presentations of neurodivergence. Recognize common challenges experienced by neurodivergent clients in and out of therapy. Implement practical, strengths-based interventions to support engagement, regulation, and growth. Participants will learn: Core concepts of neurodiversity and neurodivergence Differences and overlap between autism and ADHD presentations How executive dysfunction, sensory needs, and masking impact therapy Strategies to improve engagement, emotional regulation, and goal follow-through Ways to create more accessible, affirming, and collaborative therapeutic environments 🎓 1.5 Credit Hours | ACEP Number: 7925 💻 Online format