LIVE - Neurodivergent Somatics: Supporting Autistic and ADH clients - 12 Canadian CEUs
Neurodivergent Therapy for the 21st Century
The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. But the Neurodivergent Somatics model created by Nyck Walsh MA, LPC, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing Neurodivergent affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma informed.
This advanced course builds upon the foundations presented in Nyck’s beginner course, The Do’s and Don’ts of Therapy with Neurodivergent Clients. This 3-part, 12-hour training delves into the three tenants of his Neurodivergent Somatics model:
Pleasure/Neutrality
Client as Self-Expert
Global Permission
This learning takes place in two ways. First, we explore specific principles, tools and strategies to apply with clients. Then we learn how to embody and model these principles within ourselves as the therapist and attachment figure to our clients.
Part 1 – Exploring the Neurodivergent Somatics Model
In this session, we explore specific somatic tools and strategies to support nervous system regulation for both clients and us. We learn how to help clients shift from primarily orienting to threat to having more access to parasympathetic states, including pleasure and neutrality. We practice shifting our own states of attention in order to stay present, engaged, and regulated in session. We explore boundaries as a source of differentiation that is essential to client empowerment, clarity, and unmasking. And we play with how this differentiation allows us to trust our clients as the experts on themselves and truly individualize our approach to each client.
Part 2 – Using Neurodivergent Somatics to Nuture Well-Being
In this session, we examine how ableism/internalized ableism lives within us, inadvertently creating rules that dictate what we believe makes a “good” therapist and client. We explore ways to dismantle these rules, support clients in doing so as well, and avoid perpetuating neurotypical norms in the therapy setting. We wander through the forest of accommodations and executive function support that clients need to exist in today’s world and be well. And we discover ways to support our own sustainability and well-being by noticing what supports we may need but didn’t think we were allowed to access.
Part 3 – Disrupting Outdated Norms
In this session, we play with Neuroqueering (Walker, 2021). We discover how disrupting dominant norms of white supremacy, neurotypicality, and cis-heteronormitivity in therapy allows us to more authentically center, honour, support, and celebrate our clients in the fullness of their Neurodivergence. This disruption also gives us more permission to be human and our own unique selves in the therapy space. We delve into how we transition and are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. And we look at how clients can be best supported in their transitions and their whole selves—mind, body, and soul.
This Neurodivergent Somatics course ends with a focus on joy for both our clients and us. Together, we lean into it as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of our life force energy.
To register click here and you will be brought to the Leading Edge website
Neurodivergent Therapy for the 21st Century
The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. But the Neurodivergent Somatics model created by Nyck Walsh MA, LPC, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing Neurodivergent affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma informed.
This advanced course builds upon the foundations presented in Nyck’s beginner course, The Do’s and Don’ts of Therapy with Neurodivergent Clients. This 3-part, 12-hour training delves into the three tenants of his Neurodivergent Somatics model:
Pleasure/Neutrality
Client as Self-Expert
Global Permission
This learning takes place in two ways. First, we explore specific principles, tools and strategies to apply with clients. Then we learn how to embody and model these principles within ourselves as the therapist and attachment figure to our clients.
Part 1 – Exploring the Neurodivergent Somatics Model
In this session, we explore specific somatic tools and strategies to support nervous system regulation for both clients and us. We learn how to help clients shift from primarily orienting to threat to having more access to parasympathetic states, including pleasure and neutrality. We practice shifting our own states of attention in order to stay present, engaged, and regulated in session. We explore boundaries as a source of differentiation that is essential to client empowerment, clarity, and unmasking. And we play with how this differentiation allows us to trust our clients as the experts on themselves and truly individualize our approach to each client.
Part 2 – Using Neurodivergent Somatics to Nuture Well-Being
In this session, we examine how ableism/internalized ableism lives within us, inadvertently creating rules that dictate what we believe makes a “good” therapist and client. We explore ways to dismantle these rules, support clients in doing so as well, and avoid perpetuating neurotypical norms in the therapy setting. We wander through the forest of accommodations and executive function support that clients need to exist in today’s world and be well. And we discover ways to support our own sustainability and well-being by noticing what supports we may need but didn’t think we were allowed to access.
Part 3 – Disrupting Outdated Norms
In this session, we play with Neuroqueering (Walker, 2021). We discover how disrupting dominant norms of white supremacy, neurotypicality, and cis-heteronormitivity in therapy allows us to more authentically center, honour, support, and celebrate our clients in the fullness of their Neurodivergence. This disruption also gives us more permission to be human and our own unique selves in the therapy space. We delve into how we transition and are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. And we look at how clients can be best supported in their transitions and their whole selves—mind, body, and soul.
This Neurodivergent Somatics course ends with a focus on joy for both our clients and us. Together, we lean into it as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of our life force energy.
To register click here and you will be brought to the Leading Edge website
Neurodivergent Therapy for the 21st Century
The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. But the Neurodivergent Somatics model created by Nyck Walsh MA, LPC, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing Neurodivergent affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma informed.
This advanced course builds upon the foundations presented in Nyck’s beginner course, The Do’s and Don’ts of Therapy with Neurodivergent Clients. This 3-part, 12-hour training delves into the three tenants of his Neurodivergent Somatics model:
Pleasure/Neutrality
Client as Self-Expert
Global Permission
This learning takes place in two ways. First, we explore specific principles, tools and strategies to apply with clients. Then we learn how to embody and model these principles within ourselves as the therapist and attachment figure to our clients.
Part 1 – Exploring the Neurodivergent Somatics Model
In this session, we explore specific somatic tools and strategies to support nervous system regulation for both clients and us. We learn how to help clients shift from primarily orienting to threat to having more access to parasympathetic states, including pleasure and neutrality. We practice shifting our own states of attention in order to stay present, engaged, and regulated in session. We explore boundaries as a source of differentiation that is essential to client empowerment, clarity, and unmasking. And we play with how this differentiation allows us to trust our clients as the experts on themselves and truly individualize our approach to each client.
Part 2 – Using Neurodivergent Somatics to Nuture Well-Being
In this session, we examine how ableism/internalized ableism lives within us, inadvertently creating rules that dictate what we believe makes a “good” therapist and client. We explore ways to dismantle these rules, support clients in doing so as well, and avoid perpetuating neurotypical norms in the therapy setting. We wander through the forest of accommodations and executive function support that clients need to exist in today’s world and be well. And we discover ways to support our own sustainability and well-being by noticing what supports we may need but didn’t think we were allowed to access.
Part 3 – Disrupting Outdated Norms
In this session, we play with Neuroqueering (Walker, 2021). We discover how disrupting dominant norms of white supremacy, neurotypicality, and cis-heteronormitivity in therapy allows us to more authentically center, honour, support, and celebrate our clients in the fullness of their Neurodivergence. This disruption also gives us more permission to be human and our own unique selves in the therapy space. We delve into how we transition and are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. And we look at how clients can be best supported in their transitions and their whole selves—mind, body, and soul.
This Neurodivergent Somatics course ends with a focus on joy for both our clients and us. Together, we lean into it as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of our life force energy.
To register click here and you will be brought to the Leading Edge website