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Bring Neurodiversity-Affirming Principles into Couples & Intimacy Work!  Introducing...

 

A 3-part, 240-minute professional education training with Stacey Skowronski, PhD, LCSW, CST, designed for therapists, educators, and helping professionals who want to bring neurodiversity-affirming care into couples and intimacy work.

 

Grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and sensory integration research, this series helps clinicians move beyond deficit-based models towards a rhythm-aware, trauma-informed, and strength-centered approach. Participants gain practical tools to help partners bridge differences in regulation, communication, and connection.  

 

By the end of the series, you'll know how to help neurodivergent and mixed neurotype couples build safety, repair trust, and turn differences into connection - without anyone to be less than themselves. 

A Sneak Peak of What's Inside:

  • ✅ Polarities Assessment - Identify differences in regulation, access, and expression that shape connection. 

  • ✅ 6 Pages of Trait Polarities - Clear definitions and examples for assessment and intervention.

  •  ✅ Fillable Clinician’s Checklist - Easily track and organize a couple’s polarities.

  •  ✅ Fillable Relational Rhythms Guide - Map partner rhythms across 9 relationship domains.

  •  ✅ Access to 70+ relational skills - Help clients navigate mismatch, regulate differences, and build safety

  • ✅ Concrete tools, metaphors, and steps - Shift from disconnection to co-creation

  • ✅ Relationship Rhythm & Integrity Pillars - Describe the patterns that support healthy, flexible connection between partners. Presented through green, yellow, and red zones, they illustrate how attuned rhythm and relational integrity create safety, balance, and repair in relationship 

  •  ✅ Internal Coherence Support Resource Packet - a neurodiversity-affirming resource packet that outlines goals and supportive interventions to help transform ADHD regulation challenges into pathways for resilience. It features six coherence-centered supports -emotional pacing, interoceptive literacy, foresight, shame resilience, secure attachment, and structural scaffolding -each with drop-down menu intervention options to guide individualized, strengths-based care.

  • ✅ The Rhythms of Shared Connection Model - translates neuroscience and sensory research into a relational framework for understanding how different nervous systems connect, regulate, and repair. It recognizes that partners may move at different tempos - some finding safety in predictability, others in activation - and that connection emerges not from sameness but from responsive pacing and mutual regulation. By seeing rhythm variation as difference rather than deficit, this model offers a shared language for safety, empathy, and co-created calm.

 

What will I learn with this course?

After taking the Neurodivergent Affirming Couples Therapy Course, participants will be able to:

  • Recognize how invalidation and misattunement contribute to cycles of shame and relational rupture.
  • Understand how shame interacts with relational accountability.
  • Appreciate why framing matters - how the language and models we use shape whether clients experience accountability as supportive or shaming.
  • Explore the polarization-to-parallel model as a roadmap for transforming conflict cycles into collaborative repair. 

After taking the Sex, ADHD, and Intimacy Course, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the desire–satisfaction gap in ADHD as a form of mismatched fulfillment arising from diverse erotic rhythms.
  • Understand neurodivergent erotic expression as a regulatory rhythm.
  • Use developmental insights to explore how ADHD shapes intrapersonal factors, and help adults cultivate self-trust, safety, embodied consent, and alignment.
  • Examine how boundary challenges, gender inequities, and systemic gaps contribute to interpersonal vulnerability, and apply trauma-informed, affirming strategies to foster safety and connection.
  • Learn how to help couples move from protection to connection by applying the Relationship Rhythm & Integrity Pillars - a framework for attunement, consent, and repair. 

After taking the Sex, ADHD, and Intimacy Course, participants will be able to:

  • Explain how neurodiversity intersects with sexual and gender diversity to shape identity development, and apply affirming approaches that support autistic LGBTQIA+ individuals in expressing authentic identities and relationships.
  • Analyze how communication, sensory, and cognitive differences influence sexual understanding and vulnerability among autistic people, and design neuroinclusive, consent-based sexual health education that promotes agency and safety.
  • Evaluate how sensory processing, emotional reciprocity, and co-regulation patterns affect intimacy in autistic and neurodiverse partnerships, and apply strategies that foster mutual understanding, satisfaction, and emotional safety.
  • Explain how autistic sensory and emotional rhythms shape intimacy and consent, and apply rhythm-aware, trauma-informed strategies that foster safety and mutual regulation in relationships.
  • Integrate first-person autistic perspectives on sexuality and intimacy into education, research, or clinical practice to promote autonomy, dignity, and authentic relational expression.

 

Disclaimer: This training is offered through Healthy Wealthy Connections, LLC and is not affiliated with any clinical services or licensed therapy practice. It is intended for educational use only and does not constitute psychotherapy, clinical supervision, diagnosis, or a substitute for professional mental health care.  Participants are responsible for applying all material within the scope of their own license and professional ethics.

 

What's Included:

4 AASECT CEs

This program is approved for 1 AASECT CE credit, which may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.  Completion of this program does not ensure or guarantee AASECT certification.  For further information, please contact [email protected].

The Neurodivergent Relationship & Intimacy Series

The Neurodivergent Relationship & Intimacy Series is a 3-part, 240-minute training with Stacey Skowronski, PhD, LCSW, CST, designed for clinicians who want to bring neurodiversity-affirming care into couples and intimacy work. Through interactive tools, CE-accredited instruction, and models like the Relationship Rhythm & Integrity Pillars, Internal Coherence Plan, and Rhythms of Shared Connection, participants learn to help partners navigate mismatch, regulate differences, and build safety without forcing sameness.

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