The Neurodivergent Relationship & Intimacy Series

What you'll get:

• ✅ 240 minutes of instruction (3 classes) with Stacey Skowronski, PhD, LCSW, CST — expert in neurodivergent-affirming care and couples work and sex therapy

• ✅ 4 AASECT Continuing Education Credits (issued upon full course completion and post-test evaluation)

• ✅ 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 to help clients navigate mismatch, regulate differences, and build safety

• ✅ Concrete tools, metaphors, and steps to 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 
• ✅ 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.

Who This Is For:

• Therapists working with neurodivergent, mixed-neurotype, or high-masking couples

• Sex therapists and relationship counselors seeking more inclusive and affirming tools

• Clinicians ready to move beyond neurotypical-centered therapy models

• Anyone who wants to support relational safety, congruence, and connection without forcing sameness

What You'll Learn:

Couples Therapy.  By the end of this class, you will be able to:Recognize how invalidation and misattunement contribute to cycles of shame and relational rupture.

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

ADHD, Sex, and Intimacy.  By the end of this class, you will be able to:

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

Autism, Sexuality, and Intimacy.  By the end of this class, you will be able to:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.

Questions?
Feel free to contact me at [email protected].