Unmasked: From Moral Injury to Self-Alignment in High Masking ADHD’ers and Autistics

  • Format: 60 minute presentation + downloadable materials

  • Audience: Therapists, educators, and mental health professionals

For many neurodivergent people, masking is a lifelong survival response shaped by environments that couldn’t hold difference.

This 60-minute presentation is a deeply affirming, trauma-informed training designed to help clinicians recognize the emotional cost of masking in ADHD and autism—and learn how to support clients in healing through relational safety, identity reclamation, and flow-based interventions.  

You’ll walk away with the tools, visuals, and language to support clients with more compassion, clarity, and confidence.

Susan's Masking Story:

 

 

What will I learn with this course?

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain masking as a survival strategy in ADHD and autism.

  • Identify how ambiguous loss and moral injury emerge through masking.

  • Guide clients from grief to identity recognition, reclamation, and integration.

  • Differentiate performative sex from flow state sex

  • Build skills to navigate relational misattunements, including co-regulated consent, and practical application of the double empathy problem through the Polarization to Parallel Model

     

    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:

1 AASECT CE

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].

Accommodations Menu

A printable 2-page resource therapists can use to help clients explore and implement neurodivergent-affirming accommodations.

Susan’s Story

A 10-minute video, interactive Q&A, and a bias reflection pdf to identify unconscious biases, ableist assumptions, or professional norms that pathologize neurodivergent traits.

Medical vs Affirming Language Visual

A  chart contrasting deficit-based diagnostic framing with affirming, difference-based traits.

Polyvagal-Informed Healing Visuals and Graphs

Visuals and graphs explaining nervous system safety in relational, environmental, and intrapersonal contexts.  

Ambiguity Intolerance Flowchart

Maps how binary thinking and unprocessed grief can lead to survival strategies like OCD tendencies, perfectionism, non-affirming labels,emotional numbing, and identity denial, which hinders healing.

Grief-to-Integration Intervention Pathway

Two pages of interventions that help clients move from grief to identity recognition, reclamation, and integration. 

Compass for Neurodivergent-Affirming Connection

Content that teaches relational healing and co-regulated consent to move from misattunement toward mutual dignity, agency, and safety.

Flow State Intervention Prompts

After differentiating performative sex from flow sex, I will provide prompts supporting flow state considerations for sexual healing.

Unmasked: Moving from Moral Injury to Self-Alignment in High Masking ADHD’ers and Autistics

$50.00 USD