Yes—if you purchase the commercial license, you can send the Neurodivergent Strengths and Traits Inventory to your client so they can create a personalized trait profile (Step 1). From there:

• As a therapist, you can independently use the Integrated Well-Being Goals Assessment (Step 2) and the Accumulated Social Harm & Stress-Induced Regulation Shifts Clinical Sheet (Step 3) as a discussion guide to assist with case conceptualization and treatment planning.
• If you purchase the clinical license, you can also email your client Trait Resourcing Packets (Step 4), which include affirming goal and support intervention options. These packets feature interactive drop-down menus, allowing clients to select interventions that best support them, helping to track therapy progress over time.

This step-by-step approach ensures a collaborative and structured process for integrating neurodivergent-affirming care into your sessions.

The Neurodivergent Strengths and Traits Inventory and the accompanying workbook are designed to enhance both clinical practice and client outcomes by shifting away from pathologizing models and toward neurodivergent-affirming care. Here’s how they add value:

🔹 For Your Practice:

• Provides a structured, affirming framework for understanding neurodivergent traits in a way that moves beyond traditional deficit-based assessments.
• Supports case conceptualization and treatment planning by helping therapists identify a client’s strengths, challenges, and environmental barriers.
• Integrates the Integrated Well-Being Goals Assessment to guide discussions on how different traits impact life domains,
• Integrates clinical tracking sheets that assess Accumulated Social Harm & Stress-Induced Regulation Shifts to recognize influences on identity development and emotional well-being.
• Allows for collaborative therapy—if you purchase the clinical license, you can email clients Trait Resourcing Packets, which include affirming goals and support intervention options to help track therapy progress.

🔹 For Your Clients:

• Empowers clients to understand and articulate their neurodivergent traits in a way that highlights their strengths rather than framing them as deficits.
• Provides a personalized trait profile that helps clients recognize patterns related to sensory, executive functioning, and emotional regulation needs.
• Helps clients identify how microaggressions, stress-induced regulation shifts, and environmental mismatches impact their well-being.
• Offers practical, affirming goal-setting and support intervention options to promote self-advocacy, self-compassion, and sustainable well-being.

By using this workbook, you can enhance therapeutic collaboration, reduce internalized ableism, and create a structured yet flexible approach to supporting neurodivergent clients in a way that truly meets their needs.

This workbook solves the critical issue of pathologizing neurodivergent traits by providing an alternative framework that affirms, rather than seeks to change, intrinsic neurodivergent ways of thinking, feeling, and existing. Traditional models focus on deficit-based interventions that contribute to internalized ableism, burnout, and moral injury. By offering a comprehensive, organized system for affirming care, this approach simplifies case conceptualization, treatment planning, and goal setting in a way that aligns with neurodivergent needs, rather than forcing individuals to conform to neurotypical standards.

Additionally, this system integrates technology to support neurodivergent clinicians in streamlining their process, reducing cognitive load, and aiding executive functioning—challenges that are often overlooked in professional spaces. By incorporating structured, automated tools as well as guidelines to maintain HIPAA compliance, this approach ensures that clinicians can efficiently provide high-quality, affirming care without becoming overwhelmed by administrative burdens. This not only enhances the therapeutic experience but also sustains the well-being of both clients and the clinicians serving them.

Yes! This workbook was a passion project that emerged from my deep commitment to neurodivergent-affirming care. It is grounded in:

• Extensive research, with 8 pages of references included at the back of the workbook.
• My clinical experience as a therapist working with neurodivergent clients and my dedication to shifting the field toward affirming care as a private practice owner.
• My participation in neurodivergent affirming consultation groups with experts and peers
• Preparation for the 2025 AASECT conference for my presentation entitled," Unmasked: From Moral Injury to Self Alignment in High-Masking ADHD'ers and Autistics."
• Personal insights from friendships and close connections with ADHD’ers.
• AI-assisted organization, helping to structure and simplify large amounts of data into a comprehensive yet accessible resource.

This workbook represents years of learning, advocacy, and a deep desire to support both clinicians and neurodivergent individuals in meaningful, affirming ways.

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