Yes—if you purchase the commercial license, you can send the Neurodivergent Strengths and Traits Inventory to your client to help them 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 support collaborative case conceptualization and treatment planning.

• If you’ve purchased the commercial license, you may 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 identify the strategies that best support them—offering a structure for tracking therapy progress over time.

This step-by-step system is designed to support therapists in integrating neurodivergent-affirming care into their sessions. All materials are intended to supplement clinical work and should be used within the therapist’s professional scope and judgment.

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

🔹 For Your Practice:

• Offers a structured, affirming framework for understanding neurodivergent traits beyond traditional deficit-based assessments

• Supports case conceptualization and treatment planning by helping therapists explore a client’s strengths, challenges, and environmental barriers

• Includes the Integrated Well-Being Goals Assessment to guide meaningful discussions about how traits impact life domains

• Provides a clinical tracking sheet to assess Accumulated Social Harm & Stress-Induced Regulation Shifts, helping therapists explore systemic influences on identity development and regulation

• If you purchase the commercial license, you can email clients Trait Resourcing Packets that include affirming goal and intervention options to collaboratively support therapy progress

🔹 For Your Clients:

• Helps clients explore and articulate their neurodivergent traits in affirming, strengths-based language

• Provides a personalized trait profile that highlights patterns related to sensory, executive functioning, and emotional regulation needs

• Encourages reflection on how microaggressions, regulation shifts, and environmental mismatches impact well-being

• Offers structured options for affirming goals and support strategies that promote self-advocacy, self-compassion, and sustainable well-being

By using this workbook, clinicians can create a collaborative, identity-affirming space that supports deeper insight, reduces internalized ableism, and provides a structured yet adaptable framework for working with neurodivergent clients. All materials are intended to supplement—not replace—clinical judgment and should be used within the scope of your professional practice.

This workbook addresses the widespread problem of pathologizing neurodivergent traits by offering a framework that affirms, rather than seeks to change, intrinsic ways of thinking, feeling, and existing. Traditional models often rely on deficit-based interventions that contribute to internalized ableism, burnout, and moral injury for neurodivergent individuals.

By providing a comprehensive, organized system for understanding and resourcing neurodivergent traits, this workbook supports therapists in simplifying case conceptualization, treatment planning, and goal setting. It helps shift the therapeutic process toward affirming care that aligns with the client’s neurodivergent needs, rather than pressuring them to conform to neurotypical expectations.

This approach encourages positive identity development, promotes self-advocacy, and enhances collaboration between therapist and client—all while staying grounded in strengths-based, evidence-informed practice.

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 multiple layers of experience, research, and collaboration, including:

• 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

• Participation in neurodivergent-affirming consultation groups with both experts and peers

• Preparation for my 2025 AASECT Conference presentation, Unmasked: From Moral Injury to Self-Alignment in High-Masking ADHD’ers and Autistics

• Personal insights from close friendships and connections with ADHD’ers and Autistics

• AI-assisted organization to help synthesize large amounts of data into a comprehensive, user-friendly resource

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