Be Your Best Academy recognizes the integral importance of therapy to the neurodivergent population, both in advocating for their needs and in encouraging self-inquiry and growth.


We deeply value the work therapeutic practitioners undertake to better the lives of their clients.

Professional Development Resources for Therapists

Do you have any neurodiverse clients?


This bundle is called "Identity Narratives". It is a therapist resource  designed for best practice.


Many neurodivergent clients will present with difficulties or struggles within their identity: be it their diagnosis, sexuality, gender or need to conform to societal standards. A strong sense of self makes us able to cope more readily with depression, anxiety and change.


This resource supports your clinical practice to better guide your neurodivergent clients with greater compassion, knowledge and kindness.

 

Included in this comprehensive bundle are informative lessons to help you follow best practice in neurodiversity, along with practical 'homework' PDF sheets and educationals for your client(s).


Bundle Includes

  • Licensed resources to use and share with clients

  • Watermark-free downloads

  • Electronically fillable PDFs

  • 21 fully referenced lessons for you

  • 28 interactive psychological worksheets for your client

  • Essential knowledge for best practice

  • Additional links for further reading

Therapist-focused

Understand the worksheets!

In this bundle, descriptions help you understand the worksheets, when to use them and for which clients.


For example:


And


Two activities and one educational, for your clients. 


A Neurodivergent Identity Resource

Help your ND clients

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    • The Importance of Self Knowledge

      FREE PREVIEW

    • Interpersonal Relationships and Neurodiversity

    • Who Am I? (3 Worksheets)

    • Authenticity and Incongruence

    • Understanding Authenticity in Therapy with Neurominority Clients

    • The Real Me (4 Worksheets)

    • Narratives and Re-Storying Identity

    • Telling My Story (8 Worksheets)

    • Jungian Parts and Perspectives

    • My Dark Sides (2 Worksheets)
  3. 03

    • Neurodivergent Identity, Stigma and Shame

    • Identifying Stigma Challenges

    • Compassionately addressing stigma in session

    • Working with Shame (2 Worksheets)

    • Discovering Me (4 Worksheets)

    • Excellent academic articles on stigma

    • Helping Neuro-Minority Clients Who Mask

    • Intersection Approach, Masking and Why It’s Needed

    • Types of Neurominorities and Masking

    • Masking, Superpowers and Me (3 Worksheets)
  4. 04

    • Understanding Advocacy under a Therapeutic Lens

    • Advocacy-First Analysis to Softening Self

    • Why Explore Gender and Sexuality: Stigma, Discrimination and Barriers

    • Exploring Gender and Sexuality with Neurodiversity

    • Gender, Sexual Identity and Neurodiversity: Understanding For Therapists

    • Implicit Bias Test for Therapist Self-Awareness [Resource]

    • What is Gender Identity?

    • What is Sexual Identity?

    • Intersectionality and Therapeutic Approaches

    • How to Work with LGTBQA+ clients

    • Figuring Myself Out (2 Worksheets)

    • Am I A Lesbian? [Resource]

    • The Genderbread Teaching Tool [Resource]
  5. 05

    • Can you give us some feedback on this bundle?

    • All References/ Sourced Cited

Expert Authors

Learn from people who understand


Autumn O'Connor, Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Education Editor, Psychotherapist.

        

Autumn O'Connor supports individuals, teams, and organizations responding to inclusive practice, better employment outcomes for autistic people and mental health wellness for neurodivergent communities.

Her track record includes board, management, service delivery and volunteer roles. Through her independent practice she has worked primarily with autistic clients and trauma victims, offering counselling, groupwork, wellbeing training and psychosocial supports.

In her editorial role, she envisions and directs a unique educational and deep therapeutic self-inquiry for neurodivergent students. Along with the practical content of 'life skills learning', Autumn interweaves a Paul-Elder approach to engaging lesson planning. With reflexive somatic psychotherapy, trauma-informed practice, narrative therapy, and transpersonal practices applied to the process, learning activities heighten student self-knowledge and acceptance.

Autumn O'Connor is committed to personal and professional development and inquiry, and holds strongly that all people have the capacity for change. Being able to support therapists to give their neurodivergent clients a more holistic exploration of Self is one part of Autumn's work that she finds of utmost importance.

Autumn holds a Master of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Graduate Diploma of Counselling, Certificate IV in Training, Certificate IV in Remedial Therapies and Fitness, along with a range of certificates in Energetic Healing. Autumn is also neurodivergent herself: being autistic, dyslexic, dyscalculic, quite probably ADHD with a diagnosis also of dysthymia.



Niruruthi Ravichandren, Bachelor of Psychology, Intersectional Psychology and Neurodiversity Researcher.

        

Niruruthi Ravichandren is passionate about inclusive practice as it intersects with queer theory, gender studies, cultural decolonization and neurodiversity.

Niruruthi holds a Bachelor in Psychology, Advanced Diploma in Accounting and is currently working on her Honours thesis in Psychology. She is also neurodivergent herself, researching and writing from lived experiences of being autistic and ADHD.



Cost of Bundle

Worksheets for Neurodivergent Therapy