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Digital Seminar

Neurodiversity in Women

ACT, CBT, and DBT Strategies to Boost Self-Compassion in Clients with ADHD and Autism
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Speaker:
Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW
Duration:
1 Hour 02 Minutes
Copyright:
30 Apr, 2026
Product Code:
POS150782
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
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Description

If you don’t know what to look for, it can be easy to miss. ADHD and Autism in women don’t look like the textbooks or the “typical” male-normed cases.

You need specialized skills so that you don’t misunderstand or misdiagnose your neurodivergent women clients who are already at high risk of a cascade of problems connected to low self-worth, including eating disorders, relationship abuse, and suicide.

In this session, Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW-psychotherapist and neurodiversity expert – will help you give you an integrative toolkit for working with neurodivergent women. You’ll get:

  • Strategies to address core negative beliefs and build self-compassion
  • A powerful values clarification exercise to improve clients’ self-relationship
  • Techniques to empower neurodivergent women clients to self-advocate more effectively

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Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


Objectives

  1. Identify risk factors for neurodivergent women.
  2. Utilize at least two techniques to improve self-compassion in women clients with autism or ADHD.
  3. Integrate strategies for self-advocacy into psychotherapy with neurodivergent women clients.

Outline

Common Experiences for Neurodivergent Women

  • Neurodiversity defined
  • Primer on a neurodiversity-affirming stance
  • Missed identification – implications of a later diagnosis
  • Common pieces along journey of self-discovery
  • Low self-worth in a neurotypical world
  • Neurodiversity and eating disorders
  • Heightened risk for bullying and intimate partner violence
  • Critical links between neurodivergence and suicide

Clinical Tools to Support Neurodivergent Women

  • The importance of building self-compassion
  • Address negative beliefs about the self
  • Values clarification with ACT
  • Use of self-as-context to boost self-compassion
  • LAND with DBT for self-advocacy
  • Address internalized stigma and ableism
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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