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Empowering & with growth-focused coaching & courses. 🌿 We champion authentic journeys, offering support for every unique family story. 🏳️‍🌈

06/05/2026

WA license renewal is getting more difficult. I don't know about you, but the DOH keeps complicating the requirements and I was feeling more and more confused. We're up to three separate renewal dates?!

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06/04/2026

Brené Brown's work on shame and vulnerability has helped a lot of people. And there's a gap in how it tends to be applied clinically that's worth naming directly.

Shame resilience frameworks focus primarily on individual emotional experience. What they don't center is structural power, race, and systemic oppression.

When we apply this with a client experiencing race-based trauma or who is neurodivergent in a world that pathologizes their brain, and we frame their healing primarily as internal emotional work, we risk asking them to metabolize systems-level harm as a personal failing.

That's not what the framework intends. It's what happens when it gets extracted from context.

Save this for your next supervision conversation.

Most clinical documentation treats emotional regulation like a dial with a right setting. It's not; and for neurodiverge...
06/03/2026

Most clinical documentation treats emotional regulation like a dial with a right setting. It's not; and for neurodivergent clients especially, what we call dysregulation is often a contextual response to an environment that was never designed for them.

New on the blog: what emotionally dysregulated actually means, what it costs clients when we get it wrong, and what affirming documentation looks like instead.

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Five more clinical labels that follow neurodivergent clients from chart to chart, and what they're actually telling you....
06/02/2026

Five more clinical labels that follow neurodivergent clients from chart to chart, and what they're actually telling you.

"Poor historian" usually means episodic memory that doesn't retrieve linearly. "Limited insight" usually means the client disagrees with the conceptualization, which is not the same as lacking self-awareness. "Difficulty with transitions" usually means a nervous system that needs more processing time than the session structure allows.

These aren't diagnostic descriptions. They're documentation of mismatches between client neurology and clinical infrastructure. And they travel.

Share this with anyone about to inherit a chart full of them.

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06/01/2026

ND-affirming therapy has become a directory keyword. That's not necessarily a good thing...

Saying you're neurodivergent-affirming while using neurotypical intake forms, documenting "poor historian" and "low insight," and running rigid session structures without sensory accommodation isn't affirming practice. It's branding.

Affirming practice means interrogating the frameworks you were handed, not just softening your tone.

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Five labels that follow ND clients from chart to chart. None of them describe the client.Unmotivated → depleted.Low insi...
05/26/2026

Five labels that follow ND clients from chart to chart. None of them describe the client.

Unmotivated → depleted.
Low insight → externally attributed.
Rigid → autonomy-protective.
Noncompliant → protective refusal.
Treatment resistant → unmatched to treatment.

Language in a chart follows a client into every room after ours. Make sure it tells the right story.

Share this with a colleague or supervisor who needs it.

05/25/2026

Winnicott gave us 'good enough' and we apply it to everyone but ourselves.

Good enough doesn't mean mediocre. It means present, responsive, and willing to repair. That's the actual standard.

Perfection isn't therapeutic. The clients who tend to do best in therapy don't have therapists who never make mistakes. They have therapists who repair.

The rupture-repair cycle is where relational learning happens; that applies to how you talk to yourself after a hard session too.

You're allowed to be a good enough clinician. Winnicott said so.

On my birthday, I reflect on a lifetime of being told to look more professional...and I feel whimsical. :) I dye my hair...
05/22/2026

On my birthday, I reflect on a lifetime of being told to look more professional...and I feel whimsical. :)

I dye my hair constantly. Different colors, different moods, whenever I feel like it. It's a theory of change thing. The outside shifted before the inside caught up. Late diagnosis gave me language for why I spent so many years presenting a version of myself that felt like a costume, and the hair is one of the ways I stopped wearing it.

It's also a clinical decision. My neurodivergent kids regulate better when there's something visually interesting that isn't a direct demand for eye contact. Color gives them somewhere safe to land. That's deliberate and it also happens to be authentically me.

My inner child is thriving. She spent a long time being told to blend in.
Happy birthday to me.

Therapeutic neutrality is presented as the gold standard of clinical objectivity.For many neurodivergent clients, it rea...
05/20/2026

Therapeutic neutrality is presented as the gold standard of clinical objectivity.

For many neurodivergent clients, it reads as rejection or a judgement.

New post on the Connect Counseling blog: what Western "neutral" therapy actually assumes, how it functions as a power stance, and what responsiveness looks like instead under WA standards.

Read more at connect-counseling.co/blog/therapeutic-neutrality-neurodivergent-clients

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