Sexual Health and Trauma Recovery for Neurodivergent Bodies

This training will explore the lived-experience of ADHD and Autism such as sensory and attending differences, emotional dysregulation, and executive function. This course will also identify ways that these lived-experience differences can impact an individual’s sexual health over a lifetime. Lastly, this course will offer ways to modify trauma treatment to be more Neurodivergent-affirming.

By the end of the workshop, the audience should be able to:

• Identify ways that Autistics and ADHDers perceive and respond to the world around them, including sensory and attending differences.
  
  
• Understand how sensory and attending differences can lead to emotional dysregulation and executive dysfunction.
  
  
• Identify ways that the lived-experience differences of Autism and ADHD impact sexual health and relationships.
  
  
• Identify at 2 tools and/or concepts to make their clinical practice more Neurodivergent-Affirming.
  
  

Trainer bio:

Brandie Lourenco is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, advocate and activist. Brandie has been working in community support for 15 years and is committed to social change on all system levels. Seeing mental health as a way to serve the community, she earned a Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with a Systems Emphasis in 2015 and began a private practice in 2017.

Combining her lived experience of neurodivergence, along with years of anti-oppression work, Brandie is passionate about helping others untangle themselves from harmful practices and align with ones that support marginalized communities. In addition to her work in neurodiversity, Brandie is also a sex and relationship therapist, specializing in ethical non-monogamy and kink exploration. She has been a speaker on panels and podcasts, as well as facilitating therapeutic workshops in her area of Washington State

This training will be recorded.

CEUs available.

For questions about registration or this training, contact Nykki Canete This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it