Neuro-affirming Relationship Counselling For Clinicians

Neuro-Affirming Relationship Counselling: For Clinicians is a comprehensive clinical resource for counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals working with couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent. It is the professional companion to Neurodivergent Relationship Fundamentals, and assumes clinical training in couple and/or individual therapy.The book's central argument is both simple and radical: mainstream couple therapy models — including Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and Cognitive-Behavioural Couple Therapy — are calibrated to neurotypical norms, and applying them to neurodivergent couples without meaningful adaptation risks replicating the misattributions of character and motivation that have historically harmed neurodivergent people in clinical settings. This book provides that adaptation, from the ground up.Organized into six parts, it moves from foundational neurological understanding through clinical assessment, adapted interventions, treatment planning, and a full library of session-ready worksheets and clinical exercises. Read more