Neuroaffirming Therapy
What is neurodivergent affirming therapy?
Neuroaffirming therapy starts from the belief that neurodivergent ways of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world are natural variations of the human mind—not problems to be fixed.
Rather than viewing traits like distractibility, sensory sensitivity, emotional intensity, or nonlinear thinking as deficits, neuroaffirming therapy asks different questions:
- What makes sense about this?
- What has helped you survive?
- What support does your nervous system actually need?
A neuroaffirming therapist embraces 5 principles in the therapy room:
- Flexibility
- Lifelong Learning
- Acceptance
- Advocacy & Accommodation
- Genuineness
Neuroaffirming therapy is collaborative and flexible. Sessions are shaped around your energy, communication style, and capacity. There is space for directness, creativity, pauses, movement, and exploration—without requiring you to perform or explain yourself.
The goal is not to make you more “typical.”
The goal is to help you feel more regulated, supported, and at home in yourself—while navigating a world that often wasn’t built with neurodivergent minds in mind.
