Autism and Neurodiversity Coaching
Our adult and teen coaching program offers a broad spectrum of services to help you make your day a little bit easier!
You don’t need a formal diagnosis. All types of self-identified neurodiversity is welcomed and affirmed in our program. This includes autism, adhd, social anxiety, etc.
Let’s work together to create a plan to reach your goals. Whether it’s social skills coaching to build friendships, career coaching, dating coaching, or just daily living skills!
Offerings
Coaching services are lifestyle services. It’s important for our clients to note that these are not therapy services and there will be not therapeutic aspects to coaching. Our specific coaching is about how parents can foster relationships with their children and how to plan for a career.
Parent Coaching
Some skills we might work on are…
Expanding your child’s verbal communication
Figuring out if your child is showing early signs of autism or other neurodivergent diagnoses
Decreasing meltdowns or tantrums at home or school
Building relationships with peers and siblings
Regulating sensory needs
Navigating picky eating, food aversions, expanding safe foods, etc.
Planning for transition to adulthood (supported employment, community hab, etc.)
Providing 1:1 support and coaching for your adult in their work setting
Come to our first session with all of your questions and concerns about your child’s communication skills or autism needs.
Parent coaching is available for any age range, whether your child is 6 months old or 26 years old.
Then, together we will develop goals and strategies to help your child to strengthen and build new skillsets.
Most families benefit from booking a 3 session package, which allows for time to answer questions, set goals, observe your child in their natural setting, and monitor and adjust strategies as needed.
Career Coaching
Are you ready to find your first job or make a career change? Are you looking for social or task support in your current position?
Whether you’re ready to begin your first career or are years into your profession, job coaching can benefit you!
Our support services range from assisting an advanced degree holder in finding a new position, to assisting your teen with their first after-school retail store position.
Our individualized 1:1 career clients benefit from booking a 3 session package, which allows for time to answer questions, set goals, and monitor and adjust strategies as needed.
Some aspects we might work towards…
Assistance finding a new position, and locating potential employers with an existing Neurodiversity hiring program
Advocating for your support needs during the hiring process in a standard position
Advocating for accommodations (lighting, break times, Assistive Technology, etc.)
Writing a CV and updating your resume
Interview skills
Building positive social communication with co-workers and administrators
Task management and time management
On-going daily or weekly support to maintain workplace productivity
Providing a training to your employer and co-workers on creating neuro-affirming workplaces
Parents: Accompanying your adult or young adult to their new job or current job, provide real-time social and task support. Overall, acting as a transition coordinator to ensure continued future success.
Coaching FAQs
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No!
Being neurodivergent can look so many different ways. You may have always struggled a little bit with socializing or making friends, or keeping organized with personal goals or chores and just begun to realize it now.
We accept all forms self-diagnosed neurodiversity or social differences.
What are examples of neurodiversity:
Autism
ADHD
AuDHD
Social anxiety
Dyslexia
Intellectual disability
Sensory Processing Disorder
Acquired Neurogenic Disorders from injury such as stroke, traumatic brain injuries. Alzheimer’s,etc.
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Any teen or adult over the age of 15 is welcome to participate in our coaching program.
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Yes! All coaching session are offered virtually.
In-person sessions are available in your home or community setting in Brooklyn or lower Manhattan.
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No!
Coaching allows for a flexible residence location.
Virtual coaching sessions are available to anyone living in the U.S. or abroad.
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Coaching sessions and prices look a few different ways.
Parent Coaching:
Offered only as 1:1 (no groups)
3 session package (30 min each session)
virtual: $150
in-person: $225
1 session (60 minutes, virtual): $120
Career Coaching:
Offered only as 1:1 (no groups)
3 session package (30 min each session)
virtual: $180
in-person: $220
Social Coaching:
Individual
3 session package (30 min each session)
virtual: $180
in-person: $220
Groups:
Launched only for specific dates, announced via social media or website.
Social Skills Coaching
Social skills coaching is available to any person who wants to get better at having conversations or building relationships!
Group sessions vs. Individual sessions
Social coaching is offered as either individual or group sessions.
Individual sessions are a great starting point for those who prefer would like to focus on a personalized approach to learning social skills foundations.
It's great for privacy or for those who are not quite ready to join a group yet.
Group sessions serve as a source to learn social skills in a structured way and also opportunity to build community and friendships with other like-minded folx.
Groups are often curated by age, interests, and goals.
Our Social Skills Groups are released in a structured format on our website and social media page.
Topics for groups may be based on topics like Networking or more fun topics like shared special interests (anime, public transportation systems, etc.)
Some skills we might work on are…
Making new friends
Strengthening current relationships with friends and family
Conversation skills (making small talk and maintaining a conversation)
Navigating and solving conflicts
Organizing gatherings
Expanding your neurodivergent community
Workplace interactions
Networking
Dating
How is social skills coaching neuro-affirming?
We first teach in a structured classroom format, which allows for you to learn the foundations and store it all in your database. We place a heavy emphasis on picking and choosing when to apply it in your daily life. Just like… neurotypicals with no formal social training. No person has great social skills all of the time!
After that, we move on to applying what we’ve learned in a naturalistic setting or with others in a group setting.
Building relationships in ways that feel comfortable and safe matter— discussing special interests, parallel hangs or body doubling, etc.