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Neurodiversity in Women

Neurodiversity in Women

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If you don’t know what to look for, it can be easy to miss. ADHD and Autism in women don’t look like the textbooks or the “typical” male-normed cases.

You need specialized skills so that you don’t misunderstand or misdiagnose your neurodivergent women clients who are already at high risk of a cascade of problems connected to low self-worth, including eating disorders, relationship abuse, and suicide.

In this session, Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW-psychotherapist and neurodiversity expert – will help you give you an integrative toolkit for working with neurodivergent women. You’ll get:

  • Strategies to address core negative beliefs and build self-compassion
  • A powerful values clarification exercise to improve clients’ self-relationship
  • Techniques to empower neurodivergent women clients to self-advocate more effectively

Here's What You'll Learn


Common Experiences for Neurodivergent Women

  • Neurodiversity defined
  • Primer on a neurodiversity-affirming stance
  • Missed identification – implications of a later diagnosis
  • Common pieces along journey of self-discovery
  • Low self-worth in a neurotypical world
  • Neurodiversity and eating disorders
  • Heightened risk for bullying and intimate partner violence
  • Critical links between neurodivergence and suicide

Clinical Tools to Support Neurodivergent Women

  • The importance of building self-compassion
  • Address negative beliefs about the self
  • Values clarification with ACT
  • Use of self-as-context to boost self-compassion
  • LAND with DBT for self-advocacy
  • Address internalized stigma and ableism
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

Everything You're Getting


  • More than 1 hour of video content
  • Up to 1.0 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW

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Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in southern Illinois specializing in the crossroads of mental health, trauma and neurodiversity utilizing interventions informed by compassion-focused therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, EMDR and other traditions. Jennifer is the author of The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook: Tools for Young Adults from ACT, DBT and Recovery-Oriented CBT and writes a blog for Psychology Today entitled ‘Beyond Mental Health: Defying Stereotypes and False Limitations.’

Jennifer has provided training to hundreds of clinicians nationwide on topics related to neurodiversity, mental health and healing trauma. She offers a unique perspective infused with her lived experience as an individual who has walked her own journey toward mental health and self-acceptance as an autistic person herself.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Gerlach has an employment relationship with True Story Counseling, PLLC. and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Gerlach has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 

 

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150782
Duration:
1 hour, 2 minutes
Copyright:
Apr 30, 2026
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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