When Your Client Tells You They Are Autistic
Learn how to better support Autistic adult coaching clients.
We’ll look at some ways autism shows up in people’s lives, which can look different than you might be expecting, what's involved in taking the risk of disclosing to you that they're Autistic, and how to be a good ally when they do.
Then we’ll apply that to how it can influence a coaching relationship, and how to be responsive as a coach, with some practical tips and examples to make it useful.
An insider's perspective from an Autistic, ADHD, and multiply-neurodivergent coach, through a trauma-sensitive lens.
We’ll look at some ways autism shows up in people’s lives, which can look different than you might be expecting, what's involved in taking the risk of disclosing to you that they're Autistic, and how to be a good ally when they do.
Then we’ll apply that to how it can influence a coaching relationship, and how to be responsive as a coach, with some practical tips and examples to make it useful.
An insider's perspective from an Autistic, ADHD, and multiply-neurodivergent coach, through a trauma-sensitive lens.
"I think the presentation was SO useful! I felt you got across a lot of very good information, and felt a sense of catharsis in a lot of aspects of what you said (it would've been nice for prior health providers I’ve had to have seen something like this).
I felt like it was understandable in an accessible way to people that wouldn’t know that much about autism, as you expressed and noted a lot of good baseline things and built upon that really well.
I find you have a lot of good information and are very good at conveying things in the way that you do, especially in grounding and connecting things very well!"
I felt like it was understandable in an accessible way to people that wouldn’t know that much about autism, as you expressed and noted a lot of good baseline things and built upon that really well.
I find you have a lot of good information and are very good at conveying things in the way that you do, especially in grounding and connecting things very well!"
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About me
Heather Cook
I partner with people who have figured out, usually as adults, that they are Autistic or AuDHD, to break through a lifetime of neurotypical expectations, figure out what's them and what's the mask, create sensory-friendly strategies, to communicate better with NTs and in ways that feel good to them, and recover from autistic burnout. To create a life they love to live.
Patrick Jones - Course author
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