Cherish Clinic

02/20/2025

Maria, one of our family consultants is hosting and facilitating a discussion space for neurodivergent families navigating Ramadan. This session will explore these topics through both a neurodivergent and faith-based lens.

Cherish Connect: Accommodating Neurodivergence in Ramadan
📍 Where: Online via Goole Meet
📅 When: March 6, 2025
🕒 Time: 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM PST
💲 Cost: $5 per participant

More information here

Cherish Connect: Accommodating Neurodivergence in Ramadan by Christine | Feb 20, 2025 | Services | 0 comments Honoring Ramadan in Neurodivergent-Affirming Ways Ramadan is a time of fasting, prayer, and reflection observed by millions worldwide. However, for neurodivergent individuals, the traditiona...

11/15/2024

We are accepting clients for our practicum student counselling service. This year, the service would be home-visit in areas in or near East Vancouver

Low-Cost Counselling with Practicum Students by Christine | Nov 12, 2023 | Unique Therapy | 0 comments Description: Each year, Cherish Clinic offers low-cost therapy services through practicum counselling or therapy students. The clinic offers training, professional development, and mentorship while...

07/22/2024

Shay's July camp went really well and here is the August one. Responding to feedback, we have changed the camp to 2 hours.

Shay’s OT Camp (August) by Christine | Jul 21, 2024 | Services | 0 comments Shay is our occupational therapist who specializes in children with Pathological Demand Avoidance (Pervasive Drive for Autonomy). She would like to facilitate a group of younger neurodivergent children who are larger than ...

06/16/2024

D&D camp is back for the summer!

Beth’s D&D Camp (July+August) by Christine | Jun 14, 2024 | Groups | 0 comments Beth is one of our most seasoned therapeutic support workers who has an intense hyperfocus on dungeons and dragons. Beth has received training in Therapeutic Gaming and she would like to facilitate a group of younger n...

06/06/2024

Great message for parents
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4-87NOrsbR/

06/03/2024

Here is our first summer occupational therapy camp offering:

Between the ages of 7 to 10

Maximum 4 children with an additional person on the cancellation waitlist

1:2 support-to-participant ratio

Wednesday, July 10, 17, 24, 31
1:00 to 4:00 pm

Cost: $100 per hour x 3 hours x 4 sessions = $1200 billed under occupational therapy services.

If the participant is not a current Cherish client, there will be an extra $100 intake fee.

Maximum: 4.5 participants

The full amount of the camp must be pre-paid. We can also invoice the autism funding unit or other third-party funding sources.

The camp focuses on high-intensity gross motor activities like fort building and trampoline games carefully sandwiched between lower-intensity, parallel play, and sensory break activities.

https://cherishclinic.com/post/otcamp1/

05/24/2024

We are always critically reflecting on the clinic's ethical framework and approaches to ensure we are on the right track and compliant with the Neurodiversity Collective.

At Cherish Clinic, we are dedicated to a neurodiversity-centred approach, ensuring personalized care and advocacy that honours respect, equity, and autonomy.

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05/23/2024

At Cherish Clinic, we've been proudly neurodivergent-affirming long before it became popular. We're unwavering in our commitment, even refusing collaboration with behavioural model specialists. All of our service providers are neurodivergent and dedicated to supporting ND individuals authentically and empathetically through our lived experience.

performative neurodiversity can be described as using the language of the neurodiversity movement and the neurodiversity paradigm without actually fully understanding the key assumptions, core concepts, important intentions and the foundational history.

there’s a lot of it going around as neurodiversity affirming becomes the new trauma informed so I made a thing.

this post is directed at those who say they are neurodiversity experts or leaders and/or have written a neurodiversity handbook or a neurodiversity affirming ebook, a neurodiversity training or workshop, neurodiversity affirming materials, CEUs, events, etc.

this post is not directed at neurodivergent people or individuals who are learning or professionals who make mistakes.

how to tell if something is performative neurodiversity:

🚩 reinforces neuronormative ideals, expectations and standards

🚩 categorises individuals into disordered vs disorder (picks and chooses who is disordered or not)

🚩 focus is on “reducing” or “treating” symptoms

🚩 doesn’t know who Kassaine Asasumasu is

🚩 self-regulation, recovery and independence are default goals

🚩 doesn’t amplify lived experience in their work

🚩 doesn’t acknowledge or discuss political or social justice issues

🚩 uses neurodiverse instead of neurodivergent

You can learn more about performative neurodiversity or neurodiversity lite here:

https://therapistndc.org/performative-neurodiversity-the-appropriation-and-watering-down-of-a-human-rights-movement-for-profit/

11/12/2023

We have a new website now:
Cherishclinic.com

Also, we are once again offering low-cost therapy options through practicum student services.
https://cherishclinic.com/post/practicumnov23/

Low-Cost Art Therapy with Practicum Students by Christine | Nov 12, 2023 | Update and Announcement | 0 comments Description: Each year, Cherish Clinic offers low-cost therapy services through practicum counselling or therapy students. The clinic offers training, professional development, and mentors...

07/31/2023

What it means for music to be heard

https://theconversation.com/deaf-rappers-who-lay-down-rhymes-in-sign-languages-are-changing-what-it-means-for-music-to-be-heard-206825

When our senses process information differently, it would fundamentally changes how we experience everything, including the definition and aesthetics of music and how we experience pleasure in finding and using patterns.

Dip hop artists move across the stage, hands flying through the air, as audiences pulse to the rhythm of a blasting bass beat.