04/30/2025
Autism Acceptance & Awareness Month offers an important opportunity for clinicians and communities to reflect on how we understand and engage with neurodiversity.
Autism is not a disorder to be pathologized, but a distinct neurodevelopmental profile characterized by unique ways of processing, relating, and experiencing the world. Individuals on the autism spectrum often arrive in therapy with histories of misattunement, marginalization, or trauma related to societal responses to their neurodivergence. Our work is to offer an attuned, nonjudgmental space that respects their inner world and fosters co-regulation, mutual understanding, and emotional resilience. As clinicians, we are called to meet neurodivergent individuals not with assumptions, but with openness. This month, we reaffirm our responsibility to cultivate spaces of dignity and belonging for all clients — especially those whose ways of being have too often been misunderstood.
At Shared Vision Psychological Services, we provide therapeutic support, group support, and diagnostic assessment services to neurodivergent individuals and their families. For additional resources & information, check out our April 2025 Newsletter:https://sharedvision.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/april-2025-newsletter.pdf