Neurodivergent Somatics Part 3: A Model for ND-Affirming Care That Supports Both Clients and the Therapists Who Work with Them - 4 CEUs

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When & Where:

• Date: Friday, November 21, 2025
  • If you cannot attend this workshop on 11/21, you can pre-register for the recorded on-demand version here: https://www.theknowledgetree.org/p/neurodivergent-...
• Time: 12:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Time
• CE Hours Included: 4 Core (please see below for more information)
• Location: Live Interactive Webinar (“Synchronous”) on Zoom
• Investment: $109 before Friday, November 7th at 5:00pm Eastern Time, $122 after
• Presented by: Nyck Walsh, LPC (see bio below)
• Workshop Recording: A recording of this workshop is available to review for 60 days after the presentation. However, participants must attend live to receive the "Synchronous" CE Certificate.
  
• Instruction Level: Intermediate
• Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Psychotherapists, Other Mental Health Professionals
  
• Required Prerequisite: “Neurodivergent Somatics Part 2: A Model for ND-Affirming Care that Supports Both Clients and the Therapists Who Work with Them” (previously taken live or on-demand)

Learning Objectives:

After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:

• Describe how questioning and disrupting normativity (neurotypicality, colonization, white supremacy, cis-heteronormativity, and other systems of oppression) in the counseling space allows us to better center and honor the wholeness of our clients
• Identify the importance of tending to transitions, both within and outside the counseling space
• Explore how ritual and honoring of the sacred support a whole-person approach to care and can help reduce counselor burnout
• Discuss how joy is an important form of resistance to oppression and is essential to ND affirming approaches.

Workshop Description:

The field of psychology has historically pathologized Neurodivergent (ND) people and failed to see their innate health and wisdom. Nyck Walsh’s model, Neurodivergent Somatics, provides clinicians with a concrete framework for providing ND-affirming care that is anti-ableist, somatic, collaborative, and trauma-informed. In Part 3 of this training, we will play with how questioning and dismantling normativity in the therapy room, particularly neurotypicality, colonization, white supremacy, and cis-heteronormativity, allows us to more authentically center, honor, support, and even celebrate our clients and ourselves. This will include some of the logistical and practical elements of being a therapist, whether in private practice, an agency, or other settings. In doing so, we all have more permission to be human and to be our own unique selves, no matter what our neurotype(s).

We will delve into how we transition and how we are supported in our work through ritual and the sacred. This is in service to reducing burnout and honoring wholeness. We will end with a focus on joy for both our clients and ourselves, leaning into joy as a potent act of resistance in the face of oppression and a vital source of energizing our life force.

Workshop Agenda:

• Introduction (30 minutes)
  • Creating a Neurodivergent affirming, anti-oppressive learning experience
  • Group agreements
  • Brief recap from Parts 1 & 2 of this series
• Questioning normativity in the therapy space (75 minutes)
  • Exploring practical and logistical elements of counseling that likely have oppression embedded within them
  • Examining how these elements, such as scheduling, intake paperwork, money, policies, communication, and more, can be deconstructed to be more affirming for both counselors and their clients
  • Creating an accessible and realistic action plan for implementing change
• Break (60 minutes)
• Exploring transitions, ritual, and the sacred (75 minutes)
  • The relevance of transitions for ND people and their counselors, both within and outside of the therapy space
  • How implementing personalized rituals can support clients and therapists alike through these transitions
  • Inviting the sacred into this work in a personalized way to support wholeness, reduce burnout, and offer meaning
• Joy! (60 minutes)
  • Exploring joy as a potent form of resistance to systemic oppression
  • Supporting clients to implement customized passion rituals into their lives
  • Supporting therapists to take breaks that prioritize rest, pleasure, or joy as a vital means of reducing burnout and honoring their humanity

Presented by: Nyck Walsh, LPC

Nyck Walsh (he/they) brings a whole-person, anti-oppressive, intersectional, somatic lens to working with Autistic and KCS/VAST folx. He is the author of the upcoming book, titled Neurodivergent Somatics in Therapy: An Anti-Ableist Approach to Whole-Person Care, to be published by Norton Professional Books in March 2026.

A white, Autistic, VAST, queer, and trans social justice counselor, Nyck is the director of Nyck Walsh Counseling & Training Center and creator of the Neurodivergent Somatics model. He curates reparative experiences for late-identified Autistic and KCS/VAST folx to connect with their innate wisdom, dismantle ableism, be supported in their challenges, and unpack their lives through their unidentified and often misunderstood Neurodivergent (ND) experience. His counselor education programs have created an international following, with both ND and neurotypical counselors alike reporting that they feel deeply supported and validated by his approach. While being human presents no shortage of complexity, Nyck delights in frolicking in nature and living among the trees with his four-legged bestie in the mountains of what is colonially known as Colorado.

Workshop Schedule (Eastern Time):

• 11:30am - 12:00pm | Sign-In and Welcome
• 12:00pm - 1:45pm | Session
• 1:45pm - 2:45pm | Break
• 2:45pm - 5:00pm | Session
• 5:00pm | Continuing Education Certificates Available

4 Core CEs Included - Details by License Type Below:

• PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
• COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Please click here for more detailed information.
• SOCIAL WORKERS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
• MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.

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