Our most in-depth Asynchronous Course is built to prepare you for ethical, accurate, and genuinely affirming assessment work with neurodivergent clients.

 

You'll begin by establishing a neurodiversity-affirming theoretical foundation. This module challenges clinician assumptions and deficit-based language directly, and teaches you to apply strengths-based, contextual formulation to your clinical narratives. From there, the course moves into conducting ethical, accessible, and trauma-informed assessments. Complete the coursework at your own pace, then join the live Applied Practice session to work through case-based discussion and technique demonstration with faculty who have specialized training in this population.

 

A substantial module in the Live Applied Practice Sessions covers assessment administration and differential formulation, including standardized administration of the CAT-Q, DIVA-5, and building your skills in differential formulation across ADHD, autism, anxiety, trauma, and learning differences, including how ADHD presents differently across genders and the systemic factors behind the gender-based diagnostic gap.

 

You'll also learn to produce strengths-based clinical reports using a structured reframing framework that converts deficit-based language into affirming, behaviourally grounded clinical prose, and to structure feedback sessions as a clinical intervention in their own right.