Neurodiversity in Women
ACT, CBT, and DBT Strategies to Boost Self-Compassion in Clients with ADHD and Autism
- Speaker:
- Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 02 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Apr 30, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150782
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
If you don’t know what to look for, it can be easy to miss. ADHD and Autism in women don’t look like the textbooks or the “typical” male-normed cases.
You need specialized skills so that you don’t misunderstand or misdiagnose your neurodivergent women clients who are already at high risk of a cascade of problems connected to low self-worth, including eating disorders, relationship abuse, and suicide.
In this session, Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW-psychotherapist and neurodiversity expert – will help you give you an integrative toolkit for working with neurodivergent women. You’ll get:
- Strategies to address core negative beliefs and build self-compassion
- A powerful values clarification exercise to improve clients’ self-relationship
- Techniques to empower neurodivergent women clients to self-advocate more effectively
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Speaker
Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW Related seminars and products
Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in private practice in southern Illinois specializing in the crossroads of mental health, trauma and neurodiversity utilizing interventions informed by compassion-focused therapy, acceptance commitment therapy, EMDR and other traditions. Jennifer is the author of The Psychosis and Mental Health Recovery Workbook: Tools for Young Adults from ACT, DBT and Recovery-Oriented CBT and writes a blog for Psychology Today entitled ‘Beyond Mental Health: Defying Stereotypes and False Limitations.’
Jennifer has provided training to hundreds of clinicians nationwide on topics related to neurodiversity, mental health and healing trauma. She offers a unique perspective infused with her lived experience as an individual who has walked her own journey toward mental health and self-acceptance as an autistic person herself.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jennifer Gerlach maintains a private practice and receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Gerlach has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Identify risk factors for neurodivergent women.
- Utilize at least two techniques to improve self-compassion in women clients with autism or ADHD.
- Integrate strategies for self-advocacy into psychotherapy with neurodivergent women clients.
Outline
Common Experiences for Neurodivergent Women
- Neurodiversity defined
- Primer on a neurodiversity-affirming stance
- Missed identification – implications of a later diagnosis
- Common pieces along journey of self-discovery
- Low self-worth in a neurotypical world
- Neurodiversity and eating disorders
- Heightened risk for bullying and intimate partner violence
- Critical links between neurodivergence and suicide
Clinical Tools to Support Neurodivergent Women
- The importance of building self-compassion
- Address negative beliefs about the self
- Values clarification with ACT
- Use of self-as-context to boost self-compassion
- LAND with DBT for self-advocacy
- Address internalized stigma and ableism
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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