Recognizing the Double Empathy Problem with neurodiverse couples has significant implications for fostering effective communication and promoting inclusivity in their couples therapy.

Here’s why…

Neurodivergent Masking.. what is it?

And why is it something we need to talk about so urgently?

Therapists habitually rail against loneliness as a sign of our social atomization…

But a new 2023 study offers some hard math on loneliness, and some surprising findings…

If we could ever keep clinically apace with the consistent stream of discovery coming from neuroscience, then we’d eventually get up to speed in helping neurodiverse couples with an enhanced, and richer couples therapy experience.

Unfortunately… we’re not there yet.

The phrase "twice-exceptional" is used to describe humans who not only enjoy exceptional intellectual gifts, they’ve also experience learning, developmental or relational challenges uncommon to unexceptional humans.

When you’re working with neurodiverse couples, you must establish with concrete AF clarity upfront:

Are we dealing Relationship-Building?

Relationship-Clarifying, or Relationship-Ending?

The best interventions are profound, and elegant.

Here are two powerful interventions used with neurodiverse couples in Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couple Therapy…

What is Brain-Informed Active Listening?

…And how can neurodiverse couple convey authentic effort?

Ok, some of you are asking… “What’s a Neurodiverse Couple?

Effectiver neurodiverse couples therapy starts with understanding the pitfalls of implicit ableism…

Neurodiversity, as a human difference has received little academic attention in mental health training programs, until recently.

What is Brain-Informed Neurodiverse Couples Therapy?

Neurotypical spouses have hobbies… but sometimes a neurodiverse spouse will have a special interest that feels like a hobby on steroids… how do you manage these sorts of differences?