Therapist Neurodiversity Collective® - A professional development membership for Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapists
You’re one step closer to becoming part of a global community of practicing therapists—Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs, SLTs, SPs), Occupational Therapists, Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSWs), Mental Health Counselors, and Psychologists—who are committed to neurodiversity-affirming, ethics-driven therapy.
By submitting your application to the Collective, you’re joining a therapy movement that upholds ethical, values-aligned practices and rejects compliance-based, ableist interventions.
Want to know more about our professional development membership benefits for neurodiversity-affirming therapists?
Collective membership is open to neurodiversity-affirming licensed and credentialed practicing therapists.
- Speech-Language Pathologists/SLTs/SPs
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Counselors
- Licensed Social Workers
- Licensed Assistants (SLP-Assistant, COTA/OTA/PTA)
- Other licensed and/or certified therapists
✔ An applicant’s license and/or credentials must be verifiable through their licensure board or accreditation organization.
✔ An application submission indicates that the therapist agrees to uphold Therapist Neurodiversity Collective’s ethics and values.
✷✷✷ Collective Memberships are for individuals only, not entire practices.
Sharing memberships, including any of our our live and on-demand short courses and handouts, is prohibited.
🤔 Why?
The funds from membership dues are reinvested into the organization to cover our significant operation costs including fairly paying the experts who teach our courses, paying for the annual software subscriptions, and paying for software developer services to keep the website maintained and updated for our learning management system.
✷✷✷ As part of the Collective’s mission, we work to keep our educational resources affordable for most therapists.
💡 Our course fees are already significantly lower than those of typical professional development offerings.
💡 To further support therapists who align with our practice ethics and values, we offer memberships as an added cost-saving benefit. Membership provides easy access to all our courses while advancing the neurodiversity movement by equipping providers with trauma-informed, neurodivergent-centered approaches.
💡 For this model to remain sustainable, it’s essential that everyone pays their fair share. That’s what allows us to continue offering high-quality, accessible training.
Important information to know
- Anyone is welcome to enroll in our neurodiversity paradigm-centered professional development courses for therapists.
- However, Therapist Neurodiversity Collective® has non-negotiable membership policies for our Members.
- Our Ethics and Values
- Position on Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)
- Our Positions on Positive Behavior Support, Positive Behavior Interventions, and Positive Reinforcement
- Evidence-based practice
- Our Non-negotiable position on Social Skills Training
- Non-ableist Pragmatic Language Therapy
- Our Positions on Feeding Therapy
By submitting a membership application, applicants confirm that:
✔ You do not use or advertise ABA, or NDBIs (e.g., Early Start Denver Model, PRT, etc.) or any form of positive reinforcement, rewards, or compliance-based motivation strategies. If you offer ABA or NDBI therapies, your application will be denied.
✔ You do not provide or advertise Social Skills training (SST). If you offer SST, your application will be denied.
✔ You do not use or advertise tolerance, desensitization, or exposure-based therapies or approaches, including but not limited to:
- Sensory desensitization therapies (e.g., sensory tolerance, feeding desensitization, distress tolerance)
- Exposure-based therapies (e.g., ERP, in vivo exposure, imaginal exposure, prolonged exposure)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), even if “modified” or “adapted.” If you use CBT, DBT, or any of the above approaches in your practice, please do not apply. Your application will be denied.
✷✷✷ If your practice does not fully align with these guidelines, your application will not be approved, and your credit card will be refunded minus a 25% administration fee.
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What happens after I submit a membership application?
✔ Membership applications are vetted, including license and or credentials.
✔ The process may take up to 5 business days, or longer if there are follow-up questions to a therapist’s application.
✔ Listing your online profiles (practice website, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.) will expedite the vetting process.
✔ Applicants may be contacted through email during vetting with a request to provide additional information.
Submission of your application indicates your agreement to adhere to our Terms of Use and hotlinking policies.