The Original Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapist Membership—established January 11, 2018.
Leading the way in ethical, neurodiversity-paradigm-centered practice.
🔹 We were the first neurodiversity-affirming membership for therapists – before the trend, before the buzzwords.
🔹 The Collective is for SLPs, OTs, PTs, Psychologists, Social Workers and other therapists who are deeply invested in providing neurodiversity paradigm-centered therapy.
🔹 Our members are fully committed to practices that center our therapy ethics and values.
❤︎ Membership in Therapist Neurodiversity Collective® is reserved for therapists who demonstrate a genuine commitment to neurodiversity-affirming, human rights–centered practice.
❤︎ Offering this opportunity is our way of giving back to these aligned therapists.
❤︎ While individual courses are open to the public, membership offers significantly reduced-cost access*** to our full on-demand short course library, plus nine additional courses that are only for members.
*** Annual membership currently includes unlimited access to 30 on-demand professional development courses, totaling 44 hours of CEU/professional development content. Although our courses are ethically priced for the public, purchasing all of those courses individually would cost approximately $670.
☑ We are an Autistic-led, Neurodivergent-informed, and neurodiversity paradigm-centered therapy, advocacy and education organization.
—We’ve been training therapists in trauma-informed, evidence-based, neurodivergent-affirming therapy practices since January, 2018! And, we don’t do neurodiversity lite.
☑ Save money! Members get instant, all-inclusive access to unlimited live and on-demand neurodiversity paradigm focused professional development short courses (1 – 2.5 hours each).🌟🌟🌟
—Learn at your own pace, on your schedule with our ever-growing neurodiversity-centered course library—including exclusive access to nine additional professional development short courses that are not available to the public.
☑ Active Members also get a huge discount when they enroll in our In-Depth Neurodiversity Training for Therapists: Professional Series.
☑ Earn Professional Development Hours – Meet your continuing education requirements with ease.
☑ Learn from Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Experts
Stay up to date with trauma-informed, evidence-based neurodiversity-affirming best practices. The vast majority of our courses are taught by Autistic and Neurodivergent university researchers, therapists, educators and self-advocates. All of our courses interconnect
➜ Cutting-edge contemporary research
➜ Autistic and other Neurodivergent Lived Experiences
➜ Ethical guidance and meaningful, practical recommendations aimed at improving the self-determined quality of life for Autistic and other Neurodivergent People
☑ Members have access to neurodivergent-affirming, strength-based report examples, therapy goal examples, and best therapy practices guidelines.
☑ Members have access to our library of carefully curated, neurodivergent-affirming, peer-reviewed research sources that support and validate your evidence-based therapy practices.
—Dive into a meticulously selected compilation of research study links, white papers, and scholarly articles, all organized by topic and focused on informing neurodivergent-affirming practices. Access to this compilation of research sources is solely for non-commercial professional development use.
☑ Engage in Human Rights Advocacy and Activism
—Take a stand with us! As a member, you’ll have opportunities to participate in meaningful neurodivergent human rights advocacy and activism campaigns.
☑ List Your Practice in Our Trusted Directory. We are widely known for our integrity—therapists truly committed to neurodiversity paradigm centered practices.
—There is no fee for listing your practice in Therapist Neurodiversity Collective’s directory, but your practice must meet the requirements. We’re committed to offering free public access to neurodivergent-affirming therapists who share our ethics and values.
➺ Elevate your therapy practice with neurodiversity-affirming education that center ethics, agency, dignity, and human rights.
➺ Gain the professional development hours you need while deepening your understanding of the WHY behind the HOW—so you can create meaningful, affirming change in your work.
➺ Join today for immediate access to expert-led courses, resources, and practical tools you can apply right away.
✨ The Therapist Neurodiversity Collective’s Public Directory page receives thousands of organic visitors every month, and TNDC receives emails almost weekly from people in search of a truly neurodiversity-affirming therapy provider in their area. Help them to find you.
✨ A therapy practice may be listed in the TNDC website directory at no cost if the practice owner is an active member of the Collective and agrees that all therapists within that practice will uphold TNDC’s ethics and values.
The Neurodiversity Movement is a Human Rights & Social Justice Movement.
Commercializing neurodiversity trivializes what the neurodiversity movement is all about, and distorts its message and its causes. Performative neurodiversity overshadows genuine activism and shifts attention away from advocating for the rights and acceptance of neurodivergent humans.
We are deeply committed to the principles of the Neurodiversity Movement, prioritizing the mental health, well-being and rights of people above profit-making. Our goal is to ensure that every therapist has access to this crucial information, empowering them to make a positive impact in their practice.
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective strives to offer high-quality, cost-effective neurodiversity-affirming continuing education that will impact meaningful change in therapy practices, and improve and enhance the mental health, well being, and quality of life for our clients, students, and patients.
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective members champion
- Human Rights
- Disability Rights
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- CMS and World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Rights and Standards
- Medical, Hospital, Residential Patient Rights
- Student Rights
- Children’s Rights
- International AAC Rights