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?

In my last post, I described how social science research nailed “mind reading” as a particularly toxic habit in intimate relationships.

But Industrial psychologists love mind reading research. I guess they fantasize about a highly efficient hive-mind… but I digress…

If you must mind read… here is what you should know…

Recent research tells us that happy couples have synchronized brains… Do these brains groove easily because they’re a “good match?”

Or is this synchronization hard won, occurring gradually over time?

Processing emotions effectively is the essential challenge in neurodiverse relationships.

How does the use of metaphor and differences in emotional processing gum up the works for these couples?

What if powerful differences in how you and your partner think might be the actual source of your unhappiness?

What if your husband isn’t an asshole after all?

Here are 66 traits that suggest that your partner might be neuro-diverse. ..

When asshole behavior arises in an intimate relationship… we need a explanatory narrative. And that’s when some neurodiverse couples often self-identify…