Location: Online (Instant Access)
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This autism certification program provides over 20 hours of comprehensive training on how to effectively work with autistic adults and teens. Offering step-by-step skills, insights, and interventions to understand and support the unique mental health concerns our neurodivergent clients face, such as autism-related trauma, autistic burnout, and masking.
You’ll end this program with the skills, knowledge, and a complete treatment framework, so you can confidently work with this underserved client population …
… plus, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS), recognizing you as a skilled and competent clinician to provide neuro-affirming care. You will gain:
- In-depth knowledge into the autistic client’s lived/day-to-day experience
- Step-by-step guidance for the screening and referral process
- Neuro-affirmative guidelines and clinical strategies
- Start-to-finish treatment planning, including goal setting and collaborative care
- Trauma-informed treatment tailored for autistic clients
- Powerful IFS therapy, CBT, DBT interventions tailored for autistic individuals
- Techniques to nurture self-awareness, self-acceptance, emotion-regulation, and self-advocacy skills
- Self-reflection exercises to identify and address your own neuro-normative biases as a therapist
- And much more!
* Continuing Education: 20+ CE Credits offered