Services
Neurodivergent Affirming Clinical Consultation
Clinical consultation for therapists, counsellors, social workers, and helping professionals working with, or wanting to work with, neurodivergent adults. Grounded in neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive practice. Offered by Yuka Oshimi, a neurodivergent POC counsellor and doctoral candidate in counselling and psychotherapy, actively researching neurodiversity, bringing lived experience, academic depth, and an intersectional lens.
Clinical Consultation at NWC
Shift from Affirming Language to Affirming Action
When it comes to supporting neurodivergent individuals, using the right terminology is only the first step. "Neurodiversity-lite", or using affirming language without a deep structural shift, can unintentionally harm the very clients we want to support. Grounded in lived experience and intersectionality, clinical consultation at NWC offers a dedicated space to bridge your training gaps, challenge pathologizing frameworks, and move past the buzzwords to build a truly neurodiversity-affirming practice.
Who This Is For
Is This Consultation Right for You?
Our clinical consultation is for helping professionals at any stage of their journey toward more neurodivergent-affirming practice, whether you're just starting to learn or deepening existing knowledge.
Registered Counsellors & Therapists
Students & Emerging Practitioners
Psychologists
Neurodivergent Clinicians
Social Workers
What We Cover
What Clinical Consultation Can Include
Each consultation is shaped by your needs and questions. Common areas of focus include:
Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice Foundations
Understanding what neurodiversity-affirming care means in practice beyond the language. Examining internalized ableism and neuronormativity in practice.
Case Consultation
Discussion of client cases (without identifying information) from a neurodiversity-affirming lens. How to conceptualize, approach, and adapt your therapy.
Adapting Therapy Modalities
How to adapt evidence-based modalities, including CBT, ACT, and mindfulness, to better fit neurodivergent clients. What works, what doesn't, and why.
Cultural Identity & Neurodivergence
Understanding the intersection of neurodivergence, cultural identity, and the Third Culture Kid (TCK) experience is a rarely addressed area.
Late-Identified & Self-Identified Neurodivergence
Supporting adults who are newly identified, self-identified, or exploring neurodivergence. How to hold this sensitively and affirmingly in a clinical context.
ADHD, Autism, AuDHD & Co-occurring Conditions
How ADHD, autism, AuDHD, anxiety, depression, and trauma present in neurodivergent adults, and what that means for affirming care.
Being a Neurodivergent Clinician
For neurodivergent therapists navigating professional identity, masking at work, self-disclosure with clients, and building a sustainable affirming practice.
current neurodiversity research
Drawing on active doctoral research in neurodiversity, what the current evidence base actually says, and how to apply it in affirming clinical practice.
Why NWC
More Than Neurodiversity-Affirming Language
🧠 AuDHD Lived Experience
Consultation offered by a neurodivergent counsellor, not someone who learned about neurodivergence from the outside. This fundamentally changes the depth and quality of clinical insight available to you.
🎓 Doctoral Research on Neurodiversity
Yuka is a doctoral candidate in counselling and psychotherapy whose thesis is on neurodiversity, bringing current, evolving academic depth that goes well beyond clinical training.
🌏 Cultural & TCK Identity
Yuka grew up in Singapore as a Japanese-Canadian, bringing a Third Culture Kid lens to neurodivergence and identity that you will rarely find in clinical consultation spaces.
🤝 BIPOC & Intersectional Perspective
Neurodivergence does not exist outside of race, culture, and identity, our clinical consultation centers these intersections rather than treating them as secondary.
🔅 Adult-Focused
We specialize in neurodivergent adults, including late-identified and self-identified individuals, a population whose clinical needs are often underserved even in neurodiversity spaces.
Session details
Book a Clinical Consultation
fee
$220
Duration
50 minutes
available
Canada
format
Secure Video
Offered by
Yuka Oshimi
Language
English
A note on scope: Clinical consultation at NWC does not constitute clinical supervision, and you remain fully responsible, ethically and legally, for your own clinical decisions. Consultation is a space to think through cases and practice from a neurodiversity-affirming lens. It does not constitute counselling or psychotherapy.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Frequently Asked Questions
❋ What is the fee for clinical consultation?
Professional clinical consultation is $220 CAD per 50-minute session.
❋ Can I book clinical consultation from outside BC?
Yes. Clinical consultation at NWC is available online to helping professionals across Canada.
❋ Is clinical consultation the same as clinical supervision?
No. Clinical consultation is distinct from clinical supervision. You remain fully responsible, ethically and legally, for your own clinical decisions. Consultation offers a space to think through cases, approaches, and practice from a neurodiversity-affirming lens, but does not constitute supervision, clinical oversight, or psychotherapy.
❋ Do I need to work exclusively with neurodivergent clients to benefit from consultation?
No. Many helping professionals find that neurodivergent clients make up a significant part of their caseload without realizing it, particularly adults who are undiagnosed or self-identified. Consultation can help you recognize neurodivergence in your existing practice and respond more affirmingly.
❋ How does Yuka's doctoral research inform consultation?
Yuka is currently completing a doctoral degree in counselling and psychotherapy with a thesis focused on neurodiversity. This means her consultation draws on active, current engagement with the neurodiversity research base, not just clinical training or lived experience alone.
❋ Can consultation be ongoing or is it a single session?
Both options are available. Some professionals book a single consultation for a specific case or question. Others find value in ongoing consultation as they develop their neurodiversity-affirming practice over time. There is no requirement for commitment beyond the session you book.
❋ What makes NWC's clinical consultation different from others?
NWC's clinical consultation is offered by a neurodivergent BIPOC counsellor with lived Third Culture Kid (TCK) experience. This brings a genuinely intersectional lens, neurodivergence, culture, race, and identity.
A Space for Deeper Practice
Whatever brought you here, deepening your practice, working through a case, or finding support as a neurodivergent clinician, consultation at NWC is a space for that conversation.