Core Elements of Treatment for Autism:

1. Assessment and Personal Profile

Clinical interview covering developmental history, strengths, sensory needs, communication style, and goals.
Screeners to learn how more about your own unique autistic traits (RAADS-R, ATPQ, ABM)
A personalized profile built from the results, reviewed together with you and used to shape the treatment plan.

2. Motivational Interviewing

Collaborative conversations that explore the your values, goals, and mixed feelings about change.
Goals that are led by you, with no pressure to appear less autistic.

3. Emotion Regulation and Burnout Reduction

Psychoeducation on autistic emotional experience, sensory overload, and burnout.
Building emotional awareness and using adapted CBT skills (thought records, behavioral experiments, behavioral activation).
Sensory accommodations, planned recovery time, pacing, and boundary-setting.

4. Social Functioning

Practicing communication skills as options, not rules, using role-play and behavioral experiments.
Reducing social anxiety and the costs of masking.
Building supports like community, self-advocacy, and accommodations.

5. Maintenance