Neurodiverse
Parenting Services
Making Sense of the Many Neurologies
Neurodiverse parenting means everything from autistics parenting neurotypicals to non-autistics parenting autistics and children with ADHD.... and all the possibilities in between. Every neurology has its own set of needs.
There's a lot going on!!!
REAL Neurodiverse
Parenting Services
Make Your Family What You Want it to Be
I have 21 years of personal experience with autism and marriage and a lifetime of experience with autism and close family relationships. I have been consulting and coaching neurotypical, non-autistic neurodivergent, and autistic individuals managing neurodiverse marriage and divorce since 2017.
I offer relationship services, divorce services, autistic parent coaching, and court expert witness services. I support my clients in whatever decisions they make -- staying married, getting divorced, or finding other suitable arrangements. I help them prevent expensive high-conflict neurodiverse divorces whenever possible, saving them a LOT of money in attorney fees along the way. And, whenever I can, I help autistic parents maintain positive relationships with children during and after divorce.
I have a master's in psychology from Harvard University where I conducted some of the first quantitative research on neurodiverse marriage in the world, receiving the Director's Thesis Award for my work. I am a trained and ICF-aligned coach and will make YOUR sessions about YOU.
I self-identify as a high body empathetic, or a neurodivergent with a very high level of body empathy. I am not autistic.
Anne MacMillan, MLA
Founder of the R.E.A.L. 10-Step Neurodiverse Family Systems Approach, Speaker, Researcher, Consultant, Coach, Educator and Expert Witness
About Anne's Practice
Neurodiverse Parenting Coaching
For the Autistic Parent
Parenting is never easy. Autism has a genetic component and if you're an autistic parent, chances are you have at least one autistic child. And, if you're like many autistic parents in neurodiverse families, you have neurotypical children, too.
Autistic and neurotypical children have different needs and different developmental trajectories. They respond to parenting techniques differently. It is all very confusing, especially because most professionals and parenting coaches don't comprehend autism in adults, how your autism affects your perspective about your children's needs, and how you might interpret the actions of your neurotypical children considering your own autism.
I work to support you as sort through all this neurodiverse complexity and come up with parenting plans and strategies that will improve your relationships with all your children - autistic and neurotypical.
For the Non-Autistic Parent
If you're a neurotypical (or non-autistic neurodivergent) parent married to someone on the autism spectrum, genetically speaking, you may have autistic, ADHD, or high-body-empathy neurodivergents as children, and they all have different parenting needs.
To make things even more complicated, your co-parenting partner has a different neurology than your own and each of your different children (with their different brains) need something different from you and your partner.
It's a lot. From where I sit today, these neurological differences in families have been playing a major role in family systems and parenting dynamics for many years, but only today are these differences being recognized. I work with to support you as you put together all the pieces of the complex neurological puzzle all your family members fit into and then find solutions.
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