Understanding your autistic identity can help you live the life you want to have. Your relationships with friends, family, and coworkers can improve. You can better understand your communication and what goes wrong when you try to connect with others. Learn about your sensory needs so they don't get in the way. Find new ways to regulate your emotions. Find ways to conserve energy so you don't get burned out.
I use research-based techniques to help clients improve social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts. My education, work experience, and personal experiences with autism spectrum disorder qualify me to teach coping skills for restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior. Culturally-responsive and developmentally appropriate practices are utilized to help clients achieve treatment goals.
Margaret Novotny is a speech pathologist and a LMFT-Associate who ran a school for students on the Autism Spectrum. She has extensive knowledge and experience working with children and adults who struggle with social skills (making conversations, reading body language, Making and keeping friends, and combatting shyness/ social anxiety. We offer social skills and executive functioning skills camps/groups as well. Please see our group offerings here: https://www.bwellcounselingcenter.com/groups
We offer Autism testing and cognitive behavioral interventions for Autism. Find out more about our school psychologist, Nicole Hoelz at https://www.drdarienzo.com/school-psychologist/