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5 Principles for neuroaffirming therapy
Flexibility
- client choice & control
- theoretical approach & modalities
- adaptations & accommodations
- feedback informed interventions
Lifelong Learning
- neurodiversity paradigm
- voices of lived experience
- mental health impacts
- internalized ableism
- masking & minority stress
- complex trauma
- depression, anxiety, shame
Acceptance
- culture, identities & worldview
- autonomy, strengths & needs
- assumption of competency
- expression of emotion, thought, behavior & communication
Advocacy
- rejection of the pathological paradigm, ableism & oppression
- promotion of inclusion, acceptance & accommodations
- empowerment of advocacy in and outside the therapy room
Genuineness
- critical self-reflection
- compassion for self and others
- safe use of self and disclosure
- humility & non-expert approach
2025 · Jesse Jonesberg, MSW, LCSW · intrinsicchange.com