Across therapy offices, community mental health settings, schools, and residential programs, clinicians are encountering autistic individuals and people with intellectual and developmental disabilities who also present with co-occurring mental health conditions — often without the training, tools, or clinical frameworks to feel truly prepared.

This 90-minute live webinar is designed for therapists and counselors who want to work more effectively and confidently with this population. It addresses the clinical reasoning, foundational knowledge, and practical starting points that make the difference between feeling lost and feeling genuinely equipped — not through a checklist of techniques, but through a deeper understanding of how to think about the whole person in front of you.

What You Will Learn:

• Identify how diagnostic overshadowing contributes to missed or incorrect mental health diagnoses in autistic and developmentally disabled clients

• Recognize the role of masking in shaping clinical presentations and understand its mental health consequences

• Describe the key systems that interact to drive mental health presentations in neurodivergent individuals

• Apply a structured clinical reasoning approach to begin formulating cases with this population

• Identify practical starting points for treatment with autistic and developmentally disabled clients presenting with co-occurring mental health conditions

Format: Live Webinar

Length: 90 minutes

CE Credit: Coming soon

Price: Coming soon

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