We are always educating ourselves and striving to be neurodiverse affirming therapists who desire for our groups to be based on the needs and interests of each child in the group and not push them to fit the mold of the neurotypical world. Therefore, it is important to us that your child/teen shows interest in and consents to participating in these groups to help them build skills and community with each other. We plan to facilitate a range of skills such as: social skills/pragmatics, executive functioning skills, emotional regulation, and building life/community skills, etc. as naturally as possible through activities planned. There is a baseline of skills that your child must have to be able to benefit from group therapy (consistent form of verbal communication, no aggressive/destructive behaviors, able to attend to peer directed activities, etc.) as we will have several children/teens in a group at once. We are happy to discuss this in more detail with you to help you determine if your child/teen is a good fit for group therapy and if not, what other options may be available to help support these skills. We do strongly recommend consistency with attendance month to month for as long as you feel group therapy is beneficial as we will be building skills each week and this will also help your child/teen to foster more meaningful relationships in the group setting.