Neurodivergence
Amy has personal and professional experience understanding and assisting various types of neurodivergence including but not limited to learning disabilities (intellectual and motor), ADHD, and Autism, and their associated obsessive compulsive and other anxiety disorders. Neurodivergence is usually diagnosed by either a psychiatrist or an educational psychologist considering uniqueness and difficulties with brain functional output.
With neurodivergence there are usually unique sensory input sensitivities and Complex (childhood) PTSD that drive or enhance some of the output difficulties. This can include a visual and/or kinesthetic/feeling memory disorder, a listening processing disorder (such as difficulty hearing words when there is background noise or when there is a different word in each ear), which make life more challenging and more work. It’s often common with neurodivergence to have a number or active primitive reflexes, and narrow high palate, breathing through the mouth instead of the nose, and a less coordinated tongue that drives the growth of the jaw. Often our digestive system affects our mental functioning and can be made worse by stress. Additionally we hold excessive stress in our body tissues and acknowledging and working with our body is a way to acknowledge and work with the effects of disruptive stresses.
