Understanding Your Neurodivergent Journey

Consultation Package

A safe space to deepen your self-understanding of neurodivergence without the pressure of a formal diagnosis.

​Struggling to make sense of your online assessments​ or other research?
Wondering how high-masking autism or ADHD might resonate with your life experiences? 


This personalized consultation package offers:
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• Two 90-minute sessions to explore your results and traits.
• A non-clinical summary and resource guide tailored to your needs.
• A safe space to deepen your self-understanding without the pressure of a formal diagnosis.
• Discover insights, strategies, and tools to navigate your world with confidence.​

Consultation Package Total Rate: $725

What’s Included:
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1. Two 90-Minute Consultation Sessions
   • A deep dive into your online assessments​ or other research, exploring patterns, results, and personal experiences.
   • Discuss traits of high-masking autism and how they might resonate with your experiences.
   • Support in understanding your neurodivergent profile in everyday life contexts (e.g., relationships, work, self-care).
2. Personalized Resource Guide
   • Curated resources tailored to your needs, such as books, articles, tools, or community spaces for neurodivergent individuals.
   • Tips for self-advocacy and strategies for navigating life with greater self-awareness.
3. Non-Clinical Summary Document
   • A concise, personalized summary of the insights gained during the consultations.
   • This document will NOT be a formal diagnosis but will provide a structured understanding of your experiences.
4. 30-Minute Follow-Up Session (Optional within ​90 days)
   • Check in to discuss how the insights and strategies have worked for you and explore any additional questions.​

How It Works
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• Step 1: Book your first consultation.
• Step 2: Complete a pre-session questionnaire to share your background, assessment results,​ or other research.
• Step 3: Join the sessions virtually or in person.
• Step 4: Receive your personalized resource guide and summary document within ​14 business days.
• Step 5: Schedule your follow-up session if desired.​

Who Is This For?
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• Individuals exploring self-discovery related to high-masking autism​ or ADHD.
• Those seeking guidance on their assessment results​ or other research in a non-diagnostic, supportive space.​
• Anyone curious about building on their understanding of neurodivergence.

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Locations Served:   Worldwide (as scheduling aligns with Central Time zone)

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Consultations Facilitated by Taylor Baez, MA, LPCC

Taylor Baez, MA, LPCC // Autism + ADHD Assessor (MN + ID) & Neurodivergence Consultant

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50 Less Commonly Known Traits of Autism in Highly Masked Adults: With Corresponding DSM-5-TR Criteria.

$11.00

Finally, it’s here! I’ve compiled a 7-page resource that includes the following particulars:

1. A comprehensive list of 50 (valid, yet less commonly talked about) traits of Autism presentation in highly masked adults
2. How each of these traits correspond directly with the most current diagnostic criteria (DSM-5-TR) used to professionally assess for Autism 

Download this resource:

• To prepare for an upcoming Autism assessment
• For self-exploration around Autism
• As a clinician, to increase competence in this presentation in high masking Autistic clients
• To better understand an Autistic family member, friend or employee
• Share with your therapist, coach, partner or medical provider

Download 7-Page Resource Here:

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Virtual Talk: Autism in Highly-Masked Adults (Recorded mp4 Download)

$27.99

Recorded 90-minute talk (mp4) by Lindsey Mackereth, MA, LPCC, LADC, founder/therapist/coach at Method Creative and the Superwell Collective.

A virtual opportunity to learn about the unique experience of autistic adults using a neurodiversity-affirming approach at your own pace.

For individuals hoping to learn about themselves or someone they care about as well as professionals (therapists, coaches, healthcare providers, wellness providers, executive leadership) who would like to better understand autism from a neurodiversity-affirming framework.

Topics covered:

• Defining Autism from a neuro-affirming framework
• Preferred language
• Camouflaging/masking in Autism
• Presentation nuances within phenotypes of the Autism diagnosis
• Differentiating Autism from other areas of neurodivergence
• Screening tools for Autism, self-identification
• Resources learning more about Autism

Link + access to digital talk will be sent to you via email within 24 hours of purchase.

Talk recorded on 4.10.2024.

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Sensory Preferences Deep Dive: Fillable Inventory

$9.00

8-Page PDF Download

Excellent tool to use to identify workplace accommodation requests! Also, great to use with your partner or roommate to understand each others’ sensory preferences and needs. 

This list invites you to rate and explore your preferences in sensory areas that include:

• Visual environment
• Lighting
• Sounds
• Scents
• Temperature/Air Flow
• Body posture
• Touch/Proprioception
• Clothing
• + More!

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Remarkable Overlap in ADHD, Autism, Giftedness & Burnout: 8 Page Resource

$11.00

A resource (8-page PDF) to share with your therapist, coach, partner or medical provider to provide context around your complexity

Have you ever wondered why it seems like there is so much overlap in descriptions of Autism, ADHD, Giftedness and even burnout? Let’s dig in.

In order to show you a slice of what my brain “sees” when assessing an individual with all of these areas of complexity in mind, I have created an AUTISM, ADHD, GIFTEDNESS, BURNOUT Characteristic Overlap table of items—all known characteristics of ADHD— and:

1. Identified which other areas of neurocomplexity (Autism, Giftedness) and/or burnout this item could potentially overlap and
2. My reasoning as to why/how this item could be characteristic of Autism, Giftedness and/or burnout. 

In other words, any time an individual endorses one of these items in an ADHD assessment, here are all of the expanded differential possibilities I am synthesizing to determine a potential diagnosis/identification/further recommendation. 

This resource is a sneak peek of the table I created for you to share with your therapist, coach, partner, family, friends, or medical provider to provide context around your complexity!

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3-Page PDF: Navigating Autistic/ADHD/Gifted Social Satisfaction: Masking vs. Social Skills

$9.00

OK, you have begun to have some awareness around masking and how you may move forward with reducing the consequences of this energy suck. Now, it’s time to figure out how to get those neglected social needs of yours (yes, you have them and they are important to your lived experience) authentically met once and formal!

I like to think of this step as an adventure in exploring your unique set of social preferences and skills to help you to feel successful in all of the things that you have learned to expect from social skills: conveying messages clearly, exchanging information, being understood by others, building and maintaining relationships, getting your needs and desires met in relationships, and confronting and resolving conflicts. 

How do we do this as neurocomplex beings with all of the templates for communication and social skills are not quite created for our wiring?

Self leadership: 

• Stop trying to learn about our social and communication needs and preferences solely from traditional social and communication templates. 
• Actually learn about your unique social needs and preferences as they apply to your unique contexts—here is a tool I have created just for this exploration!

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Neurocomplex Lifespan Model: Gifted Kid to Autistic and/or ADHDer Adult (in Burnout)

$11.00

A resource (PDF) to share with your therapist, coach, partner or medical provider to provide context around your complexity

Neurocomplexity Lifespan Model

I’ve created this very special download that depicts a holistic unfolding model of the lifespan of Neurocomplex individuals, based on anecdotal and research that I’ve gathered throughout my career, including the following areas of subjective experience: 

• School/academic functioning
• Workplace functioning
• Social/interpersonal life
• Mental health
• Physical health
• Gender 
• Sexuality
• Existential issues

This lifespan model explains common phenomena in Neurocomplex beings in early and middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, middle adulthood and beyond. 

Burnout, Diagnosis and Post-Burnout

This download also illustrates common contributors to burnout in the Neurocomplex that can often lead to shifts in functioning and/or diagnosis of Autism and/or ADHD.

Finally, this model offers methods of recovering from Neurocomplex burnout by honoring these individuals’ inherent drive to embody meaningful and purposeful living while navigating the ongoing unique balance of the needs of a complex body-mind (rest, movement/stillness, input/output, connection/alone time, stillness) to support all aspects of functioning, in addition to the sustainability of a meaningful existence.

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3-Page Tool: Social Strategy in Neurocomplexity

$9.00

3-Page PDF Download

So, you realize you are (or suspect you may be) neurocomplex—Autistic, ADHDer, and/or gifted—and are coming to grips with the fact that your social life needs some love. 

• It’s too draining yet not deep enough
• You’re lonely yet over stimulated in your social situations
• You like people but can’t figure out how to have the friends you need
• All of the templates for communication and social skills are not quite created for our wiring

What do you do? Self leadership! Ok, but HOW?

1. Stop trying to learn about our social and communication needs and preferences solely from traditional social and communication templates.
2. Actually learn about your unique social needs and preferences as they ARE, not as you’ve been taught they should be!

This tool (!) is a great starting point to explore your social preferences as they pertain to the various social networks in your life! Download this 3-page resource here to begin this new path towards a more aligned social life!

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Giftedness, Autism, ADHD, Complex PTSD & Burnout: Significant Trait Overlap: 8 Page Resource

$11.00

A resource (8-page PDF) to share with your therapist, coach, partner or medical provider to provide context around your complexity

What is “Giftedness” and what are the characteristics in adults? How do these characteristics overlap with Autism, ADHD, Complex PTSD and Burnout?!

As a licensed therapist who specializes in the overlap and co-occurrence of complex areas of primary neurodivergence (Autism, ADHD, Giftedness) and secondary factors (CPTSD, Burnout) in adults, I have had a front row (OK, behind closed doors) view of how these terms overlap in characteristics and/or co-occur in one individual. 

I’ve recognized that ~90% of the adults I assess for Autism, ADHD and/or Giftedness have experienced at least one (usually more) episode of neurodivergent burnout, commonly linked to masking their differences at work, home or in other environments. Additionally, ~70% of the adults I assess show signs of Complex PTSD. That’s a lot of overlap.

This time, I have created a (monster of a) table that expands on published characteristics of GIFTEDNESS in adults and I:

1. Identify whether each characteristic of Giftedness overlaps with characteristics of Autism, ADHD, Complex PTSD (CPTSD) and/or Burnout and
2. My reasoning as to why/how this item could be a characteristic of Autism, Autism, CPTSD and/or burnout. 

In other words, any time an individual endorses one of these items in a session or Gifted profiling assessment, this table depicts many of the expanded differential possibilities I am synthesizing to determine a potential diagnosis/identification/further recommendation. 

Enjoy!

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Masking + Social Preferences Exploration + Checklist: 6-Page PDF

$9.00

Have you been finding yourself wondering: I realize I socially mask (my traits of Autism, ADHD, Giftedness, etc.), but NOW WHAT?!

 

Then, this 6-page resource is for you. This checklist and experiential guide was created to help you to deepen your awareness around masking and take next steps for integrating this new information. 

This resource references multiple screening tools, assessment questions, and anecdotal data on common social traits of neurodivergence as well as common signs of masking.

BONUS! Application questions for you to do a deeper dive on your own, with yourself (auto therapy), your therapist, coach, partner, or friend. 

Also an excellent tool to bring to your upcoming autism or ADHD assessment!

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