After a season of quiet integration, Shelby returns to the mic to share a powerful evolution in her work: the weaving of neurodiversity-affirming assessment into her trauma-healing framework.

In this intimate and thoughtful episode, she explores what it means to recognize, affirm, and support neurodivergent and neurocomplex individuals within the healing relationship.

Shelby offers grounded definitions of neurodivergence, neurocomplexity, and related terms like AuDHD and giftedness—explaining why this language matters, especially in relational and therapeutic contexts. She reflects on how trauma healing shifts when we stop trying to pathologize difference and instead create space for the many ways nervous systems move through the world.

Listeners will walk away with a deeper understanding of:

• What it means to be neurodivergent or neurocomplex
• Why so many clients have felt unseen within traditional trauma frameworks
• How affirming assessments offer a different kind of mirror—one rooted in compassion, nuance, and belonging

This episode is an open door into a more inclusive, affirming, and trauma-informed healing space.