Big Announcement: New Online Parent Burnout Course for Parents of Neurodivergent Kids
You Weren’t Meant to Parent Like This: A Neurodiversity Affirming Path Out of Parental Burnout
You’re overwhelmed, torn, and angry. You are trying so hard to help your neurodivergent child struggle less, but you feel like you are always fighting for something. Fighting to get your kid dressed for school. Fighting with their science teacher to understand their needs. Fighting your own urges to run or scream while you try to have patience with your child. Fighting your brain to stop spiraling at 2am so you can sleep.
You wake up tired or panicked. You go to bed defeated. And in between, you parent with a heart that won’t quit and a nervous system that's beyond fried.
You love your child fiercely. You want so badly for things to feel just a little easier, even for a moment. But the truth is, it hasn’t felt easy in a very long time; maybe not ever.
This Isn’t the Version of Parenting You Imagined
You really wanted to be a parent, and to to do it well. You thought you’d get to enjoy your child more than this. You thought that with all the effort you put into parenting, you’d be a more effective parent.
But instead, your days are full of transitions, escalations, appointments, and second-guessing. You're hyper-aware of every facial expression, every potential trigger, every sign of distress.
Even when things are calm, you're bracing.
You hold space for their emotions, you coach them through their meltdowns, you advocate at IEP meetings, you work hard to create positive moments and experiences, you keep an entire mental database of scripts, needs, challenges, sensory accommodations, and possible future outcomes.
And still, you lie awake wondering if you yelled too much, gave too many screens, or didn’t give enough of yourself that day.
This Is What Burned Out Parents Feel Like
Parent burnout isn’t just stress. It’s a slow erosion of your sense of self. If you’re not sure how to tell if you are a burned out parent, burnout looks like:
Feeling emotionally flat but reactive at the same time
Losing your patience over little things you used to roll with
Dreading the sound of your name being called
Resenting your partner, your child, or your friends, then feeling ashamed about it
Running on survival mode so long, you can’t even imagine what rest would feel like
And it’s not just parents of young children. Parents of teens and adult children are burning out, too. Their stories look different, but the emotional exhaustion is the same.
Parental Burnout and Trauma for Neurodivergent Kids, Parents, & Families
Parents of neurodivergent kids are at higher risk for burnout. Living in a constant state of survival mode; reacting or shutting down, running on adrenaline and depleted reserves; takes a serious toll. You begin to feel unfulfilled, angry, or disappointed with yourself and your life. Guilt and shame creep in. You protect yourself from pain, overwhelm, and depletion by isolating or emotionally distancing yourself. Your nervous system is on high alert, and your body feels it every single day.
And your child feels it, too. Whether they are Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, PDA, gifted, twice exceptional (2e), highly sensitive, or navigating other neurodivergences, they often absorb the emotional climate at home, in addition to what they already experience at school, with peers, and the community. They may increasingly begin to believe they are a burden or defective. And when they live in chronic frustration, meltdown, impulsivity, or shutdown mode, that is trauma. Not just for them, but for the whole family system.
Over time, many children and teens begin to cope with their own overwhelm through maladaptive, destructive, or even self-harming behaviors. It’s heartbreaking and scary. And it deepens the cycle of fear, helplessness, and disconnection for everyone in the household.
You’re Still Holding It All; Even as They Get Older
Maybe your teenager is struggling with emotional regulation, executive functioning, or social relationships and you feel torn between supporting them and fearing for their future. Maybe your adult child is neurodivergent, unemployed, anxious, or stuck, and you’re holding the weight of that every day, wondering when or if things will shift.
And as your child grows, so do the fears:
Will they ever be okay on their own?
Will I be doing this forever?
Can I keep going like this?
The World Offers Advice: What Parents of Neurodivergent Kids Need Is Understanding & Support
You’ve been given so much advice. And most of it feels wrong for your family.
You’ve been told to stay consistent, stay calm, keep pushing, try harder. But almost none of it takes into account your child’s neurotype, or your own. None of it honors how deeply depleted you feel. Advice and input from professionals, family, and friends almost never considers how trauma, both yours and your child’s, shows up in your nervous systems and your daily dynamic.
What you need isn’t another parenting strategy. What you need is a steady, affirming space to come back to yourself, and to start to move forward from there.
That’s Why I Created This Online Parent Burnout Course for Parents of Neurodivergent Children
As a psychologist who specializes in trauma, neurodivergence, and parent burnout, I created this course because I saw a profound and painful need.
I saw neurodivergent parents, both diagnosed and undiagnosed, struggling under the weight of their own childhood trauma and present-day parenting challenges; repeating cycles they never asked for and desperately wished to break.
I saw the devastating effects of complex trauma on neurodivergent children and adults; people trying and failing to function in systems not built for them, systems that constantly send the message: you don’t fit, you’re not enough.
I saw passionate, thoughtful, resourceful, exhausted parents of all neurotypes from all over the world looking for something real, something that would meet them where they are and gently support them through meaningful change in their minds and bodies; in their relationships and homes; and ultimately in their schools, communities, and throughout the world.
I created this on-demand, online course to offer that support, and to make healing more broadly available and accessible above and beyond the therapy office.
Because when parents feel supported, whole families can heal. And when we help parents reclaim their steadiness, we interrupt trauma cycles and lay the foundation for something radically different; something grounded in compassion, connection, and growth.
The Parental Burnout Course Teaches You How to Feel Better; and Build Better
You’ll learn how to:
Regulate your nervous system in the moment, and build longer-term capacity for calm and for controlled energy
Reconnect with your core values and use them to make decisions that feel right
Create a vision for a life that meets your family’s real needs
Let go of what isn’t working, shed beliefs that no longer serve you, and take steps toward sustainable, meaningful change
This isn’t about returning to your "old self" because that version of you didn’t yet have the understanding, skills, or supports for parenting in this complex reality. This is about becoming a more aligned, empowered version of yourself, with tools, insight, and direction for building a life that actually feels good to live.
What Parents Might Take Away From This Course
While this course is newly launched, it was built from years of clinical experience with real parents, neurodivergent kids, and neurodivergent adults; people like you who were hurting, who wanted change, and who needed more than just coping tips (although you’ll get those too).
This course can help you:
Feel less overwhelmed, more grounded, and more steady day-to-day
Identify what really matters to you, to your child, and your family; and let go of what doesn’t
Build skills for nervous system regulation, boundaries, and values-aligned living
Create a personalized, flexible plan to improve your life and your child’s; one that supports your goals, builds on your strengths, and adapts with you over time
Begin to replace cycles of trauma with cycles of growth, resilience, and connection
Already in Neurodivergent, ADHD, or Autistic Parent Burnout? This Course Meets You Where You Are
You don’t have to be ready, rested, or even particularly hopeful to start.
The course is designed to be accessible, supportive, and digestible with modules that can be taken at your own pace, strategies that work in real life, universal design that supports how you learn best, and encouragement that honors your experience.
Transformation can start with small shifts. With one new tool. One new boundary. One moment of compassion. And those small shifts can snowball into real, lasting change.
Your Home Can Be a Healing Space For You and Your Neurodivergent Child or Children
When the parent-child dynamic is filled with reactive cycles, survival responses, and unspoken shame, home stops feeling safe for anyone.
But you can shift the energy in your home. You can start making changes that bring relief, restore safety, and rebuild connection.
You can create a space that protects against long-term trauma and supports healing, growth, and joy.
In my many years as a trauma therapist working with neurodivergent children, adults, and parents, I’ve witnessed the profound transformation that’s possible when families begin to heal. I’ve seen relationships deepen, passions reignite, and homes become bright, affirming spaces, even when the world outside is not. When parents begin to feel more steady, supported, and aligned, it not only changes how they experience themselves, but also how their children see themselves. That shift; toward safety, connection, and self-worth; is the heart of healing, and it’s absolutely within reach.
You Deserve to Feel Steady Again
You don’t have to wait until you’re falling apart to get help. You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t even have to be hopeful yet.
You just need to believe that your life, your body, your mind, your family, deserves care.
This Is the Beginning: Enroll Now
You’re not broken. You’re not too much. You’re not failing.
You are a parent living through something incredibly hard, and you’re still showing up and trying to figure it out. That matters. But the toll that it is taking on you matters too.
Let this course be your next step toward something steadier, softer, and more sustainable.
You deserve to feel supported. You deserve to feel like yourself again. You deserve to feel good in the life you’re living. Let this be the beginning of that.
Your healing matters. Your growth matters. Your family matters.
Let’s make life gentler, steadier, and more possible, together.
Learn more about the Parent Burnout Course for Parents of Neurodivergent Kids and enroll today.
Individual Therapy Support for Neurodivergent Adults and Burned Out Parents
The course is a powerful step toward healing, but sometimes, you need more individualized therapy support to process what's coming up or to integrate the work more deeply into your life.
I offer affirming individual therapy for neurodivergent adults and for parental burnout. We can work together in the Shore Therapy Evanston office just outside Chicago, or through online therapy in over 40 states across the US. Contact me for a free 15-minute consultation to discuss your therapy needs.
