Groups
A.C.C.E.P.T. Series for
Neurodivergent Adults
Understanding, Communication, and Connection
The A.C.C.E.P.T. Program™ is a suite of groups and packages for neurodivergent youth, adults, couples, and parents, and the professionals who work with them, to promote understanding, communication, and connection.
Info Session: SUNDAYS @ 7 PM
Email us for meeting link
Pillar One: Understanding Your Neurodivergent Operating System
Sessions: Sept 29, Oct 6, 20, & 27th, 2025, with follow-up Jan 12, 2026
Pillar Two: Communicating Across Neurotypes
Nov 17, 24, Dec 1, & 8, 2025, with follow-up Feb 23, 2026
Pillar Three: Connecting Authentically with Self-Compassion
Sessions: Jan 19, 26, Feb 2 & 9, 2026, with follow-up May 11, 2026
The A.C.C.E.P.T. Series for Neurodivergent Adults provides unique spaces to meet, explore identities, unpack myths about brains and nervous systems types, connect with other neurodivergent people, and build skills to navigate a neurotypical world.
The Series is based on the three pillars of the A.C.C.E.P.T. Framework:
Understanding, Communication, and Connection.
Included in Each Pillar:
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Pre-recorded Introduction
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Four Weekly Online Sessions
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Six-month Follow-up Drop-in
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Activities and Resources Workbooks
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Members-only Facebook Group
Ideal for those who want to:
Explore your Neurodivergent Operating System
Build Communication and Self-Advocacy Skills
Share Experiences and Strategies with Other Neurodivergent Adults
Live an Authentic and Meaningful Life
Group Facilitator:
Pascale Doherty-Haigh (she/her)
BSc, MA in Counselling Psychology (MACP) (pending)
“I am a queer and neurodivergent psychotherapist (qualifying) with a background in behavioural neuroscience research and lived experience as a late-diagnosed AuDHD adult. In the A.C.C.E.P.T. group, I combine clinical training, scientific insight, and personal understanding to help participants explore connection, regulation, and belonging through a neurodivergent-affirming lens. My goal is to support neurodivergent adults in working with their brain, not against it—unmasking, reconnecting with their nervous systems, and building relationships that feel safe, sustainable, and true to who they are.”
Group Facilitator:
Wendy McGuire (she/her)
MSW, RSW, PhD
Registered Social Worker
“I combine my therapy skills with ten years of academic teaching to help A.C.C.E.P.T. group participants understand their neurodivergent operating systems and become fluent in translating their perceptions and experiences to neurotypical friends, family members, colleagues, and service providers, so they can experience greater authenticity and ease in their lives with the neurodiverse population to promote self-awareness, self-regulation, and improved executive function, attention, and time management.”
Pillar One: Understanding Neurodivergent Operating Systems
In Pillar One, we explore the basic feature of a neurodivergent operating system, as dynamic and a spectrum, using the NDOS tools to understand your own unique strengths and challenges.
Pillar Three: Connecting Authentically
In Pillar Three, we explore barriers to connection, what can be ‘fixed’ and what has to be ‘lived with’, and how to ‘live with’ the things we can’t fix using the skills of radical acceptance and self-compassion. Unmasked connection requires next level skills in calming our nervous systems. We will go deep in how to use Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to self and co-regulate.
Pillar Two: Communicating Across Neurotypes
Building on Pillar One, we will explore barriers to cross-neurotype communication, your communication style, and differences between masking and translating, and build skills for assertive communication, boundary-setting, and self-advocacy.
Online Sessions Structure
1. Checkin
2. Learning Goals
3. Activity/Breakout Groups
4. Content related to Theme
5. Activity/Breakout Groups
6. Content related to Theme
7. Activity/Breakout Groups
8. Discussion related to Theme
9. Checkout
How to Join
RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW
Online
6:30–8:30 pm EST
Pillar One Sessions: Sept 29, Oct 6, 20, & 27th, 2025, with follow-up Jan 12, 2026
Pillar Two Sessions:
Nov 17, 24, Dec 1, & 8, 2025, with follow-up Feb 23, 2026
Pillar Three Sessions: Jan 19, 26, Feb 2 & 9, 2026, with follow-up May 11, 2026
Cost: $595.00 for all sessions, including a pre-recorded video and workbooks.
INFO SESSIONS EVERY SUNDAY AT 7PM!
Email us for the link or to take the plunge and register
(If you have insurance coverage under social worker designation, this group will be covered.)
‘This Group Didn’t Suck!’: When Groups are Neurodiversity-Affirming
‘This group didn’t suck!’ was the best feedback I received at the conclusion of Scattergram’s A.C.C.E.P.T. Group for Neurodivergent Adults this spring. – Wendy McGuire, Group Facilitator
Other A.C.C.E.P.T. Program™ Groups and Packages
The ND Room
An activity-based group for neurodivergent individuals in grades 7-12. The group provides a space for individuals to explore neurodiversity, self-expression, sexuality and gender.
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A.C.C.E.P.T. Group for Couples
A virtual support group for ND/NT and ND/ND couples who want to explore and understand how neurodivergence impacts your relationship.
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