Your neurotype shapes how you perceive, process, and navigate the world—a fundamental architecture of consciousness that extends far beyond diagnostic labels. When this architecture differs from societal expectations, the mismatch creates friction that reverberates through every aspect of life, often manifesting as complex health challenges traditional medicine fails to connect.
You might have spent decades masking your autistic traits so effectively that even you lost track of where the performance ends and you begin. Perhaps you've navigated ADHD's relentless current while being told you're lazy or "not living up to your potential." Maybe you've only recently recognised that your lifelong exhaustion stems not from personal failure but from existing in a world calibrated for different wiring.
We understand what others overlook: sensory overwhelm isn't being "too sensitive" but a nervous system processing stimuli with different filters. Executive dysfunction isn't a character flaw but genuine neurological variation in how your brain prioritises tasks. Your need for routine, stimming, or specific communication styles aren't quirks to be corrected but essential strategies for regulation.
These aren't separate conditions coincidentally affecting neurodivergent people—they're the predictable physical consequences of navigating a world that demands you be someone you're not.
This pathway recognises that neurodivergence profoundly shapes physical health—often emerging alongside or interacting with connective tissue variations, autonomic dysfunction, and immune dysregulation. Years of sensory overload contribute to chronic pain and fatigue. Sustained stress from masking affects immune and autonomic function. Interoceptive differences impact everything from recognising hunger to identifying illness.
We don't separate your neurotype from your health—we understand it as the lens through which all your experiences are filtered, requiring care that honours this fundamental truth.
Comprehensive questionnaires capture developmental history mapping, sensory processing inventory, executive function assessment, and masking/camouflaging evaluation to understand how your unique neurotype has been both your strength and struggle.
Our clinical neuropsychologist conducts thorough assessment over 1-3 sessions that goes beyond stereotypical presentations, including comprehensive clinical interview exploring developmental history and current functioning, formal assessment with autism-specific tools (ADOS-2), ADHD evaluation, cognitive profiling, masking and burnout evaluation, and real-world functional assessment that observes how your neurotype affects actual daily tasks.
Data synthesis includes pattern recognition connecting childhood observations with current challenges, differential diagnosis, masking impact analysis, and intersectionality consideration, while profile creation documents strength identification, challenge mapping, sensory profiling, and executive function blueprint.
Provides diagnostic clarity with clear conclusions about autism, ADHD, or other neurodivergent conditions, explanation of findings, strength and challenge integration, identity validation, neurotype education, masking psychoeducation, self-advocacy tools, and resource provision.
Includes psychiatric support for medication evaluation and co-occurring conditions, psychological support for identity integration therapy and masking recovery work, and practical strategy development for workplace accommodations, sensory environment optimization, executive function support systems, and routine planning.
For those wanting to dive even deeper, our experienced occupational therapists offer comprehensive sensory analysis includes detailed profiling across all sensory systems, threshold identification, sensory seeking vs. avoiding patterns, environmental impact assessment, sensory diet creation, environmental modifications, sensory tool prescription, and crisis prevention planning.
A Neurotype Exploration Session is a focused, 90-minute consultation designed to help you make sense of lifelong patterns—attention, sensory profile, executive function, and social communication—through a neurodiversity-affirming lens. It is not a diagnostic assessment; it’s a structured, compassionate space to explore whether autism, ADHD, or AuDHD might explain your experiences and what to do next.
ADHD assessment often sit at the entry of the neurodivergent pathway. The work is to read the actual cognitive pattern — attention regulation, executive function, working memory, emotional regulation, masking — and reach a diagnostic conclusion that is accurate, not just affirming. Where ADHD is the right reading, that becomes the basis for the next steps. Where it isn't, that also becomes the basis.
Autism assessment sits at the entry of the neurodivergent pathway. The work is to read the underlying neurotype — social communication, sensory processing, executive function, the structure of attention and interest — beneath whatever masking and adaptation have built up over decades. Where autism is the accurate reading, that becomes the basis for the next steps. Where it isn't, that also becomes the basis.
AuDHD assessment sits at the entry of the neurodivergent pathway, for people whose presentation does not sit cleanly inside either an autism assessment or an ADHD assessment. The work is to read both neurotypes carefully — together, not separately — because the way they interact is part of what is being assessed.
Autism level reassessment sits inside the neurodivergent pathway for people who are already diagnosed but whose documentation has not kept up with how their picture has changed. The work is to read the current functional capacity, document how support needs have shifted, and produce a report that the NDIS or another support system can actually use.
Neurodiversity-informed psychology sits in the neurodivergent pathway because mental health presentations in autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults are often shaped by years of operating inside an environment that was not built for the nervous system in question. Anxiety, depression, burnout, masking exhaustion and identity questions are common — and the therapy work fits the neurology, not against it.
Occupational therapy sits in the neurodivergent pathway because the everyday world is built around a neurotypical default — and for autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults, ordinary tasks frequently cost more than the world acknowledges. The OT work is to read the specific sensory, executive and energy picture and adapt the environment, the routine and the tools to fit it.
Sensory profiling and prescription sits in the neurodivergent pathway because sensory processing differences shape much of how a neurodivergent person experiences the day. The work is to map the specific profile — where the nervous system is over-reading inputs, where it is under-reading them, where the picture changes across the day — and to prescribe tools, environments and strategies that fit it.
The Safe & Sound Protocol sits inside the neurodivergent pathway as a tool for people whose sensory processing is often running in a high-defence state. It uses specifically filtered music to engage the parts of the nervous system involved in acoustic safety, supporting capacity for regulation in environments that have been demanding for a long time.
Clinical dietetics sits in the neurodivergent pathway because eating in autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults often does not follow the assumptions standard nutritional advice is built on. Sensory food responses, interoceptive differences, executive demands around meal planning, and the appetite-altering effects of ADHD medication can each shape what eating looks like in this nervous system.
Avoidant/restrictive eating support sits in the neurodivergent pathway because Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) often co-occurs with autism and other neurodivergent presentations. ARFID is not the same as preference or fussiness; it is a defined eating pattern that can affect nutrition, growth, social participation and quality of life. The work of this part of the pathway is structured assessment and graded support delivered by clinicians familiar with both the eating-disorder picture and the neurodivergent picture.
Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation sits in the neurodivergent pathway as one of the adjunct tools used to support nervous-system regulation in adults whose autonomic system is often running in a high-defence state. It is not a treatment for being neurodivergent. It is a tool for the regulatory side of the system, used alongside the rest of the plan.
Psychiatric medication management sits across the biio. pathways because mental-health medications interact substantially with the broader physical picture in complex and chronic illness. Antidepressants can affect autonomic regulation, sleep architecture, gastrointestinal motility and mast-cell activity. ADHD medications can interact with POTS and autonomic load. The work is careful, monitored medication management that reads the whole picture, not just the psychiatric one.
Care coordination sits in the neurodivergent pathway because neurodivergent presentations sit alongside an unusually heavy paperwork burden — formal assessments, NDIS plans, school or workplace accommodations, employer letters, identity documentation. The clinical work is also distributed across psychology, OT, sensory profiling, dietetics, sometimes medical input. The coordinator holds the picture across all of that, beginning inside the biio.markers assessment.
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