In this session, Katy will draw upon her personal and clinical experiences to explore the relationship between identification of neurodivergence and Positive Disintegration processes. Katy will outline the ways that disintegrative processes can intersect with the discovery and acceptance of neurodivergence (for oneself and for one's children) and how this has the potential to contribute toward a transformative neuroqueering process. Katy will discuss the ways that all transformative processes are bodymind processes, and how bodily experiences, including sensual and psychomotor OEs, are particularly relevant for some types of neurodivergence. Katy's session will include personal, clinical, and theoretical explorations of the potential intersections of Positive Disintegration, neurodiversity, neuroqueering, somatics, and parenting.

Katy Higgins Lee, MA, MFT is a licensed therapist, unschooling parent, neurodiversity advocate, clinical supervisor, and continuing education provider. She focuses on working with adults and couples who are Autistic, ADHDers, Gifted, and Twice-Exceptional. She creates content on social media under the name Tending Paths and has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in Somatics, from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).