Nine free self-paced programs, 156 modules and 359 worksheets on autism, ADHD, relationships and identity. No account, no cost. A 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Show the full page text NEW PATH FAMILY NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER Plain-language programs about neurodivergent minds, bodies, and relationships — written by clinicians, shaped by lived experience. Always free. No sign-up. Start anywhere. Explore the programs → OR SEARCH THE LEARNING CENTER Try “meltdowns”, “can’t start tasks”, “my partner doesn’t get it” — the search reads topics, not just titles. Five programs, one Learning Center Each program is a complete, self-paced guide — lessons, videos, screeners, and workbooks. Start with whichever one fits your life. Take what helps. Skip what doesn’t. PROGRAM 01 The Neurodivergent Brain How neurodivergent brains and nervous systems actually work — sensory processing, executive function, meltdowns, burnout, and relationships. 23 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 02 The Neurodiverse Couple For couples where one or both partners are neurodivergent — communication, repair, intimacy, and the patterns that finally make sense once you name them. 24 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 03 The Autistic Woman For autistic women — masking, burnout, hormones, sensory life, relationships, identity, and being believed. 22 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 04 Parenting Autism For parents of autistic and ADHD kids — and parents who are wired the same way. Understand your child’s brain, survive the hard moments, and take care of yourself, too. 22 modules. Start the program → PROGRAM 05 The Adult ADHD Course For adults with ADHD — diagnosed, newly identified, or still wondering. How your brain actually works, the hard parts of daily life, relationships and work, and building a life that fits you. 16 modules. Start the program → The Self-Discovery courses Four shorter courses for the questions that come before and after a program: whether the words fit you at all, what the screeners actually measure, what an in-depth assessment involves, and what a diagnosis does and does not change. Forty-nine modules between them, held to the same rule as everything else here — every figure read from the source, every screener cited. SELF-DISCOVERY 01 Self-Identification For adults who recognise themselves in autism or ADHD without a diagnosis. What a label is and what it is not, the criteria in plain language, reading your own history, telling people, and what changes on Monday morning. 12 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 02 Autistic Self-Discovery One autism screening questionnaire per module — what it measures, where it came from, and what your score does and does not mean. 19 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 03 ADHD Self-Discovery One adult ADHD screener per module, read the same way: provenance, limits, and what a number is and is not evidence of. 10 modules. Start the course → SELF-DISCOVERY 04 The Assessment What an in-depth adult assessment actually involves — who assesses you, choosing a service and what to ask, what you will be asked, the instruments you are likely to meet, and how to read the report. 8 modules. Start the course → More from the nonprofit Everything New Path Family publishes is free — the programs, the worksheets, all of it. Here is the rest of it, plus a plain answer to who we are and where therapy actually comes from. Worksheet Library Every worksheet, screener, script and planner from the five programs — free to download, no sign-up, no email. Open the library → About New Path Family A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-0816107. What we publish, how the work is funded, and what we do not do. Read about the nonprofit → Contributors and acknowledgments The clinicians, advocates and neurodivergent readers who helped write and check the Learning Center. See who built this → New Path Family is an education nonprofit and does not provide therapy. Assessment, couples work and coaching are provided by a separate company, New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. How that works → New Path Family exists so that every neurodivergent person — and everyone who loves them — has a place to turn. We heal. We teach. We care — person to person. Difference is beautiful. Learning is free. Help is right here. Talk to Our Team

A free, self-paced course for couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — communication, conflict, co-regulation, and repair that fit ND brains. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 02 FREE · SELF-PACED THE NEURODIVERSE COUPLE Understand the two operating systems in your relationship — and rebuild the bridge between them. A free, clinician-written program for couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — why two different operating systems misread each other, and how understanding rebuilds the bridge. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 24 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Foundations 01 What Is a Neurodiverse Relationship? 02 Two Operating Systems 03 The Recognition 04 The Understanding Gap Part Two · The Core Dynamics 05 Communication Breakdowns and Misreads 06 RSD and Conflict 07 PDA in the Couple 08 Meltdowns, Shutdowns, and the Partner's Role 09 Sensory Needs in a Shared Life 10 Alone Time, Together Time 11 The Roles We Fall Into 12 Executive Function and the Mental Load 13 Masking at Home 14 The Cassandra Experience Part Three · Where It Shows Up 15 Money 16 Sex and Intimacy 17 Parenting 18 Extended Family and In-Laws Part Four · Repair and Growth 19 Loss and Grief in the Relationship 20 Trust and the Resentment Backlog 21 Repair Cycles That Actually Work for ND Brains 22 Co-Regulation as a Couple 23 Therapy for the Neurodiverse Couple 24 Building Your Couple Operating Manual Built by a clinical team that works with neurodiverse couples every day. This program comes out of the Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center and the wider New Path Family of Therapy Centers, where clinicians, advocates, and researchers sit with neurodiverse couples week after week. The Neurodiverse Couple is the program we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by the people who do this work every day. Clinical team Therapists, assessors, and coaches who work with neurodiverse couples every day — alongside neurodivergent advocates — across the New Path family of centers. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — inside the practice and on camera. See the videos in the sensory module. Real research Every module cites peer-reviewed work and names where the evidence is still unsettled. A 24-module program about what happens when two operating systems meet in one relationship. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in the brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: couples where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or AuDHD — whether you read it together or on your own — and the partners, family members, and clinicians who want to understand them. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — voices who explain the research in a way that actually makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to your next session. All modules Ready to talk to someone? This program is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

The clinicians, neurodivergent advocates, and thinkers behind New Path Family's free Learning Center — with deep gratitude to everyone who helped build it. Show the full page text Contributors & acknowledgments This Learning Center exists because of a lot of generous people, and we are deeply, genuinely grateful to every one of them — the neurodivergent advocates who shared their own lives, the clinicians who shaped the care behind it, the people who built and checked the technical pieces, and the thinkers whose work lit the way. Thank you, all of you. Lived-experience voices Ashley YLK — Autism Advocate & Educator, She Rocks the Spectrum. Dr. Michelle Karth — Autism Advocate & Scientific Advisor, PhD Behavioral Neuroscience (Purdue University), Adult Autism Assessment Center. Brooke Tidwell — Autism Advocate & Parenting Specialist; AuDHD educator, Parenting Autism Therapy Center. New Path Family clinical team All are New Path clinicians. Nara Ahn Alyssa Bayus Lea Choi Daniel Chung Cassie Clayton Conor Cunningham Shea Davis Jennifer Evans Malori Evans Shandy Grantham Robin Greenblat Danielle Grossman Jamison Haase Kimberly Hawks Maring Higa Colleen Kahn Joseph Kaiser Blaze Lazarony Chris Mercurio Dr. Harry Motro Jenny Pan Leila Pirnia Stephen Robertson Nancy Rushing Amanda Silvester Adela Stone Tamala Takahashi Jen Terrell Rachel Wheeler Jory Wilson Technical contributions Jasmyne Mena Cassondra McIntyre With gratitude — the thinkers whose work shaped ours We borrowed, learned from, and built on the frameworks of many, across all five programs — a few of them, grouped by the program where their work most shaped ours: Foundations — The Neurodivergent Brain Judy Singer — the neurodiversity paradigm. Dr. Nick Walker — neurodiversity & neuroqueer theory. Dr. Damian Milton — the double empathy problem. Dr. Catherine Crompton — the research that put double empathy to the test. Dr. Dinah Murray, Mike Lesser & Dr. Wenn Lawson — monotropism. Dr. Megan Anna Neff — neuro-affirming frameworks (Neurodivergent Insights). Dr. William Dodson — the interest-based nervous system & rejection sensitivity. Dr. Stephen Porges — polyvagal theory. Dr. Dan Siegel — the window of tolerance. Dr. Dora Raymaker — autistic burnout research. Dr. Laura Hull & Dr. Will Mandy — camouflaging research & the CAT-Q. Dr. Monique Botha & David Frost — the minority-stress model of autistic wellbeing. Dr. Helen Taylor — complementary cognition. Christine Miserandino — spoon theory. Dr. Devon Price — unmasking & autistic labor. Dr. Kristy Forbes — autistic & AuDHD identity support. Parenting Autism Dr. Mona Delahooke — behavior as a nervous-system signal. Elizabeth Newson — the first description of the PDA profile. Dr. Elizabeth O’Nions — measuring demand avoidance (the EDA-Q). Linda Murphy — declarative language. Dr. Winnie Dunn — the sensory-processing framework. Dr. Steven Kapp — stimming as self-regulation, and difference over deficit. Dr. Richard Ryan & Dr. Edward Deci — self-determination theory. Dr. Kristin Neff — self-compassion. Dr. Ruth Feldman, with Butler & Randall — parent-child co-regulation & synchrony. Dr. Pauline Boss — ambiguous loss. Peter Vermeulen — identity-positive disclosure. Andrea Loewen Nair — after-school restraint collapse. The Neurodiverse Couple Michael White & David Epston — narrative therapy & externalizing the problem. Dr. Murray Bowen — family-systems differentiation. Drs. Peter Gollwitzer & Paschal Sheeran — implementation intentions (if-then plans). Maxine Aston — the Cassandra phenomenon. Dr. Elizabeth Pellicano & Dr. David Burr — the Bayesian account of autistic perception. Dr. John Gottman — shared meaning & the rituals of connection. Eva Mendes — neurodiverse-couple therapy. The Autistic Woman Sarah Bargiela, Robyn Steward & Dr. Will Mandy — the female autism phenotype & late diagnosis. Dr. Sarah Cassidy — camouflaging & mental-health risk. Dr. Eilidh Cage & Jessica Troxell-Whitman — the contexts and costs of camouflaging. Dr. Punit Shah & colleagues — alexithymia, interoception & autism. Dr. Geraldine Downey & Scott Feldman — the rejection-sensitivity model. Dr. Rachel Moseley — autistic experiences of menopause. Drs. Vikram Jaswal & Nameera Akhtar — being versus appearing socially uninterested. The Adult ADHD Course Dr. Russell Barkley & Dr. Thomas Brown — the self-regulation & executive-function model of ADHD. Dr. Edward Hallowell & Dr. John Ratey — a strengths-based understanding of ADHD. Dr. Stephen Faraone — the genetics of ADHD & the International Consensus Statement. Dr. Nora Volkow — the dopamine reward-pathway account of ADHD motivation. Dr. Philip Shaw — ADHD as delayed — not deviant — cortical maturation. Dr. Edmund Sonuga-Barke — delay aversion & the dual-pathway model. Dr. Sari Solden — the overlooked inner world of women with ADHD. Melissa Orlov — how ADHD patterns play out in relationships. Dr. Steven Safren & Dr. Mary Solanto — CBT & metacognitive skills for adult ADHD. This Learning Center is not authored or endorsed by any of the individuals named above; we simply applied, and are grateful for, their published work. More from New Path Family Free, self-paced courses: The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism , The Adult ADHD Course . Also here: the Learning Center , the worksheet library , about New Path Family , our sister organization's therapy centers , privacy and terms , the education grant .

A free, neurodivergent-affirming course on how autistic, ADHD and AuDHD minds work — 23 in-depth modules with screeners, videos and workbooks. Sensory processing, masking, RSD, burnout, relationships, assessment, and building your own regulation toolkit. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 01 FREE · SELF-PACED THE NEURODIVERGENT BRAIN Understand your neurodivergent brain — and regulate it from the inside out. A free, self-paced program about how autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD brains and nervous systems actually work. Built from real research, written in plain language, with workbooks you keep. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 23 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Foundations 01 What Is Neurodivergence? 02 The Neurodivergent Nervous System 03 Sensory Processing 04 Executive Function 05 The Monotropic Mind Part Two · The Big Experiences 06 Masking & Authenticity 07 Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria 08 Emotional Dysregulation & Alexithymia 09 Meltdowns and Shutdowns 10 Anxiety and Intolerance of Uncertainty 11 Demand Avoidance and PDA 12 Trauma, CPTSD, and Grief 13 Perseveration, Rumination, and Thought Loops 14 Burnout, Capacity, and Energy Management Part Three · Relationships and the World 15 Sex and Intimacy 16 Self-Esteem, Identity, and Late Diagnosis 17 Self-Identification and Assessment 18 Communication Across Neurotypes 19 Neurodiverse Relationships Part Four · Integration and Application 20 The Body 21 Women, Hormones, and Neurodivergence 22 Building Your Personal Regulation Toolkit 23 For Supporters Built by a clinical team that works with neurodivergent people every day. New Path Family of Therapy Centers brings together clinicians, advocates, and researchers across more than a dozen specialty practices. The Neurodivergent Brain is the program we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by the people who sit with these questions every week. Clinical team Therapists, assessors, coaches, and neurodivergent advocates working across the New Path family of centers. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — inside the practice and on camera. See the videos in the sensory module. Real research Every module is built on research and names where the evidence is still unsettled. A 23-module program about how neurodivergent brains and nervous systems work. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in the brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: neurodivergent adults, partners, family members, clinicians, and educators. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — voices who explain the research in a way that actually makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to your next session. All modules Finding out: self-identification and assessment Sometimes the biggest step isn’t any single module — it’s the question underneath: am I neurodivergent? You can arrive at an answer two ways, and both are valid. However you get there, naming it can change everything — and it rarely lands as one clean feeling. Module 17 — Self-Identification and Assessment walks through both paths, and everything that comes after. Explore the free screeners → Learn about getting assessed → Assessment services are offered through the Adult Autism Assessment Center , part of the New Path family. Ready to talk to someone? This program is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

Get answers to questions about our learning center run by our New Path non-profit. Frequently Asked Questions Show the full page text New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that publishes free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. These are the questions we are asked most often. Everything below is free to read and no account is required: the five courses in the Learning Center (The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism and The Adult ADHD Course ) and the Worksheet Library . There is more about the organization on our About page . The Free Learning Center What is the New Path Learning Center? The Learning Center is the main thing this nonprofit does. It is a set of five self-paced programs, written in plain language, about how neurodivergent minds, bodies and relationships actually work: The Neurodivergent Brain (23 modules), The Neurodiverse Couple (24 modules), The Autistic Woman (22 modules), Parenting Autism (22 modules), and The Adult ADHD Course (16 modules). Each program is a complete guide with lessons, videos, screeners and workbooks. Start with whichever one fits your life, read the modules in whatever order makes sense to you, take what helps and skip what does not. Nothing is held back for a paid tier, because there is no paid tier. Is the Learning Center really free, and do I need an account? Yes it is free, and no account is required. There is no sign-up wall, no trial period, no upgrade, and no premium version. You do not have to give us an email address to read anything on this site, including the Worksheet Library . New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Publishing this material at no cost is the charitable purpose of the organization. It is not a marketing step toward something you are eventually asked to buy. Which of the five programs should I start with? Start with the one that matches the question that brought you here. The Neurodivergent Brain covers the foundations: sensory processing, executive function, meltdowns, shutdowns and burnout. The Neurodiverse Couple is for relationships where one or both partners are neurodivergent. The Autistic Woman is for women who were missed, misdiagnosed or identified late. Parenting Autism is for people raising autistic and ADHD children, including parents who are wired the same way. The Adult ADHD Course is for adults who are diagnosed, newly identified, or still wondering. You can also search the Learning Center by topic rather than by title. The search reads subject matter, so plain phrases such as meltdowns, cannot start tasks, or my partner does not get it will find the right module. Who writes and reviews the material? The programs are written by clinicians and shaped by neurodivergent people with lived experience. Writers and reviewers are named on our Acknowledgments page . The writing is neurodiversity-affirming throughout. We use identity-first language, we do not use outdated terms such as Asperger's, and we treat neurological difference as difference rather than as deficit. Worksheets and Screeners What is in the Worksheet Library? The Worksheet Library holds more than 350 free worksheets, each one a single focused exercise rather than a workbook you have to complete in order. They cover regulation and meltdown planning, communication and repair, executive function, sensory needs, relationships, parenting, and self-understanding. The library is searchable, everything in it is free to read or print, and no account is required. May I use your worksheets with my own students, group or family? Yes, for non-commercial use. Teachers, group facilitators, support workers and parents are welcome to print anything in the Worksheet Library and use it in classrooms, groups and homes at no charge. Please leave the New Path Family attribution on the page. Please do not resell our material or present it as your own work. If you want to reproduce a large amount of it, translate it, or include it in something you are publishing, write to info@newpathfamily.com first and we will almost certainly say yes. Are the screeners on this site a diagnosis? No. Every screener and self-discovery tool published here is an educational instrument. None of them is a diagnostic instrument, no result from this website is a diagnosis, and this organization does not diagnose anyone. What a screener can do is help you decide whether a question is worth pursuing, and give you clearer language for a conversation with a qualified professional. That is the whole of its purpose. About This Organization Who is New Path Family? New Path Family is the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. Our EIN is 87-0816107 and our California Registry of Charities number is CT0277447. Our mailing address is 3880 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 216, San Jose, CA 95124, and you can reach us at info@newpathfamily.com . There is more about the organization on our About page . What is the mission of the organization? To provide advocacy and mental health resources for the neurodivergent community. In practice that means publishing free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults, for the people who love them, and for the professionals who work alongside them. Everything we publish is free to read, including the five courses in the Learning Center and the Worksheet Library . There is no sign-up and no fee. Does New Path Family provide therapy, assessment or coaching? No. This organization does not provide psychotherapy, psychological or autism assessment, diagnosis, medication management, coaching, or any other clinical service. Nothing on this website is an offer of clinical care, and we have no clinical staff, no clients and no waiting list. What you find here is educational material. It is not medical advice, it is not psychotherapy, and it is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. If you are in crisis, call or text 988 (Suicide and Crisis Lifeline), text HOME to 741741, or call 911. In the UK call Samaritans on 116 123, or 999 in an emergency. Does this website sell anything or carry advertising? No. Nothing on this site is for sale. There are no products, no paid services, no memberships, no advertising, and no affiliate arrangements of any kind. We do not sell, rent or trade visitor information, and we do not require an email address to read anything here. The purpose of the site is to publish free educational material and read it in place. There is no commercial transaction available on it. The Nonprofit and the Therapy Centers How is New Path Family related to New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc.? They are two separate organizations. New Path Family is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that publishes the Learning Center, the Worksheet Library and our advocacy writing. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation that employs licensed clinicians and provides clinical services. The two share a founder and a philosophy of care. Neither organization owns the other, and neither pays the other. The nonprofit provides no clinical services and has no clinical staff, no clients and no waiting list. The therapy corporation has no control over what the nonprofit publishes. Do you receive anything when a reader becomes a therapy client? No. New Path Family receives no payment, commission, revenue share or referral fee of any kind when a reader contacts or becomes a client of New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc., or of any other provider. We name that organization here, and point you to the page that describes it, because being clear about the relationship is more honest than leaving it unsaid. Naming a related company is a disclosure, not a referral, and nobody pays us to make it. I want to talk to a therapist. Can you refer me? Not in the way that word usually means. This organization makes no clinical referrals, keeps no referral list, and does not screen or vet providers. We are paid nothing if you contact anyone, and we have no way of knowing whether you did. What we can do is tell you who we are connected to. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation that shares a founder with this nonprofit and runs a group of virtual therapy centers. Our therapy centers page describes it and lists those centers. Naming a related company is a connection, not a referral, and where you go is entirely your choice. There are also good routes that have nothing to do with us, and they are worth using. Your physician can refer you, your health plan can list the providers it covers, and your state licensing board publishes a public register of every licensed clinician in your state. If you need help right now rather than an appointment, call or text 988 in the US, or Samaritans on 116 123 in the UK. Advocacy and Contact What advocacy work does the nonprofit do? Alongside the courses and worksheets we publish advocacy writing for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them: on late identification, masking and burnout, being believed, plain-language accommodation at work and at school, and the way neurodivergent people are described in clinical settings. The aim throughout is plain language for people who have been handed clinical language and left to translate it on their own. Can I suggest a topic, or write for the Learning Center? Yes to both. If there is a subject the Learning Center does not cover, or a worksheet you wish existed, write to info@newpathfamily.com . Requests from readers are a large part of how we decide what to publish next. If you are a clinician, a researcher, or a neurodivergent writer who would like to help build the material, use the same address. Writers and reviewers are credited on our Acknowledgments page . We also welcome corrections. If something we have published is out of date, inaccurate, or worded in a way that does not sit right with you, tell us and we will look at it. Questions, corrections, requests for a topic we have not covered, or an offer to write for the Learning Center all go to the same place: info@newpathfamily.com . Writers and reviewers are credited on our Acknowledgments page . The separate professional corporation named above is described on our therapy centers page .

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New Path Family is a nonprofit and doesn't provide therapy. Assessments, couples work and coaching come from our sister organization's six virtual centers: adult autism assessment, neurodiverse couples counseling, therapy for autistic women and men, parent coaching, and partner support. Show the full page text New Path Therapy Centers New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We publish free courses and worksheets — we do not provide therapy. Therapy, coaching, and autism and ADHD assessments come from our sister organization, New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc., a separate company. These are its six virtual centers, built for how your brain actually works. The six centers Adult Autism Assessment Center For adults seeking answers. Formal autism assessment for adults, fully by telehealth. Neurodiversity-affirming clinicians, plain-language reports, and a process designed not to be an interrogation. Visit Adult Autism Assessment Center . Learn first: Self-Identification & Assessment , free in our Learning Center. Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center For couples. Couples therapy where neurodivergence is treated as a difference to work with, not a defect to fix — communication, repair, intimacy, and the patterns that finally make sense. Visit Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center . Learn first: Neurodiverse Relationships , free in our Learning Center. She Rocks the Spectrum For autistic women. A therapy center built around the female presentation — masking, late diagnosis, hormones, identity — with a worksheet library and screeners made for women. Visit She Rocks the Spectrum . Learn first: Women, Hormones & Neurodivergence , free in our Learning Center. Therapy 4 Autistic Men For autistic men. Individual therapy built around how autistic men actually experience the world — direct, concrete, and free of the social-performance expectations that make therapy exhausting. Visit Therapy 4 Autistic Men . Learn first: Identity & Late Diagnosis , free in our Learning Center. Parenting Autism Therapy Center For parents of neurodivergent kids. Coaching and support for the parents in the room — co-regulation, school battles, sibling dynamics, and your own bandwidth. And if you’re neurodivergent yourself, parenting while ND isn’t a footnote here — it’s half of what we do. Visit Parenting Autism Therapy Center . Learn first: The Neurodivergent Brain , free in our Learning Center. Believing Cassandra For partners & supporters. For the partners, parents, and supporters of neurodivergent adults — the people whose experience often goes unseen. Understanding, validation, and practical tools. Visit Believing Cassandra . Learn first: For Supporters , free in our Learning Center. Not sure which center fits? Their client care team can help. Tell them a little about what’s going on, and they’ll point you to the right place — person to person, no pressure. Talk to the therapy team . Also operated by New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. New Path Couples Therapy Couples therapy for every kind of relationship — communication, conflict, and reconnection. Visit New Path Couples Therapy . Christian Couples Counseling Center Faith-centered couples counseling that honors your shared values and beliefs. Visit Christian Couples Counseling Center . Blended Family Counseling Center Support for stepfamilies and blended households — new roles, loyalties, and routines. Visit Blended Family Counseling Center . New Path Sex Addiction Therapy Compassionate, judgment-free help for sex and pornography addiction and betrayal recovery. Visit New Path Sex Addiction Therapy . How the two organizations relate New Path Family is the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 87-0816107. New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. is a separate California professional corporation. The two share a founder and a philosophy of care. The nonprofit does not provide clinical services and receives no payment for referrals. The nonprofit publishes the free Learning Center: five self-paced courses, a worksheet library, and advocacy writing for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. Everything it publishes is free to read, with no account required. Read more about how the two organizations work together . If you are in crisis If you’re struggling or in crisis, you deserve support right now: call or text 988 (US) any time, or in the UK call Samaritans on 116 123. If you may be in danger, call 911 (US) or 999 (UK).

New Path Family is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publishing free courses, worksheets and advocacy for autistic and ADHD adults. No sign-up, no fee. Here is who we are. Show the full page text About New Path Family New Path Family exists so that every neurodivergent person — and everyone who loves them — has somewhere to go for real help, at no cost. We heal. We teach. We care — person to person. Why we exist Some of the most valuable work in this field does not have a customer. Explaining rejection sensitivity to a parent at 2 a.m. Building a screener that helps a forty-five-year-old woman finally have a word for her whole life. Speaking up about how autistic adults are treated. None of that generates revenue, and a business that only does what generates revenue would never do it. So it lives here, in a nonprofit, where it does not have to justify itself commercially. Our mission is to provide advocacy and mental health resources for the neurodivergent community. What we publish All of it free, to anyone, anywhere. The Learning Center Five complete self-paced programs on autism, ADHD, communication and relationships. No sign-up. No email required. Start anywhere. Worksheets and tools Hundreds of printable, practical resources you can use on your own or bring to any therapist, including one who has nothing to do with us. Advocacy Autistic and ADHD adults speaking publicly about what it is actually like, so fewer people spend thirty years being misunderstood. Nothing here is behind a paywall, a login, or a “book a call to learn more.” Who we are New Path Family is the public name of New Path Couples Therapy, Inc., a California nonprofit public benefit corporation recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. EIN 87-0816107. California Registry of Charities No. CT0277447. We are a publisher, not a provider. This organization does not offer therapy, does not employ clinicians, does not take clients, and does not bill anyone for anything. The people who lead this organization serve it without compensation. Our therapy partner We are proud to be affiliated with New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. , which provides licensed psychotherapy, assessment and coaching. It is a separate California professional corporation under common leadership with this nonprofit, and it is a paid service. This nonprofit receives no part of what you pay them. You will find them under names like Neurodiverse Couples Counseling Center, Adult Autism Assessment Center, She Rocks the Spectrum, Therapy 4 Autistic Men, Parenting Autism Therapy Center and Believing Cassandra. Those are all doors into the same practice. They publish a set of free self-assessment screeners on those sites, and they hold a limited number of reduced-fee spots for people who cannot afford their standard fee. Is the free material really free? Yes. No sign-up, no fee, nothing to buy. It was built by people who care about this work, and we are simply glad when someone uses it. There is never any obligation to become anyone’s client. If you choose to subscribe to our newsletter you will hear from us, and you can unsubscribe at any time — that is the only follow-up there is, and it only happens if you ask for it. Can I get therapy from the nonprofit? No. This organization does not provide therapy. If you want professional care, ask the affiliated practice directly and they will tell you honestly what they have available. In crisis? We are not a crisis service. If you or someone you love is in danger right now, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline), text HOME to 741741, or call 911. Get in touch New Path Couples Therapy, Inc. · 3880 S. Bascom Ave., Suite 216, San Jose, CA 95124 · info@newpathfamily.com A California nonprofit public benefit corporation · 501(c)(3) · EIN 87-0816107 · California Registry of Charities No. CT0277447 More from New Path Family Free, self-paced courses: The Neurodivergent Brain , The Neurodiverse Couple , The Autistic Woman , Parenting Autism , The Adult ADHD Course . Also here: the Learning Center , the worksheet library , our sister organization's therapy centers , the contributors who built this , privacy and terms .

Free, self-paced course for parents of autistic children: the autistic nervous system, sensory needs, meltdowns and shutdowns, PDA, school and IEPs, and caring for yourself. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 04 FREE · SELF-PACED PARENTING AUTISM A free, self-paced course for parents of autistic and ADHD kids — and for parents who are wired the same way. Parenting a neurodivergent child doesn’t come with a map. Twenty-two short modules — written by therapist-parents who get it — help you understand your child’s brain, survive the hard moments, and take care of yourself, too. No fixing. No judgment. Just a kinder lens. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 22 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Seeing Your Child Clearly 01 Parenting Without a Map 02 What Autism Is (and Isn't) 03 Signs, Diagnosis, and What It Really Means 04 The Autistic Nervous System 05 Your Child's Sensory World 06 Executive Function, Routines, and Transitions Part Two · The Hard Moments 07 Meltdowns and Shutdowns 08 PDA: The Persistent Drive for Autonomy 09 Anxiety, Uncertainty, and Rigidity 10 Communication Across Neurotypes 11 Masking, and Letting Your Child Unmask at Home 12 Talking With Your Child About Their Autism 13 Co-Regulation: Lending Your Calm Part Three · The Whole Family 14 Siblings and Family Balance 15 A United Front: Co-Parenting and Extended Family 16 School: IEPs, 504s, and Advocacy 17 Choosing Therapies and Supports Part Four · You, the Parent 18 Parenting Stress and Caregiver Burnout 19 Your Parenting Style Under Pressure 20 Grief, Guilt, and Growing New Expectations 21 When You're Neurodivergent Too 22 Your Family Operating Manual Built by a team that works with autism parents every day. This course comes out of the Parenting Autism Therapy Center and the wider New Path Family of Therapy Centers, where clinicians, advocates, and researchers sit with parents of autistic and ADHD kids week after week. Parenting Autism is the course we wished existed when our families first came looking for answers — written by people who do this work, many of them parents and neurodivergent themselves. Parenting Autism Therapy Center New Path's home for autism parenting — where the parenting screeners like the APSI live, alongside resources made for how your family actually works. Lived experience Therapist-parents and autistic voices shape what we write — what meltdowns, burnout, and IEP meetings actually feel like, not just how they read in a textbook. Real research Every module is research-grounded — and names where the evidence on parenting autistic kids is still catching up. A 22-module course about understanding your child’s mind — and finally having words for what your family is living. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in your child’s brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: parents and caregivers of autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD kids and teens — roughly ages 2 to 18 — including parents who are neurodivergent themselves. Whether your child has a diagnosis or you just have a quiet sense of it, you belong here. Grandparents, stepparents, and every kind of caregiver are welcome too. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — therapist-parents and autistic adults who explain the research in a way that makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Every screener is about you, the parent — never a test of your child. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s a mirror, not a verdict. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use at home — with your child, and for yourself. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to your next IEP or family conversation. Start the course → All modules Ready to talk to someone? This course is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about parent coaching, family therapy, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

A free, self-paced course on autism in women and AFAB people — why so many are missed, masking, burnout, hormones, motherhood, and finally being believed. Show the full course text NEW PATH LEARNING CENTER · PROGRAM 03 FREE · SELF-PACED THE AUTISTIC WOMAN For the woman who always felt different — here is the language for why. A free, self-paced course about understanding your autistic mind — late discovery, masking, burnout, your sensory world, AuDHD, relationships, and building a life that actually fits. You were never broken. Start the Program → Browse all modules Talk to a clinician All 22 modules Free, no sign-up. Read in order, or jump straight to what you need today. Part One · Seeing Yourself 01 You Were Never Broken 02 Why Women Get Missed 03 Masking and Camouflaging 04 Autistic Burnout Part Two · How Your Brain Works 05 Your Sensory World 06 Monotropism and Deep Interests 07 Executive Function and the Mental Load 08 Big Feelings and Rejection Sensitivity 09 AuDHD: Two Engines, One Nervous System 10 Demand, Autonomy & the PDA Profile Part Three · Where It Shows Up 11 Friendship and Belonging 12 Communication and the Double Empathy Problem 13 Unmasking, Safely 14 Hormones Across the Lifespan 15 The Mental-Health Overlaps 16 Trauma, CPTSD & Grief 17 Food, Eating, and ARFID Part Four · Building a Life That Fits 18 Love and Intimacy 19 Autistic Motherhood 20 Work, Accommodations, and Advocacy 21 Being Believed 22 Your Operating Manual Built by a team that works with autistic women and girls every day. This course comes out of She Rocks the Spectrum and the wider New Path Family of Therapy Centers, where clinicians, advocates, and researchers sit with autistic women week after week. The Autistic Woman is the course we wished existed when our clients first came looking for answers — written by people who do this work, many of them autistic and AuDHD themselves. She Rocks the Spectrum New Path's home for autistic girls and women — where the worksheets and the GQ-ASC screener live, alongside resources made for how you're actually wired. Lived experience Autistic and AuDHD voices shape what we write — what masking, burnout, and being missed actually feel like, not just how they read in a textbook. Real research Every module is research-grounded — and names where the evidence on autistic women is still catching up. A 22-module course about understanding your own autistic mind — and finally having words for it. Each module covers one topic in depth — what is happening in your brain, what it looks and feels like, why it happens, and what actually helps. Who this is for: autistic women — diagnosed, self-identifying, or still wondering — including AuDHD women and those who discovered it in adulthood. Whether you have a diagnosis or just a quiet sense that this is you, you belong here. Trans and nonbinary people who recognise themselves here are welcome too. What happens inside a module. Every module follows the same six-step arc. About 20–30 minutes, start to finish. 1 Read the lesson The neuroscience and the human reality, in plain language. Roughly 8–12 minutes of reading. 2 See what helps The practical part, right after the lesson — concrete strategies that fit how your brain actually works, while the context is still fresh. 3 Watch the videos Hearing from real people — autistic women who explain the research in a way that makes sense, and share their own lived experience. 4 Take the screener — for self-discovery A short, validated questionnaire — about 5 minutes — now that you have the context. Bring your results into the workbook; it’s a mirror for self-discovery, not a diagnosis. 5 Do the workbook Short, specific prompts that turn the lesson into something you actually use to understand yourself. Your answers save to your browser — no sign-in. 6 Download your PDF — or talk to a clinician Export your workbook as a clean PDF to keep, share with a therapist, or bring to an assessment conversation. Start the course → All modules Ready to talk to someone? This course is built to stand on its own. But if reading it makes you want a conversation — about assessment, therapy, coaching, or just where to start — we are right here. Talk to our team →

Eight free modules on what an in-depth adult assessment involves: choosing a service, what you will be asked, the instruments, and reading the report. Show the full course outline The Assessment Eight free modules on what an in-depth autism or ADHD assessment for adults actually involves — how to decide whether to book one, how to choose a service and what to ask it, what happens in the room, how to read the report, and what a diagnosis does and does not change. Where to start Eight modules, in the order the process happens. Part One is before you book. Part Two is the assessment itself. Part Three is afterwards. So where you start depends on where you already are — and unlike the Self-Identification course next door, you are not expected to begin at Module 1 unless Module 1 is your question. If you have not decided yet — Part One, Modules 1 to 3. Module 1 — What an Assessment Is For — What an assessment produces, what it cannot produce, and why the answer at the end is a clinical judgement rather than a measurement. Module 2 — Who Assesses You, and Why It Matters — Which professions can diagnose adult autism and ADHD, how that changes at every border, and what actually predicts a sound assessment once you are past the job title. Module 3 — Choosing a Service, and What to Ask — The routes that actually exist, what genuinely differs between them, what is known about waiting and cost, and the questions to put to a service before you give anyone money. Module 3 is the one that saves money. It ends in nine questions to put to a service in writing, before you pay anyone. If you already have an appointment — Part Two, Modules 4 to 6. What you will actually be asked and how to prepare without rehearsing, which instruments you might meet and what each one measures, and what happens in the session where you are given the answer. Module 4 is the only part of an assessment you can do work on in advance. If you are holding a report — start at Module 7. How to read the document section by section, what a severity level does and does not mean, what to do about a factual error in it, and then what a diagnosis actually changes — and what it does not. Part One — Before you book Module 1 — What an Assessment Is For What an assessment produces, what it cannot produce, and why the answer at the end is a clinical judgement rather than a measurement. Open this module Module 2 — Who Assesses You, and Why It Matters Which professions can diagnose adult autism and ADHD, how that changes at every border, and what actually predicts a sound assessment once you are past the job title. Open this module Module 3 — Choosing a Service, and What to Ask The routes that actually exist, what genuinely differs between them, what is known about waiting and cost, and the questions to put to a service before you give anyone money. Open this module Part Two — The process Module 4 — What You Will Be Asked, and How to Prepare The questions an assessment is actually built out of, the informant problem and what to do when there is nobody to ask, and how to prepare thoroughly without turning the appointment into a performance. Open this module Module 5 — The Instruments You Are Likely to Meet What each tool actually measures, who fills it in, and why no single one of them is required — including the one most people believe is. Open this module Module 6 — The Outcome Conversation The session where the answer is given — what a yes contains beyond the word, what a no contains, why a no is the more revisable of the two, and what to ask before the session ends. Open this module Part Three — After Module 7 — Reading the Report The anatomy of a report section by section, which section answers which question, how to read a score without over-reading it, what the severity levels do and do not mean, and what to do about a factual error. Open this module Module 8 — What a Diagnosis Does and Does Not Change Accommodations and the documentation that actually gets them, what "neuro-informed" means when somebody writes it down, the evidence on what changes after a late diagnosis, and what does not. Open this module What each module contains The same shape every time. Step 1, the lesson — the evidence, set out plainly, with what it does and does not show. Step 2, What helps — specific things to do or ask, not general advice. Step 3, your workbook — eight questions to answer for your own case, saved on your device and never sent to us. Every module also ends in a research companion listing each source, what was taken from it, and how it was read. If an assessment is not what you are looking for An in-depth assessment and self-identification are two branches of the same fork, not two rungs of a ladder. If the question you actually have is whether you are allowed to use the word at all, that is the Self-Identification course . If you want to start with a screening questionnaire taught with its limits shown, that is Autistic Self-Discovery and ADHD Self-Discovery . Who made this New Path Family, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that publishes free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. Everything here is free to read: no account, no sign-up, no payment. This course makes no referrals and receives nothing. The nonprofit employs no clinicians, provides no assessment, and takes no commission, revenue share or fee of any kind if you go anywhere named or unnamed in these modules. The Worksheet Library holds more than 350 free worksheets, and you can talk with the New Path team if you want to. New Path Family shares a founder with New Path Family of Therapy Centers, Inc. , a separate company that provides adult autism and ADHD assessment. Naming it is a connection. It is not a referral, and Module 3 gives independent routes alongside it.

Twelve free modules for adults who recognise themselves in autism or ADHD without a diagnosis: what the label does, and what comes after it. Show the full course outline Self-Identification Twelve free modules for anyone who has recognised themselves in autism or ADHD without a diagnosis. What the word is doing, what the diagnostic criteria actually say, how to read your own history against them, what arrives after the recognition, and how to decide whether you want an in-depth assessment at all. Where to start Twelve modules, and this one is a sequence. The two screener courses next door are a shelf you visit with a question. This one is not. It runs from whether you are allowed to use the word at all through to the Monday afterwards, and each part assumes the one before it. Read it in order. Step one — the two modules of Part One. Module 1 — Am I Allowed to Call Myself This? — Where self-identification came from, what the research actually found about the people who do it, the strongest case against it, and how to hold a description nobody handed you. Module 2 — What a Label Is, and What It Is Not — Four different jobs the same word is doing, and why most arguments about self-identification are two people using different ones. Start at Module 1. It is the one that answers the question most people arrive with, and everything after it rests on the position it sets out. Step two — the evidence, Modules 3 to 5. What the diagnostic criteria actually say, how to read your own history against them, and where a screening questionnaire fits. Module 5 is also the door to the two screener courses. Step three — the rest, as it arrives. Parts Three to Five are what happens after the recognition: grief and anger, telling people, finding your people, finding a therapist, and deciding whether you want an in-depth assessment at all. Part One — Am I allowed? Module 1 — Am I Allowed to Call Myself This? Where self-identification came from, what the research actually found about the people who do it, the strongest case against it, and how to hold a description nobody handed you. Open this module Module 2 — What a Label Is, and What It Is Not Four different jobs the same word is doing, and why most arguments about self-identification are two people using different ones. Open this module Part Two — The evidence Module 3 — The Criteria, in Plain Language What the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD actually say, translated, with the parts a questionnaire cannot reach made concrete. Open this module Module 4 — Reading Your Own History A structured re-examination of a life you have already lived and the document an assessor will actually ask you for. Open this module Module 5 — Where Screeners Fit What a screening questionnaire is for, what it cannot be for, and which of the two courses to open next. Open this module Part Three — What arrives Module 6 — Grief For the childhood that had no explanation, the years of trying harder, and the version of you that got blamed. Open this module Module 7 — Anger, and Relief The other two feelings, why they alternate, and why relief so often arrives with guilt attached. Open this module Part Four — Other people Module 8 — Telling People Partner, parents, employer, friends: what disclosure buys and what it costs, audience by audience. Open this module Module 9 — Finding Your People What the community offers, how to walk into it, and what to expect once you are there. Open this module Module 10 — A Therapist Who Gets It How to find one, what neuro-affirming should mean in practice rather than on a profile page, and what a bad fit looks like early. Open this module Part Five — What next Module 11 — Do I Want an In-Depth Assessment? A decision aid, not a recommendation. What an assessment buys, what it costs, when self-identification is enough on its own, and how to get one without anybody selling you anything. Open this module Module 12 — Monday Morning What actually changes after you recognise yourself, what does not, the first three changes worth making, and when to come back. Open this module If what you are looking for is not here This course is about the recognition itself, not about measuring traits. The screening questionnaires live in the two sister courses, each taught with its limits shown: the Autistic Self-Discovery course and the ADHD Self-Discovery course . Module 5 explains what a screener can and cannot settle before you open either of them. Who made this New Path Family, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that publishes free, plain-language education for autistic and ADHD adults and the people who love them. Everything here is free to read: no account, no sign-up, no payment. The nonprofit does not provide therapy or assessment and is not paid for referrals. The Worksheet Library holds more than 350 free worksheets, and you can talk with the New Path team if you want to.