Flourishing Women LLC
Support and Education for ADHD and Neurodivergent Women
Flourishing Women LLC offers groups, coaching, education, and practical resources for ADHD and neurodivergent women. We also offer training and consultation for therapists and coaches interested in neurodiversity-affirming practice.
Many of the women who come here have spent years trying to meet expectations that did not account for how their minds work. They may appear capable while struggling with overwhelm, masking, emotional intensity, exhaustion, self-doubt, or the daily work of keeping everything together.
Our work begins with understanding what is happening. We look at the person, her environment, the demands being placed on her, the support available, and what it costs her to continue functioning in the same way.
What Does Neurodivergent-Affirming Mean?
Neurodiversity recognizes that human minds naturally vary in how they process information, communicate, learn, focus, move, and experience the world.
A neurodivergent-affirming approach respects these differences while also taking disability, distress, and support needs seriously. It does not assume that every difficulty begins inside the person.
This approach includes:
Respecting identity
Honoring the language people use to describe themselves and their experiences.
Looking beyond deficit models
Considering what is difficult while also asking how expectations, environments, and available support affect the person.
Recognizing strengths without overlooking struggle
Making room for creativity, sensitivity, persistence, curiosity, and other strengths without suggesting that every neurodivergent trait must be positive.
Understanding the cost of masking
Paying attention to what someone may be suppressing, enduring, or sacrificing in order to appear capable or meet neurotypical expectations.
Creating more supportive environments
Changing communication, routines, sensory conditions, expectations, or systems when those changes make participation more possible.
This means asking specific questions. What is difficult about this situation? What demands are being placed on the person? What support is missing? What does appearing capable cost her? Which parts of the environment can be changed?
This approach guides our groups, coaching, education, training, and consultation.
The Flourishing Women Model
At the center of Flourishing Women LLC is the Flourishing Women Model, a framework designed to support ADHD and neurodivergent women. It focuses on five connected areas:
Self-Compassion
Responding to struggle with understanding rather than immediately turning to criticism.
Self-Awareness
Understanding your emotions, needs, patterns, strengths, limits, and responses to different environments.
Self-Accommodation
Creating systems, routines, expectations, and spaces that work with your brain.
Self-Advocacy
Recognizing what you need and learning how to communicate it.
Self-Care
Protecting your energy, health, attention, and capacity in ways that fit your actual life.
These areas are woven into the groups, coaching, and education we offer. They are also closely connected. It is difficult to advocate for a need you have not learned to recognize. It can also be difficult to accommodate yourself when years of criticism have taught you to interpret every struggle as a personal failure.
Our Services
Support Groups for Women
Our long-term groups give ADHD and neurodivergent women opportunities to connect with other women, understand their experiences, and find support that reflects how their minds work.
Groups may include:
- Community and connection
- Understanding ADHD and neurodivergence
- Emotional intensity and overwhelm
- Masking and the cost of appearing capable
- Shame and self-criticism
- Relationships, parenting, and communication
- Boundaries and self-advocacy
- Accommodations at home and work
- Energy, capacity, and burnout
- Guidance using the Flourishing Women Model
👉 Learn more about joining a group
Coaching for ADHD and Neurodivergent Women
One-on-one coaching focuses on the situations that are making daily life harder.
We may look at why a task remains difficult, which expectations are unclear or unrealistic, where your energy is going, what support is missing, and what changes could make the situation more workable.
Coaching may include:
- Identifying your strengths, needs, and patterns
- Creating accommodations at home, work, and in relationships
- Building routines that are realistic and sustainable
- Understanding energy and capacity
- Preparing for difficult conversations
- Developing self-advocacy
- Rebuilding confidence in your own observations
Training and Consultation for Therapists and Coaches
Neurodivergent-affirming practice requires more than learning a list of ADHD or autistic traits. It involves examining how clinical assumptions, communication practices, expectations, and environments may affect neurodivergent clients.
Training and consultation may address:
- ADHD and autism in women
- Masking and late identification
- Emotional intensity, shame, and burnout
- Neurodivergent-affirming language
- Accommodations in therapy and coaching
- The effects of chronic correction and misunderstanding
- How gender, identity, environment, and access shape a person’s experience
- Moving beyond compliance-based approaches
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Why Accommodations Matter
Accommodations change part of a task, environment, or expectation so a person has more meaningful access.
Flexible schedules may support neurodivergent people as well as caregivers, parents, and people managing health conditions.
Clear written communication can reduce the working-memory demands of holding several verbal instructions at once.
Sensory adjustments may reduce avoidable strain for people who are sensitive to noise, lighting, movement, or other environmental input.
Permission to move, use sensory tools, take breaks, or work differently may support attention and participation.
An accommodation does not remove every difficulty. It reduces barriers that do not need to be there.
Learn More: Articles and Resources
Education is an important part of our work. The Flourishing Women blog and Substack make research and clinical ideas easier to understand and connect them to ordinary life.
You will find:
- Articles about ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and neurodivergence
- Information about hormones and ADHD in women
- Guides to self-accommodation, energy management, and emotional regulation
- Resources about masking, shame, burnout, boundaries, and self-advocacy
- Research explained in clear, practical language
- Ideas and practices from the Flourishing Women Model
- Professional resources for therapists and coaches
👉 Visit the blog for more resources
About Flourishing Women LLC
Flourishing Women LLC was founded by Kristen McClure, MSW, LCSW, a therapist, educator, coach, and writer with more than 30 years of experience working with women, children, families, schools, and community programs.
Kristen’s current work focuses on:
- Leading groups for ADHD and neurodivergent women
- Providing individual coaching
- Offering training and consultation for therapists and coaches
- Developing the Flourishing Women Model
- Making research and clinical ideas accessible through her writing
- Learn more about Kristen here on Substack
Connect With Flourishing Women LLC
Choose the area that fits what you are looking for:
👉 Join a support group
👉 Book coaching
👉 Request a training for your organization
👉 Read our blog
👉 Learn more about the Flourishing Women Model
👉 Follow Kristen’s writing on Substack
👉 Contact Flourishing Women LLC for coaching, therapy, groups, or trainings