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This webinar satisfies requirements for live interactive CE credits for all professions.
DESCRIPTION: Clinicians frequently work with autistic and non-autistic partners or family members who care deeply about one another, yet experience repeated communication breakdowns, misunderstanding, emotional disconnection, and cycles of blame. These relationship struggles are often interpreted as problems with motivation, empathy, sensitivity, or effort, when in reality they may reflect differences in neurologic processing, social expectations, conversational style, emotional communication, and perspective-taking. This webinar provides a practical, neurology-informed framework for understanding communication patterns in neurodiverse couples and households, with strategies clinicians can immediately apply in therapy, family work, and consultation.
This beginning to intermediate-level webinar is designed for psychologists, counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, speech-language professionals, and other clinicians working with autistic adolescents and adults, couples, and families. Topics will include autistic neurology and communication, theory of mind and relational misunderstandings, task-oriented versus connection-oriented interaction styles, hidden social assumptions, emotional regulation and conversational demands, and practical interventions that reduce blame while improving communication and connection across neurotypes.
Target audience: This course is appropriate for all mental health professionals
Content level: Introductory/Intermediate
Dr. Theresa Regan is a neuropsychologist specializing in brain-behavior relationships across the lifespan, with particular expertise in autism assessment and consultation for adolescents and adults. She is the founder and director of an adult autism diagnostic clinic and has extensive experience helping autistic individuals, couples, families, and clinicians better understand the relationship between neurologic processing, communication, emotional regulation, and daily functioning.
Dr. Regan is the author of the Understanding Autism book series, including Understanding Communication and Relationships in Autism: Improving Connection Across Neurodiversity. She is also host of the podcast Autism in the Adult, where she translates complex neurologic and developmental concepts into practical, real-world applications for clinicians, autistic individuals, and families. In addition to her professional work, she is the parent of an autistic young adult, bringing both clinical and lived household experience to her work with neurodiverse individuals and families. Her teaching style emphasizes respectful, neurology-informed approaches that reduce blame while improving communication, insight, and connection across neurotypes.
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to
Webinar interaction & system requirements
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led polls.
To be eligible for Live CE credits, you must be logged in the entire time. Entry to the webinar will be closed 5 minutes after the scheduled start time.
This webinar will be hosted through Zoom. Upon registration, participants will be emailed a link directly from Zoom. Additionally, the link will be available in your Zur Institute account, which you can use or you simply log into your Zur account and enter the webinar from the My Webinars section of your account.
The webinar will open 10 minutes prior to start time. It is recommended that you join early to give yourself time to troubleshoot potential connection problems.
Fee $49
Tokens may not be used with webinars.
Course completion & CE info
Live CEs will be available for all professions. Distance Learning Board Approvals
CE credits for all professions will be provided by Zur Institute.
Zur Institute has been approved to provide Live CE credits by the following boards:
Zur Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Zur Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN) to offer CE credits to nurses (Provider #CEP 14826). Registered Nurses in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by the California Board of Vocational Nurses (CA BVNPT) to offer CE credits to Licensed Vocational Nurses (Provider #V-10846). Licensed Vocational Nurses in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute is an approved provider by The California Board of Vocational Nurses and Psychiatric Technicians (CA BVNPT) to offer CE credits to Psychiatric Technicians (Provider #V-10797). Psych Techs in states other than California may be able to take courses offered by Zur Institute Verify with your State Board and/or Professional organization.
Zur Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7144. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Zur Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
New York Psychologists: Zur Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0029.
New York Licensed Psychoanalysts (LPsyAns): Zur Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0049.
New York Social Workers (LMSWs & LCSWs): Zur Institute SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0081.
New York Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFTs): Zur Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0006.
New York Mental Health Counselors (LMHCs): Zur Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0007.
New York Licensed Creative Arts Therapists (LCATs): Zur Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0098.
Social Workers: Zur Institute, provider #1113, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Zur Institute maintains responsibility for these courses. ACE provider approval period: 6/1/2024-6/1/2027.