Many children who are on the autism spectrum or have ADHD also have anxiety or depression, and parents caring for those children experience high stress.
Diane Reid Lyon’s goal is to help parents not feel quite so alone while finding ways to help their kids. As a licensed clinical mental health counselor for more than three decades, she's helped hundreds of children, teens and adults find growth and healing while dealing with challenges like ADHD, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma.
Throughout much of her career, though, she's focused on counseling children who are considered neurodivergent.
So, she's written a book, “Caring for Yourself — Caring for Your Neurodivergent Child,” to help walk parents through the journey from how to get a child tested for neurodivergence to learning how to support them.
On this episode of The Charlotte Ledger Podcast, Ledger managing editor Cristina Bolling sits down with Reid to discuss her book and more, including:
The importance of understanding your child’s diagnosis.
Navigating school systems designed for neurotypical students.
How to avoid “parental burnout” and loneliness.
Overcoming stigmas and viewing neurodivergent individuals’ unique strengths as “superpowers.”
Reid’s personal experience as someone with ADHD and as a parent.
We hope you enjoy the conversation with Diane Reid Lyon.
The Charlotte Ledger Podcast is produced by Lindsey Banks.
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Navigating neurodivergence as a parent, with Diane Reid Lyon