Mental Health
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Recovering Your Self
When Devon Price included my Values Based Integrative Process in his book on Unmasking Autism, the tool became known in the Autism world, and passed on within neurodivergent conversations and networks in ways that have blown me away. Seriously – I love it! But the thing about it is, the VBIP is good for more Continue reading
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VBIP and Thriving After Adverse Religious Experiences and High (Religious) Control Environments
Because of the enormous success of Dr. Devon Price’s Unmasking Autism and the way the Values Based Integration Process (VBIP) is highlighted in that book, VBIP has been highly connected to its success as a strategy for those who are Autistic. What I have talked less about is the ways that VBIP was designed intentionally Continue reading
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Medical Trauma
I grew up at Sick Kids. I had multiple operations over the years. Almost every surgery came with excruciatingly painful complications. One of those surgeries happened 33 years ago today. I was seven. I remember it vividly, including being in a hospital room which – for all intents and purposes – could very easily Continue reading
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“What Exactly Is a Life Coach?”
I was sitting with a friend the other day and she asked me, “Heather, what exactly is a life coach? What do you do?” And I figured maybe she wasn’t the only one who was uncertain… Continue reading
About the program
In 2017 I was newly self-diagnosed with atypical autism, struggling with burnout, and striking out when it came to therapists who could address the issues I was facing. At the same time, I was building skills around life coaching, shame reduction, and trauma-informed therapy for work. Gradually I realized that what I needed – an embodied, autonomous, agency-driven coaching approach to unmasking – was not something I was going to find “out there”, but something I was going to need to create if I wanted to recover my life. This was the moment the Values Based Integration Process was born.
Having developed the program for myself – and having seen the incredible results it brought in my own life – I began to use it with coaching clients. The results were out of this world!
After conversations with Dr. Devon Price, the technique was featured in his book Unmasking Autism. With it, came interest in the technique and the decision was made to begin training coaches and therapists to help make this toolkit more readily available.
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