For autistic girls and women

You are welcome here.

If you have found your way here, you may be somewhere in the long, slow work of understanding yourself as autistic. Perhaps you have been recently diagnosed. Perhaps you have self-identified after years of quietly knowing. Perhaps you are further along and looking for support with the daily reality of an autistic life. Wherever you are, you are welcome here.

What this work looks like

Our practice with autistic girls, teens, and women is grounded in the nervous system, informed by trauma, and shaped by identity-affirming care. It is not about fixing, managing, or making you more palatable to a neurotypical world. It is about understanding your own sensory landscape, learning to work with your nervous system rather than against it, and building a life that fits the person you actually are.

What we might work on together

  • 01Sensory education and understanding your own sensory system
  • 02Nervous system regulation and interoception
  • 03Somatic integration, reconnecting to a body that has often been overridden
  • 04The unmasking process, at whatever pace suits you
  • 05Daily-life scaffolding that supports an autistic life
  • 06Executive function, energy, and pacing
  • 07Communication and boundaries in relationships, work, and family
  • 08Sleep, food, self-care, and the practical everyday
  • 09Making sense of your history through a neurodivergent lens

What OT can look like

What OT can look like

OT here doesn't look like a clinic room and a checklist. It might be a grounding hike in nature, hands in clay, learning a new skill, or simply learning to rest. It's whatever is meaningful and restorative, attuned to what your body and your life need right now. And it's collaborative, always, shaped around you rather than done to you.

Reconnecting to soma and sensory

Reconnecting to soma and sensory

Through art, nature, and community, sometimes a slow walk along the coast, sometimes clay in your hands, we work on coming back to a body that has often been overridden. This is where we start noticing what your body has been trying to tell you all along.

Understanding your own autistic brain

Understanding your own autistic brain

We reflect on, and expand, what you already know about the way your mind works: your sensory landscape, your focus, your rhythms. Together we make sense of your story through a neurodivergent lens, often for the first time.

Building a daily life that fits

Building a daily life that fits

Routines, habits, and scaffolding shaped to the person you actually are, not a template handed down. Small, steady structures that hold your energy rather than drain it.

Tending to energy and burnout

Tending to energy and burnout

We put real supports in place to protect against autistic burnout: pacing, rest, boundaries, and the practical everyday. Protecting your nervous system so there's enough left over for the life you actually want.

We also offer… for autistic teens and young women 15+

A termly small group

Unmasking & Reconnecting

An eight-week group for autistic young women, running each school term. A gentle, paced space to explore unmasking and reconnect with your own nervous system, alongside a small group of peers.

The Term 4 waitlist is now open. If you would like to learn more or hold a place for your young person, we would love to hear from you.

Attuned OT Services

Neurodiversity-affirming occupational therapy in Tullimbar and across the Illawarra, for autistic girls and women and for children and families.

info@attunedotservices.com

Crisis Support

If something urgent comes up:

Lifeline: 13 11 14

Emergency: 000

Acknowledgement of Country

We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, work, learn, and connect across Australia. Based in Wollongong on Dharawal Country and supporting adolescents, young adults, and families both in-person and online, we honour the enduring connection Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples hold with land, waters, community, culture, and story. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, the storytellers, wisdom-keepers, and guides who continue to nurture connection, belonging, and wellbeing across generations.

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