A client stops wanting sex after a baby. A husband can't stand the feel of his partner's body since she gained weight. A client tells you she's asexual. Each of these can look like a body-image problem, a character problem, or a trauma problem, and sometimes it is. But for a lot of neurodivergent clients there's a sensory story underneath, and most clinical training never teaches you to look for it.

In this 90-minute live conversation, Kory Andreas and Emma Smith bring 2 lenses to the same room: Kory's neuro-affirming work with autistic, ADHD, and PDA adults, and Emma's sex and couples therapy practice. Tammy Nelson moderates, pushes on the hard cases, and brings your questions in live. You'll look at how a changed sensory profile can drive changes in desire and touch, how to tell sensory overwhelm apart from asexual identity or an undisclosed trauma history (and what to do when it's more than one), and how an autistic partner's distress about an aversion differs from a narcissistic partner's contempt. From there the panel gets practical: when conjoint couples therapy helps, when it does harm, and why standard neurotypical relationship advice (the date night, the unscripted talk about what's missing) so often backfires.

You'll leave with assessment questions to use in your next session and a few adaptations to your couples and sex therapy work that make it safer for neurodivergent clients and their partners.