SOLUTION-FOCUSED COACHING
Whether you’re seeking a better understanding of yourself, looking for guidance to strengthen your relationship, or feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about the future, my primary goal is to provide you with immediate clarity and a clear, actionable path forward.
Our work together will be more solution-focused than therapy and typically lasts between 3 to 12 months. You will gain insights and tools to build skills for making informed choices and implementing beneficial changes in your life.
As a coach, I will teach and guide you, but will also provide supportive accountability for making real progress – instead of temporary relief that eventually recycles back to the same painful cycles.The expectation is that you will experience an impactful and lasting difference in your life.
How It Works
Book an Initial Consultation
Begin with a personalized session to explore your concerns, goals, and relationship dynamics. I will provide initial insights and feedback and make recommendations for next steps. A consultation can be a stand-alone service and does not involve any commitment for additional or ongoing work with me.
Complete an Assessment Evaluation
Based on your unique challenges and goals, I may recommend an Assessment Evaluation to gain essential insights for strategically creating coaching recommendations.
Coaching with a Clear Plan
If coaching is the best next step, you’ll start with a monthly renewable coaching package tailored to your needs.
Achieve Your Goals and Improve Your Life
As you make progress, we’ll reassess your needs and adjust your coaching plan accordingly. I may recommend that you supplement your coaching with other courses, books, videos, or other professionals.
How It Works
Book an Initial Consultation
$525 USD
Begin with a personalized session to explore your concerns, goals, and relationship dynamics. I will provide initial insights and feedback and make recommendations for next steps. A consultation can be a stand-alone service and does not involve any commitment for additional or ongoing work with me.
Complete an Assessment Evaluation
*No additional cost
Based on your unique challenges and goals, I may recommend an Assessment Evaluation to gain essential insights for strategically creating coaching recommendations.
Coaching with a Clear Plan
$495/hour USD
If coaching is the best next step, we will get you set up with a coaching schedule tailored to your needs. I may recommend that you supplement your coaching with other courses, books, videos, or other professionals.
Achieve Your Goals and Improve Your Life
As you make progress, we’ll reassess your needs and adjust your coaching plan accordingly.
Time Commitment
Coaching involves motivation and willingness to engage and participate in working toward achieving your goals whether you are seeking clarity for direction in your life or you are ready to implement changes to improve your life or relationship. Therefore coaching requires a commitment to be beneficial.
I will recommend a schedule of appointments that I believe is most beneficial for you and also work with you regarding to your time and budget.
Benefits of Assessment and Evaluation
Discover What’s Beneath the Conflict:
Misunderstandings are often the result of differences in the way you each think, feel, perceive, and communicate. This evaluation will pinpoint each of your unique traits to identify specifically how you are different from one another.
Reduce the Guesswork
Instead of wondering why certain challenges keep resurfacing, you’ll gain clear insights that reduce confusion while improving communication, emotional connection, and mutual understanding
Identify Strengths and Challenges
Discovering both partners’ strengths and struggles — particularly in areas like executive functioning, sensory processing, communication, conflict, and emotional processing — will dramatically reduce conflict.
Create a Personalized Strategy for Real Change
Unlike traditional couples therapy, which often uses one-size-fits-all strategies, this evaluation provides a precise understanding of your relationship’s root differences. With this knowledge, any future therapy or coaching will be far more effective, tailored to your specific needs, and focused on what will actually foster growth.
Receive Expert Guidance
With years of experience working with neurodiverse couples, I provide compassionate, expert analysis to help you make sense of your relationship and determine the next steps that make the most sense for you both.
WORK WITH ME
I believe we are all unique from one another and that our differences make us stronger as a human race and also in our relationships! Sometimes we struggle to understand one another when our brains are wired differently – this can be confusing and often creates conflict. By understanding and embracing our differences, we can foster a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other.
WORK WITH ME PRIVATELY IF YOU :
- want expert clarity about neurodivergent traits.
- need to distinguish toxic behaviors from neurodivergence.
- are considering ending a relationship.
- need skilled help with communication.
- are looking to grow and strengthen your connection.
- are willing and motivated to self-reflect and learn.
Unique Options for the Unique YOU!
I believe we are all unique from one another and that our differences make us stronger as a human race and also in our relationships! Sometimes we struggle to understand one another when our brains are wired differently – this can be confusing and often creates conflict. By understanding and embracing our differences, we can foster a deeper understanding of ourselves and each other.
WORK WITH ME PRIVATELY IF YOU :
- want expert clarity about neurodivergent traits.
- need to distinguish toxic behaviors from neurodivergence.
- are considering ending a relationship.
- need skilled help with communication.
- are looking to grow and strengthen your connection.
- are willing and motivated to self-reflect and learn.
What I Stand For…
I believe that what truly matters is how your individual differences shape and influence each of you. By understanding and embracing your differences, you can foster a deeper understanding of yourselves and each other.
Education
how the differences in your neurotypes cause confusion and misunderstandings. This provides you with a framework for understanding your relationship in a totally new way and will give you some immediate, initial, relief from the confusion and misunderstandings.
Clarity
one of you has traits and characteristics of neurodiversity. Clarity is a critical part of discernment for partners who feel hopeless. Getting clarity is essential for identifying a direction to take in your relationship, and in your education and coaching.
Direction
relationships for a long time are often considering leaving or ending the relationship. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen therapists and couples make when starting counseling or coaching is immediately working on relationship repair. FIRST, you must determine if being in the relationship is the direction you are taking. This isn’t always a quick or easy process, but it cannot be skipped. I will meet you where you are, and help you get to where you want, and need, to be.
Solution
struggle with feeling confident about your choice, then you need solutions for moving forward. If you are choosing to stay in your relationship to work on resolving painful disconnection by developing new skills within a neurodiverse framework, I will pull out my toolbox and we’ll get to work! If you have decided that you’ve reached the end of your relationship and need help making this transition, I will help you work through the pain, grief, and upheaval of such a massive change to your world.
Important Note: My Perspective on Neurodivergence
I view autism, ADHD, and other forms of neurodivergence as natural variations in how people think, feel, and experience the world, NOT as disorders. Simply put, neurodivergence is about having traits that are different from most people. For example, above average intelligence is a form of neurodivergence. The traditional concept of “diagnosis” often implies something is wrong, but we’ve never thought of being smart is something to be diagnosed. Differences in our neurology are simply part of human diversity just like height or eye color. Tall people or people with green eyes are statistically less common.
That said, our unique traits can sometimes lead to specific challenges — especially in relationships — that may feel overwhelming or difficult to navigate. Identifying these challenges isn’t about labeling or pathologizing; it’s about gaining clarity. With a deeper understanding of how these traits impact your relationship, we can work together to develop effective strategies for coping, accommodating each other’s needs, and building a stronger, more connected partnership.
Navigating the challenges of a neurodiversity as an individual and in a relationship can feel overwhelming, especially when traditional advice and support hasn’t worked. That’s why I offer a personalized approach that begins with really seeking to understand who you are and what you need.
GET STARTED WITH A QUIZ
Get immediate feedback about yourself and your partner. I have adapted these autism assessments to include more female traits than most standardized autism tests. Each quiz includes a comprehensive PDF report.
Courses
I invite you to understand and embrace your differences to foster a deeper understanding of yourselves and each other. My extensive, and constantly growing, library of videos will guide you to greater relationship connection and fulfillment in life.
Reduce the Conflict!
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Neurodiverse Relationship Communication
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Is Your Partner Autistic or Toxic?
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WHAT MY CLIENTS AND FOLLOWERS ARE SAYING
ABOUT ME, JODI CARLTON, MEd
I have over 20 years of combined experience as a therapist, educator, speaker, and coach. As a professor, I enjoyed inspiring curiosity in psychology students about human drives and motivation. I have worked with thousands of individuals, couples, and families worldwide in over 13 countries with challenges such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, abuse, and brain injury. In the early 2000’s, I developed a counseling program in Dublin, Ireland for the The National Brain Injury Association.
As a leading expert in neurodiverse relationship dynamics, I have helped countless teenagers, parents, adults, and couples to understand brain differences in language, emotions, sensory processing, and behavior.
For me, neurodiversity is personal. My experience comes primarily from my own personal relationships: my 19-year marriage, other romantic partners, my children, other family members, and my closest friends.
I am also a survivor of narcissistic abuse and have spent years recovering from codependency (“pathological kindness”) that developed in my childhood.
Someone once told me, “I can’t imagine the number of people you help because of your own experiences,” and that is my exact mission – to reach and guide you through your own journey of discovery and healing.
