Christine MacInnis, The Neurodivergent Whisperer
About Us....
Empower Your Relationships
The Neurodivergent Whisperer, Christine MacInnis, is dedicated to supporting individuals, couples, and families of adult children and parents navigate the journey of neurodivergence, including autism, ADHD, and PDA profiles, both at home and in the workplace. With a compassionate approach rooted in lived experience, Christine aims to foster understanding and acceptance within neurodivergent individuals, couples, and families. Discover how she can help your personal and professional relationships thrive!


Gain Important Workplace Tools
Workplace success for neurodivergent individuals depends on more than effort. It is helpful to have access to a workplace translator. Christine can help you translate complex organizational dynamics, communication hierarchies, and energy management into clear, actionable skills, so you can advocate effectively and work on your own terms.
Our Approach
A Unique Perspective
At The Neurodivergent Whisperer, we believe in an affirming neurodiversity paradigm that celebrates differences rather than viewing them as deficits. Her coaching emphasizes that every individual has value, and we strive to empower couples and families of adult children, as well as parents, by providing tools and insights that promote acceptance and understanding. She has cultivated several of her own tools and supports as a late-diagnosed autistic woman who was diagnosed with ADHD in her late twenties. She discovered an additional PDA profile that was part of her neurological makeup when she attended a training by PDA North America in 2023. As a result of wanting to learn more as a trauma therapist whose population was autistic and ADHD, who was certified in EMDR, she began a journey of soaking in the ND affirming paradigm, both for the clients and herself. In her trauma work, she noticed a pattern of families and couples needing practical supports, someone to psychoeducate on each of the individuals' neurotypes and nervous system responses, and providing carefully curated parts work to understand where each was coming from. Recognizing this could be provided by a coaching model, The Neurodivergent Whisperer was born!
Experience
2020 - Present
Trauma therapist for individuals, couples, and families around their trauma related to their neurotype not being understood by society and others.
2018-Present
Facilitated workshops for parents and caregivers on neurodiversity awareness.
2022- Present
Trained other EMDR trauma therapists in ND-Affirming EMDR practices
2023-Present
Co-authored a book entitled Neurodivergent Paths to Healing: Affirming EMDR and Parts Work for Autistic and ADHD Clients due out from Norton Publishing in the Spring of 2027.
2025
Created a curriculum for a parenting group for PDA parents
2020-2026
Presented at various conferences such as the Stanford Neurodiversity Summit, the Autistic Clinical Insights, and coming this summer, she will be presenting at the Neurodiversity Affirming Therapy Conference in Melborne, Australia.