The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills

The Neurodivergent-Friendly DBT Workbook is an invaluable resource, offering clear explanations and engaging exercises tailored for neurodiverse individuals. Its accessible approach to DBT skills makes emotional regulation and mindfulness more approachable and effective. Highly recommended!

I have found this book to be very useful, and gives you a chance not only to learn some new skills but also to learn more about yourself, and identify areas of your life you might not even be aware you are struggling with. Very easy to dip in and out of; you can spend as much time as you like on each exercise. Even five minutes is enough time for some parts.The book is also laid out in a very visually pleasing way (for me at least!). Pages are broken up by boxes, colours, headers etc, and each page deals with something different. No huge chunks of text to get lost in.Highly recommend, even for those who may not have any kind of neurodivergent diagnosis, or just think they may be slightly neurodivergent in some way. Very accessible and easy to use.

I felt the bio was a great start - it opened the book up as being produced by someone with direct experiences, appealing to me as a therapist and someone who daily personal experiences of neurodiversity. The book has been created in a user friendly way, and I get the design features (layout, font size, colour, space, uncomplicated messages etc) - making for a refreshing change. I read the book in a couple of hours, and now dip in to exercises when needed. It's not pretentious or academic over theorised with few suggestions, rather concepts are straight to the point, it references common issues faced, some psycho-education plus simple interventons. I'll be looking to see what else the author has written.

I purchased this workbook as I have the DBT skills workbook but find it hard to read and process a lot of text. This workbook is so clear and easy to read with colour coding, no images and simple writing. It resusces the cognitive load due to the simple fonts and simplified text.Similar to the decide skills but without images, lots of examples and easy to follow. Would recommend for anyone who is new to DBT or who can't read a lot of text and wants a simple easy to follow guide.The only reason I gave 4 stars is there are a couple of typos and this makes the workbook look unprofessional. But on the whole this is amazing for those who need to reduce visual stress when reading and need simple worksheets. Will suit all ages.

I bought this book as my therapist recommended it and photocopied some pages out of it but I was struggling to read it in black and white because I’m autistic and dyslexic so it was hard to read so I purchased it myself. And it’s so easy to read and understand. It bring colour co-ordinated as well makes it so easy to quickly find the page you’re looking for. It makes DBT therapy more enjoyable and helps me engage in it fully. As I suffer from adhd as well so it’s easy for me to get bored of certain things but because it’s so positive it’s so easy to do

If I was still a SENCO at secondary school level I’d buy a copy of this book for all my neurodivergent students and those with high anxiety. A great workbook.

This is full of brilliant DBT worksheets to use with Neurodivergent people and Neurotypical people too. It is pitched at a perfect level of information required - not too wordy or fussy but gets the message across in an effective way. I LOVE this book!! You will not regret purchasing this book.

I’m an ND therapist, and I’m not a fan of behaviourist approaches generally. The book however provides a broad overview as a useful starting point to empower us to understand our needs as ND humans and start to develop our own individualised strategies.The workbook also recognises that the component of standard DBT that focuses on strategies for interpersonal effectiveness isn’t helpful for most ND people, so there’s a whole section on sensory needs and distress tolerance instead.The book uses Daniel Siegel’s Window of Tolerance concept which I’ve always used lots when I teach psycho-Ed with clients again to help with emotion regulation/managing overwhelm. Knowledge is power and I find that it’s a framework that makes sense to many clients to help them understand their strengths, sensitivities and triggers.