Imagine your capacity, Counseling and Consulting, LLC

02/13/2026

Our Community Autism 101 Trainings are designed for community groups, service providers, and businesses seeking a foundational understanding of Autism and how it impacts individuals across settings.

These trainings explore key aspects of Autism, including sensory processing differences, communication styles, and information processing, while emphasizing how these differences may show up in real-world interactions.

Participants gain practical, actionable strategies for engaging respectfully and effectively with Autistic individuals- including simple accommodations, sensory-friendly considerations, and inclusive practices that can be implemented immediately.

Each training is customizable to meet the unique needs of the organization, and may include scenario-based guidance specific to environments, events, or situations that staff or volunteers regularly encounter.

These sessions are ideal for community groups looking to:
-Build confidence
-Increase understanding
-Create more welcoming and accessible spaces for Autistic individuals and their families

If your business, organization, or community group is ready to take that next step in inclusion, we would love to connect.

Visit our website to request more information or schedule a training: https://autismsocietywi.org/autism-101-trainings/

02/12/2026

02/10/2026

Let’s go for a walk. You can start small, even 5 blocks, 5 minutes, 5 steps. It counts!

Walking is the single most natural and simple way to regulate your nervous system. If you can, do it outside. The natural bilateral eye movement from walking will help you process stress, difficult situations, and will help you process emotional memories.

When stressful things happen to us, we need to move so our brain can process the emotions. When we sit still after stress for long periods of time, we ruminate. Rumination is playing a situation in our mind over and over again. We do this because the emotional memory is trying to be processed, but with the body in a state of stillness, it can’t happen.

Chronic rumination leads to depression.

It’s no coincidence that as we’ve been pulled into sedentary lifestyles, depression has increased. Our ancestors walked all the time. Throughout the day. Every day. “Walk it off,” is not just a saying, it’s a truth.

Add walking into your daily life whenever you can. Even small bursts of walking help.

Some ideas:

1. A simple walk around your block

2. Drive to a park or a street with shops and walk it (explore new parks or hikes you haven’t been on before)

3. Park father away every time you have a chance

4. If weather is bad, walk indoor malls or shopping centers

5. Find a walking buddy to hold you accountable

6. Ask to do therapy or coaching on the phone so you can walk

7. Get a small treadmill and a stand for your laptop so you can work and walk

Without enough natural movement and light, humans will inevitably end up depressed

02/09/2026

We’ll take some “Friday Facts” on a Monday. Thank you Louden on Autism!

Friday facts

02/05/2026

When a child’s behavior feels challenging, it’s easy to assume they’re doing it on purpose.
But most of the time, behavior is communication.

Kids act out when they’re tired, hungry, overwhelmed, anxious, missing connection, struggling with a skill, or carrying an unmet need they don’t yet know how to express.

Seeing behavior this way doesn’t mean we allow everything. It means we respond with kindness and curiosity instead of punishment, and support instead of shame.

When we look for the reason beneath the behavior, we help our children feel safer, more understood, and more capable of learning better ways to cope.

That’s where real growth happens. 💛

01/23/2026

You can't always see the effort that we're putting in. Much of it is invisible.

Huge effort doesn't always equal huge output, productivity, or success.

Doesn't mean the effort wasn't there.

If we can't be *sure* how much invisible effort someone put in, would we not just. Assume the best? Take a kind stance? Give that person grace? Be empathetic? Be curious?

Fluctuating capacity is a very significant thing for neurodivergent people.

It doesn't make sense to assume the worst.
It's actually harmful.

Yes?

Em 🌈

01/21/2026

• A JOYful Musing • When you hold goodness, love, and kindness in your heart it always makes a difference. It always matters. ~Sherri Bishop

Sherri 🍂🧡🍂 Incredible JOY