Consultation for Clinicians
You're getting referrals for neurodivergent clients and you're not always sure what to do with them.
Maybe you've had a client for months and something isn't clicking. The approaches that work with everyone else aren't working here. You're second-guessing yourself in sessions. You leave feeling stuck.
Or maybe you're newer to this work and you're trying to get ahead of it — you want to build real competence before you're in over your head.
Either way, you're looking for someone who can think through these cases with you. Not just hand you a checklist, but actually help you understand what's happening.
That's what I do.
What I bring to this work
I'm Sam Marion, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with a private practice outside Atlanta. I specialize in neurodivergent-affirming care — autism, PDA, ADHD — and I've spent years working at the intersection of neurodivergence and trauma.
That intersection matters. A significant portion of the neurodivergent clients you're seeing have trauma histories, and the approaches that help one often complicate the other if you're not thinking about both at the same time. I hold both frameworks simultaneously, and I can help you do the same.
I'm also publicly neurodivergent myself. That's not a credential exactly, but it shapes how I think about this work in ways that I believe make me more useful to the clinicians I consult with.
I've spoken at national conferences including the International Symposium on Child Abuse and the National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference. I've written two books on neurodivergence. I host a podcast. And I've been doing clinical consultation long enough to know that what most clinicians need isn't more information — it's a thinking partner who can help them apply what they know to the specific person sitting across from them
What consultation looks like
I offer consultation on a case-by-case basis and through ongoing arrangements depending on what fits your practice.
Single consultations work well when you have a specific case you're stuck on, a question you want to think through, or you want to get a sense of whether we'd be a good ongoing fit.
Ongoing consultation works well if you're actively building your neurodivergent caseload, want a consistent place to process complex cases, or are looking for more structured professional development in this area.
Sessions are conducted via telehealth. I work with clinicians across the country.
We'll spend our time on what you actually need — whether that's understanding a specific presentation, thinking through treatment approach, talking about how to work with a family system, or building your conceptual foundation for this work more broadly.
What clinicians typically bring to consultation
A client whose presentation doesn't quite fit the frameworks you've been trained in
A family system where everyone is struggling and nobody feels heard
A case that involves both trauma and neurodivergence and you're not sure where to start
A diagnosis you don't have much experience with — PDA especially
A general sense that your current approach isn't a good fit for your neurodivergent clients and you want to think about that more intentionally
A note on how I work
I don't approach consultation as supervision in disguise. I'm not here to evaluate you or tell you what you should have done differently.
I think most clinicians who seek out consultation are already doing thoughtful work. They're looking for someone who can help them think more clearly, not someone who will make them feel worse about how hard this work is.
That's the consultation I try to provide.
Get started
If you're interested in a single consultation or want to talk about an ongoing arrangement, you can schedule directly from the link below or feel free to message me through the form on the contact page.