Anxiety changes how you think, feel, plan, rest, and connect with others. Our Neurodivergent Anxiety courses for Adults help you understand those patterns and build supports that match your nervous system. Clear explanations, real-life examples, and practical tools help you step by step move from “constant alarm” to more grounded, predictable calm.
🧭 Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics
Understand the core concepts.
🪞 Your Neurodivergent Anxiety: A Personal Deep Dive
Understand your patterns and triggers.
🛠️ General Neurodivergent Anxiety Coping Strategies
Practical tools for everyday anxiety.
🗣️ Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies
Support for conversations, groups, and friendships.
🔬 Neurodivergent Anxiety Science & Research
Insights into anxiety, the brain, and body.
🤝 Supporting Someone With Neurodivergent Anxiety
Guidance for partners, parents, and friends.
🧠 How These Neurodivergent Anxiety Courses Are Different
These courses are built for neurodivergent brains first (ADHD, autism, AuDHD, gifted, highly sensitive). That shapes everything about how they are written and structured.
🧠 Explanations focus on brain, body, and systems, not character
🌱 Tone is calm, validating, and non-judgemental, without drama or doom
📚 Concepts are broken into short, stand-alone articles
💬 Reflection questions help you recognise your own anxiety patterns
🧩 Worksheets are simple and concrete, not perfectionistic
🔗 Gentle cross-links to related topics like ADHD, self-care, self-esteem, and burnout
Important: These courses are educational and skills-based. They do not replace diagnosis, therapy, medication, or crisis support.
🧭 Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics
If you are new to anxiety or trying to understand why it feels so intense for you as a neurodivergent adult, Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics is your starting point. It is a gentle, free introduction that gives you language, context, and a first look at your own anxiety pattern.
What Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics Covers
🧠 What anxiety actually is (beyond “worry”)
🌱 Common symptoms, types, and how they show up in daily life
📋 First practical coping strategies for body, thoughts, and behaviour
🤝 How to start building a neurodivergent anxiety support system
The course is structured into four lessons. Together they cover around fifteen key neurodivergent anxiety topics. Each lesson includes at least one simple worksheet you can print or fill in digitally.
Who Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics Is For
🧠 Adults and older teens who struggle with anxiety (diagnosed or not)
🌱 People late to diagnosis or self-discovery who want a validating overview
🤝 Partners, parents, or friends who want a calm, structured introduction
At the end of Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics you will know whether you want to go deeper into Your Neurodivergent Anxiety: A Personal Deep Dive, or move straight into tools with General Neurodivergent Anxiety Coping Strategies or Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies.
🪞 Your ND Anxiety: A Personal Deep Dive
Your Neurodivergent Anxiety: A Personal Deep Dive is your main long-form anxiety course. It is designed as a ten-lesson exploration of how anxiety works in general and how it shows up in your specific life.
What You Explore In This Course
🧠 Expanded definitions of neurodivergent anxiety and how it links to the brain and nervous system
🌱 How anxiety affects thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and sensory processing
📋 Self-assessment, assessment pathways, and late recognition of anxiety
🧩 Patterns like avoidance, overthinking, all-or-nothing coping, and shutdown
💬 The relationship between anxiety, self-esteem, self-care, and shame
🏫 Neurodivergent anxiety at school, work, and at home
🧭 Integrating your anxiety story and designing an ongoing calm plan
Each lesson starts with a clear overview. Then you move through several stand-alone topic articles. Reflection questions and worksheets help you map your own neurodivergent anxiety patterns instead of just reading about other people’s stories.
How Deep Dive Connects To Other Courses
🧠 Points towards General Neurodivergent Anxiety Coping Strategies when you are ready for more tools
🗣️ Connects with Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies when social situations are a core trigger
🌱 Links with Self-Care and Self-Esteem courses when emotional load feels heavy
A simple reflection to consider after reading about this course:
🧠 “If I had a safe place to really map out my neurodivergent anxiety, what would I most want to understand first?”
🛠️ General ND Anxiety Coping Strategies
General Neurodivergent Anxiety Coping Strategies is all about daily life. It can follow the Deep Dive course, or stand on its own if you already understand anxiety and mainly want tools.
What This Course Helps With
🧠 Identifying your top neurodivergent anxiety triggers and patterns
🌱 Calming an anxious body using breathing, grounding, and sensory tools
📋 Thinking tools and language that reduce spiral, shame, and panic
🧩 Daily behaviours that support or worsen anxiety
🚪 Facing avoided tasks and situations using gradual exposure and micro-steps
💬 Emotional regulation strategies for big feelings and shame spikes
🏠 Coping in real-life settings like work, study, home, travel, and healthcare
🤝 Understanding when professional help might be useful and how to approach it
Each of the ten lessons includes three to five practical topics, plus at least one concrete exercise or worksheet. The final lesson talks openly and calmly about therapy and medication as possible supports, and how to prepare for professional conversations.
This course often points you toward Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies, ADHD Coping Strategies, and Self-Care Basics when it makes sense to deepen specific areas.
🗣️ ND Social Anxiety Coping Strategies
Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies focuses on situations where other people are involved: conversations, meetings, group settings, friendships, dating, family gatherings, and online spaces.
What You Work On
🧠 Understanding what social anxiety is and how it interacts with neurodivergence
🌱 Noticing your own social triggers, stories, and safety strategies
📋 Planning small, realistic steps into conversations, calls, and gatherings
💬 Building a “cognitive coping toolkit” for self-talk and mental rehearsal
🧩 Coping tools for before, during, and after social situations
🧭 Designing exposure ladders and micro-experiments that respect your capacity
🤝 Caring for your energy and self-esteem while you practise social skills
Lessons combine clear explanations, practical planning tools, and reflection questions. There is a strong focus on tiny, sustainable steps instead of pressure to “just be more confident.”
This course regularly connects to Self-Care Basics, Self-Esteem courses, and Burnout content, because social overload and rejection sensitivity often interact with exhaustion.
🔬 Neurodivergent Anxiety Science & Research
If you are curious about the “why” behind anxiety, Neurodivergent Anxiety Science & Research offers an accessible, non-jargony overview of current models and findings.
What You Learn
🧠 How neurodivergent anxiety has been understood over time
🌱 Brain systems involved in threat detection, emotion, and regulation
📋 The role of hormones, neurotransmitters, and the stress response
🧩 Genetics, environment, and why anxiety often runs in families
📚 How to read research summaries and spot red flags in popular media
Each topic ends with a short “What this means for you” section so you are not left with only abstract theory. There is also space to note studies, authors, or concepts you might want to explore further when you have the energy.
This course stays clearly educational. It does not offer medical advice, treatment plans, or specific medication recommendations.
🤝 Supporting Someone With Neurodivergent Anxiety
Supporting Someone With Neurodivergent Anxiety is for partners, parents, friends, siblings, and colleagues. It explains anxiety from the outside in a calm, structured way, and helps supporters care for both the anxious person and themselves.
What Supporters Explore
🧠 What neurodivergent anxiety often feels like from the inside
🌱 How support looks different for partners, children, siblings, and friends
💬 Communication patterns that build trust instead of minimising or dismissing
📋 Practical support that actually helps with tasks, decisions, and emotions
🧩 Boundaries, compassion fatigue, and looking after your own needs
This course frequently links to Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics, Self-Care Basics, and Neurodivergent Burnout Prevention & Recovery so supporters do not feel they have to carry everything alone.
A gentle reflection for supporters visiting this page:
🌱 “What would change if I understood this person’s neurodivergent anxiety as a nervous system state rather than a personality flaw?”
❓ Which Neurodivergent Anxiety Courses for Adults Should I Take?
If you are unsure where to begin, these simple paths can help.
🧠 You are new to anxiety or still unsure what is happening.
Start with Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics.
🌱 You already know anxiety is a big part of your life and want to understand your story.
Start with Your Neurodivergent Anxiety: A Personal Deep Dive.
📋 You mainly want tools right now for everyday anxiety.
Start with General Neurodivergent Anxiety Coping Strategies.
🗣️ Social situations are the hardest part.
Choose Neurodivergent Social Anxiety Coping Strategies.
📚 You are a science nerd or a professional who wants a clearer overview.
Choose Neurodivergent Anxiety Science & Research.
🤝 You are here for someone you love or support.
Start with Supporting Someone With Neurodivergent Anxiety and explore Neurodivergent Anxiety Basics alongside it.
It is completely fine to move slowly, repeat lessons, or change direction. The courses are built to be revisited as your life shifts.
🎯 What You Can Expect From Every Anxiety Course
No matter which course you choose, some things stay consistent.
🧠 Short, focused lessons you can complete even on a high-anxiety or low-energy day
🌱 Language that respects neurodivergent experience and internal sensitivity
📋 Worksheets and exercises that are simple and flexible, not rigid
🧩 Reflection questions to help you notice patterns instead of judging yourself
🔗 Gentle suggestions to explore related courses like ADHD, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, and Burnout
You remain in control. You can pause, come back later, and choose how deep you want to go.
ℹ️ Important Notes and Support for Neurodivergent Anxiety Courses
These courses are:
🧠 Educational and skills-focused
🌱 Designed to sit alongside therapy, coaching, or medical care if you have it
📋 Not a substitute for professional assessment, diagnosis, or crisis support
If you are in immediate crisis or feel at risk of harming yourself, please contact local emergency services or a crisis helpline in your country. Course content can wait until you are safe.
Neurodivergent Anxiety Courses for Adults
📚 Neurodivergent Anxiety Research Reference Library
Scientific studies on anxiety in ADHD, autism and AuDHD
🧬 Prevalence and Comorbidity of Anxiety in Neurodivergent People
Zaboski, B. A., & Storch, E. A. (2018).
Comorbid autism spectrum disorder and anxiety disorders: A brief review
Review showing around 40 percent of autistic children meet criteria for an anxiety disorder and highlighting the clinical challenges this creates.
Thiele‑Swift, H. N., et al. (2024).
Anxiety Prevalence in Youth with Autism: A Systematic Review and Meta‑Analysis
Meta‑analysis indicating roughly one in three autistic youth have clinically elevated anxiety, and one in five meet criteria for a formal anxiety disorder.
Leachman, C., et al. (2024).
Anxiety in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Risk factors and associated features
Examines which traits and family or emotional factors are linked to higher anxiety levels in autistic youth.
Sciberras, E., et al. (2014).
Anxiety in Children With Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Finds that up to half of children with ADHD also have an anxiety disorder and explores how this affects functioning and treatment.
Gümüş, Y. Y., et al. (2015).
Anxiety Disorders Comorbidity in Children and Adolescents with ADHD
Reports high rates of anxiety comorbidity in clinical ADHD samples and emphasises the need to screen for anxiety symptoms.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2024).
Data and Statistics on ADHD
National US survey data showing that about 4 in 10 children with ADHD also have an anxiety diagnosis.
🧠 Intolerance of Uncertainty, Restricted Patterns and Anxiety
Jenkinson, R., et al. (2020).
The relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and anxiety in autistic adults
Shows that intolerance of uncertainty strongly mediates the link between autistic traits and anxiety symptoms in adults.
Vasa, R. A., et al. (2018).
Relationships between autism spectrum disorder, anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty
Demonstrates that higher intolerance of uncertainty is related to both greater anxiety and more emotion dysregulation in autistic youth.
Goodwin, C. D., et al. (2019).
Uncertainty Processing in Autism
Overview chapter linking intolerance of uncertainty, insistence on sameness and anxiety in autism.
Normansell‑Mossa, K. M., et al. (2021).
Sensory Sensitivity and Intolerance of Uncertainty in Autistic Adults
Suggests that sensory sensitivity and intolerance of uncertainty together help explain high anxiety rates in autistic adults.
Shi, H., et al. (2024).
Autistic traits linked to anxiety and dichotomous thinking
Finds that intolerance of uncertainty and black‑and‑white thinking partly mediate the relationship between autistic traits and anxiety. Nature+1
Brosnan, M., et al. (2025).
Intolerance of Uncertainty Mediates the Relationship Between Autistic Traits and Anxiety
Brief report confirming that intolerance of uncertainty is a key pathway from autistic traits to anxiety in youth.
🎧 Sensory Over‑Responsivity, Arousal and Anxiety
Carpenter, K. L. H., et al. (2019).
Sensory Over‑Responsivity: An Early Risk Factor for Anxiety and ADHD
Longitudinal study suggesting that early sensory over‑responsivity predicts later anxiety symptoms.
Lane, S. J., Reynolds, S., & Dumenci, L. (2012).
Sensory Overresponsivity and Anxiety in Typically Developing Children and Children with Autism and ADHD
Shows strong links between sensory over‑responsivity and anxiety across autistic, ADHD and non‑clinical children.
Huang, Z., et al. (2024).
Relationships between Sensory Processing and Executive Functions in Children with Combined ASD and ADHD
Finds heightened sensory over‑responsivity and more severe emotional and self‑evaluative difficulties in ASD+ADHD, which relate to anxiety.
American Psychiatric Association (2021).
Autism, Anxiety and Sensory Challenges
Clinical overview summarising data that many autistic children with anxiety also have significant sensory over‑responsivity.
🌊 Emotion Regulation, Executive Function and Anxiety
Conner, C. M., et al. (2023).
Emotion Regulation and Executive Function: Associations With Anxiety and Depression in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Shows that poorer emotion regulation is strongly associated with higher anxiety and depression in autistic youth, even after accounting for autism traits.
Restoy, D., et al. (2024).
Emotion regulation and emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder
Meta‑analytic review showing that autistic children have higher emotion dysregulation, which is closely tied to anxiety and behaviour problems.
Cai, R. Y., et al. (2024).
Emotion regulation in neurodevelopmental disorders
Editorial summarising recent work on emotion regulation across autism and ADHD and highlighting anxiety as a key transdiagnostic outcome.
Pavlopoulou, G., et al. (2025).
Situating emotion regulation in autism and ADHD through young people’s lived experience
Qualitative study of autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adolescents describing what triggers “upset” and what helps them regulate emotions and anxiety.
🧭 Clinical Complexity, Risk Factors and Treatment
Dellapiazza, F., et al. (2022).
Early risk factors for anxiety disorders in children with autism spectrum disorder
Identifies early sensory over‑responsivity, insistence on sameness and emotional problems as risk factors for later anxiety in autistic children.
Menezes, M., et al. (2022).
Treatment of anxiety in autistic adults: A systematic review
Systematic review of psychological and pharmacological treatments for anxiety in autistic adults, highlighting evidence gaps and adaptations needed.
Friesen, K., et al. (2021).
The Diagnosis and Management of Anxiety in Adolescents With ADHD
Clinical review on recognising and treating anxiety in adolescents with ADHD, including medication and psychotherapy considerations.
Murray, A. L., et al. (2025).
A Narrative Review to Identify Promising Approaches for Digital Emotion Regulation Interventions for Adolescents With ADHD
Reviews digital tools for emotion regulation in adolescents with ADHD, many of which target anxiety and stress responses. exclusive resources.Email