Shealyn Clinger
Shealyn Clinger, MA, MSW, LCSW — founder and licensed clinical social worker of Cerebral Counseling & Consulting, a Virginia neurodiversity-affirming telehealth practice; also Data Manager II at the Center for Deployment Psychology (Henry M. Jackson Foundation).
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Aug 24, 2026
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So what is your experience with this? Or what have you seen in terms of how trauma might be experienced, perhaps mostly the same, but slightly differently by folks with diverse backgrounds?
Shealyn ClingerGUEST
So one of the things I did was I went ahead and got a certificate in treating trauma.
Shealyn ClingerGUEST
And I think one of the most important things to think about is that neurodiversity deals with the development of our brain and trauma deals with how we process things.
Shealyn ClingerGUEST
So, you know, neurodiversity is how information comes into our brain, where trauma is how we interpret safety and danger.
