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Membership — Ongoing connection, education and community with the lowest financial commitment.
Support Groups — Smaller groups for deeper connection and focused topics.
Private Sessions — Individualized support with limited availability.
HerTism Membership
Join an ongoing community created for autistic women who want to understand themselves more deeply and connect with women who truly understand. Each month includes two live virtual Monday gatherings from 7–8 p.m EST, and two members-only HerTism Notes (emails), giving you four meaningful opportunities to learn and connect. Together, we explore a shared theme through science, the arts, spirituality, and an accessible book study with no required reading.
Support Groups
Small, professionally facilitated peer groups for autistic women seeking connection, conversation and a deeper understanding of their experiences.
Maximum of 6 women
Weekly guided discussion
Education + shared experience
Thoughtfully selected therapeutic strategies
Facilitated by an autistic professional with decades of experience
Different seasonal themes
Meetings are never recorded for privacy unless otherwise mentioned.
Educational and emotional support, not group therapy
Explore Seasonal Support Groups
A small, live online support group for autistic women who want space to better understand their autism, recognize patterns in their everyday lives, and explore what support can look like beyond simply learning to cope.
Across eight weeks, we'll explore autism through a female lens, including masking and adaptation, sensory needs, burnout and capacity, communication, relationships, identity, self-advocacy, and practical ways to create a life that works more naturally with your neurotype.
This is a small group limited to six participants, allowing room for conversation, questions, reflection, and connection. You are welcome to participate actively or simply listen when you need to. A formal autism diagnosis is not required.
We'll explore:
How autism may appear in your everyday life
Masking, adaptation, and the ways we learn to navigate expectations
Sensory needs, overwhelm, burnout, and recovery
Communication and relationships
Identity and self-understanding
Boundaries, self-advocacy, and asking for what you need
Practical supports that work with your individual needs
Cohort 1: September 9 – October 28, 2026
Wednesdays: 12:00–1:30 PM ET
Location: Live on Zoom
Group size: Maximum 6 participants
Investment: $360 for the 8-week cohort ($45 per session)
Registration closes: September 6
The holidays can intensify sensory demands, disrupted routines, family expectations, social pressure, complicated relationships, and the need for recovery.
This small, live online support group explores the holiday season through an autistic lens, with space to understand your needs, anticipate difficult situations, establish boundaries, and find practical ways to navigate the season.
Rather than focusing simply on how to “get through” the holidays, we'll look at what makes this time of year uniquely demanding and what you may be able to change, decline, prepare for, or recover from.
We'll explore:
Sensory demands, overstimulation, and disrupted routines
Family dynamics and social expectations
Boundaries around gatherings, traditions, and obligations
Masking and social fatigue
Communication and asking for what you need
Food, travel, gifts, schedules, and other holiday stressors
Loneliness, grief, and complicated emotions
Regulation, recovery, and creating traditions that work for you
Cohort: November 4 – December 23, 2026
Wednesdays: 12:00–1:30 PM ET
Location: Live on Zoom
Group size: Maximum 6 participants
Investment: $360 for the 8-week cohort ($45 per session)
Meeting dates:
November 4, 11, 18 & 25
December 2, 9, 16 & 23
A formal autism diagnosis is not required. Registration is for the complete eight-week cohort rather than individual sessions.
Relationships can be deeply meaningful and also complicated by differences in communication, sensory needs, expectations, emotional processing, boundaries, and the ways we've learned to adapt to other people.
This small, live online support group explores love and relationships through an autistic female lens, including romantic relationships, friendships, family relationships, and our relationship with ourselves.
We'll look at the patterns that can emerge when connection, masking, communication, attachment, sensory needs, and expectations intersect, with room to understand your own experiences and identify what healthier, more sustainable relationships can look like for you.
We'll explore:
Communication differences and misunderstandings
Masking and adaptation within relationships
Friendship, intimacy, dating, and partnership
Family relationships and expectations
Boundaries and recognizing your own needs
People-pleasing and over-accommodating
Conflict, repair, and difficult conversations
Connection without losing yourself
Cohort: January 6 – February 24, 2027
Wednesdays: 12:00–1:30 PM ET
Location: Live on Zoom
Group size: Maximum 6 participants
Investment: $360 for the 8-week cohort ($45 per session)
Meeting dates:
January 6, 13, 20 & 27
February 3, 10, 17 & 24
A formal autism diagnosis is not required. Registration is for the complete eight-week cohort rather than individual sessions.
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HerTism support groups provide peer connection, education, facilitated discussion, and emotional enrichment. Although therapeutic concepts and strategies may be included, participation does not constitute psychotherapy, counseling, diagnosis, medical treatment, or crisis care, and it does not establish a therapist-client relationship. To protect the intimacy of the group, meetings are not recorded. Participants are expected to respect one another’s privacy and keep personal information shared within the group confidential. Because this is a peer setting, HerTism cannot guarantee the actions of individual participants outside the group. Registration reserves one of a limited number of spaces for the complete group series. Your payment secures that space, regardless of attendance, and is not limited to the sessions you attend. For this reason, registration fees are nonrefundable and cannot be credited or transferred if you miss a meeting or withdraw after enrolling. If HerTism cancels a session or program, an appropriate rescheduling, credit, or refund will be provided.These groups are intended for participants who can safely engage in a peer-based educational setting. Anyone needing individualized immediate crisis support should contact an appropriate emergency service.