Neuro-complexity Group
6 Weeks | $425
October 7 - November 18, 2026
Min 5 / max 12 participants
A guided group for neurodivergent adults (whether you have a diagnosis, self-identify, or are curious and exploring) for self-understanding, nervous system tending, and living more ease-fully inside your own complex wiring.
Curious about your own neurodivergence?
Maybe you are newly diagnosed, or maybe you self-identify.
Maybe you have been wondering for a while if Autism, ADHD, giftedness, sensory sensitivity, complex trauma, or some tender and brilliant combination of all of these might help explain your life.
Maybe you are looking for a kinder, clearer, more supportive way to understand yourself.
This group is structured a space to begin mapping your neurocomplexity with warmth and care.
During our time together, you’ll get to explore how you are wired not as a problem to solve, a personality flaw to fix (or to find more reasons to work harder at “adulting”), but instead, as a way of honoring the intelligence and sophistication of your system, the truth of your needs, the honesty of your limitations, the patterns that helped you survive, and the parts of you that are ready for more joy, connection, and self-trust.
Wondering about what ‘neurocomplexity’ means? More on that at the bottom of the page, or click here to jump right there.
This group is for you if...
You’ve been trying to understand your experience through pieces like Autism, ADHD, giftedness, high sensitivity, sensory overwhelm, masking, burnout, relational intensity, or complex trauma.
You want a space that is neuro-affirming, trauma-informed, non-pathologizing, and practical.
You want language for things you may have felt your whole life but never quite known how to name.
You want support understanding your nervous system, your sensory needs, your social patterns, your capacity, your boundaries, and your brilliance.
You want to connect with other thoughtful, tender, intense, creative, sensitive, deep-feeling humans in a way that is gently structured and not socially overwhelming.
You want to stop organizing your life around self-judgment and begin building a life around honest support.
Whether you are formally diagnosed, self-identified, newly exploring, or simply curious, you are welcome here.
What we’ll do together
Each week will include a brief teaching, guided reflection, and gently structured connection with other participants.
You will not be asked to perform, disclose more than you want to share, or push past your capacity. The group is designed with consent, pacing, accessibility, and nervous system care in mind.
Over six weeks, you will begin creating a working map of your own neurocomplexity - one that includes your sensory system, social patterns, masking, burnout, relational needs, strengths, protective strategies, and the supports that help you feel more like yourself.
By the end of the group, you will have more language for your lived experience, more clarity around your needs, and practical tools to carry with you long after our time together ends.
Join us October 7 - November 18, 2026
We will meet October 7, 14 & 21, have a week off, then continue November 4, 11 & 18.
$425
What we’ll be covering
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We’ll begin by creating a clear and caring container for our six weeks together. We’ll explore what relational safety can mean for neurocomplex people, how consent supports nervous system ease, and why language matters so much when we are trying to understand ourselves without shame.
You’ll begin noticing what helps you feel safe enough to participate, connect, pause, listen, share, and stay connected to yourself in a group space.
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It can be useful to see the way you are wired as a living constellation rather than as one single thing.
This week, we’ll begin mapping the intersections of Autism, ADHD, giftedness, sensory sensitivity, trauma adaptations, masking, attachment patterns, and other meaningful parts of your lived experience.
The goal is not to over-identify with labels. The goal is to create a compassionate map that helps you understand what has been happening inside of you. Once you have that knowledge, it’s easier to see what kind of support might fit best.
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Sensory experience is foundational.
This week, we’ll explore sensory needs as nervous system architecture. We’ll look at sensory overwhelm, sensory seeking, shutdown, depletion, environmental stress, and the quiet cost of trying to tolerate what your body has never truly experienced as tolerable.
You’ll begin identifying practical ways to reduce strain, create more sensory support, and design your days with more honesty and care.
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Connection can be deeply nourishing. It can also be exhausting, confusing, beautiful, effortful, and tender.
This week, we’ll explore masking, social fatigue, communication patterns, relational pacing, boundaries, belonging, and the grief of having had to hide or translate yourself for so long.
We’ll make space for both the brilliance and the cost of the ways you have learned to connect.
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Many neurocomplex people have spent years trying to become more acceptable, more productive, less sensitive, less intense, less “too much,” or more impressive in order to feel safe.
This week, we’ll explore the internalized messages that keep you performing, overriding, apologizing, collapsing, or pushing past capacity.
We’ll begin separating identity from performance and building self-support systems rooted in care instead of self-judgment.
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In our final week, we’ll gather what you’ve learned and begin shaping it into an integrated framework you can keep using.
We’ll explore what it means to trust your own system, honor your needs, communicate with more clarity, and move forward with more steadiness, autonomy, and self-belonging.
You’ll leave with a practical and compassionate sense of what supports you now and what may be ready to change.
This is not about fixing you:
there is nothing to fix
The intention of this group is to support you understanding yourself with enough tenderness and accuracy that your life can begin to fit you better.
To make room for your sensitivity, intensity, intelligence, creativity, exhaustion, longing, grief, brilliance, and needs.
It is about finding language that gives you back to yourself.
It is about being in a space where you do not have to make yourself smaller, easier, more linear, more cheerful, or less complex in order to belong.
If this sounds like the kind of support your system has been longing for, we would love to have you join us.
Got questions before you Join?
Questions are always very welcome!
If there is anything you would like to know before joining, please fill out the form and Shelby’s assistant, Ellen, will get back to you within 2 business days.
Why we say both ‘neurodivergence’ and ‘neurocomplexity’
(and what we mean when we say neurocomplexity)
You’ll see us use both words here.
Neurodivergence is the more familiar umbrella term, and it includes Autism, ADHD, AuDHD, dyslexia, giftedness, and many other ways our brains and nervous systems can diverge from what dominant culture expects.
At Method, we often use the word neurocomplexity because it helps us hold the many layered realities of being a person whose brain, body, sensory system, relational patterns, and nervous system do not always fit neatly inside one label.
For many of us, there is complexity in the intersections: Autism and ADHD. Giftedness and sensory sensitivity. Complex trauma and masking. Intensity, creativity, burnout, brilliance, grief, adaptation, and longing.
There is so much information out there about neurodivergence. Some of it can feel liberating, or confusing, and some of it is still painfully shaming and invalidating. It can be hard to know what applies to you, what does not, and how to translate all of that information into an actual life that feels more livable.
That’s where the lens of neurocomplexity can be useful - it gives us a wider, more compassionate map. It’s a term that helps us de-stigmatize and de-pathologize the beautiful, challenging, tender, and deeply intelligent ways our systems have learned to move through a world that was not always built with us in mind.
Neurocomplexity has six domains (common to all humans):
Sensory: How we process and regulate sensory input from the environment and our own bodies.
Cognitive: The ways we think, learn, and problem-solve - often in non-linear and intense patterns.
Somatic: Our bodily awareness and regulation, including stress responses and physical sensations.
Intuitive: Deep sensing of emotional and relational meaning, guiding survival and connection.
Creative: The expression of imagination and innovation, often a source of resilience and identity.
Attentional: Regulation of focus, motivation, and engagement - challenging conventional views of attention.
Neurocomplexity acknowledges that our complexity changes, as it is made to, throughout our life. Through this lens, instead of pathologizing ourselves and asking, “What is wrong with me?” we might instead start asking:
What has my nervous system been carrying?
What has my sensitivity been trying to tell me?
What helps me feel safe enough to be myself?
What drains me, even when I can technically do it?
What supports my capacity, my clarity, my relationships, and my sense of belonging?
What becomes possible when I stop treating my needs as too much?
This group is here to offer some structure and guidance, and help you explore these questions with care.
If this sounds good to you, we’d love to have you join us.
Who is Shelby Leigh?
Shelby Leigh, she/her, is a neurocomplex Somatic Psychotherapist, assessor, coach, educator, meditation teacher, and Licensed Professional Counselor in Montana, Oregon, and California.
With over 20 years of experience, Shelby’s work is neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, relational, body-based, and deeply non-pathologizing. Her approach weaves nervous system support, somatic practices, attachment theory, trauma-informed mindfulness, and a fierce belief that nothing and no one is a problem.
Working with Shelby often involves tears, awkward laughter, deep-hearted connection, unexpected clarity, and hope.
She supports neurocomplex adults in understanding their wiring, tending their nervous systems, honoring their needs, and creating lives with more ease, honesty, connection, and self-trust.
When not working, you might find her driving down a dirt road, soaking in beautiful landscapes, wandering through the woods with her dogs, rafting, riding horses, stargazing from a midnight canoe, flying somewhere tropical, writing half-finished memoirs, taking long naps, chasing sunsets, and asking herself, “What is the MOST loving thing I can do in this moment?”