• Setting up a program or growth-oriented course of action – with specific emphasis on Unleashing the Social Brain, which (along with the ACT protocol) comprises the centerpiece of Kate and Raun’s work.
• Maintaining a program or growth-oriented course of action as above
• Fostering language development
• Developing conversation skills
• Powerfully enhancing or repairing your relationship with your child/adult
• Overcoming long-standing behavioral and other issues that your loved one struggles with
• Enabling your child/adult to feel safe and thus be able to reach out and increase engagement
• Teaching self-help skills that will serve your loved one now and in the future

You will get a personalized package of (50 minutes each) of undivided attention, focused time, and concrete help overcoming challenges, obstacles, and difficulties that you’re facing.

Also included:

• Texting between sessions as questions or challenges come up
• Free entry into Raun K. Kaufman and Kate C. Wilde’s ACT (Autism Crisis Turnaround) live rescue course (via Zoom), which focuses on how to implement the ACT protocol for meltdowns, anxiety, and extreme/explosive behaviors (regularly $495 per individual and $595 per couple)
• Free access to the online go-at-your-own-pace Autism Crisis Lifeline instant mini-course, which provides some initial ACT protocol strategies
• Free access to any live online mini-workshops that may be on offer during the time period of your package.

• A place where they can express themselves fully and be listened to without judgment or criticism.
• A venue to explore things (events, feelings, recurring thoughts, ongoing issues, shyness, anxiety) that are bothering them.
• A chance to work through and problem-solve challenges that they are trying to figure out for themselves.
• A rare opportunity to talk with someone who has been where they are and overcome what they may be struggling with.
• A mentor that can be a model for how to hold difficult conversations, ask people to be different, show caring, stick up for yourself without being hostile, and handle it when things don’t go your way.
• Taxi Driver Decisional Assistance: A unique approach to addressing potentially problematic thoughts, desires, and decisions that a teen might make (i.e. “I want to beat up my teacher,” “I’m going to tell that girl she’s sexy,” “I’m not listening to anything my parents say anymore.”) that enables a different way for them to think about these decisions without pushing, contradicting, threatening, scolding, or debating them. This approach enables them to think through the social and other consequences of potential decisions, extreme responses, magical thinking, belligerence, etc. using a conflict-free analogy and discussion style where Raun is their “taxi driver” just trying to help them take the best route to their desired destination – and alerting them to roadblocks and obstacles on various routes. This allows for much better decision-making while not giving them anything to push against or rebel against.

Over the course of six consultations (50 minutes each) with either Kate or Raun, you will have the chance to get deep, personalized help with the issues most affecting your life and your mental and emotional well-being (stress, Neuro-Crashes, relationship difficulties, chronic tightness, work conflicts, reacting in ways you don't like and can't understand, feeling disconnected, low self-esteem, purposelessness, anxiety about the state of your life or the world, etc.) together with tools and strategies to take you in a new direction.

You will be asked insightful and thought-provoking questions and given suggested actions to take and perspective shifts to digest and try out - all in a very supportive and open-hearted way.

If you want individual attention, a 100% customized approach, and a powerful focus on putting the Rise Above concepts into action in your life and your brain (so you can rise above), this is the package for you.

Every couple – every single one – goes through a crisis at one time or another. But not every couple gets help when they need it most. If you and your loved one are going through a difficult time, this is the package for you.

Raun has been working with couples in crisis for decades. He knows what he’s doing. Use his experience and insight for your own benefit.

Raun will spend 4 weekly sessions (90 minutes each) with you and your partner, working to help you overcome whatever challenge you’re facing right now.

 
If you are in a couple, you know that relationships are complicated affairs that involve our deepest emotions and touch upon the most core aspects of our self-image. This kind of intimate connection does not sustain itself by magic. Nor by sincerely wishing for it.

It takes a combination of actual attention and focused help. If you provide the attention, Raun will provide the help – in a way that is non-judgmental, fun, practical, and uniquely insightful.

This is a great package for those couples who are not in any kind of severe crisis but feel that it’s important and useful to periodically attend to the relationship by talking things through, dealing with issues that come up, and enhancing the love, caring, and communication that already exists.

This package consists of a 30-minute pre-session debrief the week before the main session (where Raun asks you both a series of questions to get a clear breakdown of where you two are as a couple and then collaborate with you to discern what would make the most sense to focus on) and a 90-minute in-depth couples session. More sessions (for instance, one per month) can be added onto this package.