Support for Autistic Individuals & Their Families
In Person and Virtual Sessions Available
For Autistic Individuals:
Kara Nash provides a safe, affirming space to:
Explore and understand your neurotype without judgment or pressure to “mask”
Build self-advocacy skills and confidence in navigating systems (like school, healthcare, or employment)
Identify accommodations that actually work for you in daily life
Process challenges like burnout, sensory overload, or relationship difficulties—with someone who gets it
For Caregivers and Parents:
I can help you:
Understand autism through a strengths-based, neurodiversity-affirming lens
Communicate more effectively and compassionately with your child or loved one
Identify supports that reduce distress and increase connection
Navigate complex systems like IEPs, healthcare access, and behavioral plans—with clarity and confidence
Access and learn about support resources for you and your person
I don’t offer cookie-cutter advice—I offer individualized, realistic support rooted in clinical expertise and lived experience. My goal is always the same: to promote understanding, reduce overwhelm, and help every autistic person feel seen, respected, and supported.
Whether you’re navigating a new diagnosis, supporting a loved one, or building more inclusive systems,
I offer practical, judgment-free guidance tailored to your needs.
Autism And Neurodivergent Care Navigation
Practical, autism-informed consultation for individuals (12 and up), families, and caregivers seeking clearer next steps, better support systems, and real-world strategies.
Areas of support include:
New or late-diagnosis integration
Understanding what the diagnosis explains, what it does not, and how to translate that information into daily life, relationships, work, school, and self-advocacy.
Sensory and nervous-system support planning
Identifying sensory, environmental, and regulation needs and creating practical strategies that reduce overload.
Executive functioning and daily-life systems
Support with initiation, transitions, planning, follow-through, task completion, burnout prevention, and realistic daily structure.
Communication and relationship support
Helping individuals and families understand autistic communication patterns, reduce misinterpretation, and create clearer expectations.
School, work, healthcare, and life accommodations
Clarifying support needs and translating them into practical accommodations for school, employment, healthcare, home life, and community settings.
RN care navigation, resource mapping, and case management
Helping individuals and families understand evaluations, diagnoses, services, providers, paperwork, referrals, and next steps.
Rates:
$120/hour for individual consultation
$150/hour for family consultation sessions
Sliding scale available upon request.
RN Health Navigation & Support Planning
Please note: All recommendations are individualized and evidence based. Consults are not advice for treatment, but rather options to discuss with your care team and/or articles to share with them.
Psychiatric medication education — understand your options, side effects, and how to communicate clearly with prescribers
Evaluation interpretation — make sense of psychological or psychiatric assessments, diagnoses, recommendations, and next steps
Support for co-occurring conditions — such as anxiety, ADHD, OCD, trauma, dysautonomia, sleep issues, or medication sensitivity
Gender-affirming medical and surgical support planning — practical preparation for appointments, documentation, recovery needs, sensory considerations, aftercare instructions, medication questions, and post-op support
Supplement consultation — personalized guidance on vitamins, minerals, or herbal support
Safety checks — reviewing current supplement and medication regimens for possible interactions, duplication, side effects, or gaps in care
Real-world recommendations — evidence-informed, neurodivergent-friendly, and practically doable
Integration — supporting alignment between supplements, medications, lifestyle, recovery needs, accommodations, and care plans
Rate: $120/hour
Follow-up summaries, supplement plans, care coordination notes, or advocacy letters are available for an additional fee.
Assessment Translation & Support Planning
Evaluation Translation & Practical Planning
For individuals, parents, or families who have a recent psychological, psychiatric, psychoeducational, autism, ADHD, or learning-disability evaluation and need help understanding what it actually means.
Includes:
Plain-language walkthrough of results
A clear explanation of the report, diagnoses, scores, terminology, and recommendations.
Real-life interpretation
Clarifying what the results may mean for school, work, relationships, executive functioning, sensory needs, communication, burnout, or daily life.
Practical next steps
Identifying what supports, accommodations, referrals, or care-plan changes may be useful.
Integration planning
Turning the evaluation into a realistic plan that can be used with providers, schools, workplaces, or family members.
Rate: $85/hour
PDF summary available for $50.
Professional Training, Speaking & Systems Consultation
Topics include:
Autism across the lifespan
Understanding autistic development, support needs, masking, burnout, and changing needs over time.
Medical issues commonly seen in autism
Recognizing patterns such as sleep disruption, gastrointestinal concerns, dysautonomia, pain, medication sensitivity, anxiety, ADHD, OCD, and other co-occurring conditions.
Creating autism-inclusive classrooms
Practical strategies for sensory access, communication differences, regulation needs, transitions, behavior interpretation, and reducing avoidable distress.
Autism and barriers to care
How healthcare, education, and mental health systems often fail autistic people — and what can be changed.
When neurotypical-designed therapy causes harm
Understanding how standard therapeutic expectations can misread autistic communication, increase shame, or worsen nervous-system overload.
Problematic screen use, gaming, and digital dependence in autism
Understanding screen reliance through the lens of nervous-system regulation, social access, executive functioning, monotropism, anxiety, dopamine-seeking, and environmental mismatch.
Inclusive system design
Helping organizations examine policies, environments, communication norms, and service models through a neurodivergent-access lens.
Provider coaching and case consultation
Support for professionals working with autistic clients, students, patients, or families who need more individualized, nervous-system-informed planning.
Sliding scale options are available for local and/or virtual presentations for nonprofits, public schools, and community organizations.
Past Collaborators Include:
The Autism Society of NC, Lenoir-Rhyne University, AHOPE, Mountain City Public Montessori, The Southeastern Autism Conference, NC TEACCH, Buncombe County Fire and Rescue, St Gerard House, Keystone Camp, Carolina Day School, and more.
I do not prescribe medication, provide therapy, or offer medical diagnoses.
Nurse care management is not covered by insurance. ESA+ covers sessions at 100%. Sliding scale available.
You will be charged a $50 fee for sessions not canceled at least 24 hours ahead of time, barring sudden illness.