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A 2027 live course series based on The Neurodivergent & LGBTQ+ Sex Playbook

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Welcome To The NSP Guild!

Standard sex advice rarely works for neurodivergent brains, hearts, or bodies. Whether it's sensory overload, unwritten social rules, or rigid expectations, traditional intimacy guides often miss the mark.

The NSP Guild is designed specifically for neurodivergent adults. Whether you are straight, vanilla, and monogamous, or LGBTQIA+, queer, kinky, or polyamorous, this is a safe, non-judgmental space built to help you understand and explore intimacy on your terms.

Five standalone seven-week live coaching courses based on The Neurodivergent & LGBTQ+ Sex Playbook. Unpack your desires, honor your sensory world, and re-author your intimate life, one chapter at a time. 

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Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

Standard advice about intimacy, dating, and relationships is written by neurotypical people, for neurotypical people. If you have an autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or otherwise neurodivergent brain, trying to follow traditional sex advice often feels like trying to run software on the wrong operating system.

You might find yourself experiencing:

  • Sensory Overload & Shutdown: Specific textures, lights, sounds, or unpredictable touch turn intimacy from a source of pleasure into a sensory overwhelming chore.

  • The "Unwritten Rules" Exhaustion: Feeling confused, anxious, or burnt out by the hidden social scripts and expectations around flirting, dating, and physical intimacy.

  • Masking in the Bedroom: Pretending to enjoy things you don't, hiding your true preferences, or suppressing your need for predictability just to keep a partner comfortable.

  • Desire & Executive Dysfunction Clashes: Struggling with initiation, focus during sex, shifting gears from "work mode" to "sensory mode," or feeling like your libido is completely unpredictable.

  • Identity & Label Confusion: Feeling unsure of where you fit—whether you are straight, queer, kinky, vanilla, monogamous, or polyamorous—because mainstream labels don't capture your neurodivergent experience. 

    The truth is: There is nothing wrong with your sexuality. Your brain simply processes sensory input, communication, and connection differently—and your intimate life should reflect that . 

     

Who The NSP Guild Is For

The NSP Guild was created specifically to give neurodivergent adults a safe, structured, and validating space to re-examine intimacy on their own terms . 

This space is built for you if:

  • You are an autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or neurodivergent adult . 

  • You represent any relationship style or orientation: Whether you are straight, vanilla, and monogamous, or LGBTQIA+, queer, kinky, or polyamorous . 

  • You want a practical, evidence-informed framework to understand your body, brain, and desires without being told to "just relax" or "be spontaneous."

  • You are tired of self-help courses with hours of video homework and prefer structured, live, human connection . 

How It Works

Each 7-week module follows a sustainable, neuro-inclusive rhythm:

  • Weekly PDF handouts, delivered every Friday so you can absorb the material at your own pace.

  • 60-Minute Wednesday group calls, with breakout pair/small grou activities, and guided group debriefs.

  • Built-in Integration & Rest Week: Week 4 has no live calls, giving your nervous system room to process and reset (with an optional drop-in space).

  • Zero pre-reading or video pressure: No endless pre-recorded modules to watch, just real human connection and practical tools.

Sensory Me

Sensory Me helps you map your sensory world so intimacy can become more understandable, negotiable and supportive.

Inside this course, we explore:

  • Meeting My Sensory Self

  • Exploring My 10 Senses

  • Clarifying My Sensory Sensitivities

  • Sensory Processing Management Style

  • My Unique Sensory Profile

  • Final Integration & Playbook Synthesis

Runs 26 May 2027 to 7 July 2027.

Rest week: 16 June 2027.

2027 course dates

Me & Sex So Far
13 January 2027 to 24 February 2027
Rest week: 3 February 2027

Sexual Attraction & Me
24 March 2027 to 5 May 2027
Rest week: 14 April 2027

Sensory Me
26 May 2027 to 7 July 2027
Rest week: 16 June 2027

Sexual Me
1 September 2027 to 13 October 2027
Rest week: 22 September 2027

Decoded Me
3 November 2027 to 15 December 2027
Rest week: 24 November 2027

September 2027 - August 2028

Sexual Me

Explore arousal, pleasure, orgasm and the question of how you actually want sex to feel.

Inside this course:

  • Mapping My Arousal Pattern

  • Exploring Fear-Excitement & Pain-Pleasure

  • Unpacking Orgasms

  • How Do I Want Sex To Feel?

  • My Pleasure Recipe

  • Final Integration & Playbook Synthesis

Runs 1 September 2027 to 13 October 2027.

Rest week: 22 September 2027.

Decoded Me

Bring the work back into your body through self-soothing, consent, autonomy, pleasure and mindful solo practice.

Inside this course:

1. Non-dominant Hand Activities

2. Self-Soothing Suggestions

3. Consent & Body-Based Autonomy

4. Orienting to Pleasure

5. Mindful Masturbation, solo homework

6. Final Integration & Year-End Closing

Runs 3 November 2027 to 15 December 2027.

Rest week: 24 November 2027.

Small cohorts for deeper work

Group experience

Each cohort is capped at 8 participants.

That limit matters. It gives the group more room for meaningful discussion, quieter processing, thoughtful questions, and safer pair or breakout work.

The NSP Guild is not about pushing through discomfort or performing openness.

Safety, consent and pace

It is designed around choice, consent, rest and integration.

You will be invited to reflect, participate and experiment at a pace that respects your nervous system and your boundaries.

This is steady, supported work rather than pressure to perform.

Hand Me My Spade!

Course pricing

Each seven-week course is priced separately.

Standard ticket
€595

Early bird or returning participant ticket
€495

Scholarship place
€145

One scholarship place is available per cohort.

If you are unsure which place is right for you, you can enquire before booking.

Image of Tiga-Rose Nercessian (she/her), a Sex & Relationship psychotherapist specializing in erotically marginalized people, including those who are neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, kinky, queer, and non-monogamous.

Meet The Head Gardener 

I'm Tiga-Rose Nercessian (she/her). I’m an accredited Sex and Relationship Psychotherapist. I’m also a specialist trainer and academic researcher. I have been working in this field since 2015.

Personally, I am a queer, multi-neurodivergent, multi-ethnic synaesthete. These aspects of who I am form and inform me and my practice.

My work is trauma-informed and neurodivergent-affirming, ensuring you feel heard, held, and safe as we explore together.

I'm an RHS lifetime member and an avid gardener, with a penchant for hellebores.

Join the 2027 NSP Guild

Choose the course that fits where you are now, or enquire about joining more than one module across the year.

Places are limited to 8 participants per cohort.

Enquire about a place

Share which course or combination of courses you are interested in, and we will be in touch.

Standard ticket

€595

Per seven-week course

 

Standard ticket for one standalone course.

Early bird / returning participant

€495

Reduced course ticket

 

Early bird or returning participant ticket (after Course 1).

Scholarship place: €145

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