Neuro-Queer Recovery Club

Healing in community from the impact of

generational family trauma and emotional outsourcing

The Neuro-Queer Recovery Club is a place to find relief and recovery from addictions of all kinds, with particular emphasis on emotional sobriety, compulsive emotional outsourcing, and the impacts of generational family trauma.

NQRC centers the queer and neurodivergent experience, though the community is open to adults of all backgrounds and identities with the only expectation being deep allyship and reciprocal kindness.

NQRC is a formal group psychotherapy offering, created and facilitated by a licensed clinical social worker. While distinct from peer support recovery spaces, NQRC is offered in collaborative kinship with both local and global peer support programs, providing a formal therapeutic element that can be utilized in conjunction with peer support meetings, traditional stepwork, and individual therapy.

NQRC sessions are a fusion of (queered and secularized) twelve step wisdom - in particular from Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families and Codependents Anonymous - Recovery Dharma, and Internal Family Systems therapy. The space is also influenced by the work of Parker Palmer from the Center for Courage and Renewal.

Neuro-Queer Recovery Club is an evolving space, founded by JK, but co-created by all participants. The guiding documents are in constant evolution, adapting and changing as the collective group wisdom grows and unfolds.

NQRC Guidebook

  • About & Acknowledgements

  • The Neuro-Queered Steps

  • The Neuro-Queered Promises

  • Definitions & Reflections

  • Group Guidelines

A Space To

  • Process and gain understanding about the impact of generational family trauma and patterns of codependency

  • Engage in structured recovery work that integrates wisdom from 12 Step programs (ACA and CODA), Recovery Dharma, and IFS (Internal Family Systems Therapy) in a group therapy format that’s specifically geared towards neurodivergence and the queer experience

  • Connect with a group of folkx committed to the recovery process

Is this space for me?

“Am I gay enough?… Autistic enough?… {fill in the blank} enough?”

Here at Interwoven, we believe the table is big enough for everyone and that we all thrive more when welcome is centered and diversity is honored and celebrated. While some of the cohorts have an affinity focus, YOU, and only you, get to determine who you are and what spaces you want to be a part of! And though we like rainbows a lot :) and have a general expectation of kindness and allyship, not everyone in Recovery Club identifies as queer and you do not have to be queer to participate! If you want to chat more about it, send us a message and we can figure out if one of our groups is a good fit for your recovery path!

Session Flow

  • Welcome & Settling In

  • Guided Gentle Movement & Meditation

  • 3 Minute Shares

  • Topic Based Processing

  • Closing

Materials

Cohorts 1-3 are currently using the ACA Loving Parent Guidebook. You can purchase it HERE.

Billing

This is a formal group psychotherapy offering. Most major insurance plans are accepted, including Medicare! Out of pocket fee is $35/session. Must live in Arkansas.

JOIN A RECOVERY CLUB COHORT

  • COHORT ONE

    Starting March 2026

    Wednesdays 11AM-12noon

    FULL

  • COHORT TWO

    Starting April 2026

    Thursdays 11am-12noon

    FULL

  • COHORT THREE

    Starting May 19, 2026

    Tuesdays 11am-12noon

    accepting new members

Seasonal Neuro-Queer Retreats

WHAT IS NEURO-QUEER?

Being both neurodivergent and queer, with some degree of conscious awareness and/or active exploration around how these two aspects of one’s being entwine and interact (or are, perhaps, mutually constitutive and inseparable).
— Nick Walker, PhD

Winter 2024

January 28th

at Pearl’s Books

An evening of neuro-queer celebration and community, exploring sense of self, identity, and relational connection through group conversations, poetry, guided reflection, and restorative yoga.

Spring 2024

Friday, April 12 | 9am-2pm

at Mount Sequoyah

The day will include therapeutic education, exploration of poetry and prose, guided writing and reflection, group conversations, restorative yoga and AcuWellness.

Fall 2024

Saturday, September 21 | 9am-3pm

at Perrodin Supply Co

This full day retreat will focus on IFS education and parts exploration, weaving together didactic learning, reflection, poetry and writing, facilitated group dialogue, yoga , and AcuWellness.

WORKSHOPS

“Learning and healing happen together.”

-Brit Creelman, PhD

What does it mean to be “sensitive”?

Details coming soon!

Exploring the ancestral, generational, and genetic components of hyper-sensitivity that weave through Autism, ADHD, and OCD

Neuro-Mapping & Accomodations

Details coming soon!

Mapping out our unique neurodivergent traits and needs and bolstering ourselves with creative accommodations

Tending to Our Parts with IFS

Details coming soon!

Exploring the Internal Family Systems model. Learning how our managers, distractors, and exiles care for us and how we can care for them