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What Autistic Employees Actually Need at Work

If you work with, employ, or support Autistic people, you've probably seen the gap between their potential and their experience of work. Autistic employees who are clearly skilled, deeply knowledgeable, and genuinely motivated, yet they are also chronically stressed, frequently misunderstood, and quietly burning out. This problem is avoidable, and in this blog I discuss how.

How to Make Presentations More Accessible for Neurodivergent Learners (the Cut-Curb Effect)

The Curb-Cut Effect is a powerful yet simple idea; when we design for people with disabilities, the outcome is better for everyone. Here, I outline some simple ways you can adapt your presentations to better support learning for neurodivergent learners, ultimately benefiting all learners.

What Is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria?

If rejection feels like a physical pain, lasts longer than you think it should, and has you replaying the moment long after everyone else has moved on—you’re not alone, and you’re not overreacting. What you might be experiencing is rejection sensitive dysphoria, or RSD. It’s common among Autistic people and ADHDers, as well as members […]

There Are Seven Types of Rejection (And Knowing Them Can Help)

Rejection doesn’t come in just one form. It shows up across many different areas of life, each with its own meaning and intensity. And if you are sensitive to rejection, you might find yourself bracing for rejection in situations where it’s not actually happening, particularly in the contexts where you’ve been hurt before. Understanding the […]

Navigating rejection in the holidays

Images of “perfect families” with broad smiles (and matching knitted sweaters) are painful when these warm, welcoming connections and feelings of belonging are not your experience. Holiday family gatherings are where old patterns come alive and ingrained roles get reinforced. An uncle’s “joke” about how sensitive you are. A swipe at your use of pronouns. […]

Planning a "low demand” holiday season

As a clinical psychologist, I’ve had many conversations with people about the holiday season. Two years ago, one of these conversations had an unexpected impact on me. “We are having a low-demand Christmas”, this client said with quiet satisfaction. This meant: no family gatherings, no visitors, takeaway on Christmas day, and doing precisely what they each wanted.

Supporting Recovery from Sensory Stress

Most Autistic people have differences in sensory perception that result in sensitivities and insensitivities to certain kinds of sensory experiences. Exposure to these experiences can become intensely uncomfortable and distressing, and do not get easier with repeated exposure.

What does it mean to be Autistic?

Autistic people have genetic, neurobiological differences in information processing, leading to differences in how they perceive and respond to the world. Within this, each Autistic person has a unique “spiky profile” of strengths and difficulties, and needs that will change depending on their environment.

Clinical Tips: Help Your Clients Recover from the Pain of Rejection

Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) is the intense, long-lasting, and pervasive emotional pain that can be challenging to address in therapy. To support clients with RSD it can help to focus on three domains: self-soothing and self-regulation, sense-making, and interpersonal safety.

Clinical Tips: Help Your Clients Build Healthy Habits - And Actually Maintain Them

Building healthy habits is HARD. In this blog we look beyond "S.M.A.R.T. goals" and explore the nuances of changing behaviour in our clients. What works is not what you think.

Clinical Tips: Eight Strategies to Finish Your Sessions on Time and Care for Yourself

Many therapists struggle to stick to their schedules. This article explores how to address this challenging problem and provides eight tips for staying on time.

Unwinding Your Unhelpful Perfectionistic Habits One Step at a Time

Do you set extremely ambitious targets for yourself, and keep raising these standards so that they are just out of reach? Explore the keys to transforming unhelpful habits into something that works better for you.

The Perfectionistic Therapist: Striving to Help While Being Scared to Fail

Explore what it means to be a perfectionistic therapist, and how to unwind these habits in yourself using acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Perfectionism, Eating Problems and Hating Your Body

Do you constantly worry about your body’s shape, size, or weight? Are you preoccupied with what and when you are eating, and this is taking over your life? Do you restrict what you eat, or eat excessively in a way that feels out of control? Having difficulty with eating, weight, and body image is remarkably common.

Hold Your Suffering with Compassion

Even after a very difficult year, we still get angry at ourselves when we are struggling. Being kind to ourselves has never been more important.

Done Not Perfect: Writing Tips for Perfectionists

Writing something other people will read can be a daunting task for many people, and it’s made so much more complicated when you struggle with perfectionism.

Fear of Failure and Saying ‘Yes’ Anyway

Fear of failure is the fear that you will make a mistake or cause something to go wrong, leaving you feeling guilty, embarrassed, ashamed, and humiliated. Explore how to respond when you are scared of failing using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.