Catherine Flynn

How Autistic Clients Reclaim Their Creative Power in Therapy Exploring how "Boldly Creating" is fostered in the counselling room

New article about pillar seven of autistic culture - Boldly Creating - and how it can be encouraged in the counselling room. Let me know your thoughts!
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Autistic Innovation - how it turns up in therapy So in this post I'm going to explore pillar six of autistic culture (as explored in the Autistic Culture Podcast) which is titled Game Changing Innovation. It's a huge topic area, so I'm going to help...

New article on the trickyness of being an autistic innovator and how it turns up in the counselling room. Subscribe on Substack for ongoing articles!
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Tending the Garden of Autistic Joy: Why World-Building Matters Why autistic brains are natural world-builders — and how to reclaim the joy when it goes missing

New article!
#autistic #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neuroaffirmative #autistictherapist
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Autistic rhythmic communicating in the counselling room How rhythmic communicating is part of autistic culture, and how this comes up in the counselling room.

New article on autistic rhythmic communicating and how it comes up in the counselling room: bit.ly/3ZmOGm7

#autistic #autism #autistictherapist #autisticadvocate #audhd #neurodiversity #neurodivergence

New article exploring autistic people as bottom-up processors and how this comes up in the counselling room: bit.ly/3SGLBcP
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Supporting My AuDHD Teen Through GCSEs (and Holding the Both-And) Measuring heat capacity, root hairs, Macbeth’s psychological torment, simultaneous equations, Scrooge’s avaricious nature, King James’s Daemonologie, chlorophyll, the killing of witches, straight line...

If you're supporting your neurodivergent teen through GCSEs right now, or even if that is not happening and your child is at home not engaging, this article is for you.
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#audhd #gcses #autistic #adhd #neurodivergent #neurdiversity

New blogpost on the lost generation of ADHD women - women now in their 50s, 60s, 70s. I see you. It's not too late to explore this in your life.
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Sceenshots of workbook on a blue background

Showing workbook on an ipad

workbook example showing journal prompts

showing workbook on laptop and phone

New AuDHD workbook to help you navigate the tension between being autistic and ADHD. Using the story of Goldilocks & The Tree Bears how you can use your felt sense to tune into what feels 'just right' for your AuDHD bodymind. bit.ly/42NuI54
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What kind of counsellor are you really? It’s pretty challenging trying to choose the right counsellor.

New article on my counselling journey:
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Neuroaffirmative Neurodivergent Flashcards I have created a downloadable pack of flashcards as a result of discovering an abundance of unique vocabulary within the neurodivergent dimension. If you're new to exploring neurodivergence, then it c...

NEW FREE RESOURCE! Over 120 visual flashcards of neurodivergent terms written using neuroaffirmative language. Free PDF to download and use with linkable images to the original inspiring artworks. Feedback welcome :-)
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What is the Neurodiversity Paradigm Shift? we need this massive shift in thinking! Because being autistic isn't about having some condition - it's just part of who someone is as a hum

New blogpost about the neurodiversity paradigm shift: bit.ly/3C51O6W
"The truth is, autism isn't really a "thing" at all! It's basically just a medical construct that people came up with by watching others..."
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Coaching Training After years of offering my Unmasking coaching to clients, the proof is in – not only does this produce effective, long-term results, but time and again I hear back from Autistic and neuro…

If you've read Unmasking Autism you will have come across "Values Based Integration Process" unmasking developed by Heather Morgan. She's currently offering a training:
COST: £400
DATES: Four Fridays over January 10, 17, 24, 3
TIMINGS: 5 - 9pm
More info here: poweredbylove.ca/coaching-tra...

Stormy sea with words on top: In celebration of the 100 year Anniversary of the Shipping Forecast: autistic framing

“...when I listen to the Shipping Forecast I have this felt sense of being so comforted by the solidity of being in my safe place at home while knowing that somewhere out there, out at sea there are gales in North Utsire and South Utsire. Something about how the neurotypical world can often feel like being battered by gales.”

I also think about how the Shipping Forecast could be seen as a meditation on how maybe we can, as autistic people, learn to lean into the greys of life

Read the blog post: www.neurofriendlytherapy.co.uk/blog

I am a big fan of the BBC Shipping Forecast, so this article is a my small contribution on this celebratory day of the 100th Anniversary. Blogpost: bit.ly/3W1fSW2

“It Has Shown Me How Much I Am Capable Of”: An Exploration of Autistic Burnout Experiences in Motherhood | Autism in Adulthood Background: Research has highlighted a relationship between autistic motherhood and autistic burnout, although autistic mothers’ experiences of autistic burnout have not been explored in depth. Method...

🚨New paper alert: Exploring experiences of autistic burnout in motherhood, led by the fantastic Ashton Ferguson for her undergraduate (!!) dissertation. (Short thread)...

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I'm reading your book over Christmas - I decided that it needs the space and energy to really sink into the content. It's really helping me to put language to autistic identity and will really help with my client work. Thank you so much for this valuable contribution to autistic literature.

Autistic Masking: Understanding Identity Management and… Masking is a form of identity management involving cons…

Currently reading over Christmas: www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

It's a heavy tome to read, but so rich in helping me reflect on autistic identity and the divergent development of personhood. Highly recommend!!
#autistic #autistictherapist #autism #autisticpride

How the past rewrites itself in the light of autistic & ADHD identity realisations “In therapy we change not into something else, but into more truly ourselves. Therapeutic change is into what that person really ‘was’ all along… it is a second past, read retroactively from now. It i...

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“In therapy we change not into something else, but into more truly ourselves. Therapeutic change is into what that person really ‘was’ all along… it is a second past, read retroactively from now. It is a new ‘was’ made from now.”
Gendlin
#autistic #adhd #neurodivergent #audhd

Punk Is Autistic The culture of punk is, at its core, authenticity without apology—and that’s exactly what autistic people desire: spaces and cultures where they can be their true selves without the need to mask or co...

“The culture of punk is, at its core, authenticity without apology—and that’s exactly what autistic people desire: spaces and cultures where they can be their true selves without the need to mask or conform.”
—The Autistic Culture Podcast

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I love this, thanks for sharing your poetry!

New Autistic Burnout Survival Guide now available on Etsy. 46 page guide with 35 tips gathered from research, lived experience and conversations with clients. Hope it's helpful xx
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Map of Monotropic Experiences

This map highlights 20 common aspects of monotropic experience.

How many do you experience?

Visit the page for a glossary describing each aspect.

Image credit: @autisticrealms

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Confession: Sometimes I struggle to know where one NeuroType ends and the next begins.

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Oh I see, thanks for explaining!

This is such a helpful post for professionals working in all sectors and also for anyone supporting a young person personally.

I am involved in a creative project about Autistic experiences and would loved you feedback! Thank you x

@ferrousmu.bsky.social please tag if you anyone else who may share thank you

Neurodivergent Adult's Unnamed Newsletter Issue 7, March 25 2024 ADHD Creativity is Stiffled and Ireland has New Neurodiversity Numbers

The 7th issue of my (free) newsletter about being a neurodivergent adult is available to read!

#ADHD #Autism #Neurodivergent #Ireland

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Hello, it's me again! I'm new to this platform and I'm just discovering these great lists! I would love to ask if you would consider adding me to your 'Autistic Community' list. I am an autistic counsellor working in Bristol and want to reach out to be part of the community as much as I can.

Hello Adam, I'm not sure what you mean by your post (the bit about 1800s), but sending you a response anyway and hope your disappointment starts to dissolve. :-)

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Thank you @autisticadam.bsky.social this is a great starter pack! Can you please consider adding us too!
We have lots of free community resources, training and support groups (international) for the Adult Autistic Community. Many thanks :)
www.thrivingautistic.org