When the Room Isn’t Built for You: Autistic Therapists, Training, and the Slow Grind of Enduring Othering

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from being both inside and outside the room at the same time. Many autistic therapists know it well. You are enrolled, accredited, progressing. You can theorise, reflect accurately, and sit with complexity. And yet, again and again, the field positions you as if you are adjacentContinue reading "When the Room Isn’t Built for You: Autistic Therapists, Training, and the Slow Grind of Enduring Othering"

On What I Do (and Why I Refuse to Pretend It’s Neutral)

I am a neurodivergent therapist working with neurodivergent adults. My focus is not “coping better” in a hostile world, but developing positive self-identity and real agency in people who have been systematically taught to mistrust themselves. I work in an explicitly anti-oppressive, systemic, and liberation psychology–informed way. That’s not branding. It’s a response to reality.Continue reading "On What I Do (and Why I Refuse to Pretend It’s Neutral)"