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Neuro-Affirming Practice Is Not a Framework. It’s a Way of Being.
Neuro-affirming practice isn't a framework or a checklist. It's about being human — kind, compassionate, and truly present with people, just as they are.
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Support That Fits Us
Neuro-affirming therapy and support, written for the people who give it and the people who receive it.
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Is CBT suitable for Autistic people?
This article is a combination of, and expansion on, posts originally published on my Facebook page. We’re often told that CBT isn’t suitable for Autistic people. Is this true? CBT stands for…
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Promoting Equity Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy
Promoting Equity Through Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy was recorded for The PDA Space Summit 2025. I’m sharing it with my paid subscribers as I’m revisiting and going deeper on some of the themes…
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Six-Point Framework For Supporting Autistic People | NeuroHub Community
An exploration of the six-point framework that underlies NeuroHub Community's work with Autistic people. This video goes through each domain of the framework and explores how it can be applied to an…
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Spotlight on Multisensory Aphantasia and the Therapy That Assumes Too Much with Sassy Smith, Founder of Aphantasia Academy and Author of Unseen Minds
Sassy Smith is founder of Aphantasia Academy, a UK-based training and education platform specialising in invisible cognitive differences including aphantasia, severely deficient autobiographical…
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Three More Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients
A few of you told me how helpful ‘Three Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients: Practical support for Autistic and ADHD adults’ was, so here are a few more. Whether you’re Autistic/ADHD…
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Free Resources for Autistic Adults: The Thriving Autistic Discovery Programme
Free, self-paced videos, guides and tools for recently identified Autistic adults, from the Thriving Autistic Discovery Programme. What it is, who it is for, what it covers, and how to explore it.
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Six Principles and a Room
An Essay — Foundations An ethic you can only point at a person is an ethic that will keep finding the fault in the person.
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What Is Autism? The Myths, And What Actually Explains Us
What is autism? Not a list of deficits. In this video I explain what autism actually is, why the best-known theories about Autistic people are wrong, and which ideas genuinely explain Autistic life.…
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Watch Now: Autistic Resistance & Challenging Neuronormativity in the Therapy Room
Therapy either upholds neuronormativity and pathologises Autistic people, or challenges normative values and supports Autistic wellbeing through neuroaffirming resistance. That’s the premise of my…
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Three Essential Resources I Regularly Share with Clients
If I were to include every resource I signpost to in my work as a counsellor it would be a very extensive list. Nothing works for everyone, even if the topic covered feels highly relevant. But the…
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Spotlight on Selective Mutism with Libby Hill, Speech and Language Therapist with Small Talk Speech and Language Therapy
Libby Hill is a consultant speech and language therapist (SLT) with a fascination for autism, including PDA, selective mutism and developmental language disorder. She has been an SLT for 40 years and…
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Professional Gateway: The Ecology Of Experience (Audio Lecture)
Subscribe to keep reading Become a paid subscriber to get access to the rest of this post and other exclusive content. Subscribe The post Professional Gateway: The Ecology Of Experience (Audio…
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Spotlight on Embedding Neurodiversity into the Curriculum in Helping Professions: The Wholeness Solution with Mamood Ahmad, Psychotherapist and Author
Mamood Ahmad is a tutor, speaker, and author of A New Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy. He founded the #TADF community, which works proactively with training organisations to support the…
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Penguin Pebbling: Theory, Practice and the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions — A Guide for Practitioners
Penguin Pebbling is a low-demand, neurodiversity-affirming card game built around the Five Neurodivergent Love Locutions — five relational modes natural to many Autistic and neurodivergent people:…
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Why Attachment Theory Fails Autistic People, and What Might Work Instead
If you have spent any time navigating schools, social care, or therapy as an Autistic person or supporting a loved one, you have likely encountered attachment theory. You may have been blamed for…
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Being With People & The Value of Intensive Interaction
Helen Edgar draws on twenty years of practice alongside people with PMLD to explore why Intensive Interaction — when practised with genuine neuro-affirming care — is not just a communication…
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Loving Kindness Meditation For Neurodivergent Bodyminds
This guided meditation takes us on a journey to show compassion to ourselves, but the other people in our lives, including those who may be difficult, and the people we may never know or meet.David…
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Intensive Interaction as Neuro-Affirming Relational Practice
Intensive Interaction isn’t about “fixing” or prompting communication. It’s about meeting someone where they are—through connection, attunement, and shared flow. A neuro-affirming, relational framing…
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A Calm River Journey: Guided Visualisation For Neurodivergent People
This guided visualisation will take you on a journey down a calm river. David Gray-Hammond, MCMA, adapts mindfulness to the needs of neurodivergent people, he has a decade of experience working with…
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Re-Storying Autism: A New Course & Workbook Now Available!
Re-Storying Autism: A Framework for Families, Parents and Carers Reimagining Support For Autistic People Neurodiversity Affirming Neurodivergent Competent
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Beyond “Complex Needs”: Neuro-Affirming, Relational Practice with Children with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities
A neuro-affirming, relational approach to supporting children with profound and multiple learning disabilities, centred on safety, communication, and being-with.
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Autistic Experiences Of Therapy
In this episode of Autistic Storytime With David I discuss my own experiences of therapy, and why a lot of it hasn't worked for me. I explore what would make therapy more accessible and useful to…
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The Problem With Healthcare Professionals
This episode is an exploration of my experiences with healthcare professionals, and the experiences of the countless Autistic people I have met and worked with. I explore the impact of Doctors and…