Dr. Megan Anna Neff

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 381: Dr. Megan Anna Neff and Dr. Debra Brause on the Complex Relationship Between Traditional Therapeutic Practices & Neurodivergence · 21 May 2024 podcast

How am I gonna synthesize all that information?

that both simultaneously kind of freezes me up in a freeze response and also feels intrusive.

And a lot of therapy is geared around getting at emotions and seeing the intellectual as a defense.

So I think that's the biggest thing is actually taking the mind seriously.

And that's when I found a therapy that finally worked for me with someone who

We didn't know I was autistic, but he took my mind seriously.

And let that be the access point for how I introduce my inner world.

The second big thing I would just say is the sensory piece.

We aren't trained about interoception.

We aren't trained about sensory systems for the most part.

So I know for me, like I learned a lot about how to teach emotional regulation strategies.

But if you're trying to teach an emotional regulation strategy on top of a dys-regulated sensory system, it's not going to go well.

And I think the client's going to feel like I'm failing at this, nothing works for me.

They're going to often feel more defeated.

repeated, the therapist might start to feel frustrated and helpless.

And it's because there's this huge piece, a foundational piece of the regulation system that's missing.

So those would be two areas where I see therapists unintentionally missing, especially autistic clients.

So I mean, emotion regulation strategies might be like deep breathing, grounding, self-compassion statements, cognitive reframing.

These are all good things.

But if I'm emotionally dysregulated because the lights are causing overwhelm or because I'm not moving my body because I'm repressing it, I might take a deep breath, but it's not really gonna do much until I can get sensory safety and until I can use sensory inputs to regulate my system.

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