Dr. Megan Anna Neff
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1,098 appearances
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard Jun 2025
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So I don't wanna say those practices aren't helpful, they are, but they often I think more foundationally.
is cultivating that sensory safety.
I have lots of thoughts, lots of divergent thoughts.
One, as a therapist, it's really hard to work with a youth or young adult when they're there because their parents want them to be there.
I actually often will like not recommend like if a parent reaches out, I'll I'll s I'll say wait till your child expresses interest.
When they do come in that way, I'll often like pivot really fast to like, okay, so your parents want you to be here.
Like, how do you feel about that?
Or like what are your thoughts about that?
What because I just think any treatment
especially with neurodivergent people is gonna be pretty hard when the child doesn't want to be there.
I think
one of the dynamics that often shows up for neurodivergent people is people are trying to fix me.
And it's so easy to then reenact that in the therapy when the child doesn't have a desire to be there that they are able to anchor into.
And that's whether I'm working with youth or adults, like I'll be really explicit about that of I'm imagining you've kind of fallen into this dynamic of like,
maybe people trying to fix you and I really want to have an eye on not repeating that here.
And sometimes that can be hard because sometimes people will full for like, fix me, fix my executive functioning challenges, fix this.
And then we'll talk about it when it shows up of like, okay, I'm getting a fix at energy, what's happening here.
So I just think being aware that that is something that happens a lot to us and that that can often get repeated, especially if we're not the ones initiating therapy.
So I just don't think treatment's very effective unless the goal is coming from the person himself.
This is, and again, it's gonna depend on the situation and if someone's in crisis, right?
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