Karen Doherty

Mood dysregulation is a big one, and included in that is the RSD. Communication issues. The way that the different brains process information, that difference is difficult because people... sometimes assume that the other is the same as them because they love them so much. They just assume, oh, well, we're the same. And it's just not.

Mood dysregulation is a big one, and included in that is the RSD. Communication issues. The way that the different brains process information, that difference is difficult because people... sometimes assume that the other is the same as them because they love them so much. They just assume, oh, well, we're the same. And it's just not.

Even if you've got two NDs in a relationship, doesn't necessarily mean that those NDs are complementary.

Even if you've got two NDs in a relationship, doesn't necessarily mean that those NDs are complementary.

How many couples I see that actually have no idea of each other's needs. It's remarkable whether they're neurodiversity or not. The unification of the thinking, the talents, the skills, the quirks, just being able to unify over these things. But that conversation hasn't come into the maelstrom of life.

How many couples I see that actually have no idea of each other's needs. It's remarkable whether they're neurodiversity or not. The unification of the thinking, the talents, the skills, the quirks, just being able to unify over these things. But that conversation hasn't come into the maelstrom of life.

Thank you for having me. So nice to be back.

Thank you for having me. So nice to be back.

So that's a good question. My mission has always been that I really believe in relationships. I really believe that we function so much better in relation to others and that it's just such a rich vein, a rich avenue to personally develop, develop communities, all sorts of things. And it's been a passion forever. I trained as a couple therapist. I didn't train as an individual therapist.

So that's a good question. My mission has always been that I really believe in relationships. I really believe that we function so much better in relation to others and that it's just such a rich vein, a rich avenue to personally develop, develop communities, all sorts of things. And it's been a passion forever. I trained as a couple therapist. I didn't train as an individual therapist.

So that's my mission, actually, is to help. That sounds like I'm out there too altruistically. It's to help people see what they're in, understand their dynamics, actually grow together, learn together, use each other and harness each other's talents. And it's a fantastic work. It's brilliant because you can see people really growing, enjoying, changing.

So that's my mission, actually, is to help. That sounds like I'm out there too altruistically. It's to help people see what they're in, understand their dynamics, actually grow together, learn together, use each other and harness each other's talents. And it's a fantastic work. It's brilliant because you can see people really growing, enjoying, changing.

Yes, been doing that for a long time now.

Yes, been doing that for a long time now.

I started this in, I have always unconsciously worked with neurodivergence and always found it quite fascinating, going back to my Canary Wharf days. That practice, you can recognize, I could recognize the presentations. They were coming in and there were similarities. So I got interested there. And I think I did my first talk in about 2016.

I started this in, I have always unconsciously worked with neurodivergence and always found it quite fascinating, going back to my Canary Wharf days. That practice, you can recognize, I could recognize the presentations. They were coming in and there were similarities. So I got interested there. And I think I did my first talk in about 2016.

And I think from 2014, definitively, I was naming myself as somebody who knew about neurodivergence because I'd done quite a lot of research by then. Spoken to Melissa Roloff in America. Just done quite a lot of work with therapists that were then in America. Here it was more difficult because it wasn't really a thing. But, yes, so it's, well, it's 10 years, isn't it?

And I think from 2014, definitively, I was naming myself as somebody who knew about neurodivergence because I'd done quite a lot of research by then. Spoken to Melissa Roloff in America. Just done quite a lot of work with therapists that were then in America. Here it was more difficult because it wasn't really a thing. But, yes, so it's, well, it's 10 years, isn't it?

11, 12 years, something like that, yeah. So there's been a lot of couples.

11, 12 years, something like that, yeah. So there's been a lot of couples.