[Replay] Building Your Emotional Toolkit with Autistic Therapist Kathy Carter
The Neurodiverging Podcast
The Importance of Cognitive Flexibility in Therapy for Autism
CBT isn't always a good fit for neurodivergent folks, but dialectical behaviour therapy and some other modalities are better options. Mainly for me, I don't feel that CBT as a therapy really aligns as well as I'd like with sort of nervous system regulation. And so I believe it's very useful, dependent on your state and yeah, how you're feeling on the day. It can focus on safety seeking. You know, autistic folks have a lot of social anxiety. So if we're in shutdown, if our system is very kind of slow and flat and very challenged, the cognitive stuff, or that medical cognition, or that processing, at least
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