DBT Skills for Avoidant Attachment Traits. Drop walls, open to vulnerability, stay connected and stop internal chaos.

Solidarity with Autistics in Therapy-Mutual Accompaniment. What does it mean to accompany? To be accompanied? Resources for learning more.

DBT is a Somatic and Experiential therapy. Change the way you use DBT skills in your life or change how you teach them, for deeper healing possibilities.

Autism reminds you of the fissure on the facade of normalcy, where you can play and re-make reality. Clinicians and autistics can travel in the liberatory potentials of autism together.

Ecologies of Autism YouTube Channel! Eradicate myths of autism and build an new collective literacy. For autistics, clinicians, loved ones and anyone interested in changing discourse on autism.

THE PROCESS of the evaluation is an essential aspect. From what I see on Reddit threads in autism groups, negative experiences during the assessment due to the evaluator NOT prioritizing the process. A great assessor with value you and each aspect of the test, not just the test itself and the diagnosis. What does it look like to have a successful and meaningful PROCESS with autism testing? People who come for an assessment must be INCLUDED and their perspectives of the worl

Autistics in therapy and their therapists need to recognize the myth of "rigid." It is a barrier to change with autistic clients. Autistics may want to recognize and name this with therapists when it arises and work to dismantle this barrier-myth in their work together.

Autism Evaluations are expensive, what is it worth? What will I get out of it? Why pay for and have the evaluation? Do I get more than a diagnosis? What kind of insights will be provided? It is for me?

Where and with whom is DBT useful? Understand the background of DBT, and read a list of places, populations and issues where it's been successful.

Autism has historically been understood as a disorder of behaviors. The ADOS-2 is an assessment of demonstrates this by assessing standardized behavioral observation. The MIGDAS-2 is changing those beliefs, and focuses on self-expression, authenticity, strengths and sensory needs instead of deficits and wrong behaviors.

Thoughts, Emotions, Sensations, Urges We are composed of four ways to knowing. Every experience is a thought, an emotion, a sensation or an urge. No experience is more than one way of knowing. Example Sensation : Y ou notice the sensation of a mosquito on your forearm. Urge : You have the urge to move. Emotion : Fear or frustration. Thought : "Another mosquito?!" Practice Notice daily. Put labels on each that you notice: "sensation", 'thought", "emotion", "urge". Practice a