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![124 [Bonus] Autism and therapy: connection, validation and using our strengths to heal our lives](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Cloie-Parfitt-wide-Bonus-400x250.jpg)
This is the third and final in my miniseries of bonus ‘revisit’ episodes, in which I reconnect with guests from previous seasons. This week, I talk with psychotherapist Cloie Parfitt, who I first talked to a couple of years ago, in the summer of 2022. Cloie is...
![122 [Bonus] Softening and bracing: autism, loneliness and how we can find connection](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Aisha-Edwards-Bonus-1-400x250.jpg)
I am thrilled to bring you this conversation with somatic therapist Aisha Edwards, in which we talk about autism and loneliness. This continues a short series of revisits, where I reconnect with some of my guests from previous episodes. I first met Aisha two years...
![120: [Bonus] A magic key? Deeper learnings 4 years on from a late autism diagnosis](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Sophie-Longley-400x250.jpg)
I recorded this special episode with former Squarepeg guest Sophie Longley. I last spoke with Sophie at the end of 2020, when she was working as an English teacher in Singapore and was about to start her Masters in Experimental psychology at the University of Sussex....
![118. [Bonus] Building a happy and authentic autistic life](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Thrive-bonus-ep-wide-400x250.jpg)
In this bonus episode I share more about my own autism journey, and talk about my career-ending burnout and creating authentically autistic lives we don't want to escape from. Squarepeg is a podcast in which neurodivergent women, and trans and nonbinary people,...
![117 [S9 E12] Transcendence, reinvention and self discovery: reconnecting with our essential autistic self later in life](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Rose-Matthews-400x250.jpg)
Rose Matthews is an Autism Researcher, peer reviewer, consultant, presenter, trainer, and writer from Durham in the UK. Now 64, they first realised they might be autistic at 58 - and finally ‘found the answer to a lifetime of confusion’. Their long journey to...
![116 [S9 E11] Rekindling our dimmed spark and reclaiming autistic joy](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dani-Rodwell-400x250.jpg)
Dani Rodwell is a licensed Clinical Social Worker, therapist, and Co-founder of NeuroSpark Health. She lives in New Jersey, USA. She has worked in the field of autism and neurodevelopmental conditions for over 7 years - including working with neurodivergent youth, a...
![115 [S9 E10] An outcast in thick armour: from not fitting in to finding autistic pride and community](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Nigel-Rising-400x250.jpg)
Nigel Rising is the Founder and CEO of Autistic Women Emerging, a charity that aims to change the lives of undiagnosed and newly diagnosed autistic women. The charity was born out of her own personal struggle with depression and suicidal ideation, and it is her hope...
![[114] S9 E9: Playing on ‘hard mode’: accepting our autistic challenges while anchoring to our brilliance](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Anissa-Ljanta-400x250.jpg)
Anissa Ljanta is a writer, a neurodivergent specialist coach, educator and equity and inclusion advocate living in the remote hills of a wild surf beach in West Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in Samoa and South Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand, where she...
![113 [S9 E8] Making the invisible visible: getting comfortable with a late autism diagnosis](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Marisa-Hamamoto-400x250.jpg)
Marisa Hamamoto is a leading voice in disability inclusion, professional dancer and founder of Infinite Flow, an award-winning dance company and nonprofit that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with a mission to create a more inclusive world, one dance at a...
![112 [S9 E7] Why the system is thwarting autistic people: reimagining neurodivergent health – with Dr Mel Houser](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dr-Mel-Houser-wide-artwork-400x250.jpg)
Dr Mel Houser is a family physician in Montpelier, Vermont in the United States, with a clinical focus on providing medical care for neurodivergent patients across the lifespan. Now 40, she was diagnosed autistic two years ago, following a burnout - and at the same...
![111 [S9 E6] A magnet pulling me out of darkness: thinking through my body into autistic expression](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Dana-Michel-artwork-wide-1-400x250.jpg)
Dana Michel is a live performance artist and choreographer in Montreal, Canada, where she creates experiences based on a mixture of improvisation, choreography, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry and social commentary. Now 47, she self identified as autistic in...
![110 [S9 E5] ‘My autism journey came out of my trans experience’: Navigating gender and autistic identities](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Vic-Weiner-wide-artwork-400x250.jpg)
Vic Weiner is a youth justice attorney and lifelong social justice activist in the USA. They were brought up by a college professor mother in an unconventional home without a TV, and as a child they always felt like an outsider. However, as they grew up and continued...
![109 [S9 E4] Little glimpses underneath the mask: unravelling people-pleasing and imposter syndrome](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Gemma-Gray-wide-artwork--400x250.jpg)
Gemma Gray is a strategic marketing consultant from Edinburgh in Scotland. She left her long-term role following a burnout two years ago and became self-employed. She is a parent to an autistic daughter, and was diagnosed herself in March this year, aged 46. Still in...
![108 [S9 E3] Told I couldn’t be autistic: BPD misdiagnosis, mental health negligence and finally getting justice](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Naomi-Ghafoor-artwork-wide-400x250.jpg)
Naomi Ghafoor is a mental health activist who has spent over a decade battling the mental healthcare system and dealing with misdiagnoses, negligence and systemic abuse, which recently led to her suing her NHS mental health trust earlier this year. Now 26, she works...
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