![140 [S10 E12] Working with autism, not against: Mental health, masking and giving ourselves grace](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kara-Nash-episode-art-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 1 Nov, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Kara Nash is a registered nurse and autism consultant who focuses on creating positive change in how the healthcare system treats people on the spectrum. Kara has over twenty years’ experience working in the field of autism and mental health. Now 50, she was diagnosed...
![136 [S10 E8] ‘Undercover autistic’: shaping a more just and inclusive future for autistic care users & practitioners](https://squarepeg.community/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Shazzy-Tharby-Epsiode-art-1-1080x675.jpg)
by Laura Shakesby | 4 Oct, 2025 | Podcast episodes, Season 10
Shazzy Tharby is a Disability & Neurodiversity Leader, Mental Health & Neurodivergence Consultant, counsellor and psychotherapist, the Founder of Positively Living, a worldwide therapeutic service, and Vice President of the Australian Clinical Supervision...
by Amy Richards | 1 Mar, 2025 | 2025 eps, Podcast episodes
Hannah Brockway is a violinist in her thirties from Australia; music has been her lifelong special interest. Since discovering her autism Hannah has realised that many of the people she’s gravitated towards in her life are neurodivergent too. In this episode Hannah...
by Amy Richards | 22 Feb, 2025 | 2025 eps, Podcast episodes
Malori talks about her experience of spending seven years being given various misdiagnoses and being medicated and treated for conditions that she didn’t have. Now, with the knowledge that she is autistic, Malori reflects back on her journey through the mental...
![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-1080x675.jpg)
by Amy Richards | 2 Mar, 2024 | Podcast episodes, Season 9
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...
