RAME Therapy and Neurodivergence: Building Compassion, Acceptance, and Self-Accommodation Therapy with neurodivergent clients often involves more than symptom reduction or skill building. At its core,...
Sensory Processing, Alexithymia, Masking, and Emotional Awareness in Autism and ADHD
Autism and ADHD frequently involve differences not only in attention or social communication, but in sensory processing, emotional identification, and identity formation. Understanding these domains...
Autism, ADHD, and the Persistent Drive for Autonomy: Moving Beyond Pathology
Autism and ADHD share overlapping features, yet they are not the same condition. Some individuals meet criteria for one, some for both, and some display...
Dating Neurodivergent People: Communication, Clarity, and Connection
Clinical reflections with research integration Romantic relationships are complex for everyone. When neurotypes differ, the complexity can increase — not because one person is deficient,...
The Double Empathy Problem: Rethinking Communication Differences in Autism
For clinicians working with autistic and ADHD clients For decades, communication differences in autism were framed almost exclusively as deficits — difficulties in social reciprocity,...
Interest-Based Brains in an Importance-Based World
One of the most transformative shifts for ADHD clients is understanding this: Your brain is not broken.It is interest-based. Most institutions — schools, workplaces, even...
Autism & ADHD in the Therapy Room: Moving From Pathology to Compassion
As clinicians, many of us were trained within a pathology paradigm — one that assumes there is a “right” way for the brain to function...
„Lotte, träumst du schon wieder?“ – ADHS und die Welt der Fantasie
Einleitung Kinder mit ADHS sind oft besonders fantasievoll, träumerisch und kreativ – gleichzeitig fällt es ihnen schwer, Aufmerksamkeit zu halten und sich in strukturierten Alltagssituationen...
„Ich muss nicht wütend sein“ – Kinder lernen, ihre Wut zu verstehen und zu steuern
Einleitung Wut ist ein zentraler Affekt bei Kindern, besonders bei solchen mit ADHS oder erhöhter Impulsivität. Smatha Sodens „Ich muss nicht wütend sein – Das...
„All Dogs Have ADD“ – ADHS kindgerecht erklärt
Einleitung ADHS ist für viele Kinder schwer zu verstehen – sie erleben selbst Frustration über ihre Impulse, Unruhe und Vergesslichkeit. Kathy Hoopmanns Buch „All Dogs...