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I will not shy away from the difficult, the contentious, the painful. I will not allow myself to be cleaved, in two parts that ought never to have been separated, one side accepted, the other judged and condemned. I grew up being told by the world around me that the ‘male’ traits of assertiveness, power, […]

I am an ADHDer. * When I first started out as a therapist, I worried that some of my ADHD traits would cause me difficulties in my work… – distraction – – forgetfulness – – difficulties with routines – – struggles with sensory overload – …but I have my ways of coping with these. Having

I’ve been thinking about identity, and the assumptions we make about people.  Obviously there is a huge complexity to identity, for example some of the issues that are very popular in the media at the moment in terms of gender, sexual and relationship diversity or in terms of neurodivergence, but on a lighter level, on

Many people who have come across me and my work are aware that I am come from difference – specifically mixed culture and neurodivergence – and that this is primarily why I specialise in working with issues around identity. What most people do not know, is that I am also a twin. When talking about

I came across a post yesterday by @unmaskedbyanna (IG) about ‘autistic info dumping’ and the differing ways that different people communicate. She commented that she finds other ways of communicating not as easy, and if people change the subject before she’s ready or ‘done’, she finds this difficult too. * “…I also need to sort

It’s New Year 2024 – for those of us that have lived through the Millenium parties, it may be a shock to notice how much time has passed since then! When we embark on a New Year, a whole new chapter ahead of us, popular culture tells us to celebrate the successes and achievements of

I live in world so infused with knowledge about what ADHD and autism are, because everyone I spend any time with has lived experience of one or the other, that I forget not everyone understands. And people look or stare, at what to me are normal parenting or relationship or individual behaviours, reactions and dynamics.

The summer holidays are approaching. Those without kids or that love summer and heat, usually approach the holidays with joy and happiness, but for those that have less simplicity around the holiday period, there can be some trepidation. For parents, we have the joy of spending some proper quality time with our kids 24/7, for

It’s 2023 and I’m starting the new year with some big changes. As an English-speaking therapist in Stockholm and Järfälla, I want to be able to support as many people here in Sweden as I can. With a wealth of counselling and personal experience of mixed culture and of people who are seen as different

Today would have been my dad’s 86th birthday. It’s his first birthday with him absent from this worldly realm and my feelings are peculiar. Like a kaleidoscope of sadness, a paradoxically aching emptiness filled with memories, colours, and mind photographs of things we did together. I’m ok with this sadness, in the approach to the