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‘Mask mapping’ – getting to know your masking Self. (Autistic masking, HSP)
Getting to know your masking self. Autistic masking, HSP, neurodiversity. Using mask mapping to meet the part of us that conserves spoons

Kathy Carter
Mar 6, 20237 min read


Podcast 13 - the ABC model of cognitive behavioural therapy
PODCAST. The ABC model of cognitive behavioural therapy. An activating event, the belief behind our behaviour, consequences and disputing

Kathy Carter
Feb 27, 20231 min read


Personal boundaries - theoretical limits and rules we set ourselves
Let’s talk about boundaries. Anyone who has worked with me as a client will know that boundaries and values come up quite a lot in the...

Kathy Carter
Feb 26, 20235 min read


PODCAST – (12) – get to know your autonomic nervous system (ANS)
PODCAST – (12) – get to know your autonomic nervous system (ANS)
#polyvagal #autism #neurodiversity #ANS #ventralvagal
Discover your ANS!

Kathy Carter
Nov 11, 20221 min read


Witches – persecuted women remembered with cheap candy and flammable masks
Halloween and the perscecuted women. ‘Witch hunt’ is a term often used against marginalised women, and those exhibiting trauma responses.

Kathy Carter
Oct 19, 20222 min read


PODCAST – (11) – ‘holding patterns’, stimming, tics, and the train analogy of regulation...
PODCAST – Show 11 – ‘holding patterns’, stimming, tics, and the train analogy of regulation..

Kathy Carter
Sep 16, 20221 min read


What's in a (therapy) name? Arriving at a destination point on your current life journey...
Talk therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and finding your destination: I can help you arrive at destination point on life's journey...

Kathy Carter
Sep 7, 20222 min read


Anxiety and neurodivergent folk – sensory sensitivities, unpredictability and social interactions
How anxiety affects neurodivergent folk – inc. sensory sensitivity, unpredictability and social interactions

Kathy Carter
Aug 29, 20223 min read


Respecting neurology - helping autistic individuals, especially children, enjoy celebrations
Respecting neurology - helping autistic individuals, especially children, enjoy celebrations such as Christmas

Kathy Carter
Jul 2, 20223 min read


Should we say no to the puzzle piece and Light It Up Blue campaigns? (Spectra.blog content)
Why we should say no to the autism puzzle piece and dated Light It Up Blue campaigns.

Kathy Carter
Jul 2, 20224 min read


Autistic social engagement challenges - a schema approach (Spectra.blog content)
Our capacity for social engagement as an autistic individual isn’t a card we’re dealt with, that’s finite. It’s malleable.

Kathy Carter
Jul 2, 20224 min read


Attachment theory in pop culture - the film High Fidelity, starring John Cusack
Attachment theory in pop culture - the film High Fidelity, starring John Cusack. I want to look at characters' primary attachment styles.

Kathy Carter
May 18, 20227 min read


The Friends TV characters’ attachment styles - decoded!
A perfect showcase for considering familial relationships and attachment styles (& personality disorders) is TV.. #friendstvshow #attachment

Kathy Carter
Apr 14, 20226 min read


Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy within therapeutic work
DBT, or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, Hypno CBT, & CBT within therapy

Kathy Carter
Apr 11, 20227 min read


Bridget Jones’s social nervous system and attachment styles
ATTACHMENT - we're all intrinsically linked to our family backgrounds; a showcase 4 familial relationships is Bridget Jones's Diary

Kathy Carter
Jan 21, 20228 min read


Podcast (10) What's anxiety - and simple tips to aid recovery and regulation
New podcast - What's anxiety - simple tips for recovery - following on from - Anxiety through the holistic lens .'

Kathy Carter
Jan 7, 20221 min read


NHC conference talk: 'Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming hypnotherapist ethos’ by Kathy Carter
NHC conference talk: 'Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming hypnotherapist ethos’ by Kathy Carter

Kathy Carter
Sep 17, 20211 min read


‘Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming hypnotherapist ethos' - a talk at the 2021 NCH Conference.
2021 NCH Conference. Kathy Carter - ‘Embracing the neurodiversity-affirming hypnotherapist ethos' - hypnotherapy talk.

Kathy Carter
Sep 14, 20211 min read


PODCAST: (9) All about burnout! Recognising autonomic system burnout, and stopping it from occurring
All about burnout. Are you burning the candle at both ends?
We talk about the various ways we experience burnout, & how it relates to ANS

Kathy Carter
Sep 6, 20211 min read


Podcast 8; self hypnosis exercise; relaxation & bodily functions-defecatory dysfunction/incontinence
This is a self hypnosis / meditation / focussed attention exercise which should help you gain some relaxation. Hypno for #FGID #weakbladder

Kathy Carter
Sep 6, 20211 min read
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