About this event
Join us for a special 60-minute event celebrating the launch of On Being an Autistic Therapist, edited by Max Marnau. This groundbreaking book, written by members of the international Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP) collective, offers powerful insights into working as autistic therapists.
Through lived experience and professional expertise, the contributors tackle stereotypes about autism, advocate for inclusive therapy practices, and share innovative approaches for working with autistic clients. Each chapter provides a unique perspective on how the authors perceive the world and engage with clients, demonstrating how neurodiversity enriches and benefits all.
This event features Max Marnau alongside several contributing authors in an engaging panel discussion. Together, they’ll explore key themes from the book, including the transformative potential of autistic therapists, the importance of neurodiversity in therapy, and the ways we can all join the movement for change.
Whether you are autistic, allistic, a therapist, a client, or someone curious about these topics, this is a valuable opportunity to connect, and learn.
About the book…This new book is about working as autistic counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a collection of stand-alone chapters put together by members of the international online collective Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP). It shares their main aims: to tackle the lack of appropriate therapy available to autistic clients and to challenge the common stereotypes about autistic people, which are still very much alive and can bar them both from therapy and therapy training. But, because the writers have lived experience of the issues they are working with, they are also writing about ways of working most effectively and helpfully with autistic people. And that is what makes it unique. Each chapter describes both how the writer perceives and processes the world and how they work with clients. Their stories provide incontrovertible evidence that the existence of autistic therapists, far from being problematic or even a contradiction, is quite simply normal. And that neurodiversity, just like biodiversity, enriches, broadens and benefits all. It offers readers – autistic, allistic, therapists and would-be therapists, clients and would-be clients – the chance to meet the contributors and see them as humans, therapists and supervisors. Their hope is that, in its small way, this collection may give readers the understanding that they need to join them in changing the world.
Contributors
Rebecca Antrim, Katherine Balthazor, Kathy Carter, Natalie Furdek, Danielle Goddard, Romy Graichen, Silvia Liu, Debbie Luck, River Marino, Max Marnau, Shirley Moore, Sally Nilsson, Wendy Reiersen, Leo Ricketts, Elinor Rowlands, Chan Shu Yin, Kristina Takashina, Fiona Villarreal, Wilma Wake, Amy Walters, Sharon Xie
Order a copy of On Being an Autistic Therapist at bit.ly/onbeinganautistictherapist
ZOOM
This workshop will be hosted on the Zoom meeting platform where we will use our cameras and microphones to interact with each other as a group.
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All the colleagues at ONLINEVENTS and the presenters we collaborate with are committed to working in a manner consistent with the BACP Ethical Framework, which can be accessed on the link below. When registering for this event you are agreeing to be present and interact in a manner that is consistent with this Framework.
Max Marnau is a person-centred therapist, artist and poet living in the Scottish Borders. As the autistic daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Nazis, she feels a particular affinity with all the exiled, the othered, and the displaced. She is also a “childless cat lady”!
