When Your Autistic Client Also Has OCD, Depression, Anxiety or Other Co-Occurrences: Affirming, Person-Centered Practices with Matt Lowry, LPP

About this episode

This episode discusses the co-occurring conditions that Autistic individuals often face and how to provide affirming, person-centered practices.

{{Two Sides of the Spectrum is now Born to Be Free!}} This episode is a sweeping overview of the co-occurring conditions that Autistic people often experience, including OCD, depression, anxiety, ADHD, PDA, and more. Autistic Licensed Psychological Practitioner Matt Lowry helps us take a topic that can feel huge and overwhelming and reduce it to a few core themes that make affirming practice feel clear, grounded, and simple, even when we are supporting clients with more complex profiles. Matt Lowry lives and practices in Kentucky, where he specializes in autism and ADHD evaluations, and Autistic-centered therapy. He is the proud parent of an Autistic child and works to promote an understanding of autism and the Autistic lifestyle. For show notes as well as in-person and livestreamed CE trainings visit learnplaythrive.com. For more episodes visit patreon.com/learnplaythrive

People in this episode

Host: Meg Ferrell

Guest: Matt Lowry

Topics covered

• co-occurring conditions
• autism
• OCD
• depression
• anxiety
• affirming practices

Keywords

• autism
• OCD
• depression
• anxiety
• affirming practices
• mental health
• therapy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: learnplaythrive.com, patreon.com/learnplaythrive

Places: Kentucky

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