DEEP DIVE: Olivia Martinez-Hauge on Special Needs Parenting

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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This Deep Dive series revisits some of our past episodes about the joys and the challenges that come with raising kids with differences and disabilities. Olivia Martinez-Hauge is a marriage and family therapist specializing in the treatment of families, couples, and individuals who are caregiving for children or adults with neurodiversity. She is also a licensed occupational therapist with over two decades of experience helping children and their families. She is also a mother of three children, two with neurodiversity. In this "Fresh Take" interview, Olivia explains the grief and isolation that might come with special needs parenting her own journey moving past those emotions by parenting "from a place of present" the team of support that a parent of a special needs child needs how we can change our friend groups, schools, and societies to be more supportive of families with children who have special needs Whether you're a parent of a special needs or neurodiverse child, or just want to be a better friend to someone who is, you'll learn so much from this interview. Find out more about Olivia and her work at The Center for Connection and Neurodiversity here: https://www.thecenterforconnection.org/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Amy Wilson and Margaret Ables. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.8	Hello, everyone, and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of Motherhood.
0:36.5	This is Margaret. And this is
0:37.9	Amy. And today we're talking to Olivia Martinez-Hauge. She's a marriage and family therapist
0:42.8	specializing in the treatment of families, couples, and individuals who are caregiving for children
0:48.2	or adults with neurodiversity. She's also a licensed occupational therapist with over two decades of experience helping children and their families.
0:57.2	She's the mother of three children, two with neurodiversity, and she is currently co-director of the Center for Connection and Neurodiversity in Duarte, California.
1:06.1	Welcome, Olivia.
1:07.0	Hi, thank you for having me.
1:09.0	Welcome.
1:09.7	I'm so excited. I'm always happy to like speak to people
1:12.7	after this year pandemic. I know. How many kids do you have and how old? I have a lot. I have three
1:20.3	and they're always around. My 13 year old Ryan is my daughter and my middle is 10. He's Mateo and my youngest is Cruz and he is
1:31.9	eight. Olivia, we have children exactly the same age. Do we really? We're going to be close. I'm 12,
1:38.7	just turned 11 and 9, but like it's basically the same spread. Jenks, yeah.
1:45.7	But I got boy, boy, girl.
1:47.9	But other than that, we're in the same realm.
1:48.4	Yeah.
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