Dr. Amy Marschall: Accessible, neurodiversity-affirming mental health care
Women & ADHD
Katy Weber
4.9 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Episode 176 with Dr. Amy Marschall.
“We tend to frame neurodivergence not as ‘How are you doing?” but ‘What problems are you causing for the adults around you?’ If you’re not causing problems, then you must be fine.”
Dr. Marschall has been a licensed psychologist since 2016. She’s a clinical advisor for ADHD Online, and currently owns a private practice, RMH-Therapy. Her clinical specializations include trauma-informed care, neurodiversity-affirming care, rural mental health, and telemental health.
Dr. Marschall is the author of several books, including her most recent children’s book about Slipper, a neurodivergent penguin, and the soon-to-be-released A Clinicians Guide to Supporting Autistic Clients.
We discuss what the term “neurodiversity affirming” means when it comes to the treatment of Autism and ADHD, and we discuss the ways in which Dr. Marschall is working to make elemental health more accessible for neurodivergent clients.
We talk about some of the challenges she faced when seeking her own diagnosis of Autism a few years ago, and we talk about the current and future landscape of telemental health, and how to find accessible, ethical online therapy.
Website: resiliencymentalhealth.com
Twitter: @DrAmyPsyD
Links & Resources:
- Slipper the Penguin: A Story About Embracing Neurodivergence by Dr. Amy Marschall
- Dr. Marschall's Slipper stuffies on Etsy
- Pre-order A Clinicians Guide to Supporting Autistic Clients by Dr. Amy Marschall
- Read Dr. Marschall’s blog about North Dakota’s Autism database
- Follow Supernova Momma
- A Change for Better
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of treatment goals for neurodivergent people, kids especially, but everyone really focus on, again, you're identified because you were inconveniencing the adults. |
| 0:10.8 | So your treatment is to make you stop inconveniencing the adults instead of, here are the things that you struggle with. |
| 0:17.6 | How do we support you to have the best version of your own life? |
| 0:25.5 | Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed |
| 0:31.9 | with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down. I've been looking back at so much of my life, |
| 0:40.5 | school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this new lens and it has been nothing short of |
| 0:46.9 | overwhelming. I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience and now I |
| 0:51.9 | interview other women who, like me, discovered in adulthood |
| 0:55.2 | they have ADHD and are finally feeling like they understand who they are and how to best |
| 1:01.3 | lean into their strengths, both professionally and personally. |
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| 1:41.3 | both Katie and her guests, as well as the confidence and pace of conversation. |
| 1:46.2 | I'm now exploring an autism diagnosis and would love to hear more ADHD autistic women |
| 1:51.4 | interviews if possible. 10 out of 10 would recommend LOL. Well, thank you for this review. I really, |
| 1:57.8 | really appreciate the time and effort it takes to stop what you are doing and put your |
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