@avacatza.bsky.social
Psychotherapy. Psychoanalysis. Neuropsychoanalysis. Somatic Psychology. Affective Neuroscience. Religious Trauma & Neurodivergence
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BREAKING!: Wizards of the Coast to classify Tylenol as performance enhancing drug.
September 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
BREAKING!: Wizards of the Coast to classify Tylenol as performance enhancing drug.
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Training new clinicians in the age of behavioral treatment and managed care is very challenging and disheartening.
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I’m about 4-6 cxs away from being able to quit my second job 😅
August 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I’m about 4-6 cxs away from being able to quit my second job 😅
I used to think to myself 10+ years ago that the US would have to get a lot worse before it got better. That was a much easier pill to swallow as a hypothetical than as a reality.
We’re cooked.
I think the only thing that will save us is a nationwide general strike.
We’re cooked.
I think the only thing that will save us is a nationwide general strike.
August 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I used to think to myself 10+ years ago that the US would have to get a lot worse before it got better. That was a much easier pill to swallow as a hypothetical than as a reality.
We’re cooked.
I think the only thing that will save us is a nationwide general strike.
We’re cooked.
I think the only thing that will save us is a nationwide general strike.
I’ve officially joined the Evidence Based Therapist podcast as a co-host! Check out our latest episode where we dive into my research into the intersection of religious trauma and neurodivergence
open.spotify.com/episode/5zz8...
open.spotify.com/episode/5zz8...
A Season in the Making: Religious Trauma, Neurodiversity, and Curiosity
The Evidence Based Therapist · Episode
open.spotify.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I’ve officially joined the Evidence Based Therapist podcast as a co-host! Check out our latest episode where we dive into my research into the intersection of religious trauma and neurodivergence
open.spotify.com/episode/5zz8...
open.spotify.com/episode/5zz8...
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Currently working on a psychoanalytic/somatic conceptualization of religious trauma and my brain keeps going off into a million different branches of thought. This is gonna be tough to whittle down 😅
July 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Currently working on a psychoanalytic/somatic conceptualization of religious trauma and my brain keeps going off into a million different branches of thought. This is gonna be tough to whittle down 😅
Finally cracking into this. I’m only 30 pages in and I can already tell this is going to radically shift my conceptualizations and relationships with my clients. It’s been on my list for 2 years and at the behest of my supervisor I finally pulled the trigger.
June 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Finally cracking into this. I’m only 30 pages in and I can already tell this is going to radically shift my conceptualizations and relationships with my clients. It’s been on my list for 2 years and at the behest of my supervisor I finally pulled the trigger.
A month into my private practice journey and my caseload is half full. Fingers crossed I can fill the rest in the next few months and finally be able to quit my serving job and be able to leave the soul-sucking food industry for good 😅
June 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A month into my private practice journey and my caseload is half full. Fingers crossed I can fill the rest in the next few months and finally be able to quit my serving job and be able to leave the soul-sucking food industry for good 😅
Playing a game of Telestrations: After Dark with some friends last night:
*drawing handed to me is a picture of a rising sun and a tree*
My autism: Sun Tree
The secret word was “morning wood”
😂😂😂
I’m usually really good at most games but my literalism got me this time 😅
*drawing handed to me is a picture of a rising sun and a tree*
My autism: Sun Tree
The secret word was “morning wood”
😂😂😂
I’m usually really good at most games but my literalism got me this time 😅
June 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Playing a game of Telestrations: After Dark with some friends last night:
*drawing handed to me is a picture of a rising sun and a tree*
My autism: Sun Tree
The secret word was “morning wood”
😂😂😂
I’m usually really good at most games but my literalism got me this time 😅
*drawing handed to me is a picture of a rising sun and a tree*
My autism: Sun Tree
The secret word was “morning wood”
😂😂😂
I’m usually really good at most games but my literalism got me this time 😅
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For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
www.motherjones.com
June 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
For the July/August issue of @motherjones.com, I dived into Elon Musk's relationship with Aspie supremacy and how it's promoted online. This ideology, coined by the late autistic blogger Mel Baggs, also dehumanizes autistic people with high support needs. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Going to church for the first time in 16 years. (Networking with some local progressive pastors for referral sources for clients with religious trauma)
Quite the stir in my body this morning, though!
Quite the stir in my body this morning, though!
June 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Going to church for the first time in 16 years. (Networking with some local progressive pastors for referral sources for clients with religious trauma)
Quite the stir in my body this morning, though!
Quite the stir in my body this morning, though!
Scotland is a beautiful country with incredibly kind humans. This has been a fantastic trip so far
May 22, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Scotland is a beautiful country with incredibly kind humans. This has been a fantastic trip so far
I did the damn thing! 🙌🏼
May 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I did the damn thing! 🙌🏼
Graduation Day! 🙌🏼
a group of people are jumping in the air with the words i am so excited written below them
ALT: a group of people are jumping in the air with the words i am so excited written below them
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May 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Graduation Day! 🙌🏼
My fav professor who retired last semester threw my cohort a graduation party and gifted us books from her personal library.
Stoked to dive into the Kalsched book
Stoked to dive into the Kalsched book
May 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My fav professor who retired last semester threw my cohort a graduation party and gifted us books from her personal library.
Stoked to dive into the Kalsched book
Stoked to dive into the Kalsched book
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Yesterday I made a post saying that if you strongly suspect you're autistic, chances are extremely high that you are... and I was asked for evidence to support this. So, here it is...
May 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Yesterday I made a post saying that if you strongly suspect you're autistic, chances are extremely high that you are... and I was asked for evidence to support this. So, here it is...
Got to present my conceptualization research project today on the intersection of autism and religious trauma. I had such a great time sharing what I found, and more importantly, what I didn’t find in the existing literature.
April 24, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Got to present my conceptualization research project today on the intersection of autism and religious trauma. I had such a great time sharing what I found, and more importantly, what I didn’t find in the existing literature.
@christianityon.bsky.social Hi, Jon. I am a neurodivergent therapist who specializes in religious trauma and have just recently begun a research project conceptualizing the intersection of religious trauma/religiosity and autism. I just found your podcast and I would love to chat with you sometime..
April 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
@christianityon.bsky.social Hi, Jon. I am a neurodivergent therapist who specializes in religious trauma and have just recently begun a research project conceptualizing the intersection of religious trauma/religiosity and autism. I just found your podcast and I would love to chat with you sometime..
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wondering if those who promote the use of shrooms / psilocybin for explicitly spiritual or religious purposes
could be considered morel theologians
could be considered morel theologians
April 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
wondering if those who promote the use of shrooms / psilocybin for explicitly spiritual or religious purposes
could be considered morel theologians
could be considered morel theologians
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It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time.
I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.
I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.
April 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's really hard to make videos about all of the cool science coming out all of the time.
I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.
I really appreciate Trump trying to help me out with this problem by making it so no new science comes out ever.
My diagnostic journey
Social Anxiety -> ADHD -> ADHD w/ Autistic Traits -> Autism
Rising rates are due to updated diagnostic criteria not environmental exposures. We exist. We are valid.
Social Anxiety -> ADHD -> ADHD w/ Autistic Traits -> Autism
Rising rates are due to updated diagnostic criteria not environmental exposures. We exist. We are valid.
Autism is a spectrum because it includes autistic people who have no visible signs of autism, autistic people who have every stereotypical visible sign of autism, and autistic people who fall everywhere in between. We all exist. We are all valid. And we are all deserving of support.
April 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM
My diagnostic journey
Social Anxiety -> ADHD -> ADHD w/ Autistic Traits -> Autism
Rising rates are due to updated diagnostic criteria not environmental exposures. We exist. We are valid.
Social Anxiety -> ADHD -> ADHD w/ Autistic Traits -> Autism
Rising rates are due to updated diagnostic criteria not environmental exposures. We exist. We are valid.
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The patient’s subjective experience of 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 is the one necessary and sufficient criterion for judging how empathic we are.
Barry Magid, M.D.
Barry Magid, M.D.
April 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The patient’s subjective experience of 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 is the one necessary and sufficient criterion for judging how empathic we are.
Barry Magid, M.D.
Barry Magid, M.D.
Got to see Remi Wolf last night. Incredible performance and energy! Girl can SING sing
April 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Got to see Remi Wolf last night. Incredible performance and energy! Girl can SING sing