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Unlearning AutismPositive Disintegration: Rebuilding Identity After Late Discovery | Dr. Emma OffordIn this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Emma Offord — clinical psychologist, founder of Divergent Life, and host of This Voice Is Mine.Emma’s work centres on late-identified Autistic and ADHD adults, and on what happens when we begin to understand ourselves outside of the medical model.We talk about the power of lived experience — how stories, not textbooks, often become the pathway to recognition.Emma shares her concept of positive disintegration — the process of things falling away so something more truthful can emerge — and how unlearning can be both unsettling and deeply liber...
2026-05-061h 06
This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastInternal Realities: Tuning Into Your Neurodivergent Body with Dr Clare JacobsonDr Clare Jacobson has spent over 20 years holding people's most intimate inner worlds. As a specialist clinical psychologist in teenage and young adult cancer care, she knows what it means to sit with invisible experience - the kind that doesn't show up on a blood test, but is completely real.Over the past year, Clare has been on her own journey of neurodivergent identification. And in this conversation with Emma, she brings both lenses: the clinician who has learned to approach people's inner lives with curiosity rather than certainty, and the late-identified person who spent decades being...
2026-05-051h 04This Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastWhen Everything Shifts at Once: Hormones, Neurodivergence, and the Midlife Unmasking with Sophie CartledgeWhat happens when perimenopause and neurodivergent identification arrive at the same moment? When hormones shift, the mask starts to slip, and nobody in the medical system has any idea what is actually going on?In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Sophie Cartledge, founder of Hormones on the Blink, a training platform working at the intersection of hormone health, menopause, and neurodivergence. Sophie is late-identified autistic and ADHD, discovered both through her own perimenopause journey, and has since dedicated her work to helping women, clinicians, and workplaces join the dots.
2026-04-2857 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastDifferent, Not Less: Communication, Selective Mutism, and Finding Your Voice with Eve HarrisonWhat does it take to build a movement of over a million people when you started secondary school unable to speak a single word?In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Eve Harrison, founder of Let's Make A Difference, a grassroots campaign raising awareness about communication challenges and the power of small acts of understanding. Eve is autistic, learned BSL during the pandemic when speech was not available to her, and has since used that journey to educate, include, and advocate for others.This conversation moves through selective mutism, the invisibility of quietly struggling...
2026-04-2154 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastBe Gentle With Your Giant Heart: Self-Care, Self-Advocacy, and Reclaiming the Right to Receive with Suzy ReadingWhat does it actually mean to take care of yourself, when every version of self-care you've tried has felt like another thing to fail at?In this episode, Dr Emma Offord speaks with Suzy Reading, Chartered Psychologist and author of How to Be Selfish, about what it takes to heal our relationship with self. Not with a checklist or a spa day, but with the slow, courageous work of coming home to your own needs. Suzy unpacks the gender conditioning that teaches women their worth depends on how much they give, why selflessness is...
2026-04-1449 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastRiding the Tornado: ADHD, Skateboarding, and the Power of Finding Your Thing with Ryan SwainRyan Swain was told from childhood that his energy was too much, his focus was wrong, and his way of being didn't fit. Teachers called him a liability. Nobody asked why.In this episode, Dr Emma Offord talks with Ryan, founder of the You, Me & ADHD awareness campaign, about growing up undiagnosed in a system that had no language for who he was. Ryan shares the story of finding skateboarding at eleven and how it gave him something school never could: a space where his neurobiology made sense. He also introduces his tornado analogy for ADHD, one...
2026-04-0757 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastWhen They Look Fine at School But Fall Apart at Home: Nervous Systems, Masking, and the Invisible Load of SEND Parenting with Jo RodriguezWhat happens inside a child's body when they hold it all together at school, only to fall apart the moment they walk through the front door? And what does that cost the parents who are there to catch them, every single day?In this episode, Dr Emma Offord is joined by health psychologist, CBT therapist, and EMDR practitioner Jo Rodriguez for an honest, warm, and deeply grounding conversation about what it actually means to parent neurodivergent children inside a system that was never built for them.Jo brings more than 20 years of clinical expertise and...
2026-03-3149 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastPermission to Parent Differently: Burnout, Regulation, and Finding Your Voice with Lisa GalleyLisa Galley built her career in autism the long way round: studying part time, raising three children, sitting her finals at nine months pregnant, and working in high-pressure NHS autism outreach before burnout took it all away. What followed was years of frightening physical symptoms, a diagnosis of chronic fatigue syndrome, and a profound loss of identity. What she built on the other side was something she never planned: a community, a business, and now a book.In this episode, Dr Emma Offord and Lisa explore what parental burnout really looks like when it is severe, somatic...
2026-03-2450 min
Grow Yourself UpEp 163: Neurodivergence, Unmasking, Late Diagnosis and Growing Up with Dr Emma OffordIn this episode Cath was joined by Dr Emma Offord. Cath and Emma talked about Emma's path to motherhood, childhood trauma, how Emma tends to and advocates for herself and her children and sensory needs and how these are so important to understand, particularly in the context of families/food/parenting. We talked about autism, ADHD, neurodivergence and trauma, late diagnosis, OCD and how Emma experiences OCD and Emma talked about unmasking and how she advocates for herself in order to tend to her needs.Dr Emma Offord is a clinical psychologist and founder of Divergent L...
2026-03-031h 06
Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery PodcastWhy Eating Still Breaks Down for Neurodivergent People With Long-Term Eating DisordersWhy does eating still feel impossible for neurodivergent people with long-term eating disorders, even after insight, treatment, and real effort?
In this episode, Dr. Marianne Miller explores the hidden sensory, executive functioning, and nervous system friction that causes eating to keep breaking down in daily life. This conversation moves beyond motivation, fear foods, and traditional recovery advice to name the invisible moments when hunger arrives too late, meals require overwhelming cognitive energy, sensory overload interrupts eating, masking replaces body awareness, or a nervous system crash follows nourishment.
You’ll learn why neurodivergent eating disorder recovery of...
2026-02-1311 min
The New MindThe Pain that Made Me Become a Doctor... Dr Emma Offord's Untold StoryIn this episode of The New Mind Podcast, I speak with Dr Emma Offord, clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, sensory practitioner, giftedness profiler, and founder of Divergent Life.This conversation is deeply personal, beautiful and revealing. Emma shares her own painful story. She speaks candidly about the slow, often uncomfortable process of realisation, identity, and change. This episode explores the personal reckoning behind Emma’s work, and how listening to people’s stories fundamentally reshaped her understanding of care, responsibility, and harm. Emma reflects on the emotional weight of hearing how others had bee...
2026-01-291h 28Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery PodcastEating Disorders & ADHD: Neurodivergent-Affirming Recovery With Taylor Ashley, RP @taylorashleytherapyWhy do eating disorders and ADHD so often overlap, and why does standard eating disorder treatment frequently fail neurodivergent people?
In this episode of Dr. Marianne-Land, I’m joined by Taylor Ashley @taylorashleytherapy, Registered Psychotherapist based in Guelph, Ontario, who specializes in eating disorders, ADHD, trauma, body image, and neurodivergence. Taylor brings both professional expertise and lived experience to this conversation, offering a deeply honest look at how eating disorders can function as coping and regulation systems for neurodivergent brains.
Together, we unpack why recovery often looks different for people with ADHD, why hunger cues ma...
2026-01-2635 minDr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery PodcastEgosyntonic vs Egodystonic Eating Disorder Behaviors in Neurodivergent People: Where’s the Line?Not all eating disorder behaviors feel distressing. For many neurodivergent people, certain eating patterns can feel calming, organizing, or regulating rather than intrusive or unwanted. This solo episode explores the often misunderstood difference between egosyntonic and egodystonic eating disorder behaviors, with a specific focus on neurodivergent experiences.
Dr. Marianne Miller breaks down why distress is not a reliable indicator of risk, how soothing routines can still create long-term concerns, and how clinicians and individuals can assess eating behaviors without pathologizing neurodivergence. This conversation centers nuance, consent, and nervous system safety rather than urgency or moral judgment.
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2026-01-2115 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastThe Voice of Anger: What Maternal Rage Is Really Trying to Tell UsIn this episode of This Voice Is Mine, Dr Emma Offord is joined by clinical psychologist, author, and maternal mental health specialist Dr Caroline Boyd for a deeply honest and necessary conversation about motherhood, anger, and the stories we are taught to silence.Together, they explore the realities that so many parents live but rarely feel able to name: intrusive thoughts, maternal rage, emotional overload, and the crushing weight of expectation placed on mothers, particularly within a culture that still clings to myths of calm, self-sacrificing, endlessly patient ‘good’ motherhood.Caroline brings her clinical expertise, rese...
2026-01-1354 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastPermission to Be Seen: Nervous Systems, Shame, and VoiceIn this intimate, reflective episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord and the DL team are joined by Helen Marie, a UK-based registered integrative therapist, author of Choose You, and host of the podcast I Don’t Think We Talk Enough About.Together, Emma and Helen, along with Jolene and Jo, explore what it really means to grow full size: not as a performance of confidence, but as a nervous-system-led journey of becoming. Helen shares her path from a first career in public health into psychotherapy, and the lived experiences that changed ev...
2026-01-0653 min
Dial EmmaDr. Emma Offord: Navigating an autism diagnosis later in lifeWelcome back to Dial Emma and a very happy new year to you all!Each week, I'll be answering your dilemmas with honesty, empathy, and a few therapeutic truth bombs to help you make sense of life's stickiest moments. If you've ever wished you had a therapist in your back pocket, Dial Emma is here to help.This week, I'm joined by Dr. Emma Offord, a clinical psychologist, neurodivergence specialist and founder of Divergent Life. We're unpacking a dilemma from a listener who has been diagnosed with autism at 38. The diagnosis initially brought her relief...
2026-01-0544 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastParenting Unplugged: Raising Neuro-affirming Families with Charis HalsallParenting a neurodivergent child in a system that was never designed for their brain is hard. Parenting that child while you are still healing your own school trauma is something else entirely.In this episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord is joined by parenting coach and host of the Parent Unplugged podcast, Charis Halsall. A mum of three and an outspoken advocate for children and adults with dyslexia, Charis was diagnosed at seven and spent her school years collecting what she later learned to call “micro-traumas”: the red pen, the laptop that...
2025-12-1647 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastFrom Silence to Voice: Charlotte Hunt on School, Survival & Raising Neurodivergent KidsIn this emotionally rich and beautifully honest episode, Charlotte Hunt, the powerhouse behind Twin Tides & Autism Vibes, joins Dr Emma Offord to explore the hidden stories behind advocacy, identity, motherhood, and living a neurodivergent life that was never built for your wiring.Charlotte shares her journey from being a school refuser at 14, to navigating complex family dynamics, to discovering her neurodivergent traits through her children, to becoming a voice of truth and connection for thousands online. She speaks openly about the highs and lows of SEN parenting, the toll of health anxiety, the impact of perimenopause, and...
2025-12-0935 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastThe Gut, the Brain & the Unquiet Body: A Conversation with Will MartinIn this deeply grounding episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord is joined by Will Martin, Nutritional Therapist, former teacher, and late-identified Dyslexic, Autistic ADHDer who helps children, adults and parents regulate their emotions and attention through holistic, evidence-based neurobiology.Together, Emma and Will explore the unspoken internal world so many neurodivergent people carry: the internal chatter, the “work harder” conditioning, the cycles of anxiety and burnout, the longing for deep connection, and the quiet belief that you’re “not enough.”Will shares:Growing up sensitive, misunderstood and unable to name hi...
2025-12-0250 minThis Voice is Mine: the Unquiet PodcastFrom Missing the Mark to Finding Her Voice: Eliza Fricker on Becoming UnquietIn this opening episode of This Voice Is Mine: The Unquiet Podcast, Dr Emma Offord sits down with author, illustrator and PDA/autism advocate Eliza Fricker, the creator of Missing the Mark and Sunday Times bestseller Can’t Not Won’t, to talk about what happens when life “goes nuclear” and the mask finally slips.Eliza shares the story of her daughter’s breakdown from school, the loneliness of being disbelieved as a mother, and how drawing rooftops from a high-up flat became her way to keep going when everything else fell apart.Emma and Eliza name...
2025-11-2551 min
ADHD PERI PUNKSTrauma, Unmasking & the Social Justice Movement: Divergent Life with Dr. Emma OffordSUMMARY: In this fiery episode, Dr. Emma Offord talks with Chrissy and Sarah on Trauma, Unmasking & the Social Justice Movement and how neurodivergence isn't a disorder. That's right! You heard us. In this raw and revolutionary episode of ADHD Peri Punks, we sit down with Dr. Emma Offord—clinical psychologist, neuroaffirming coach, and founder of Divergent Life. Emma opens up about her late identification as neurodivergent during perimenopause, the trauma of being unseen, and why she rejects the “disorder” label in favor of the neurodiversity paradigm.We talk invisible system trauma, unmasking after decade...
2025-11-231h 03Dr. Marianne-Land: An Eating Disorder Recovery PodcastUnmasking, Embodiment, & Trust: A Neurodivergent Approach to Eating Disorder Recovery With Dr. Emma Offord @divergentlivesIn this powerful and affirming conversation, Dr. Marianne Miller welcomes Dr. Emma from Divergent Life, a UK-based neuroaffirming clinical psychologist and thought leader. Together, they explore the intersections of neurodivergence, eating disorders, masking, trauma, and embodiment, examining what true safety and self-trust look like in recovery.
Dr. Emma shares her journey toward becoming an eating disorder specialist, her resistance to standardized and compliance-based treatment models, and how her activist, trauma-informed, and social justice-oriented approachshapes her work.
Listeners will hear both clinicians reflect on their lived experiences, discuss the harm of medicalized narratives, and explore how...
2025-11-0335 min
ND & Free PodcastEpi 47 - ND Assessment & The Holistic Approach to ND Coaching - With Dr Emma Offord - The ND Thrive Guide Epi 23In this twenty-third episode of 'THE ND THRIVE GUIDE' we have amazing the Dr Emma Offord a Clinical Psychologist and the founder of Divergent Life, a neuroaffirming service that exists outside of the traditional medical model. Emma specialises in working with autistic and ADHD people, particularly late-identified women and families, offering assessments, coaching, and programmes that support nervous system regulation and self-understanding.
Owen and Emma discuss how a holistic Neurodivergent Assessment can be so powerful. We also dive into the importance of the body within the Neurodivergent experiences. We dive into the nervous system, somatic practices and trauma. All through a ND...
2025-09-1151 min
We're Not Your Typical PodcastDr Emma Offord: From School Trauma to Eating Disorders: Exploring Neurodivergent ChallengesIn this episode, we welcome Dr. Emma, a clinical psychologist and founder of a neuroaffirming service for neurodivergent individuals. Dr. Emma shares her journey of starting her business during the lockdown, driven by the patterns she observed in her clients who struggled to see lasting change in therapy. She discusses the importance of understanding sensory profiling, giftedness, and executive functioning in neurodivergence, and how her approach aims to support individuals across all ages and neurotypes. Join us as we explore school trauma, eating disorders, late diagnoses, and more in this insightful conversation. Don’t miss this enlightening episode! Hosted by Si...
2025-05-1450 min
Distracted: ADHD61. OCD, Sensory Sensitivities & Regulating Your Nervous System Ft. Dr Emma OffordDr Emma Offord, neuroaffirming psychologist and founder of Divergent Life, is on the pod this week and what an episode it is! We cover some super interesting topics like sensory profiles, OCD and regulating your nervous system. We absolutely loved this chat and we hope you enjoy it too! You can follow Emma at @divergentlives, sign up for her Neurodivergent Identity Programme or explore her free 'Becoming Neurodivergent' pack.Shout out to all our Patrons, thanks so much for the support! If you fancy joining and getting access to ad-free...
2025-02-2651 min
I Don't Think We Talk Enough About...Episode 24 | ADHD (with Dr Emma Offord) [VIDEO]Send us Fan MailThis show is sponsored by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/helenmarieIn this week’s episode, I had the absolute pleasure of speaking with clinical psychologist Dr. Emma Offord about ADHD. In this conversation, Emma helps us to understand ADHD and the uniqueness of neurodivergence, covering topics such as:•The impact it has on the nervous system•The causes of ADHD•The differences between a brain with ADHD and one without•Where to go for support•How to take your power ba...
2024-12-1252 min
Reframing Neurodiversity27. Do We Really Need Neurodivergent Labels?You can read this episode here.Hey guys.So I just had the best conversation with Dr. Emma Offord from Divergent Life and it's really got me thinking…. why do we need labels?We needed these labels as a result of a world that we created that privileges one right way to be and do. Which can be put into a label of neurotypical.But we know there's no such thing as a normal brain.* That all of our brains are as unique as our fingerprints.* That we...
2024-11-0807 min
Reframing Neurodiversity26. What To Do If You Are Suppressing Your Disregulation With Dr. Emma OffordIn this episode I speak with clinical psychologist and Divergent Life founder, Dr. Emma Offord. We both come from the medical “deficit” based model in the neurodivergent community but through our own lived experiences have focused on a strengths and somatic based approach to this work.You can watch or read this episode here.Craving a safe space to reparent yourself with other ADHD moms who get it? Check out my community here on Substack.The work I've been doing has been getting really curious about: What's really going on at the root? Like...
2024-11-0133 min
Hello Therapy: Mental Health Tips For Personal Growth#40: Exploring OCD, Autism and ADHD with Dr Emma OffordCan individuals with OCD be considered neurodivergent? Dr. Emma Offord, a clinical psychologist and specialist in neurodivergence and OCD, joins me to address this complex question. Our discussion focuses on the complex relationship between OCD, autism, and ADHD, and how they can be experienced by people. Tune in to uncover insights on how neurobiological factors and sensory sensitivities might influence OCD-like experiences, and what these nuances mean for treatment and support.Episode Highlights01:05 OCD and Neurodivergence: A Deep Dive08:49 OCD and Autism: Clinical Observations20:45 Exploring ADHD and OCD Co-occurrence21:21...
2024-10-2938 min
Hello Therapy: Mental Health Tips For Personal Growth#28 Navigating Neurodivergence: Tools, Challenges, and Personal Stories with Dr Emma OffordThink you may be Autistic or experience ADHD and looking for guidance on what to do next from a neuro-affirming perspective?In this episode, I invite Dr. Emma Offord, a clinical psychologist specialising in neurodivergence, to share her insights on the neurodivergent experience - particularly the discovery process and the emotional journey that can unfold as a result.Emma shares her expertise on how understanding your sensory profile is important, and the challenges faced by neurodivergent individuals in various settings across the lifespan. Together we discuss the importance of having a...
2024-08-0643 min
The Late Discovered ClubS3 Episode 1 - UnfurlingWe're back for another season, and whilst Catherine is still climbing the breast cancer mountain, the top of that mountain is in sight, and this season will run until her treatment finishes in November 2024 with bi-weekly episodes for you to indulge in from now until then.First up in Season 3 is Dr Emma Svanberg - an award winning Clinical Psychologist, author of Parenting For Humans (Vermilion, 2 March 2023) founder of The Psychology Co-operative and co-founder of Make Birth Better CIC. Emma also facilitates a parenting community on Facebook called The Village – A Parenting Community For Humans.We...
2024-03-2859 min
Inspiring Psychologists PodcastS1E10 From Stigma to Empowerment: Changing the Narrative on Neurodiversity in Private Practice.Episode 10 of the Inspiring Psychologists podcast, titled "From Stigma to Empowerment: Changing the Narrative on Neurodiversity in Private Practice," explores the groundbreaking work of three remarkable psychologists who are challenging traditional norms and perceptions in their practices. Dr. Emma Offord from Divergent Life, Dr. Katie Adolphus of The Adolphus Practice, and Dr. Lola Perez-Gavino from Mind Made Easy share their inspiring stories of supporting neurodiverse individuals and families while promoting empowerment and understanding.
The episode delves into the urgent need for society and the psychology profession to rethink and revolutionise conventional approaches to supporting neurodivergence. The guests...
2023-07-071h 05
Bloomsbury Festival podcasts and interviewsThe winners of the Bloomsbury Festival Art Competition 2022Broadcaster John Offord talks to two of the three winners of the Bloomsbury Festival Art Competition 2022 (Jan Pimblett, Glenda Frieder & Emma Todd) on Bloomsbury Radio at a private view of their exhibition at Spaghetti House gallery. The exhibition is free and open daily until 23 October. More info: https://bit.ly/3D2SqyA
2022-10-1604 min
Game of Opinions: The Eurosport football podcastInternational Women’s Day special with Carrie Dunn and Jen OffordIn advance of International Women’s Day, Carrie Dunn and Jen Offord present a special podcast discussing all the latest news and views in women’s football. Featuring the England Lionesses’ return to action, Emma Hayes’ links with the AFC Wimbledon job and sexist abuse on social media. Celebrate International Women’s Day on Monday March 8. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-03-0457 min