Autistic Therapist

04/29/2026

DBTSkills. Module 1. Mindfulness. Mindfulness is crucial to DBT even though DBT is much more than Mindfulness. A helpful starting point is to learn skills to help practice Mindfulness.

04/29/2026

DBT Skills : Module : Emotion Regulation. Skill. Understanding Emotions.

Emotions are crucial in navigating everyday life. Many of life's problems can be resolved by better emotional awareness.

"I need a drink after that"
"The day I've had.."
"She made me so angry"
"He had such road rage .."
"It's like treading on eggshells coming home from
school/college/work''...

Emotional awareness is key to emotion regulation. Then not needing to change the way we feel with anger outbursts, unhealthy lifestyle choices :drink, drugs, feeding our feelings, overeating, spending, shopping, gambling, other forms of unhealthy ways of coping /self harm.

Most of us have a more than reasonable grasp on emotional literacy.
We know that we need the so called ' negative emotions' as much as the feel good 'positive emotions'.

If we've never experienced sadness then we wouldn't know joy.[ ie :the movie Inside Out and its sequel].

Yet still we go about our day, or many of us do - blaming external issues for rising levels of stress, overwhelm, reactivity.

DBT can really help us with this.

[Image credit : Brene Brown who adapted the seminal work of Wilcox, Plutchik & Zinker]

04/28/2026

Getting tattooed is also healing.

04/27/2026

Being disabled shouldn't equal being poor.
Abolish the sub-minimum wage, increase income caps for disability assistance, and establish universal basic income.

digital illustration of a disabled nonbinary person with forearm crutches. They have a green mullet and are wearing a black t-shirt, purple cargo pants, green chunky heels and a green belt. There's text that reads, 'being disabled shouldn't equal being poor.'

04/26/2026

She didn’t just break the rules. She became the rule they couldn’t ignore.
Betty Broadbent was a teenage nanny when she discovered tattoo art on a boardwalk.
That was the moment.
Curiosity turned into choice.
The barrier was brutal.
In the 1920s, tattoos marked you as an outcast. Women weren’t supposed to have them at all.
The risk was total.
Reputation. Respectability. Acceptance. All gone.
She did it anyway.
By 18, her body was covered in hundreds of designs, turning herself into a living canvas.
That’s the defiance.
Not hiding. Displaying.
She stepped onto circus stages, not as a curiosity, but as a statement.
Beautiful. Feminine. Tattooed.
Everything the system said couldn’t coexist.
That’s the contradiction.
The struggle lasted decades.
Crowds stared. Society judged. She kept showing up.
Then came the breakthrough.
A 40-year career, global recognition, and the first person ever inducted into the Tattoo Hall of Fame.
That’s not rebellion.
That’s transformation.
That’s the legacy.
A woman who turned her body into art, her art into power, and her existence into proof.
And it leaves a sharper question.
If owning your body was once called deviant, what does it say about the rules that created that label?

04/25/2026

04/25/2026

13 likes. "29/30 Tony Robbins: Choose how you show up as in your relationships "

04/24/2026

04/24/2026

Rumination and processing can look identical from the outside because both involve returning to the same material. The difference is direction.

Processing moves. It integrates. It produces small shifts in how something is held. Rumination circles. It reinforces. It deepens grooves without ever finding a way through.

Save this and share it with someone who needs to see the difference.

04/22/2026

Join us May 8 at 6 PM — Mental Health Roundtable & Social for Neurodivergent & Disabled Adults co-hosted with Unity Forward Oklahoma and The Arc of Oklahoma🌟

In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, Lindsey Vandeventer, LCSW (Autistic Therapist) will lead an interactive roundtable + relaxed social at NAMI Tulsa (708 S. Boston Ave.). Expect practical self‑care strategies, guidance on finding supports, small‑group discussion grounded in lived experience & clinical expertise, and low‑pressure time to connect. Light refreshments provided.

Who it's for: autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled adults seeking connection and community!

Caregiver note: please drop off/pick up when possible.

Space limited to 20 — register today!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/may-neurodivergent-and-disabled-adults-social-tickets-1988044775440?aff=oddtdtcreator

We can’t wait to see you there — bring yourself, bring your questions, and leave with an even stronger community. 💙

04/21/2026

The autism spectrum is big, vibrant and complicated, a new graphic of 39 traits shows