ABOUT Elana Dunn | PsychologyPop

Welcome

Hey there. I'm Elana Dunn, a Licensed Professional Counselor and the person behind PsychologyPop.

PsychologyPop is where my professional and creative sides meet. I bring together the science of

psychology and autistic lived experience to help late-diagnosed autistic adults understand themselves more deeply.

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Who PsychologyPop Is For

PsychologyPop is centered on late-diagnosed autistic adults, people who are finding words for things they have lived with for years without any context.

It's a place to slow down and feel understood as the person you already are.

You won't find fixing or productivity goals here.

clinical & Lived Experience

I was diagnosed as autistic later in life.

Even with decades of training and experience as a therapist, parts of my own story didn't make sense until then.

Being A

Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adult

Has helped me to understand:

Exhaustion I had normalized.
Patterns I had pushed through.
Strengths I had misunderstood.
Grief I hadn’t named.

PsychologyPop shares both what I know professionally and what I've lived.

Sharing Lived Experience

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Never Stop Learning

Training Completed ... so far 😉

Neurodiversity-Affirming Care for Autistic Clients

- Dr. Tasha Oswald, PhD

The National Institute for the

Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

Clinical Care for

Autistic Adults

-Collaboration of Trainers

Harvard Medical School

Becoming a Neurodivergent-Affirming Clinician

- B Lourenco, MA, LMHC

Cascadia Training for Professional Development

Autism & Trauma Masterclass: Differential Diagnosis & Adapted Treatment Strategies

- Christina Marsack-Topolewski, PhD, LMSW

eCare Behavioral Health Institute

ACT for Autism

-Dr. Russ Harris, MBBS

Psychwire

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For Late-Diagnosed Autistic Adults

Understand Yourself

Learn how your nervous system and sensory needs work.

Be Authentic

Give yourself permission to be who you are.

Feel Empowered

Make choices that fit you.

The Purpose of PsychologyPop

The goal of PsychologyPop is to help late-diagnosed autistic adults understand and accept themselves.

Many autistic adults are identified in their 30s, 40s, 50s, or later, and a lot gets stirred up when that happens. Old memories come back and ask to be looked at again.

Grief can show up right next to relief. Your needs get clearer, masking gets harder to keep up, and being yourself starts to matter more than it used to.

Here you can look back at your past with this new information, learn how your nervous system and sensory needs work, and recognize your patterns without shame.

Authenticity,
Permission,
& Empowerment

You deserve permission to be who you are as an autistic adult. You don't have to become a corrected or more socially acceptable version of yourself first.

Being authentic can feel vulnerable and unfamiliar at first.

As you get to know how you work, you start trusting your sensory signals and making decisions with more confidence.

Your limits stop being something to feel ashamed of, and over time you build a life that fits you.

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