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How do neurodivergent and neurotypical partners navigate love, intimacy and communication in couple relationships? Our guest speaker Dr. Camilla Anello explores the experiences and dynamics of couple relationships where one or both partners are neurodivergent. This webinar was recorded live on 11th November 2025.
About the webinar:
Neurodivergence and Couple Relationships: How do neurodivergent and neurotypical partners navigate love, intimacy and communication in couple relationships?
In this highly requested webinar, our lovely guest speaker Dr. Camilla Anello, Counselling Psychologist explores the experiences and dynamics of couple relationships where one or both partners are neurodivergent (e.g. autistic, ADHD). Drawing on clinical experience, research and real world stories, this session will focus on:
🔹 How neurodivergence can influence emotions, communication and connection in couple relationships
🔹 Misunderstandings and challenges between neurodivergent and neurotypical partners
🔹 Ways to support each other and build stronger, more resilient connections
🔹 The role of therapy and how clinicians can better support neurodivergent people in couple relationships
Whether you're neurodivergent, in a relationship, a mental health professional or simply curious to learn about neurodivergence in couple relationships, this webinar offers a compassionate, evidence-informed look at what it means to love and relate across neurodivergent experiences.
Our guest speaker...
Originally from Italy, Dr. Camilla Anello is an experienced Counselling Psychologist with additional training in Couples Therapy. She has a longstanding interest in autism, which began during her early work with non-speaking autistic children and deepened throughout her clinical training. Her doctoral research focused on the lived experience of couples therapy in relationships where one partner is autistic and the other neurotypical. She remains passionate about supporting couples and interested in what it means to love and relate across neurodivergent differences.
In addition to her work in autism, Dr Camilla has a background in drug and alcohol services and brings a compassionate, integrative approach to her practice. She currently works in an NHS Talking Therapies service, where she leads her team’s autism initiative, helping to develop more inclusive and responsive mental health care.
Dr. Camilla has presented her work at professional events hosted by the British Psychological Society and Regent’s University London. She is committed to fostering better understanding and support for neurodivergent individuals in therapeutic settings.
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Please note that this webinar is for educational and informational purposes and is not clinical advice or therapy.
The Neurodivergent Parent Space
Our online event will also give you a taster of what we offer in The Neurodivergent Parent Space, our unique community of parents who are neurodivergent (or wondering).
In a warm, neuroaffirmative space, we offer a library of tailored, evidence-based resources, our premium self-paced emotional regulation course, tea & chat sessions with experienced clinical psychologists, and much more.
Plus, of course, connection with other neurodivergent parents to help you thrive on your parenting journey.
All our webinars and replays are FREE to community members, and best of all the community is FREE to try - and thereafter just £24.99 per month, which is the cost of one regular webinar.
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YES! We have self identifying, and wondering facilitators, lived experience through family members as well as clinical experience as psychologists. We also have a panel of neurodivergent parents who co-produce with us and support the work we do.