Neurocurious! A Psychocinematic Podcast
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Curious about neurodivergence? Work with neurodivergence, are neurodivergent, or considering if you might be? Wondering what that big long word actually means? Tune in to Neurocurious, a new podcast from Psychocinematic! Stephanie Fornasier will be bringing you perspectives about working in the neurodivergent field, as a neurodivergent psychologist, who is also about to discover exactly what flavour of neurodivergence she is. Starting January 5th 2026! Follow me at @PsychocinematicPodcast on Insta, @Psychocinematic on Tiktok and Youtube!
Episodes
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Girls, Famesick and the arc of Lena Denham
TRANSCRIPT HERE I've been in a Lena Dunham deep dive after reading Famesick and watching Girls, like most elder millennial white women! Today is a lot of discussion about how her rise to fame and work impacted girls of a certain age, how revisiting challenged all the assumptions made about her…
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Diagnostic Diaries: Getting the diagnosis (and the urge to apologise for oneself)
The day has come, and I receive the results of my diagnostic assessment! What does it reveal? Ok you probably already know the outcome, but what ELSE does it reveal? Find out what the experience was like and why it makes me want to say sorry, a lot. TRANSCRIPT HERE --- Created by Stephanie...
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Grieving Nic
Content warning: a bit of an emotional discussion about grief, death, trauma, cancer, the afterlife. TRANSCRIPT HERE Today's episode involves a recording I made exactly a year ago, leading up to the anniversary of my beautiful beloved brother's death, and an update from today. Rest In Peace...
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Psychology Training Reform Part 2: Could the changes do more harm than good?
Here's part 2! Follow along as I highlight some of the concerns of the new proposed model, how it may actually contribute to the mental health crisis, result in less diversity of psychologists not more, and how all of this could be avoided if they just raised the dang Medicare Rebate. CONTENT...
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Psychology Training Reform Part 1: An Overview of the Proposed Changes
Today I explain (somewhat confusingly, sorry) the current pathways in order to become a psychologist in Australia today, and what changes the Psychology Board is proposing to that pathway. If you have any exposure or link to the psychology workforce, then this is a very important listen! And the...
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Diagnostic Diaries: Learning about Gesssschalting
The fourth episode of Diagnostic Diaries is all about Gestalt Language Processing, what it means to me, and how I've discovered its applicability to myself, my family and close friends. It's maybe not the greatest description of what GLP actually is in terms of language development, so please…
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We have a whiteness problem in the ND allied health community
TRANSCRIPT HERE This episode is an open letter to the white neurodivergent community, especially those who are advocates, mental health and allied health professionals, and particularly psychologists. It describes the problem we have around whiteness, and anti black/blakness, and how we must…
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Diagnostic Diaries: Learning About The Mask
It's our third Diagnostic Diaries episode, and at this point I'm deep in the ADHD & Autism assessment process and learning some major things about masking, how often I wear a mask, and how hard it is to take it off. Featured also is the Yellow Ladybugs conference, where I learnt just how hard it…
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Why are Psychologists who work with ADHD mad at Osher Gunsberg?
Today’s podcast ep is about correcting misinformation, managing mass panic and calling influential celebrities to account. A few weeks ago Osher Gunsberg invited a neuroscientist onto his podcast Better Than Yesterday, and some very problematic and non-evidence based things were said about ADHD…
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BAFTAgate: when fake inclusion causes harm
There's been a few things happening about disability & neurodivergence in the media lately and I gotta say my piece Chrissy*. First up, a summary on the discourse surrounding the incident at the BAFTAs involving a badly executed attempt at inclusion and a racial slur. You know the one. Transcript...
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Diagnostic Diaries: I'm a Psychologist, of course I can perfectly read social cues...
In the next Diagnostic Diaries entry, I, Steph, take you through some of the interpersonal breakdowns in my life that have led me to question...'hey I thought I was good at social cues and recognising red flags. Maybe I'm not?' And maybe it's time for that autism assessment... Enjoy! Transcript...
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Diagnostic Diaries - A Sunday meltdown and what happened after (feat. Circle of Security)
Welcome to the first entry of Diagnostic Diaries, where Steph takes you through her journey of getting assessed for autism and ADHD. Today, one of the many little/big moments that makes you go "Okay maybe this is NOT a neurotypical experience and maybe I need some help?" We also look at concept…
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Autistic Barbie has broken the Autistic internet
Last week, Autistic Barbie was released by Mattel as part of their Barbie Fashionistas series. And the Autism community was absolutely ROCKED by this. Join me and follow along with the social media posts below to unpack the discourse - the positive, the negative, and the backlash AGAINST the...
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Should Psychologists be on Social Media?
Welcome to our second ever episode! Today I unpack a tricky question - is it ethical and professional for psychologists to share advice, information and general content on social media? To answer this I do a wee dive into the APS Social Media Guidelines and Code of Conduct (please note this was...
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Why are we getting Neurocurious?
Welcome to the first episode of Neurocurious! A Psychocinematic Podcast. This is a bit of an intro about where I'm at, why I've started this podcast, what I hope to achieve with it, and what it will look like! Transcript available here: TRANSCRIPT ------ Created by Stephanie Fornasier Music by...
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Trailer: Neurocurious! A Psychocinematic Podcast
Curious about neurodivergence? Work with neurodivergence, are neurodivergent, or considering if you might be? Wondering what that big long word actually means? Tune in to Neurocurious, a new podcast from Psychocinematic, and find out from the horses mouth! Here at Neurocurious, I will be bringing...
About this show
Curious about neurodivergence? Work with neurodivergence, are neurodivergent, or considering if you might be? Wondering what that big long word actually means?
Tune in to Neurocurious, a new podcast from Psychocinematic! Stephanie Fornasier will be bringing you perspectives about working in the neurodivergent field, as a neurodivergent psychologist, who is also about to discover exactly what flavour of neurodivergence she is.
Starting January 5th 2026!
Follow me at @PsychocinematicPodcast on Insta, @Psychocinematic on Tiktok and Youtube!
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