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Sonny Hallett
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Therapist, trainer & consultant. Autistic, trans, mixed race. Woodland creature. They/them

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Finally home from Glasgow after four long days of conferencing at the PCE Europe Symposium. So tired no more words. It’s been a lot.

I did these doodles while listening to talks:
A tiny square concertina-style sketchbook, opened out next to the ink pen I used. The long strip of paper is covered in pen line drawings of animals, plants, mushrooms, etc. A tiny square concertina-style sketchbook, opened out next to the ink pen I used. This is the reverse side to the previous image. The paper strip on this side is shown vertically, with pen and ink drawings of outer space with planets, stars, a satellite and a space while, fading down into clouds and sky with birds, waves, the sea and fish, a hammerhead shark, and deep ocean with a whale, a gulper eel and an angler fish. A conference lanyard and badge. The badge has my name Sonny Hallett on it and my pronouns, they/them. Surrounding that is loads of ink doodles of animals and plants, including a tapir, a bat, a dolphin, butterfly, lemur, owl… Reverse side of conference badge showing the conference logo and theme: growing in difficult and challenging places. Around it one doodled mostly plants, mushrooms, and abstract shapes
November 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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A sunny day to be travelling through to Glasgow!
Feeling nervously excited for my keynote at the PCE Europe symposium this afternoon.
My talk is titled: Be yourself. No, not like that - Normativity in therapy training and its impact on all of us.

More info: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...
Me - selfie of a brown haired human with mixed Asian and European features and glasses, smiling at the camera as the sun shines through a coach window. They are wearing a hand knitted rainbow jumper and rainbow coloured shirt.
November 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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A morning blep to all who celebrate
A small black and white schnauzer and westie cross terrier, lying on a white faux wool blanket, partly rolling over to expose her chest for rubbing. She’s looking up at a human out of frame (apart from a hand), and her tongue is sticking out in a tiny blep.
November 13, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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I have a chapter in a book!

I feel really excited and honoured to be alongside a whole bunch of great chapters and authors writing on the Person Centred Approach.

Ebook also available.
You can get a 20% discount until the end of December using code 25ESA3

www.routledge.com/Applying-the...
Kifl the small terrier sitting with the book Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises in front of her First page of my chapter: 6. Neurodiversity and the Person-Centred Approach: Am I doing this right? Sonny Hallett “My counsellor and I meet out in the woods every week; we walk and sit on mats on the ground, notice the changing seasons in the plants, fungi and wildlife, talk or walk in silence. This time I’ve asked him to show me how to make a fire without a lighter. He shows me how to use the striker against the kindling, bundling twigs and strips of cloth along with a piece of King Alfred’s cake, a fungus that burns very slowly. He passes the pieces over to me. ‘Just have a play with it’. I feel a familiar anxious turning-over in my stomach as I fumble the handful. I’m used to being uncoordinated, misunderstanding instructions. I often try to study how to do something on my own and practice obsessively before I let anyone watch me. It feels newly bold of me to ask someone to show me something when I haven't prepared by trying to study on my own. By practicing a skill alone, I can get a feel for it, make mistakes, and try things out. I find that there is something very soothing and satisfying about this, but the process of being observed in learning and exploring can feel very vulnerable. I realised I am autistic almost ten years ago, when in my late twenties, though I always felt that something was different. Academically I did okay because I could go away and study alone, carefully and intensively, making the most of my tendency and ability to be sucked monotropically1 into intense interests and passions. I also did okay with art because I spent a lot of time drawing on my own, when I was anxious or to express and process my feelings. Over time I got a lot of positive encouragement so I mostly felt confident to be seen making art. But with sports, music, learning another language or anything that required practice with other people, I felt dread. Everyone got things wrong, but I seemed to get things wrong in weird ways - somehow I felt I was even getting it…”
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Another photo because the video quality was terrible
Wasp clinging to outside of train window as greenery rushes past
August 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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On a trip to Denmark, saw this wasp outside the train window as the train picked up speed. It held on for an impressively long time before being flung off. Those little antenna 🥺 I hope it’s ok
August 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Visited the Lego House recently and can’t stop thinking about this early Lego product
A large wooden toy - body shaped like a black bird, wearing brown boots, head shaped like a bald man with glasses, moustache and a reddish nose
August 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Came home exhausted, flopped on sofa, but:
Small dog pawing at my leg insistently on the sofa as I try to rest
July 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Just look at her though
(We really ought to post some photos of her that are not on this sofa from time to time…)
Small dog lounging cutely on her back on a blue sofa
June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Hrnf.
Kifl the the terrier, since her haircut she has even more splendid moustaches and eyebrows. Here her head is tucked against the side of my thigh on the sofa, one ear resting on my leg.
June 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Kifl listening to speakers at @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social Pride in Our Community
Photo of Kifl the terrier, wearing a rainbow bandana, lying in the grass, looking up, people with pride flags in the background
June 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Thank you yesterday’s me. This is the kind of reminder I like to see as I’m waking up in the morning 🥰
A notification from the reminders app on my phone, at 8.30 this morning, with the text “Pastry in raincoat pocket”
June 16, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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@fergus.oolong.co.uk made Kifl kipferl 🥰
An Austrian kipferl-style shortbread biscuit shaped like our terrier Kifl, dusted with icing sugar on a cherry blossom saucer. A green mug of black coffee sits next to it on a wooden table.
June 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The important thing, I think, is questioning sameness and normative ideas, why some ways of practicing feel reassuring, while others feel worrisome - whether those feelings come from a helpful place or one that is a reaction to difference:

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“When everything is a monoculture, diversity can look scary, wild, out of control. It’s understandable, but it’s unsustainable. To reconnect with diversity, we need to expand and rewild our thinking, and change our practices on a fundamental level. We need to notice and challenge the things that we take for granted.”
June 3, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I’ve been quiet on the crochet and weaving front because I’ve been mostly crocheting things in secret. Now I can finally reveal the dragon I made for @fergus.oolong.co.uk ‘s birthday! It’s wired and fully poseable and very goofy 😁
An Asian-style long dragon with four feet, crocheted from different shades of green, yellow, and orange yarn. It has big bulgy eyes, lots of teeth, whiskers, and coral-like horns. And a pompom tail. An Asian-style long dragon with four feet, crocheted from different shades of green, yellow, and orange yarn. It has big bulgy eyes, lots of teeth, whiskers, and coral-like horns. And a pompom tail. Here it is sitting on Fergus’ shoulder. An Asian-style long dragon with four feet, crocheted from different shades of green, yellow, and orange yarn. It has big bulgy eyes, lots of teeth, whiskers, and coral-like horns. And a pompom tail. An Asian-style long dragon with four feet, crocheted from different shades of green, yellow, and orange yarn. It has big bulgy eyes, lots of teeth, whiskers, and coral-like horns. And a pompom tail.
May 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Now my left foot is a bit squished and I have to move soon for work but 🥹
My dog is still between my feet but has now rolled slightly on to my left foot. She has more weight on my toes than may be obvious from the photo
May 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Snuggle
View from above of my feet, wearing Pac-man socks, cuddling my dog who is snoozing between them on the carpet
May 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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I was lucky enough to get to watch a lacewing inflate its wings today
A green lacewing insect, with a metallic green body, shiny round bronze eyes, and long antenna, perching on a wooden fence slat. Its lace-like wings are still quite rolled up and curled, and the exoskeleton of its younger form is just next to it attached to the fence. A green lacewing insect, with a metallic green body, shiny round bronze eyes, and long antenna, perching on a wooden fence slat. Its lace-like wings are still quite rolled up and curled, but are unfurling more than in previous photos. A green lacewing insect, with a metallic green body, shiny round bronze eyes, and long antenna, perching on a wooden fence slat. Its lace-like wings are almost fully inflated now, though still a little curled. A green lacewing insect, with a metallic green body, shiny round bronze eyes, and long antenna, perching on a wooden fence slat. Its lace-like wings have just fully inflated.
May 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Somehow both your photos are still more purple than I see them irl. But my photo here is also quite purple, unless night mode is messing with my screen colours
An anemone flower in a pot. Either blue or purple
May 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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More morning cuteness
Kifl being extremely cute with her front paws up as she lies on the sofa again
May 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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If you see this, post a flower!
Close up of tiny green and pink blackcurrant flowers, bulbous at the base opening out to curled pink petals, hanging from the branch in clusters.
April 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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I’ve been working on some micro crochet 😵‍💫
Two crochet ‘African flower’ hexagons, both purple and orange but with inverted colours, a six petalled flower in each hexagon. They are both sitting on my palm, each about the height of two finger joints. They are made from strands of cotton. A crochet ‘African flower’ hexagon, purple and orange, a six petalled flower in the hexagon. I’m holding it by my fingertips against a woven placemat.
April 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Lovely day to be spending outdoors
Photo of a woodland in the morning, blue skies in the background, a European robin stands on a branch in the foreground. The trees are still bare but greenery on the ground and small green leaf buds on the branches is starting to appear
April 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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More!
March 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Hey so guess who has clothes now
Little crochet fox standing on a table wearing blue-green dungarees Little crochet fox sitting on a placemat on a table wearing blue-green dungarees
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM