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Last week, news broke that the U.S. Department of Defense left Latter-day Saints out within the broader Christian category: Catholic, Protestant, and other Christian traditions.  For any international therapists reading this who work with Mormons, I imagine you have been looking at US politics with fascination, or perhaps not wanting to look at all. And that's ok.
When you work with autistic clients long enough, you start noticing that autism never really shows up alone. It always shows up inside a family system, a community, a set of expectations about what a good life is supposed to look like.
Last night, Pope Leo released a statement on the ethics of artificial intelligence. At nearly the same moment, Utah leaders were discussing massive AI infrastructure expansion, including the proposed 40,000-acre data center development near North Salt Lake outside the Salt Lake City area. And honestly? As a Mormon mental health professional, I don’t think those two conversations are unrelated.
Did you know (my client did not, because only half of women have experienced this) women can and do orgasm in their sleep—verified in sleep labs with EEG and physiological monitoring—which raises an important clinical question: if the physiological capacity exists, what happens psychologically, culturally, or relationally in waking life?