Media Features & Creative Work

Discover Sally Nilsson’s diverse media presence, including podcast interviews, YouTube features, radio appearances, and her published works. From mental health advocacy to personal storytelling, explore how Sally shares her experiences and insights beyond counselling.

Podcasts

Neurodivergence and Mental Health Podcast

Dive into Sally Nilsson’s Neurodivergence and Mental Health Podcast, where neurodivergent guests openly share their unique life experiences. From autism and ADHD to OCD and Tourette’s, these inspiring stories explore how being wired differently impacts childhood, education, work, relationships, and mental health. With 24 insightful episodes available, join Sally in breaking down stigma and celebrating neurodiverse voices.

On Radio

Frome FM: Love Your Mind with Sally Nilsson

Sally Nilsson hosts Love Your Mind on Frome FM, a fortnightly radio show exploring mental health and neurodiversity. Covering topics like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette’s, and OCD, Sally interviews guests who share personal experiences and provide valuable insights. The show also features local news, community updates, music, and engaging segments designed to support and inspire listeners.

Books & Publications

The Man Who Sank Titanic: The Troubled Life Of Quartermaster Robert Hichens

By Sally Nilsson

Robert Hichens was the Quartermaster at the wheel when Titanic hit the iceberg.

He received the famous order “Hard-a-Starboard” from First Officer William Murdoch. For 100 years Robert had a reputation as a coward and a bully for his behavior in Lifeboat Six where he had a stand-up row with the famous Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Her interview with the New York Times after the disaster cost him his career prospects. As a result of the sinking and because of the way he was treated by the White Star Line Robert’s life spiraled out of control and eventually led to an attempted murder charge.

Did Robert deserve his tarnished reputation?

His great-granddaughter Sally Nilsson who has written his dramatic biography and narrates this audiobook thinks not. She attempts to set the record straight and tells a different account of the last man at the wheel of Titanic.

On Being an Autistic Therapist

Edited by Max Marnau

This book is about working as autistic counsellors and psychotherapists. It is a collection of stand-alone chapters put together by members of the international online collective Autistic Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ACP). It shares their main aims: to tackle the lack of appropriate therapy available to autistic clients and to challenge the common stereotypes about autistic people, which are still very much alive and can bar them both from therapy and therapy training. But, because the writers have lived experience of the issues they are working with, they are also writing about ways of working most effectively and helpfully with autistic people. And that is what makes it unique. Each chapter describes both how the writer perceives and processes the world and how they work with clients. Their stories provide incontrovertible evidence that the existence of autistic therapists, far from being problematic or even a contradiction, is quite simply normal. And that neurodiversity, just like biodiversity, enriches, broadens and benefits all. It offers readers – autistic, allistic, therapists and would-be therapists, clients and would-be clients – the chance to meet the contributors and see them as humans, therapists and supervisors. Their hope is that, in its small way, this collection may give readers the understanding that they need to join them in changing the world.