Emotional Communication: How to Get Your Emotional Needs Met in a Relationship-Paul Micallef

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Many couples Paul Micallef works with experience conflict due to differing emotional styles and unmet emotional needs. These types of emotional misunderstandings can leave us feeling alone, unseen, unheard, unvalued.

So how can we reconnect, and bridge the gap, and increase the level of emotional intimacy?

During this episode from the 2025 Neurodiverse Love Conference, Paul will address: ​How to effectively communicate your emotional needs. ​How to deal with a partner who is uncomfortable expressing emotion. ​How to avoid common traps that lead your partner to shutdown and withdraw.

Paul is an autistic life coach, speaker, facilitator, and trainer, with a passion for neurodiversity and emotional intelligence. Leveraging his own lived experience, as well as insights gained from many years working with the autistic community, Paul seeks to promote emotional and psychological safety by bridging the empathy gap between mainstream and neurodivergent culture.

Since discovering his own autism at the age of 30, Paul has worked in a variety of mentoring and educational roles helping parents, students, and teachers, to understand the ‘human side’ of autism.

His YouTube channel, Autism From The Inside, has over 400,000 subscribers, and his annual online Lived Experience Autism Summit brings dozens of actually autistic speakers to a global audience.

You can learn more about Paul here.