NEURO-AFFIRMING COUNSELING

You were never the problem. You were just wired differently.

Therapy that understands — and honors — the ADHD brain, the autistic experience, the sensitive nervous system, the porous empathic perspective, and the particular exhaustion of spending a lifetime trying to fit a world that wasn't built for you.

Maybe you've known for a while that something was different. The way you process. The way you feel everything so intensely — or go completely numb. The way social situations leave you depleted in ways that are hard to explain. The way you've always had to work three times as hard just to appear like you're trying the same amount as everyone else.

Or maybe you're newer to this — a diagnosis in midlife, or a dawning recognition without a formal label yet. Maybe someone reflected something back to you and a door opened that you're still standing in the threshold of.

Maybe you’re still wondering, and would like some help figuring out if, and in what ways, you are neurodivergent.

Wherever you are in that journey, you deserve a therapist who doesn't just tolerate neurodivergence — who actually gets it. Who won't pathologize the way your brain works, won't push you toward neurotypical norms, and won't ask you to mask in the very room where you're supposed to be healing.

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You are in the right place if...

You have a diagnosis of autism, ADHD, or both — and want therapy that actually understands what that means for your daily life, relationships, and sense of self
You're exploring the possibility that you're neurodivergent — late-identified, self-suspecting, or recently diagnosed and still making sense of it
You've been in therapy before but felt like you had to explain yourself constantly, or like the model just didn't fit your brain
You mask heavily — at work, in relationships, everywhere — and you're exhausted by it
You're highly sensitive, an empath, or an "outlier" in ways that have never been named but have always been true
You're dealing with the grief, anger, or relief that often comes with late identification
You want support that holds your neurodivergence as a variation, not a deficit

This is also a space for the particular intersections — neurodivergent people healing from religious trauma, from people-pleasing, from the specific burnout that comes from decades of unrecognized masking.

You've spent enough time trying to be easier to understand.

It's time to be fully understood.

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Neurodiverse Self-Understanding

If you are curious if you are neurodiverse, or in what way you are neurodiverse, I would like to support you in that process.

I know it took me so long, personally, to examine and define my own neurodiversity. I would love to help you find your way through that. To complete your quest of Defining Your Neurodiversity.

I want to support you in learning characteristics of neurodiversity, and which ones fit for you personally, in a way that underscores your worth, is realistic about challenges you face, and highlights all the amazing things about you.

Many assessments for Autism and ADHD focus on dated, stereotyped views of neurodivergence. They capture outward characteristics that neurotypical assessors found different and strange. They do not capture the lovely inner worlds of neurodiverse people, or their struggles to live in a neurotypical-supremacy culture. Thus, I provide information about self-assessments you can take, but I prioritize neuro-affirming checklists created by neurodiverse folks.

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