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Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy

Collaborative and supportive care for neurodivergent adults in San Diego and across California via telehealth.

What is Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy?

Providing neurodivergent-affirming therapy means understanding that your neurotype is not something broken, wrong, or in need of fixing, and approaching care with awareness of how ableism, masking, and systemic challenges can impact mental health and daily life. If you are navigating ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, sensory sensitivities, executive functioning challenges, or burnout, therapy should support you in understanding yourself, not trying to make you fit society or someone else’s definition of “normal.” In session, there is no expectation to make eye contact, stop stimming, or perform wellness.

Experience

I have experience supporting:

  • Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD clients (diagnosed or self-identified) navigating attention challenges, overwhelm, or burnout

  • Neurodivergent adults exploring identity, masking, or rejection sensitivity

  • Late-diagnosed adults

  • LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC neurodivergent clients navigating layered identity stress

Many neurodivergent adults, especially women, Black people, and high-masking individuals, have been previously misdiagnosed or missed entirely. I recognize the impact of systemic bias in diagnostic, educational, and healthcare systems, and I approach this work with that awareness.

I do not provide formal assessments for ADHD or Autism, but I can provide referrals if you would like to seek a formal assessment.

Common Reasons Clients Seek Therapy

  • Learn tools to support executive functioning, emotional regulation, and self-advocacy

  • Learn ways to reduce burnout, sensory overload, shutdowns, and chronic overwhelm

  • Understand and learn strategies for autistic burnout and masking exhaustion

  • Learn strategies for processing rejection sensitivity and demand avoidance (sometimes called persistent drive for autonomy or pathological demand avoidance)

  • Navigate school, work, relationships, and social expectations in ways that feel more empowering to you

  • Address self-doubt, imposter syndrome, shame, anxiety, depression, or trauma connected to misdiagnosis or invalidation

  • Manage transitions, overwhelm, and task paralysis with more agency and empowerment

  • Rebuild trust in your own perception and lived experience

  • Explore identity and unmasking in ways that feel safe and sustainable

  • Use mindfulness, body-based awareness, and sensory regulation strategies

  • Unlearn shame and internalized ableism

  • Let go of masking strategies that no longer serve you

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