Neurodiversity Affirming Telehealth Therapy for Autistic & ADHD Adults in Minnesota

If You're Here...

You may have spent years carrying more than most people realize.

Maybe you learned early how to adapt, over-function, self-monitor, and push yourself to meet expectations that never fully fit how your brain or nervous system actually worked. From the outside, you may appear capable, successful, responsible, or “high functioning.”

But internally, life may feel exhausting.

Many neurodivergent adults spend years trying harder without understanding why basic things seem to require so much more effort than they do for other people. Over time, that strain can become chronic burnout, perfectionism, shutdown, overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, self-doubt, or the constant feeling that you are always barely holding everything together.

None of this reflects a personal failure.

What you have been navigating makes sense in context, even if no one ever explained it that way before.

When Things Start Making Sense

You may have recently started questioning whether you could be autistic, ADHD, or both.

And when that possibility begins coming into focus, many long-standing patterns suddenly start connecting in a completely different way.

The burnout.
The overwhelm.
The masking.
The pressure to constantly “try harder.”
The exhaustion after social interaction.
The feeling that life somehow takes more effort than it seems to for everyone else.

These were not signs that something was inherently wrong with you.

They were understandable responses to navigating environments, expectations, and systems that were not designed around your nervous system.

For many people, this shift in understanding becomes the beginning of a very different relationship with themselves.

Not through “fixing” who they are, but through finally understanding themselves more accurately.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy in Minnesota

Therapy can become a space where you no longer have to constantly translate, justify, minimize, or defend your experiences in order for them to be understood.

This work is not about teaching you how to appear more neurotypical.

It is about helping you understand your nervous system more clearly, reduce the chronic strain of masking and self-monitoring, and build a life that feels more sustainable, authentic, and workable for your actual capacity and needs.

Together, we may explore autistic burnout and chronic exhaustion, masking and long-term self-monitoring, perfectionism and impossible internal standards, sensory and emotional overwhelm, executive functioning difficulties, identity and late discovery, chronic self-blame and shame, relationships and boundaries, and the process of rebuilding self-trust over time.

Many clients describe this as the first time therapy has felt like it addressed the deeper patterns underneath the exhaustion rather than only focusing on surface-level symptoms.

My Approach

I’m Christine Harris, LPCC, a licensed clinical therapist and late-diagnosed AuDHD (Autistic & ADHD) adult.

I created this practice to offer the kind of space I wish had existed earlier in my own life — neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and grounded in both professional training and lived neurodivergent experience.

I provide telehealth therapy to autistic and ADHD adults physically located in Minnesota at the time of sessions, in accordance with Minnesota licensure laws.

Sessions are held securely online, allowing therapy to happen from your own environment without the additional strain that travel, waiting rooms, commuting, weather, or sensory overload can sometimes create.

Many of the adults I work with in Minnesota are balancing careers, relationships, caregiving responsibilities, burnout, chronic overwhelm, and years of pressure to keep functioning no matter the internal cost.

Therapy becomes a place to begin slowing those patterns down, understanding what is happening underneath them, and building more sustainable ways of living over time.

An Invitation to Begin

If you are ready to begin loosening the pressure, setting down the mask, and understanding yourself with more clarity and compassion, you do not have to do it alone.

If you are physically located in Minnesota and are considering therapy, you can learn more here:

→ Therapy

If you would like a broader sense of the philosophy behind this work and additional learning resources, you can begin here:

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You can also view all states where I currently provide telehealth therapy here:

→ Licensed States

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