Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy

Telehealth service areas: Minnesota, Florida, Arizona, and Ohio

If you’re exhausted from masking, burned out from trying to meet neurotypical expectations, or finally beginning to understand why life has always felt harder than it seemed to be for everyone else, you are not alone.

Many neurodivergent adults spend years trying to force themselves into ways of functioning that never actually fit their nervous system. Over time, this often creates chronic exhaustion, perfectionism, self-doubt, anxiety, shutdown, burnout, and the painful feeling that no matter how hard you try, something still is not working.

Therapy is not about teaching you how to perform neurotypicality more successfully.

It is about understanding yourself more accurately, reducing the strain of constant self-monitoring and self-correction, and building a life that feels more sustainable, authentic, and workable for your actual nervous system.

For many clients, this is the first time therapy has felt like it addressed the deeper patterns underneath the exhaustion — not just the visible symptoms on the surface.

My Approach

My approach is neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-informed, evidence-based, and grounded in clinical judgment rather than rigid, one-size-fits-all techniques.

I do not view autism, ADHD, or other forms of neurodivergence as flaws to be corrected.

Rather than asking:
“What is wrong with you?”
we explore:
“What has happened in the context of living in environments that did not fully support or understand how your nervous system works?”

This often includes chronic masking and self-monitoring, perfectionism and fear of failure, burnout and shutdown, sensory overwhelm, emotional exhaustion, difficulty trusting yourself, and internalized shame shaped by years of misunderstanding and trying to meet expectations that never fully fit.

Many neurodivergent adults have spent years in systems that focused primarily on symptom reduction without fully understanding the underlying patterns driving the distress.

Insurance-based therapy models often require treatment to remain narrowly focused on diagnosis, symptom reduction, medical necessity, and short-term goals. While that approach can be helpful in some contexts, it often leaves little room for the deeper exploration many neurodivergent adults actually need — especially around masking, identity, burnout, chronic overwhelm, perfectionism, and the long-term impact of misunderstanding yourself for years.

This practice is intentionally structured outside of insurance constraints so the work can be more flexible, individualized, depth-oriented, and responsive to your actual lived experience.

Here, you do not have to translate your experiences into neurotypical language, justify why things are difficult, minimize your overwhelm, prove your struggles are “serious enough,” or force yourself into strategies that do not actually fit.

Instead, we work toward understanding your nervous system more accurately, reducing shame and chronic self-blame, identifying patterns that contribute to burnout and overwhelm, developing more sustainable ways of functioning, rebuilding self-trust, and creating a life that works with your brain rather than against it.

Therapy is held via secure telehealth, allowing you to engage from your own environment without the additional strain of commuting, sensory overload, or navigating unfamiliar spaces.

Ways to Work Together

Different nervous systems, life circumstances, and capacities call for different forms of support.

Some clients prefer ongoing therapy with space for deeper long-term exploration and integration over time.

Others prefer a more structured, focused container centered around a specific area of need.

Both options are grounded in the same neurodivergent-affirming framework. The difference is not depth, but scope and pacing.

Is This a Good Fit for You?

Many clients find their way here while questioning whether they may be autistic or ADHD, processing late identification, recovering from burnout, trying to understand long-standing patterns, feeling exhausted from years of masking, or recontextualizing their lives through a more accurate and compassionate lens.

Others arrive carrying years of anxiety, depression, trauma, perfectionism, overwhelm, or chronic self-criticism without fully realizing how deeply neurodivergence may have shaped those experiences.

You do not need a formal diagnosis to begin this work. What matters most is your lived experience and your desire to understand yourself more accurately, compassionately, and sustainably.

This approach may be a supportive fit if traditional therapy has felt incomplete or misattuned, if you are exhausted from constantly trying harder without understanding why things still feel difficult, or if you are looking for deeper understanding rather than surface-level coping strategies alone. It may also resonate if you are seeking therapy that works with your nervous system instead of against it, and a space where your experiences make sense in context rather than being treated as personal failures.

What Therapy May Support

Therapy may support you in understanding neurodivergent traits and long-standing patterns more clearly, reducing burnout and chronic overwhelm, rebuilding self-trust, understanding masking and its long-term impact, strengthening boundaries and communication, reducing perfectionism and chronic self-pressure, developing more sustainable routines and expectations, understanding emotional and sensory needs, navigating relationships with less shame and self-blame, and integrating new self-understanding with greater compassion, clarity, and self-acceptance over time.

The goal is not to become someone different.

It is to build a life that actually fits who you already are.

What to Expect

Session Structure

60-minute telehealth sessions, typically weekly or biweekly depending on needs, capacity, and sustainability.

Your Pace Matters

Some sessions go deep. Others focus more on stabilization, support, or regulation. Capacity fluctuates, and therapy adapts accordingly.

Between Sessions

Reflections or practices may occasionally be suggested, but therapy is collaborative rather than performance-based.

Flexibility

The work remains responsive to changing needs, burnout levels, nervous system capacity, and life circumstances.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a formal diagnosis?

No. Many clients begin therapy while questioning or exploring neurodivergence without formal assessment.

How is this different from traditional therapy?

Rather than treating neurodivergence as a problem to fix, this work focuses on understanding your experiences in context and building ways of functioning that align more sustainably with your nervous system.

Many clients come to this work after years of trying approaches that focused primarily on symptom management without fully addressing the underlying mismatch contributing to the distress.

How much does therapy cost?

Therapy sessions are $225 for 60 minutes. This practice is private pay/out-of-network and does not bill insurance directly. Some clients use out-of-network benefits depending on their insurance plan, and many choose to use Thrizer to simplify reimbursement. HSA/FSA cards are also accepted.

For additional details about scheduling, policies, and technology, please visit the FAQ page.

When You’re Ready

You do not have to continue navigating burnout, shame, confusion, and exhaustion alone.

Therapy can become a space where you stop trying to force yourself into ways of functioning that were never built for your nervous system — and begin building something more sustainable, compassionate, and authentic instead.

You are welcome here exactly as you are.