Therapy for Neurodivergent Individuals
Not just affirming. Actually built for how your brain works.
Maybe you've been in therapy before and it helped a little — but something was always slightly off. The format felt rigid. The expectations felt designed for someone else. You spent energy managing the therapy itself instead of actually getting anywhere.
Or maybe you've never found a therapist who understood your neurotype well enough to make the work feel safe, relevant, or even possible.
This is different.
This Might Be You
You're autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, have a PDA profile, or you identify as neurodivergent in ways that don't fit neatly into any single category. You might have a formal diagnosis, a suspected diagnosis, or no diagnosis at all — you don't need a piece of paper to know how your brain works, and you don't need one to get support here.
You might be:
A child who is struggling in school, at home, or socially in ways that feel confusing or overwhelming to everyone involved
A teen who has been masking for so long that you're not sure who you actually are underneath it
Someone who was diagnosed late — as a teenager or adult — and is still making sense of what that means for your history, your relationships, and your sense of self
A woman, or an AFAB individual, who was missed for years because your presentation didn't match what people expected neurodivergence to look like
A queer or trans person whose neurodivergence was overlooked or assumed to be the reason for your queerness
An adult who has built a life that works on the outside but is exhausted by how hard you have to work to maintain it
Someone who self-identifies as neurodivergent and is looking for a therapist who takes that seriously without requiring you to prove it
You don't have to fit a particular mold to belong here.
What We Work On Together
Autistic experience — The lifelong work of understanding yourself, managing sensory overwhelm, navigating social exhaustion, and building a life that fits your actual neurotype — not the one the world assumed you'd have.
ADHD and AuDHD — Attention, emotional regulation, executive function, time, relationships, and the particular experience of being both autistic and ADHD in a world that often only understands one at a time.
Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) / Persistent Drive for Autonomy — I understand PDA as a nervous system difference, not a behavior problem. Therapy here is collaborative, low-demand, and built around your need for autonomy — not against it.
Masking and burnout — Identifying what masking has cost you, beginning to recover, and building a life that requires less of it. This is slow, careful work — and it matters.
Late diagnosis — Processing a late diagnosis is its own clinical work. We address the grief, the reframing of your history, the impact on relationships, and what comes next — at whatever pace makes sense for you.
Anxiety, depression, and emotional dysregulation — These are extremely common in neurodivergent individuals, and treating them well requires understanding the neurotype. I don't treat the anxiety without understanding the brain it lives in.
Identity and self-understanding — Strengths-based work to rebuild a sense of self rooted in your actual neurotype — your values, your needs, your way of moving through the world — rather than how well you approximate neurotypical expectations.
School, work, and daily life — Executive function, burnout, accommodation navigation, and the gap between potential and output that so many neurodivergent people live in — and what actually helps close it.
Trauma — Many neurodivergent individuals have experienced trauma specifically because of their neurotype — bullying, misunderstanding, medical gaslighting, being forced to mask. We address that directly, carefully, and at your pace.
What "Neurodiversity-Affirming" Actually Means Here
A lot of therapists say they're neurodiversity-affirming. What that often means in practice is that they won't say anything negative about your diagnosis.
That's a low bar.
Here it means I have deep clinical training in neurodevelopment and a genuine understanding of how different neurotypes experience the world, relationships, therapy, and themselves. Your neurotype shapes how I understand you, how I communicate with you, and how I structure our work together. I don't pathologize the way your brain works — and I don't ask you to become more neurotypical as a measure of progress.
It also means I actually adapt how I work — because standard therapy structure was built for neurotypical brains, and it often doesn't work for yours. In practice, that means:
No requirement to make eye contact or sit still
Flexibility in how we communicate and process — verbal, written, visual, or a mix
A low-demand approach for clients with PDA profiles, where collaboration and autonomy are built into how we work together, not offered as an afterthought
Pacing that fits your nervous system, not a standard 50-minute template
Understanding that what looks like avoidance, resistance, or lack of motivation is often a nervous system response — and responding accordingly
Evidence-based treatments adapted for your neurotype — not applied over it
Progress here looks like feeling more like yourself, more regulated, and more able to engage with your life in a way that actually fits who you are. Not therapy you have to work around — therapy that actually works for your brain.
A Note for Parents
If you're a parent reading this page and looking for support for your neurodivergent child — I work with families too, and I know how much parents are carrying.
About My Approach
I am a licensed psychologist with advanced training in neurodevelopment, trauma, and gender-diverse care. I work with neurodivergent children, teens, young adults, and adults — including those who are self-diagnosed, late diagnosed, or somewhere in the middle of figuring it out.
Sessions are available in person in Southington, CT and via telehealth in 44 US states and territories.