Crystalena Oberweiser, License Professional Counselor Associate

I work with autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD teens and adults — but if I'm being honest, the parents are where I really shine. You're raising a kid whose brain didn't come with a manual, in a world that keeps insisting there should have been one. You've read the books. You've sat through the IEP meetings armed with a binder, a pen, and a barely-concealed sense of dread. You've googled things at 1 am that you never in your life expected to become an expert in. You're basically fluent in a language no one else in the house speaks, and you still end most days wondering if you're doing any of it right. Here's the good news: your kid isn't broken, and neither are you. You just happen to be doing one of the hardest, least-credentialed jobs on the planet — translator between your child's brain and an environment that wasn't built for it. My job is to help you find where the actual friction is, so home can stop feeling like a hostage negotiation and start feeling like, well, home. I use a strengths-based, non-compliance-based, DBT-informed approach with both kids and parents — because "just be more consistent" is not a strategy, it's a Pinterest quote, and you deserve better than that.