My Approach to Helping
I have a passion, born from personal experience, for both supporting parents of neurodivergent children and neurodivergent adult clients. Living in an ableist society can take a toll on neurodivergent folks and those who parent them. I provide a safe and supportive space to navigate your journey while making room for your resilience, grief, anger, and joy. Stress, anxiety, and burnout can also be common experiences. Together, we will work through what you need support with, as you learn more about your own nervous system regulation, emotional needs, and the effects of the systems within which you live on your mind and body.
We work to better understand your own andor your children's nervous system and sensory needs, and how these needs contribute to personal well-being, family and interpersonal dynamics, and regulation. We make space for the impacts of your environment while attending to your body and mind. My approach is collaborative and focused in a relational style. I strongly believe in the healing effects that the therapeutic relationship itself can elicit. Having an ally and an emotional and mental sanctuary can be profoundly impactful, and it is what I provide to each of my clients.
More Info About My Practice
I see clients via Telehealth.
Specific Issue(s) I'm Skilled at Helping With
Parent Support
The joys and challenges of raising neurodivergent children are unique. Supporting parents of children who are autistic, ADHD, 2E, PDA, experience sensory processing differences, learning disabilities, and other neurodevelopmental variations is a focus of mine. I offer you a space that is yours, free from fulfilling your child's needs. Together we will address the gambit of emotions, parental stress, anxiety, and burnout related to raising a neurodivergent child.
Living in a Neurodominant World
It can be tricky (and exhausting) to navigate the neurodominant world as a neurodivergent person. I'm here to offer support as a therapist and a fellow neurodivergent individual. Developing a greater understanding of your needs, limits, and joy as a neurodivergent individual provides more information with which to navigate your life.
Life Transitions
Life transitions are tricky. They test our ability to dwell in the unknown. The unknown is scary. These major transitions can be wanted or unwanted, and therefore accompanied by mixed emotions of joy, excitement, anxiety and grief. Together we will work through the concurrent feelings to identify your resiliency and strengths to help you on your journey through your current period of uncertainty to uncover the life you want.
How Psychotherapy Can Help
The pace and style of our work is tailored to you uniquely, and I consider you to be the expert on yourself. Psychotherapy helps you tap into your resiliency and self-knowledge by offering a relationship built on trust, empathy and safety. This safety makes it possible for you to experience vulnerability and a wide range of emotions from joy to pain. By processing your emotions you are able to identify your needs and together we work to determine how to best meet them. Sledging through the muck isn't always easy, and sometimes you feel worse before you get better. However, once you get to the other side you can take pride in your resiliency, and with greater self-understanding look upon yourself with compassion and love.
Why Going to Therapy Does Not Mean You are Weak or Flawed
Therapy can be hard. It is difficult to work through the hard feelings and the aspects of yourself that you would prefer to keep hidden. It is difficult to put your trust in a stranger and make yourself vulnerable. Therapy is not for the meek or the weak. Asking for help is a sign of strength, as is vulnerability. It is also the first step on your journey to claiming what you want for yourself.
