Unmasking? Exploring adaptations and accommodations? Hoping for therapy where you don’t need to perform the role of Good Patient? Just wanting to better understand yourself?
Whether you’re self-identified, formally diagnosed, or questioning everything— I want to work with you.
As a neurodivergent therapist who prioritizes dignity, agency, competence, and passion, developing a neurodivergent-affirming approach has been essential to both my pride in my work and sustainability in my field.
Collaboration
I use an actively collaborative approach to support you in interrupting the automatic, habitual pattern of masking/appeasing/caretaking and co-orienting towards what you are wanting, with the intention that you develop that capacity, too, so that if it is not easy at the beginning of our work together to course correct or say what is or isn’t working, it becomes possible with practice and trust.
Exploration
We go about this a few different ways:
– Exploring and identifying different aspects of your neurotype. What does it mean to be a bottom-up processor? and what does it mean for you?
– Exploring your sensory system, including the impact of hyper and hypo sensitivities
– Developing interoceptive (read: internal body) awareness when related to your goals
– Allowing autistic traits serve the roles they are trying to serve: stimming, special interests, parallel play, shutdown, meltdown
– Honoring trauma and grief
– Connecting with autistic culture
– Supporting and practicing expression of authenticity
believe us, they say,
it is a serious thing
just to be alive
on this fresh morning
in this broken world.