Neurodivergent-Affirming Therapy – Support Without the Mask

Not Here to Fix You—Here to Understand You

If you’re neurodivergent—whether formally diagnosed, self-identified, or still figuring it out—you’ve likely spent a lifetime navigating systems that weren’t designed with your brain in mind. School, work, relationships, even traditional therapy might have made you feel like you needed to mask, perform, or explain parts of yourself just to belong.

In this space, you don’t have to translate yourself. You don’t have to pass as neurotypical. I offer a therapeutic relationship that respects the full spectrum of neurodivergent experience—whether you’re autistic, have ADHD, process information differently, or relate to the world in a way that defies neat categories.

Your Experience Is Valid

Neurodivergent-affirming therapy means we start from the premise that there’s nothing wrong with your brain. Your way of thinking, sensing, relating, and processing is not a flaw—it’s a variation. And while living in a world that doesn’t accommodate that variation can be painful, isolating, and exhausting, therapy doesn’t need to replicate that harm.

We focus not on making you conform, but on helping you live more fully as yourself.

Masking, Burnout, and the Cost of Camouflage

Many neurodivergent people have learned to mask—suppressing natural behaviours, mimicking social cues, overcompensating to appear "normal." Over time, this leads to exhaustion, disconnection, anxiety, and burnout. You might not even know who you are underneath the mask.

Together, we explore what masking has protected you from—and what it’s cost you. We make space to grieve the effort of having to fit in, while slowly discovering what it feels like to be more authentically yourself.

Beyond the Stereotypes

You are not a list of traits or diagnostic criteria. You may be deeply sensitive, highly focused, emotionally attuned, intensely curious—or none of those things. Our work is to understand your specific wiring, your sensory and emotional landscape, and the context that’s shaped how you’ve come to see yourself.

This means we go beyond functioning labels, behavioural checklists, or pathologising language. We attend to how you process information, how you regulate (or dysregulate), how you relate—and what you need to feel safe.

Relational Safety First

Many neurodivergent people have experienced relational trauma—not just big, obvious events, but years of micro-invalidation. Being misunderstood. Dismissed. Corrected. Therapy should never replicate that.

In our sessions, I aim to create a space where all parts of you are welcome—whether you speak with lots of words or few, whether eye contact feels nourishing or intrusive, whether your emotions are loud or hidden. You set the tone, the pace, and the boundaries.

Liberation, Not Compliance

This is not about helping you function better for others. It’s about helping you thrive in a way that feels sustainable and aligned for you. That might mean processing trauma, advocating for your needs, unmasking in safe relationships, or simply learning to live with less shame.

If you’re looking for a therapeutic space where you don’t have to tone yourself down, code-switch, or edit your experience, I’m here to meet you—fully, respectfully, and with care.