Areas of Focus
People come to therapy for many reasons. Sometimes we know exactly what is asking for our attention; sometimes we only know that life has become harder, smaller, more exhausting, or less like our own.
My work includes the areas below, but you do not need to fit neatly into a category - or have the right language for what you are experiencing - to begin.
Neurodivergent lives & experiences
Neurodivergence is not a problem to be corrected.
My work is neuroaffirming and makes room for autistic, ADHD, AuDHD and other neurodivergent ways of being in the context of a person’s own life, relationships, history and environment.
This may include making sense of masking, neurodivergent burnout, late identification, identity, executive demands, sensory and relational experiences, or parenting within a neurodivergent family. For some of us, receiving new language for our experience can bring relief; it can also bring grief, anger, uncertainty, or a re-reading of much of what came before.
There is no single neurodivergent experience, and therapy is not about becoming less autistic, less ADHD, or more conventionally “functional.” It is about having room to understand what is true for you.
Burnout, overwhelm & anxiety
Sometimes we have been holding things together for so long that there is very little left to draw from. Burnout can look like exhaustion and overwhelm, but it can also show up as irritability, disconnection, fogginess, restlessness, difficulty initiating, or feeling unable to keep doing what once seemed manageable.
Therapy can offer space to understand what has been demanding so much of us - rather than simply asking how we can become better at tolerating it.
Trauma, CPTSD & relational wounds
Trauma does not always come from a single event. Sometimes it develops through relationships and environments in which our needs, perceptions, boundaries, emotions, or ways of being were repeatedly dismissed, misunderstood, controlled, or made unsafe.
I work with adults carrying the effects of trauma, complex trauma (CPTSD), developmental and relational wounds, including experiences of shame, hypervigilance, disconnection, difficulty trusting ourselves, and patterns that once helped us stay safe but may no longer fit the lives we are trying to build.
Relationships, identity & life transitions
Relationships can bring us some of our deepest connections - and some of our deepest pain.
Therapy may involve making sense of recurring relational patterns, loneliness, boundaries, conflict, caregiving, family relationships, grief, or the tension between who we have needed to be and who we are becoming.
Life transitions can also reshape how we understand ourselves. Becoming a parent, the postpartum years, children growing older, caregiving, changes in partnership or work, perimenopause and menopause, aging, changes in health, loss, and other transitions can alter our roles, relationships, and sense of self. Some are chosen and welcomed; others arrive before we feel ready.
Therapy can offer room for the grief, possibility, uncertainty, and questions of identity that can accompany change.
Chronic health, pain & changes in capacity
Living with chronic illness, pain, fatigue, disability, or unpredictable health can affect much more than the body. It can change our relationship with work, parenting, independence, plans, relationships, and what we expect of ourselves.
Therapy can offer space for the grief, frustration, uncertainty, and adjustment that can come with changing capacity - particularly when our experience has been minimized, misunderstood, or treated only as a problem to solve. The aim is not to talk you out of what your body is telling you, but to make room for the realities of your experience and how they are shaping your life.
Not sure where your experience fits?
These areas often overlap. You may recognize yourself in several of them, or in none of them exactly. A consultation gives us a chance to talk about what is bringing you to therapy and whether working together feels like a good fit.