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Autism Therapist for Adults
Discover the you underneath the mask.
Neurodiversity affirming therapy for late-diagnosed and self-realized autistic adults, including AuDHD.
Suddenly, so much of your life makes sense.
And yet, you have more questions than ever.
The moment you got curious about autism or AuDHD, you may have started connecting dots you’d been trying to understand for years.
But now you’re left wondering:
What’s autism? What’s trauma? What’s anxiety? What’s AuDHD? And what do you actually do with all of these pieces?
You question whether you can trust your own feelings and perspective.
Maybe people have told you that you’re overreacting your whole life. Maybe you were encouraged to be more “normal,” push through your sensitivities, or stop making things harder than they need to be. So even when something inside you says, I think I might be neurodivergent, it can be hard to trust yourself.
You’ve spent years learning how to fit in.
You learned to look to other people for the “right” way to be. To ignore the chewing, the bright lights, the sudden exhaustion that hits out of nowhere during a social interaction. To push through when your body is telling you that something is too much.
The belief that there’s something wrong with you at your core - that you need to change to be loved - is a painful one you’ve carried for longer than you can remember.
And now, you’re exhausted in a way sleep can’t fix.
Maybe you notice:
You might isolate yourself because being around other people feels possible only when you’re chameleoning yourself into whatever version of you feels most acceptable.
You might not recognize what you’re feeling until it becomes impossible to ignore - hunger, anger, anxiety, sensory overload, noticeable only when it’s at the highest volume.
You may feel tired and anxious more often than you’d like, without fully understanding what would actually help you recharge.
Even when autism or AuDHD gives you a label that finally makes sense, you still have to figure out what to do with that understanding.
You’re tired of spending so much energy trying to be someone you’re not.
You’re ready to learn how to build a life that works with your brain and your needs, not against them.
how i can help
Autism therapy for adults helps you understand your neurotype and start healing from the years you spent feeling like something was wrong with you.
The goal isn’t to teach you how to fit in better with neurotypicals.
It’s to help you to connect you more deeply with your unique self:
Who you are at your core
Your values and special interests
Your sensory needs and limits
Your strengths and the beauty of being “weird”
Over time, things will start to shift.
You won’t spiral for hours after a social interaction or mistake - because you’ll understand what’s happening when your inner critic takes over, instead of automatically assuming you did something wrong.
You’ll trust yourself more - instead of constantly looking to other people to tell you whether your feelings, needs, reactions, or boundaries are “reasonable.”
You’ll feel more confident advocating for what you need - whether that means asking for accommodations, protecting your sensory limits, saying no, or telling someone what actually works for you.
Relationships will feel less exhausting - because you’ll learn how to show up more authentically instead of constantly monitoring how you’re coming across, masking, or trying to keep people from leaving.
You’ll start to recognize and own your strengths - including the parts of yourself you’ve spent years minimizing, hiding, or assuming were “too much.”
You’ll understand yourself in a whole new way - connecting the dots between your past experiences, your neurodivergence, and the ways you’ve learned to survive in a world that wasn’t always built for you.
And importantly, you’ll stop believing there’s something wrong with you - because there isn’t, and there never has been.
You’re tired of showing up in a world as someone you’re really not - and the good news is, when you’re not doing it alone, it actually gets so much easier.
I pull from a variety of approaches - like parts work (IFS), somatic therapy, mindfulness, looking at your past to understand your present, and neuroscience and skills specific to interest-based brains - but what matters most is figuring out the unique therapy formula that will actually work for you.
We get clear on what’s really going on.
We start by identifying what you’d like to learn about yourself, what’s been the hardest to change, what you want to feel different, and why it’s important to you. I ask questions and take time to really get to know you - what you’ve already tried, what’s helped, and what hasn’t.
Especially if you’re newly diagnosed, self-realized, or starting to wonder if autism or ADHD might explain some of what you’ve been struggling with, there can be a lot to make sense of. We’ll slow it down and figure out what’s actually going on underneath the “Why can’t I just…?” moments.
We find what works for your nervous system and brain.
Together, we experiment with tools and strategies to see what actually helps you feel more grounded and in control. Everybody’s different, so we find the coping skills your body responds to: essential oils, dim lighting, deep breathing, visualizing, cozy blankets and sipping hot tea - we’ll try it all.
But we’ll also look beyond coping skills. Sometimes what you need isn’t another way to tolerate something that feels terrible. Sometimes you need to understand your sensory needs, change your environment, ask for an accommodation, stop pushing yourself past your limits, or figure out why your brain completely shuts down when something isn’t interesting or meaningful to you.
A lot of our work might look like:
Unpacking your present patterns - like what are the different masks you wear to keep you safe?
Learning how to catch emotions earlier, before they go from 0 to 100
Building a life that actually works for you
Handling real life situations with social scripts and roleplay to advocate for your needs, or figuring out accomodations
And this isn’t about making huge, overwhelming changes all at once. It’s about making small, realistic shifts you can actually follow through on and building from there.
Autism therapy for autistic adults can help you:
Trust yourself more and second-guess yourself less
Recognize overwhelm earlier and understand what your brain and body need
Stop spiraling after social interactions and assuming you did something wrong
Understand yourself in a whole new way and finally connect the dots
Reconnect with the parts of yourself you’ve hidden including your strengths, interests, and quirks
Create a life that actually works for your brain
Advocate for your needs and feel more confident asking for what works for you
Build relationships that feel more like you with less masking and people-pleasing
Imagine finally starting to feel like you don’t need to be “fixed” to be lovable.
faqs
Commonly Asked Questions about Autism Therapy for Adults
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Autism therapy is not about “fixing” your autism. It’s about understanding how your neurodivergence shows up in your life and figuring out what you need to feel more like yourself.
Autism therapy for late diagnosed autistic adults or AuDHD helps you understand yourself more deeply - how your brain works, what you need, where you tend to get overwhelmed, the patterns you’ve developed to get through life, and what actually helps you feel like yourself.
We might work on things like masking less (even though that may sound terrifying), self-trust, sensory needs, emotional overwhelm, relationships, boundaries, accommodations, burnout, or figuring out what you actually want your life to look like.
The goal is to help you understand yourself and make changes that actually make your life feel better - not give you another list of things you “should” be doing.
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Absolutely. In fact, getting a diagnosis or just figuring it out later in life can bring a really complicated mix of relief, grief, anger, validation, and a whole lot of “Wait...this explains so much.”
You may start looking back at your childhood, relationships, work, or the ways you’ve always struggled and see them through a completely different lens.
Therapy can give you a place to make sense of all of that while also figuring out what you want to do differently now. We can work through the parts of your past that still affect you, while learning how to better understand and advocate for the person you are today.
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Yes. You don’t need to have a formal autism diagnosis to be curious about whether autism or AuDHD might explain some of your experiences.
If you’ve spent years thinking “Why is this so much harder for me than it seems to be for everyone else?” and are starting to see yourself through a neurodivergent lens, we can explore that together.
As a therapist, I won’t be deciding whether you’re “autistic enough” to fit the label. It’s about getting curious about your experiences, understanding the patterns that are affecting you, and figuring out what support actually makes sense for you with your unique brain, label or not.
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Yes. I work with adults navigating both autism and ADHD, including people who have recently discovered or been diagnosed with AuDHD later in life. As someone with AuDHD myself, I deeply understand the push and pull between two sometimes contradictory ways of being.
Having both can feel especially confusing because you may understand what you need in one moment and then struggle to actually follow through with it the next. You might crave structure while simultaneously feeling trapped by it, or be incredibly capable in areas that interest you while completely shutting down around things that don’t.
We’ll look at your particular combination of strengths, challenges, sensory needs, motivation, overwhelm, and executive functioning rather than assuming there’s one right way to manage it.
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I’m not interested in helping you become better at masking or teaching you to tolerate things that are making your life unnecessarily hard. As someone with AuDHD myself, I understand how complicated it can be to figure out what you actually need after years of adapting to what everyone else expects of you.
My approach combines neurodivergence-affirming therapy with trauma approaches like IFS/parts work, somatic therapy, and mindfulness. That means we’re not just looking at how your brain works - we’re also looking at what you’ve been through, the patterns you’ve developed, and why they make sense.
And we won’t stop at insight. Many autistic adults are already really good at logically understanding themselves and knowing why they do what they do. We’ll use that understanding to look at what’s happening beneath the surface - including the often subconscious patterns in your body and nervous system that can make it hard for logic alone to create the changes you want.
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Starting therapy can feel like a big step, especially if you’re used to figuring everything out on your own.
The first step is to schedule a free, 15-minute, no-pressure consultation. We’ll talk about what’s been going on, what you’re hoping to get out of neurodivergence affirming therapy for autistic adults, and whether working together feels like a good fit.
You don’t need to have everything figured out before you reach out - and you definitely don’t need to come to the consultation with a perfectly organized explanation of what’s wrong.
You can start with “I don’t really know what’s going on, but I know I’m struggling.” We can go from there.
Schedule a free consultation today to get started.
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