Karissa Burnett (she/her)

PhD
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Neurodiversity-affirming therapy & testing in MA, CA, & WA. Visit divergentpathways.com to join my waitlist and discover helpful resources!

Clinical Psychologist in Boston, MA

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

You experience life in deep and meaningful ways, but often feel overwhelmed and painfully alone. You've been gaslighted into believing you're "over-thinking" or "too sensitive" when you've shared powerful truths and questioned the status quo. You often doubt yourself, may silence your voice out of shame and fear, and spend extraordinary energy trying to fit in. Your soul longs to be seen and valued for your deep processing, profound insights, and creative ideas.

My Background and Approach

Dr. Burnett is an openly-autistic depth psychologist and the founder of Divergent Pathways: A Psychological Corporation, which provides telehealth therapy and testing for adults in MA, CA, and WA State. She specializes in neurodiversity/queer-affirming care, especially for high-masking autistics/ADHDers who have been missed or dismissed by other providers. She has specialized training in trauma and completed her dissertation on healing from covert psychological abuse (e.g., gaslighting, manipulation). Her clinical style is marked by authenticity, empathy, compassion, and the wisdom and humility that come from deep inner work. She bridges science with soul, integrating the best of psychological tradition with a deep respect for intuitive ways of knowing and honoring the value of lived experience. You deserve to find out who you truly are and experience the freedom, fulfillment, and joy that comes from self-understanding and self-acceptance.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

We live in a power-over culture maintained by systemic oppression and intergenerational abuse. Deeply-engrained values of white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and neuronormativity pervade society and cause profound suffering. From a young age, we absorb these values and develop “internal oppressors” that cause us to stay small, dull our shine, shame ourselves for our struggles and differences, and perpetually-question our realities. We may look like we “have it all together,” but constantly feel like anxious, burned-out, “broken neurotypicals.” While masking and other trauma responses help us survive in oppressive environments, they also disconnect us from our true selves. It is possible to live an empowered life that honors your unique ways of perceiving and relating to the world around you. It's time to discover and re-claim your truest self through therapy and assessment that values lived experience over outdated stereotypes. Your intuition has been right all along.

I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Christianity
  • Wicca/Paganism
  • Interfaith
  • Multifaith

At A Glance

  • Experience: 11 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $300/session

Info

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75 Arlington St.
Ste. 500
Boston, MA 02116

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