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About My Clients
I work with late-identified Autistic + AuDHD women untangling the cost of masking, trauma, anxiety, and losing themselves in relationships. They are perceptive, emotionally complex people who are highly skilled at adapting. Many are used to being seen as capable, insightful, sensitive, high-functioning, or “fine.” Inside, they may be carrying self-pressure, shame, self-doubt, exhaustion, relational fear, or the ache of not quite knowing who they are.
My Background and Approach
It’s not just about what to do or change. It’s about how you are relating to what is. Therapy with me is not about being handed a script for how to become something or someone. It is slower and more complex than that. More relational than that. And, I hope, more honest than that. In our work, we pay attention to what is happening beneath the story: the dilemma inside the pattern, the emotions that had to go underground, the parts of you that learned to disappear, the ways your nervous system protects you, and the places where your agency is more alive. And part of that aliveness is the autistic human you are. My work is rooted in depth-oriented relational therapy. It's informed by a trauma model called NARM, Polyvagal Theory, Jungian perspectives, and ongoing study and my own healing of complex relational trauma. But theory is not the center of the room. You are. The models help me listen. The relationship helps us discover.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I don’t see symptoms as the whole story. I see them as signals. Anxiety, shutdown, self-criticism, perfectionism, relational fear, masking, over-responsibility, and emotional intensity often point toward something deeper: a pain, need, longing, or survival pattern that has not yet had enough room to be witnessed. The patterns that frustrate you now often began as intelligent ways to survive. Performance, pressure, caretaking, masking, and self-blame helped you preserve connection, avoid rejection, or get through heartbreaking circumstances. I am not interested in managing those patterns into submission. I am interested in helping you understand how you are relating to yourself when those patterns show up. The space between here and there is not something we have to rush through. It is the story you get to tell, understand, and begin to rewrite.