ADHD and autism therapy for adults

If this sounds familiar

You’ve spent years working twice as hard to look like you’re keeping up. You can hyperfocus for hours on the right thing and can’t start the wrong one to save your life. You mask so well that people don’t believe you’re struggling, which somehow makes it lonelier. Maybe you were told you were smart but lazy, too sensitive, or not living up to your potential. Maybe you only recently started to wonder if your brain just works differently.

If any of that lands, you’re in the right place. A lot of the adults I work with are neurodivergent, and I come to this from lived experience as much as training. You won’t have to explain what rejection sensitivity is, or why a “simple” task can feel impossible, before we can get to work.

What we might work on

• Making sense of a late ADHD or autism discovery, and grieving the years before you knew
• Burnout, and rebuilding after running on empty for too long
• Unmasking safely, and figuring out who you are underneath it
• Rejection sensitivity, shame, and the harsh inner critic
• Executive function and systems that actually fit your brain, instead of ones built for someone else’s
• Relationships, communication, and setting boundaries without the guilt spiral
• Rebuilding self-trust after years of being told you were the problem

How I work with neurodivergent adults

Affirming, first and foremost. The goal isn’t to make you more neurotypical, or to fix you. It’s to help you understand how you’re wired and build a life that works with it. I keep the pace and the format flexible, we can meet online, in my Boulder office, or on a walk. I say things plainly, and I’m happy to adjust how we work if the usual therapy setup doesn’t fit you.

Underneath that, I lean on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and plain conversation, with the occasional bit of story or metaphor when it helps. It’s practical, and it’s collaborative. You’re the expert on your own experience.

This isn’t about making you neurotypical

Being neurodivergent isn’t a defect to be corrected. A lot of what wears people down isn’t the ADHD or autism itself, it’s a lifetime of being asked to hide it. We’ll take that seriously. The work is about self-understanding, self-compassion, and the tools to make daily life feel less like a fight, not about becoming someone you’re not.