I work with:

Autistic adults across a wide continuum of identity and belonging – whether you have been formally diagnosed, self-identify, or are questioning.

many of whom also experience:

  • Learning disabilities – dyslexia & dyscalculia, dysgraphia & dyspraxia, dysnomia, non-verbal learning disability (NVLD), communication disabilities, giftedness, ADHD, etc.
  • Other disabilities & illness – managing chronic & complex conditions such as auto immune, ME/CFS, long COVID, chronic pain, mobility, etc.

seeking support around:

      • Severe Burnout
            • Mitigating, recovering, and preventing cycles of burnout
            • Loss of skills & functional capacities
            • Depression, anxiety, despair & panic
      • Identity & Expression
            •  Understanding autistic & neurodivergent experience / consciousness
            • “Masking & unmasking” / navigating neurodisablism
            • “Rejection sensitivity” / awareness of social disconnection
            • “Alexythymia” / languaging & making sense of complex feelings
            • “Pathological demand avoidance” / pervasive drive for autonomy 
            • “Oppositional defiance” / learning assertive communication & boundary setting
      • Meaning, Purpose, Belonging
            • Connecting with community / access intimacy, interdependence, social safety
            • Transforming struggles into strengths – unlearning neurodisablism
            • “Moral Scrupulosity” / caring deeply & uncompromising ethics & moral reasoning
      • Executive Functioning:
            • “Transitioning” / shifting gears & modulating energy
            • “Perfectionism” / desire for diligence & careful process
            • “Procrastination” / creative block, energy depletion, anxiety
            •  “Loss of Motivation” & “over achievement” / cycles of striving & collapse 
            • “Time management” / navigating mechanistic clock time
            • “Organization” / creating joyful routines & systems
            •  “Prioritizing” / balancing equally important goals
      • Trauma & Oppression:
            • Institutional – educational, workplace, healthcare, family
            • Interpersonal – betrayal (gaslighting, scapegoating, ghosting) exclusion (ostracism, erasure, malignment, dehumanization) extraction (exploitation, appropriation, idealization & disavowal) and coercion (manipulation, peer pressure & bullying, blackmail, bribery)
            • Intrapersonal – punishing & self-loathing, devaluing, deceiving, neglecting / dismissing needs & wants
            • Ideological / Systemic – everyday neurodisablism, disablism, racism, classism, cissexism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.