Neurodivergence Therapy for Adults

Autism & ADHD

Getting a late diagnosis doesn’t just explain the present. It rewrites the past.

Suddenly the job you couldn’t keep, the relationship that fell apart, the years of feeling like you were running a race everyone else seemed to find easier, look different. Not because anything changed, but because you finally have a more accurate map of your own mind.

That can be clarifying. It can also be destabilizing. Both at once is common.

What This Work Addresses

Late diagnosis, or the suspicion of one, tends to unearth a specific kind of grief. Not just for what was hard, but for the version of yourself you were told you were: too sensitive, too scattered, too intense, not trying hard enough. A lot of people spend years internalizing that story before they find out it was never quite accurate.

This work focuses on understanding your mind as it actually is, not as it’s supposed to be. That includes:

• The exhaustion of masking, and what it costs over time

• Burnout that looks like laziness or apathy from the outside

• Sensory, emotional, or social experiences that never quite fit the standard explanations

• Relationships where you’ve always felt slightly out of step

• The question of who you are when you stop performing competence

This isn’t about coping better with a neurotypical world. It’s about building a satisfying life around the ways that your mind actually works.

What Therapy Looks Like

We start by making sense of your history and current experience. Where there’s also trauma (and for many late-diagnosed adults there is), I integrate EMDR and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to work at a deeper level than conversation alone can access.