Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy in Connecticut
Do You Often Feel Like Your Brain Works Differently Than Others?
Do focus, organization, sensory experiences, or social interactions sometimes feel exhausting or confusing, even though you’ve learned ways to adapt?
Have you spent years masking your natural tendencies, overcompensating, or trying to “fit in,” only to wonder if anyone truly understands how your brain works?
You are not the only one experiencing this. Many adults with Autism and ADHD navigate life with incredible creativity, insight, and resilience, while also carrying the challenges of living in a world designed for neurotypical brains. In therapy, I provide a space where your experiences with autism or ADHD are recognized and respected. You can explore strategies to make daily life more manageable, deepen your self-understanding, and honor the way your mind uniquely operates, without judgment or pressure to conform.
You’re Not Alone: Neurodivergency Resiliance
If you’ve ever felt like your brain doesn’t work the same way as everyone else’s, or like you’re constantly trying to adapt just to keep up, you’re not alone.
Autistic and ADHD adults often carry challenges that aren’t visible to others. This may look like the exhaustion of masking your natural way of thinking, struggling to focus or manage time, feeling overwhelmed by sensory input, or navigating social interactions that feel confusing or draining. Maybe you’ve had to develop systems to get by, hide your true self, or push yourself harder than others just to meet expectations.
These experiences aren’t signs that something is wrong with you. They’re evidence that you’ve been trying to cope in a world that often isn’t built for neurodivergent brains.
Therapy with a neurodivergent-affirming therapist can help you understand your unique patterns, reconnect with your strengths, and explore strategies for living in a way that feels authentic and sustainable. Whether you’re managing overwhelm, building routines that actually work, or simply seeking a space where you can be yourself without masking… you deserve support designed for your experience.
Neurodivergent Therapy: A Space Where Your Brain is Understood
Too often, neurodivergent adults feel unseen, misunderstood, or pressured to mask their natural way of being. Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is different. Your brain isn’t a problem to be fixed. It’s a valuable part of who you are! Here, your thinking, processing, and sensory experiences are recognized and respected. You deserve care that meets you where you are and honors how your neurodivergence shapes your life.
Therapy offers more than coping strategies. It can become a space where your experiences are reflected back with understanding and clarity. It’s a chance to explore your strengths, uncover strategies that actually work for you, and feel more comfortable being yourself.
What We Might Explore
Focus & Organization
Together we can explore strategies for managing attention, time, and daily tasks in ways that fit your unique brain.
Sensory & Emotional Regulation
Learn tools to navigate sensory overwhelm, emotional intensity, and situations that feel draining or unpredictable.
Masking & Social Fatigue
We’ll explore the ways you’ve adapted to fit in, the costs of masking, and how to honor your authentic self in relationships and work.
Identity & Self-Understanding
Therapy can help you understand how neurodivergence shapes your perspective, interactions, and sense of self, and support growth without judgment.
Coping in a Neurotypical World
Together we can address anxiety, burnout, or stress from navigating systems and environments not built for neurodivergent adults.
Healing & Self-Compassion
Using trauma-informed approaches like Brainspotting, we’ll help release patterns of tension, overwhelm, or shame safely and gently.
Reclaiming Strength & Joy
This space is also for celebrating your creativity, insight, and resilience. Build a life that reflects who you are, not just surviving in the one you’ve adapted to.
This work isn’t just about managing challenges. It’s about understanding your brain, trusting your instincts, and creating strategies and spaces that honor your neurodivergence. Here, you don’t have to mask or shrink yourself to be accepted. Neurodivergent-affirming therapy offers a chance to live more comfortably, authentically, and confidently. You’re not broken, and you don’t need a diagnosis to deserve care that understands, validates, and supports you fully.
Neurodivergent Therapy: What to Expect
My approach is grounded in respect, curiosity, and a deep commitment to understanding your unique neurodivergent experience. Therapy is without judgment, assumptions, or expectations for you to teach me how your brain works.
Here’s what our work together might look like:
A Welcoming, Nonjudgmental Space
From the very beginning, your session is your space. You don’t have to mask, explain your strategies for coping, or fit into neurotypical expectations. Therapy here is about meeting your brain where it is and creating safety through understanding, not performance.
Exploration at Your Pace
Whether you’re newly understanding your neurodivergence or have known for a long time, our sessions unfold at a pace that feels right to you. You’re in control of how deep we go, when we go there, and what you’re ready to hold. We can explore anything from executive functioning challenges, sensory overwhelm, masking, and social fatigue to emotional regulation and self-understanding. There is no “right way” to do this work.
Affirming and Intersectional Care
I don’t view ADHD or autism in isolation. I hold space for how neurodivergence interacts with other lived experiences like gender, sexuality, race, ability, class, culture, or faith. Intersectional care means honoring the full, nuanced truth of who you are and how you’ve learned to navigate the world.
Specialized Tools for Support
When words aren’t enough or feel overwhelming, I use trauma-informed approaches like Brainspotting to help process experiences stored in the body. You don’t have to recount every detail of your challenges to find relief. Together, we’ll create a path toward understanding, regulation, and thriving that honors your nervous system, your pace, and your needs.
Therapy can be a place where your neurodivergent experiences are not only seen but deeply understood. It’s not about “fixing” your brain. It’s about supporting your strengths, easing challenges, and helping you navigate life in ways that feel authentic, sustainable, and empowering.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. You don’t need a formal diagnosis to receive support. Many adults seek therapy because they experience challenges consistent with ADHD or autism, such as sensory overwhelm, difficulty with focus, or social fatigue. Therapy can help you understand your brain, develop strategies, and navigate life in ways that feel authentic, formal diagnosis or not.
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Therapy provides a space to explore how your brain works and develop practical strategies for daily life. Together, we can address challenges like focus, time management, emotional regulation, and sensory sensitivity. Using neurodivergent-affirming approaches, you’ll learn tools tailored to your thinking style, build routines that actually work, and reduce the stress of masking or overcompensating.
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Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is centered on understanding and validating your unique experiences. Unlike traditional therapy, it doesn’t assume your brain should conform to neurotypical norms. Sessions focus on your strengths, challenges, and goals, using strategies that respect your processing style. You’ll have a space to be yourself, explore solutions that fit your life, and feel understood without judgment or pressure to mask.
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Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World that wasn’t Designed for You by Janera Narenberg
