The authentic self is soul made visible. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
You might’ve noticed that there are times you feel safe to be your full self and there are other situations where you tend to put on a mask and show up in a way that might make you more lovable or interesting.
My goal is to help you bridge the gap between the roles you take on to appease others and your full, true, unapologetic self so that you “perform” less, embrace yourself more, and develop honest and supportive relationships.
Helping You Embrace Neurodivergence, Heal Complex Trauma, and Reconnect with Your Authentic Self
Therapeutic Services
Living with ADHD isn’t a flaw—it’s a different way of thinking, feeling, and moving through the world. But in a society built for neurotypical brains, it can lead to chronic overwhelm, self-doubt, burnout, and the sense that you’re always “behind.”
In neurodivergent-affirming ADHD therapy, we focus on understanding how your brain actually works rather than trying to force you into strategies that were never designed for you. Together, we’ll unpack internalized shame, explore nervous system regulation, and build tools that honor your energy, creativity, and natural rhythms. This is a space where you don’t need to mask, minimize, or “fix” yourself—only to better understand yourself and create a life that fits you.
Complex trauma often develops through repeated or long-term experiences of emotional, relational, or systemic stress, especially when safety, consistency, or support were limited. Its impact can show up in the nervous system, relationships, self-beliefs, and the way you move through the world — often long after the experiences themselves have ended.
In therapy, I integrate Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to support healing in a way that is both gentle and effective. IFS helps us understand and befriend the parts of you that learned to survive under difficult conditions. EMDR supports the processing of traumatic memories so they hold less emotional charge. ACT helps you build psychological flexibility, reconnect with your values, and create meaningful change in the present — even as healing unfolds.
Together, these approaches allow us to work at the pace your nervous system needs, honoring both protection and growth. Healing from complex trauma isn’t about fixing what’s broken — it’s about restoring safety, choice, and connection from the inside out.
Anxiety often isn’t a sign that something is wrong with you — it’s a protective response shaped by your nervous system and life experiences. While anxiety can show up as racing thoughts, chronic worry, avoidance, or feeling on edge, trying to “get rid of” it often makes it louder.
In anxiety therapy, I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) alongside emotion coaching to help you build a different relationship with anxiety. ACT supports you in learning how to notice anxious thoughts without being controlled by them, while reconnecting with your values and what matters most to you. Emotion coaching helps you better understand, regulate, and respond to your emotions with compassion rather than self-criticism.
Together, these approaches help you feel more grounded, flexible, and confident in navigating anxiety — not by eliminating emotions, but by strengthening your capacity to move through them and live more fully.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-informed therapy that helps the brain process experiences that were never fully integrated at the time they occurred. Trauma isn’t only about single, overwhelming events — it can also come from repeated “little-t” experiences like chronic stress, emotional neglect, relationship wounds, or growing up in environments where you didn’t feel safe, seen, or supported.
EMDR works by gently accessing these memories while engaging the brain’s natural healing mechanisms, allowing distressing experiences to lose their emotional charge over time. Clients often find that triggers become less intense, self-beliefs soften, and the nervous system feels more regulated. Whether you’re carrying the impact of big-T trauma or the quieter, cumulative weight of little-t trauma, EMDR can support healing in a way that doesn’t require reliving the past — but instead helps you move forward with more ease, clarity, and resilience.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy is a gentle, trauma-informed approach that helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself with curiosity and compassion rather than judgment. If you live with complex trauma, ADHD, or both, it can often feel like your inner world is loud, conflicting, or overwhelming — one part trying to stay productive, another feeling exhausted or shut down, and others carrying fear, shame, or emotional intensity.
IFS offers a way to slow down and listen to these parts, recognizing that each developed for a reason and is trying to protect you. Instead of fighting your brain or forcing change through willpower, we work to build safety, nervous system regulation, and trust from the inside out. For neurodivergent individuals, IFS can be especially supportive in helping make sense of emotional reactivity, impulsivity, inner criticism, and burnout — while honoring creativity, sensitivity, and depth. Healing happens not by fixing yourself, but by reconnecting with your inner leadership and creating internal harmony.
