We know finding a therapist who actually gets it is hard!

If you've tried therapy before and it didn't quite work - or it actively made things worse - we want you to know that your experience makes sense. A lot of therapy is designed with a neurotypical brain in mind, and even a skilled, well-meaning therapist can miss the mark if they don't truly understand neurodivergence.

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Maybe you spent sessions translating yourself, finding ways to explain your experience that would land for someone who processes the world very differently to you. Maybe your communication style was misread as avoidance, resistance, or emotional dysregulation. Maybe you were given strategies that made perfect sense in theory but were completely unworkable for how your brain actually functions. Maybe you left feeling more broken than when you arrived.

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What we offer is different. We begin from a neurodiversity affirming place: the understanding that your brain is not disordered. It is different. And different requires a different kind of support.

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You don't need to arrive with the ability to explain yourself clearly, to make comfortable eye contact, to respond quickly, or to present as someone who is coping. You just need to show up - however that looks for you on that particular day. We'll meet you there.

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You don't need a diagnosis to work with us, and you don't need to be certain about your neurotype. You might be in the right place if any of the following feels familiar:

 

✓  You've been told you're "too sensitive," "too much," "too intense" - and you've spent years trying to dial yourself down to a manageable level

✓  You feel genuinely exhausted in a way that rest doesn't seem to fix - and you suspect it has something to do with how hard you work just to appear functional

✓  Social situations leave you drained even when you enjoy them, and you need significant time alone to recover

✓  You've had previous therapy that felt like it was teaching you to seem more neurotypical - rather than helping you actually feel better

✓  You mask heavily at work, in social settings, or even with people you love, and you're not sure who you are when the mask comes off

✓  You were recently diagnosed with autism or ADHD as an adult and you're still working out what that means for your life, your history, and your sense of self

✓  You've been managing anxiety or depression for years and you have a feeling that there's something has never been properly addressed

✓  You find certain sensory environments overwhelming in ways that are hard to explain to people who don't experience it

✓  You think in ways that don't quite fit standard therapeutic frameworks e.g. you're highly analytical, or intensely pattern-focused, or you process emotion very differently to how it's usually described

✓  You want a therapist who will be honest and direct with you, not someone who will soften everything to the point of saying nothing

✓  You're questioning your neurotype and looking for a space to explore that without being pushed in any particular direction

✓  You're a late-diagnosed autistic or ADHDer and you're sitting with a lot of grief about the years that passed without understanding or support

 

You don't need to tick every box. You don't even need to be sure. If something on that list felt like a quiet recognition - welcome. You're in the right place.