Before I started coaching I became a trauma therapist and I kept noticing how people would come to me for therapy because of stress and anxiety even though they weren’t mentally or clinically ill. It didn’t sit well with me that they were being made to believe they fit into a mold of ‘there is something wrong with me’ just to receive the support they actually needed. You can learn more about my therapy practice here.

I was drawn to coaching because after practicing psychotherapy for several years, I wanted to normalize normal.  It was difficult to operate in a world obsessed with medical labels and deficit-based thinking.  Even the questions we are trained to ask on endless intakes seem to teach those seeking solace how to notice everything that’s wrong: ‘Do you find yourself thinking negative thoughts?’ Who doesn’t?  We need to explore our innate healing abilities and strengths.  They’re in there!  When you seek therapy, it’s difficult to escape the medicalizing of everything.   This is sadly true for many autistic/ADHD/AuDHD children and their parents trying to navigate networks of providers who offer “treatment” that often negates neurodivergent experience and facilitates placements in noisy and intrusive “therapeutic” settings.  Somehow, we can make even coping sound like a disease.  It’s often an organic and natural response to a world gone mad.

I want to guide you through what works well and teach you how to exist in your body the way it was made for you.  For you!  The AuDHDers, Austics, ADHDers.  All of you. I see you. Your body is designed to heal.  Sometimes, it just needs a nudge.  In nurturing and supportive environments, it thrives!!  And oftentimes, when we get to the root of a thing, it doesn’t take years of guesswork to let that organic healing do its thing.  Sometimes, all it takes is a well-timed Power Hour.