Therapy for Self-Aware & Neurodivergent (ADHD) Adults
Some people move through the world with a high level of awareness of themselves and everyone around them.
Maybe you notice subtle shifts in tone or body language before anyone says a word. You’re the friend who senses when something’s off in a group, or who replays a conversation afterward wondering how it landed. Maybe you’ve always been analytical and curious about why people do what they do.
For some people, that awareness is part of their temperament. For others, it comes from life experience, like growing up in a home where you had to pay close attention to other people’s moods. And for many neurodivergent adults, including people with ADHD or autism, it comes from years of masking: constantly reading the room, adjusting how you come across, and working hard to fit into a world that wasn’t built for how your brain works.
In a lot of ways, that awareness is a strength. It can make you empathetic, perceptive, and great at work that takes emotional intelligence and attention to detail. But it can also turn inward in ways that are exhausting. When your mind is always analyzing your reactions, your relationships, or the meaning behind every interaction, it’s hard to step out of the loop. Over time that can turn into anxiety, overthinking, burnout, or spirals about whether you’re doing life “the right way.”
This is where therapy can help.
My role isn’t to make you more self-aware. You already are. It’s to help you use that awareness in a way that actually helps instead of wearing you down. I’ll be direct with you and name the patterns I notice, so you’re not left decoding everything on your own.
Drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS), we’ll get curious about the part of you that’s always analyzing. It’s usually working hard to keep you safe, and it deserves to be understood rather than fought. We’ll also use somatic, body-based approaches to help you get out of your head and back into your body, because you can’t think your way out of an overthinking loop.
For neurodivergent clients, therapy is also a place to stop masking. We’ll look at what’s genuinely hard for you, what’s simply different, and what you need to work with your brain instead of against it. I welcome both diagnosed and self-identified clients. I don’t provide formal ADHD or autism assessments, but I’m happy to help you think through whether one might be helpful and point you toward resources.
Over time, the goal is a different relationship with your own mind: one where you can stay curious about your life without feeling like you have to constantly decode it.
Ready to start?