Our approach

• We are queer neurodivergent therapists with lived experience as well as specialized training and professional experience in working with LGBTQIA+. Neurodivergence, Trauma, and Chronic Illness.

• We are not just performatively LGBTQIA+ affirmative; we go well beyond “being okay” with your gender or sexuality. We celebrate, embrace and help our clients with a range of LGBTQIA+ experiences including providing letters for gender affirming surgeries. We also take the QIA+ part seriously as well as recognize the ways that some people may feel excluded from mainstream versions of queerness.

• We are also not just performatively Neurodivergent Affirmative. We use an identity-based social justice approach and acknowledge the harm done from behavioralist, cure-centric, and medical models. Many of our clients are teens and adults who are late-diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning Autistics and ADHDers who may not have had language before to explain how or why they felt different from others, have internalized shame about always “doing it wrong,” or feel that they must have been absent the day “how to human” instructions were given out.

• Some of our clients are also dealing with a slew of co-occuring chronic illnesses such as POTS, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, MCAS, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Autoimmune disorders, and Long-Covid (what Dr. Mel Hauser calls “All the Things”). We assist clients to process anger, loss and relief that may come from navigating the medical system, medical gaslighting, and for some finally receiving diagnoses. We also help clients find empowering ways to conceptualize and adapt to a new normal so that they may live a meaningful and fulfilling life.

• We work collaboratively with our clients to determine treatment goals, and utilize a range of therapeutic tools and modalities - including psycho-education, talk therapy, and somatic interventions such as EMDR - to meet the individual needs of each client.