ADHD, Autism & AuDHD Therapy for Adults | Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy

Living with ADHD, Autism or AuDHD can feel both enlightening and exhausting.

You may have spent years wondering why everyday life feels harder than it seems to for other people, or perhaps you've recently received a diagnosis that has helped make sense of lifelong experiences. Many people also come to therapy while they are questioning whether they may be neurodivergent.

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Whatever stage you're at, therapy offers a space to understand yourself with greater compassion, explore your strengths and challenges, and find ways of living that work with—rather than against—your unique brain.

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A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach​

As both a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) and a neurodiversity-affirming psychotherapist, I understand that experiencing the world differently can be both a strength and a challenge. My own sensitivity has shaped the way I work, helping me create a warm, compassionate and accepting space where you can feel seen, heard and understood.

I believe therapy should begin with understanding rather than fixing. My role isn't to help you become less autistic, less ADHD or less yourself. Instead, I offer a collaborative, relational space where we can explore your experiences, understand how your neurodivergence shapes your life, and find ways of living that honour your unique needs, strengths and challenges.

Drawing on Gestalt psychotherapy, I pay attention to the whole of your experience — your thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and relationships — helping you develop a deeper understanding of yourself and greater confidence in living authentically.

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Support for AuDHD

Many people discover that they identify with both ADHD and autism—often referred to as AuDHD. Living with AuDHD can involve navigating seemingly contradictory needs. You may crave structure while also becoming bored by routine, long for connection while feeling overwhelmed by social interaction, or move between periods of intense productivity and complete burnout.

Therapy provides a space to make sense of these experiences without judgement. Together we can explore how your unique neurodivergent profile influences your relationships, work, emotions and sense of identity, helping you develop a more compassionate understanding of yourself.

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How We Can Work Together

Whether you’re looking for counselling for ADHD, support with autism-related challenges, or therapy for AuDHD, we can focus on:

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• Understanding your neurodivergent identity: exploring what ADHD, autism or AuDHD mean for you personally, and making sense of lifelong patterns with more compassion.

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• Recovering from ADHD, autistic or AuDHD burnout: Understanding what has led to exhaustion and finding more sustainable ways to care for your energy and needs.

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• Managing chronic overwhelm: Identifying what triggers overwhelm and developing ways to slow down, regulate and create more space in daily life.

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• ​Emotional regulation: Exploring intense emotions, mood shifts and nervous system responses, and finding strategies that feel realistic for you.

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• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD): Understanding painful responses to criticism, rejection or perceived disapproval, and finding kinder ways to support yourself.

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• Emotional inertia and getting “stuck”: Making sense of why it can feel difficult to start, stop or shift tasks, emotions or states of mind.

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• Masking and unmasking: Exploring the function of masking, how it may have helped you feel safe, belong or cope, while also understanding the emotional cost of hiding parts of yourself over time.

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• Sensory overwhelm: Understanding your sensory needs and finding ways to reduce overstimulation in work, relationships and everyday life.

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• Self-esteem and self-acceptance: Working through shame, self-criticism or feeling “too much”, and developing a more accepting relationship with yourself.

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• Relationships and communication: Exploring patterns in relationships, boundaries, needs, conflict and the impact of neurodivergence on connection.

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• Workplace stress and reasonable adjustments: Thinking through work pressures, burnout, communication challenges and what support or adjustments may help.

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• Navigating a late diagnosis: Processing the emotions, grief, relief and identity questions that can arise with discovering ADHD, autism or AuDHD later in life.

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Every person’s journey with ADHD and/or Autism is unique. Therapy provides a supportive, non-judgmental space to explore who you are and how you want to move forward.  ​

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Who I Work With

I work with adults who are exploring, diagnosed with, or self-identifying with ADHD, autism or AuDHD. You may be coming to therapy with a clear diagnosis, or you may simply have a growing sense that neurodivergence helps explain parts of your experience.

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You might be:

• Newly diagnosed

• Trying to make sense of what your diagnosis means for your identity, relationships and past experiences

• Questioning whether you may be neurodivergent

• Exploring patterns of overwhelm, masking, sensitivity, emotional intensity or feeling different from others.

• Experiencing burnout or chronic overwhelm

• Feeling exhausted from years of pushing through, adapting, people-pleasing or trying to meet expectations that don’t fit your needs.

• Navigating a late diagnosis

• Processing relief, grief, anger, sadness or confusion after realising there may have been an explanation for lifelong struggles.

• Struggling with emotional regulation or RSD

• Finding emotions, rejection, criticism or perceived disapproval especially intense or difficult to recover from.

• Wanting to understand yourself more deeply

• Looking for a therapy space where you don’t have to mask, minimise or explain away your experience.

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Find out more about how I work and check out my blog to read more about ADHD, Autism and AuDHD.