Individual session $100 per 60-minute session
I work with adults who are ADHD, autistic, or both, whether newly diagnosed, self-identified, or still in the middle of figuring out what this means for them.
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Discovering you have ADHD, autism, or both, through diagnosis or self-identification, can bring a mix of emotions. For many, there is grief for the years spent misunderstood or struggling without support, yet there is also relief in finally having language that makes sense of long-held experiences.
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What Some People Notice
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Adults navigating ADHD, AuDHD, or autism often carry a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from spending years in environments that were not built for how they are wired.
The challenges you may experience can include:
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Executive functioning challenges, including task initiation, time awareness, and follow-through
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Emotional dysregulation that feels hard to explain to others, or that others dismiss entirely
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Social exhaustion and the fatigue that comes from masking
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Burnout that goes deeper than typical workplace stress
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Long-standing self-criticism rooted in years of feeling like you were doing life wrong
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Sensory sensitivities that shape how much energy daily life requires
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A complicated relationship with productivity, rest, and what counts as enough
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For many adults, these experiences have been present their entire lives. A diagnosis or self-identification does not create them, and it does not resolve them either.
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What Therapy Offers
Neurodivergent-affirming therapy is not about fixing how you are wired. it is also not about making you fit what society says is "normal".
It is about understanding yourself more clearly and reducing the shame that tends to accumulate from years of struggling in silence. Counselling supports you in building a life that works with how you actually function rather than against it.
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In therapy, this may include working toward:
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Making sense of your experiences through the lens of what you now understand about yourself
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Gaining acceptance, accommodating challenges, and rebuilding self-trust by developing approaches that align with how your brain actually works
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Understanding the facets of emotional dysregulation in your life, including intensity, reactivity, and what triggers them
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Finding language for your inner experience, including when feelings are hard to name or describe
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Rebuilding self-trust after years of being told your perception of your own experience was wrong
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Understanding how your nervous system responds to stress, sensory input, and social demand
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Navigating relationships more sustainably, including how to communicate needs without masking them
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Working through burnout and understanding what contributed to it
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Exploring what a life built around how you actually function, rather than how you have been expected to function, could look like
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Processing the emotional weight of medication decisions, including what it means to need support, to feel different on it, or to grieve the years before you had it
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Virtual counselling makes consistent support accessible across Alberta and Ontario.
Together, we can make sense of your experiences, celebrate your neurodivergent identity, and chart a path that feels authentic and empowering.​
Virtual Counselling · Adults 18+ · Alberta and Ontario
Registered psychotherapist (qualifying) · CRPO #20257
My services are covered by many extended health benefit plans.
Receipts provided after each session for reimbursement.
Common questions
Do I need a formal diagnosis to work with you?
No. You do not need a formal diagnosis to work with me.
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People come to this work from very different places. Maybe you have spent years wondering, recognizing yourself in things you read or heard, sitting with a sense that something finally makes sense without anyone ever confirming it officially.
Maybe you have wanted an assessment for a long time and have not been able to get one. Assessments can be expensive, hard to find, and backed up by long wait lists. That is a real barrier, not a personal failing, and it means a lot of people are carrying real self-knowledge with no paperwork to go with it.
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A diagnosis is one way of understanding yourself but it is not the only way, and it is not a requirement here.
You know your own experience. That is what we work with.
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Here is a great article exploring the debate around self-diagnosis: Is Self-Diagnosis Enough?
How is burnout different for people with autism and/or ADHD?
Autistic burnout is the most researched version of this, but the underlying pattern is widely recognized across ADHD and AuDHD experience as well.
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Neurodivergent burnout is a state of deep physical, mental, and emotional depletion. It builds over time, through years of masking, adapting, and working harder than most people around you realise just to get through ordinary days. It tends to be more severe and longer-lasting than general burnout, and rest alone rarely touches it.
People often notice they are struggling to do things that used to come more easily, that sounds and light and social interaction feel harder to tolerate, and that they need to withdraw in ways that are hard to explain to the people around them.
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Can therapy help with late diagnosis grief?
Yes. Understanding your neurodivergence later in life, or coming to understand it differently than you did before, can bring up feelings that do not follow a predictable path. Relief and grief can arrive together. Anger can come later, or first, or not at all.
There is no correct order and no expected timeline. Counselling is not about moving through those feelings quickly. It is about having somewhere to process them that feels safe, accepting and compassionate.