Family Insights - Therapy for children, parents and families

No. You do not need a formal ADHD, autism, or AuDHD diagnosis to do this work.
Many adults come to neurodivergence through lived experience first: burnout, sensory overwhelm, masking, emotional intensity, executive dysfunction, parenting a neurodivergent child, or finally realizing their whole life makes more sense through this lens.
A formal diagnosis can be validating and useful. It can also be expensive, inaccessible, complicated, or not something you want or need right now (or ever). We can work with your lived experience, your patterns, your nervous system, and what is actually happening in your life.
No. This work may be a fit if you identify with ADHD, autism, AuDHD, giftedness, high sensitivity, sensory processing differences, PDA traits, chronic masking, burnout, or a lifelong sense of being wired differently.
The point is not to squeeze you into one perfect label.
The point is to understand what your nervous system has been trying to manage, what supports you actually need, and how to build a life with less shame and more self-trust.
That is welcome here.
You do not have to arrive certain. You may be questioning, newly exploring, self-identified, recently diagnosed, or quietly holding a giant pile of “wait, is this me?” tabs open in your brain.
We can explore what fits, what does not, what has been true across your life, and what kind of support might actually help.
An intensive gives us more time than a standard weekly therapy session to follow the deeper thread.
We may explore masking, burnout, identity, grief, sensory needs, boundaries, executive functioning, relationships, parenting, attachment wounds, or the ways you learned to survive by becoming easier for other people.
This is not a productivity makeover.
It is focused therapeutic work to help you understand yourself more clearly, reconnect with your needs, and begin building a life that fits your actual nervous system.
This is therapy.
We may absolutely talk about practical strategies, routines, boundaries, scripts, communication, pacing, and real-life support. But the work is grounded in clinical training, attachment, nervous system regulation, grief, trauma-informed care, and the emotional meaning underneath the patterns.
In other words: yes, we can talk about your calendar. (And maybe why you have…six of them?)
But we are also going to talk about why your calendar feels like it is personally trying to ruin your life.
Yes.
Many late-realized neurodivergent adults come into this work because parenting brought everything to the surface. (Or your child was diagnosed first and now you can see it in yourself.) Your child’s big emotions, sensory needs, anxiety, defiance, shutdown, or neurodivergence may activate old wounds in you.
We can work with both: your own nervous system and the parent-child relationship.
This may include understanding triggers, repairing after rupture, reducing shame, building more realistic expectations, and learning how to parent without abandoning yourself.
Burnout is one of the most common reasons adults seek this kind of work.
Neurodivergent burnout can affect your energy, mood, sensory tolerance, executive functioning, relationships, work capacity, and sense of self. It can feel like you suddenly cannot do what you used to do, even if you were “high functioning” for years.
We will not treat burnout like a motivation problem.
We will look at what your system has been carrying, where you have been over-adapting, and what recovery may need to look like in your actual life.
Maybe — but not by ripping the mask off and flinging it into the woods.
Masking often developed for good reasons: safety, belonging, work, relationships, survival. Unmasking needs to be thoughtful, paced, and relationally wise.
We can explore what masking costs you, where it may still feel necessary, where you want more freedom, and how to begin making choices that are less rooted in self-abandonment.
That makes sense.
Late-realized neurodivergence can bring enormous grief. Grief for the child who was misunderstood. Grief for the adult who kept pushing. Grief for relationships, opportunities, energy, health, and years spent believing you were the problem.
Anger may come too.
This work makes room for all of it without rushing you into gratitude, silver linings, or “at least now you know.” Sometimes you need space to tell the truth before you can move forward.
Intensives are not a crisis service or a substitute for a higher level of care. If you are actively suicidal, at risk of harming yourself, unable to stay safe, or needing frequent support between sessions to get through the day, you deserve more immediate and consistent care than this format can provide.
That does not mean you are “too much.” It means your nervous system needs a wider net.
A crisis team, emergency evaluation, intensive outpatient program, or ongoing local therapist may be the safer next step. Intensives are for focused therapeutic work when you are stable enough to reflect, process, and begin making meaningful changes with support.
All sessions are virtual.
You must be physically located in Montana, Washington, or Idaho at the time of session.

Other than that, you can be in your cozy bedroom in PJs, in a treehouse, or at the edge of lake…
An intensive may be a good fit if you want focused, deeper support around late-realized neurodivergence, burnout, masking, identity, grief, boundaries, parenting, or nervous system repair — and you feel ready to show up with curiosity, commitment, and motivation for the work.
We will begin with a $25 consultation to talk through what is happening, what you are hoping for, and whether this format makes sense for your needs. If you decide to move forward, the consultation fee will be deducted from the cost of your first session.
If another kind of support would be a better fit, I will tell you that too. No therapeutic mystery maze required.

FAQ

Your questions, answered

FAQ

Your questions, answered

Do I need a formal diagnosis?

Is this only for ADHD or autism?

What if I am not sure I am neurodivergent?

What happens during a late-realized neurodivergent intensive?

Is this therapy or coaching?

Can we talk about parenting too?

What if I am burned out?

Will this help me unmask?

What if I feel grief or anger about being missed for so long?

Are intensives a good fit if I am in crisis?

Where do I need to be located?

How do I know if an intensive is right for me?