Why I Do This Work:

I grew up as an undiagnosed AuDHD person, who is also queer and trans, in a conservative Mormon environment. My masking led me to try to conform to what people expected me to be. Learning about my AuDHD was like a light coming on after being in the dark for a long time. There’s so much variety in autistic identities and, due to my struggles with language and social environments, I’ve had to learn how to navigate within a society that doesn’t understand my differences. I strive to create a space that understands and affirms your unique struggles, experiences, and needs.

As a trans nonbinary person it was shocking to see diagnosed autistic loved ones be turned away from receiving important gender affirming care because of their autistic identity. You know what you need best, autistic people deserve gender affirming care. Even within more queer accepting places the systemic gender binaries can open up a lot of struggles; I am committed to helping facilitate your exploration of gender and how that shows up for you.

I would like to increase support for neurodivergent relationships, especially relationships where both partners are neurodivergent. My partner and I have both faced unique struggles learning how to navigate our relationship as two AuDHD people with very different needs, due to there being little support and information available about multiple autistic people being in relationship together. I hope to create a nonjudgmental environment for people to discuss relational & sexual experiences and things they want to work through together.

As someone with an invisible chronic illness, I understand how deeply integrated ableism is in our society and how little recognition or understanding there is around the struggles of disabled people or the acknowledgement to combat ableism. Knowing how ableism can affect disabled people, I actively work to stay aware of how ableism can enter the therapy space.