Neuro-Affirmative Therapy

I offer neuro-affirmative, relational therapy for neurodivergent adults, shaped by professional and personal experience, based in Brighton & Hove and working online.

My work begins from respect for the intelligence, meaning, and value of neurodivergent ways of being, without expectation that you need to change who you are.

Many people I work with come to therapy later in life after recognising themselves in descriptions of autism, ADHD, or other forms of neurodivergence — sometimes with a formal diagnosis, sometimes without.

Late identification can bring relief, confusion, grief, or a sense of re-reading one’s life. Therapy can offer space to explore this gently, without rushing to conclusions or turning difference into a problem to be fixed.

I don’t see neurodivergence as something that needs to be corrected, but as a different way of experiencing and moving through the world. I hold a strong awareness of how often distress arises through non-accommodation, misunderstanding, masking, and chronic stress, rather than neurodivergence itself.

I bring both my professional training and my own lived experience of AuDHD into the therapeutic space, offering a place where neurodivergent identity is recognised, respected, and supported.

Therapy with me may explore anxiety, overwhelm, burnout, masking, identity, relationships, and the search for meaning and belonging. I aim to support capacity, self-understanding, and safer ways of unmasking, with close attention to limits, timing, and what is workable in everyday life.

Intuition, symbolism, and felt sense are used only where they support understanding and agency, and are never prioritised over clarity, consent, or practical needs.

I welcome autistic and neurodivergent people, including those who identify as autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, or dyslexic.