Being neurodivergent in a world built around neurotypical norms isn’t just exhausting—it’s traumatic.
Many autistic and ADHD individuals grow up absorbing the unspoken (and spoken) messages that they are “too much,” “too sensitive,” “too chaotic,” or “too rigid.” Survival often means masking your true self, pushing down sensory needs, or twisting yourself into shapes that others find more comfortable. Over time, these survival strategies become woven into the nervous system itself.
This is where EMDR and IFS come together to offer real, body-based healing—not by trying to “fix” your neurodivergence, but by healing the relational and systemic wounds that came from being misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or marginalized.
EMDR & IFS for Neurodivergent Individuals
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps the nervous system process and release the stuck trauma that comes from years of invalidation. Maybe it’s the shame of being told you were lazy when you were overwhelmed. Maybe it’s the grief of relationships lost because others couldn’t meet you where you were. Maybe it’s the exhaustion of always being “on,” always masking, always bracing. EMDR doesn’t require you to relive the worst moments—only to bring gentle awareness to how your system has been holding onto the pain. Through bilateral stimulation (like tapping or eye movements), we help your brain complete its natural healing process, allowing old wounds to finally loosen their grip.
At the same time, Internal Family Systems (IFS) offers a compassionate roadmap for understanding the parts of you that developed along the way—the part that masks to stay safe, the part that shuts down when overwhelmed, the part that criticizes to stay ahead of rejection. In IFS, there are no bad parts. Every adaptation is honored as a creative survival strategy. We invite these parts into a safe, nonjudgmental space where they can be heard, witnessed, and eventually, unburdened.
For neurodivergent individuals, therapy often hasn’t felt like a safe place. It might have felt like another system demanding you “work harder,” “focus more,” or “regulate better.” That’s not what we do here. In this space, we move at your pace. We honor your sensory needs. We validate that your brain and body already make perfect sense—they’ve been adapting to survive in an often harsh, chaotic, and inaccessible world.
Together, EMDR and IFS create a therapy experience that is attuned to you.
You don’t have to sit still. You don’t have to process on a therapist’s timeline. You don’t have to suppress stimming or force eye contact. Your natural rhythms, your movements, your needs—all are welcome.
Through EMDR, we help your nervous system let go of the chronic “bracing for impact” that so often comes from years of being misunderstood or judged. We work with the emotional body, the nonverbal memories, the felt sense of being “wrong” in spaces where you simply were different. Through IFS, we rebuild internal trust. The parts that once had to fight, flee, freeze, or fawn begin to soften. They don’t have to carry the burden alone anymore.
This is not therapy designed to erase your neurodivergence. This is therapy designed to help you reclaim it—on your own terms, with less shame, less fear, and more grounded self-connection.
Therapy to Support Neurodivergence, ADHD, and Autism
If you are autistic, ADHD, or neurodivergent in any way, and you’re tired of navigating spaces that don’t fit or validate you, you deserve a therapeutic relationship that feels like a collaboration, not a correction. You deserve to heal the wounds the world left, while honoring every part of the fierce, beautiful, sensitive being you already are.
In this work, we don’t aim to make you “normal.” We aim to make you feel at home—in your body, in your story, in your life.
You were never broken. You were building safety the only way you knew how. Now, it’s time to build something new—on your terms.
