Offerings
How We Work: 100% Telehealth / Virtual Care for Adults (18+) across Washington State.
Collaborative Framework
In this practice, your autonomy, your personhood, your pronouns, and your chosen direction are fiercely respected. Together, we will:
Evaluate your life's demands: Map out what is truly necessary versus what is negotiable for your energy.
Navigate your system: Figure out how to balance daily life and where to intentionally set boundaries.
Find your path forward: Work collaboratively to build a life where you feel entirely yourself—learning to practice radical acceptance, make room for safe dysregulation without shame, and wrap it all in genuine care.
De-Pathologizing the Clinical Space
As a therapist, it is outside my clinical scope to provide formal diagnoses. Instead, we will work firmly within the neurodiversity paradigm and the social model of disability. These frameworks hold that your brain is not deficient; you possess a unique way of being and processing that a non-affirming world wasn't built to sustain.
I am interested in how your sensory and information processing actually works, and how we can use it to build a life centering your joy. In this space, I want to encourage stimming and the intense interests that allow you to step into effortless, monotropic flow.
Unmasking & Honoring Contradictions
If you have spent a lifetime untangling the exhausting weight of masking—self-monitoring and contorting your face, your emotions, your roles just to fit in—this space is a soft landing. We will collaborate to identify when masking is a necessary tool for your safety and when it is safe to lay it down.
I lean entirely into complex contradictions—I am autistic and phone calls terrify me, yet I will happily make cold calls for political campaigns when human rights depend on it. Shift is built to honor your complex contradictions, too. Let’s build a sense of safety on your terms—balancing the comfort of structure with your fierce need for breathing room—and track who you are in the journey.
My Clinical Approach
How We Work Together: Neurosomatic Relational Care
I don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach, and I never use ABA. Instead, I practice neurosomatic relational care—an approach that honors how your brain, body, and relationships constantly shape one another. Together, we draw from several interconnected frameworks:
Somatic Therapy & Nervous System Attunement: Because neurodivergent nervous systems process the world from the bottom up, talk therapy alone isn't always enough. We pay gentle, collaborative attention to how stress, sensory overload, and safety show up in your body, building real-time interoceptive awareness without judgment.
Predictive Processing Theory: Your brain is wired to be deeply predictive, constantly reading your environment to anticipate what comes next and keep you safe. For autistic, AuDHD, and PDA nervous systems, sudden changes or ambiguous social demands can trigger massive prediction errors and internal alarm bells. Understanding this lens helps us lower your daily cognitive load, reduce systemic anxiety, and build predictability where you actually need it.
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): Grounded in brain science and genuine human connection, IPNB explores how safe, attuned relationships help wire and heal the nervous system. Rather than sitting behind a blank clinical slate, I show up as a real human to co-create a space where you don't have to translate or defend your baseline.
Parts Work: We all hold complex contradictions. Together, we get curious about the different parts of you—including the parts that learned to mask or armor up—not to force them away, but to honor their protective logic so you can lead your life with genuine self-direction.
Neurodivergent-Affirming & PDA-Informed Care: Everything we do is filtered through the social model of disability and a fierce respect for your autonomy. In our sessions, we reject behavioral compliance, move at a consent-based pace, and collaborate on low-demand, sustainable ways for you to navigate daily life.
