ADHD, AuDHD & Autism-Affirming Therapy

Support for Individuals & Couples Across Colorado

At Authentic You Counseling, I specialize in working with neurodivergent individuals and couples navigating the world with ADHD, Autism, or both (AuDHD). Whether you’re seeking support for your own growth or for your relationship, therapy here is designed to honor your brain, your boundaries, and your truth — without pathologizing who you are.

What Does “Neurodivergence-Affirming” Mean?

You won’t find “fixing” language here. I don’t treat ADHD or Autism as deficits to be corrected. I see them as natural variations in how brains function — with their own strengths, needs, and challenges. My work is about helping you build a life and relationships that actually work for your nervous system, not against it.

ADHD Therapy

Living with ADHD often means navigating overwhelm, time blindness, emotional intensity, rejection sensitivity, and executive function burnout. In therapy, I offer:

Focus Areas for Individuals:

Managing internalized shame and self-criticism
Understanding executive function without judgment
Creating sustainable systems (without relying on “just try harder”)
Working through overstimulation and emotional dysregulation
Exploring identity beyond productivity

Focus Areas for Couples:

Bridging attention and memory differences without blame
Addressing partner resentment and uneven task loads
Supporting emotional regulation and communication styles
Building shared routines that support both partners
Navigating RSD (Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria) in relationships

Autism-Affirming Therapy

Autistic adults often spend years masking, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood — especially those assigned female at birth or in LGBTQ+ communities. Therapy here is a space to unmask, reconnect, and thrive.

Focus Areas for Individuals:

Unmasking in safe, supported ways
Processing social fatigue and sensory overload
Identity development, including gender and queerness
Navigating burnout and meltdowns with compassion
Rebuilding self-trust after misdiagnosis or trauma

Focus Areas for Couples:

Understanding different communication and sensory needs
Creating shared meaning without neurotypical expectations
Reducing conflict around structure, transitions, and routines
Enhancing intimacy at a pace and rhythm that feels safe
Exploring relational scripts that work outside the norm

AuDHD Support

If you’re both Autistic and have ADHD, you may feel like you’re living in two nervous systems at once — pulled in opposite directions between hyperfocus and overwhelm, craving structure but resisting it. Therapy can help integrate these experiences, reduce internal friction, and create clarity.

Focus Areas:

Learning to recognize and support your energy cycles
Managing contradictory needs (stim vs. shutdown, order vs. spontaneity)
Supporting sensory and emotional regulation
Working through self-doubt around identity and “too muchness”
Helping partners understand the layered complexity of AuDHD

LGBTQ+ & Neurodivergence

Many of the clients I work with are both neurodivergent and part of the LGBTQ+ community. My practice is fully queer-affirming, trauma-informed, and aware of the unique intersections between identity, sensory experience, and relational connection.

You deserve care that gets it — not care that tries to normalize you into someone you’re not.