Autistic or ADHD Burnout
Recover from prolonged overload, reduced capacity, exhaustion, and the consequences of pushing beyond sustainable limits.
Neuroaffirming Individual Therapy
Neuroaffirming individual therapy is available for adults with ADHD, adults on the autism spectrum, AuDHD adults, and people exploring whether neurodivergence helps explain their experiences. In-person care is available in Columbus; Chaundra also sees clients in Laurel, Ohio. Both clinicians provide telehealth throughout Ohio. Treatment focuses on reducing distress and building a life that works with your brain rather than against it.
Schedule a ConsultationIndividual Therapy That Accounts for Neurodivergence
Many neurodivergent adults enter therapy after years of trying harder, compensating, masking, or receiving treatment that addressed only part of what was happening. You may function well in some settings while using enormous effort to manage responsibilities, sensory demands, relationships, and emotional overload.
Neuroaffirming therapy takes your neurology seriously without assuming that every problem comes from ADHD or autism. We look at the interaction among your nervous system, environment, relationships, history, expectations, strengths, and current demands.
Reasons Adults Seek Therapy
Masking and Unmasking
Understand when masking has protected you, what it costs, and where more authentic ways of functioning may be safe.
Executive Functioning
Develop practical approaches to task initiation, planning, time, transitions, routines, and competing responsibilities.
Anxiety and Emotional Overload
Address anxiety, rejection sensitivity, emotional dysregulation, sensory overwhelm, and nervous-system activation.
Trauma and Shame
Work with the effects of chronic misunderstanding, invalidation, exclusion, relational harm, and traumatic experiences.
Identity and Late Diagnosis
Integrate new information about yourself and process relief, grief, anger, uncertainty, or changing support needs.
Therapy for ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD
Adults With ADHD
Therapy may address executive functioning, emotional intensity, rejection sensitivity, shame, inconsistent performance, and the stress of managing systems that demand sustained attention and organization.
Adults on the Autism Spectrum
Care may focus on sensory needs, burnout, communication, social demands, routines, transitions, identity, trauma, and finding safer ways to reduce masking.
AuDHD Adults
Autism and ADHD can create needs that appear contradictory. You may seek novelty and depend on predictability, need stimulation and become overwhelmed by it, or struggle to reconcile competing forms of regulation. Therapy can help identify patterns and supports that account for both.
Questioning and Self-Identified Adults
A formal diagnosis is not required for therapy. We can explore your experiences without pressuring you toward a particular conclusion. When diagnostic clarity is a goal, adult autism and ADHD testing is available as a separate service.
How We Approach Treatment
Treatment is collaborative and based on your goals. Depending on clinical needs, care may draw from neuropsychotherapy, EMDR, somatic therapy, polyvagal-informed care, parts-informed work, family-systems approaches, strength-based treatment, and practical strategies for daily functioning.
- Your strengths and coping strategies are considered alongside areas of difficulty.
- Sensory, communication, and processing needs can be incorporated into sessions.
- Progress is not measured by how successfully you imitate neurotypical behavior.
- Strategies are adjusted when they are unrealistic, exhausting, or incompatible with your life.
Related Autism and ADHD Services
Read an overview of our neuroaffirming therapy approach. We also provide neurodiverse couples therapy for relationship concerns and adult autism and ADHD testing for clients seeking diagnostic clarity.
Locations and Clinician Availability
In-person individual therapy is available in Columbus, Ohio. Chaundra Knight also provides in-person therapy in Laurel, Ohio. Yvonne Judge's in-person services are available in Columbus. Both clinicians provide telehealth to adults located throughout Ohio.
Ready to Get Started?
Schedule a free consultation to get your questions answered, talk about what you need and see how we can help. Call or text (614) 245-5119, or use the button below. Daytime and evening appointments are available within a week at our Columbus office, Laurel, Ohio office (individual therapy only) or by telehealth throughout Ohio.
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