A different approach to healing
Therapy for late-diagnosed and neurodivergent teens and young adults in Los Angeles
Many neurodivergent people come to therapy worn down after spending years adapting to environments that don't match how their brain and nervous system operate. Over time, this trauma response can show up as chronic overthinking, burnout, unrelenting inner critics, or cycles of "pushing through" followed by collapse. These patterns aren't character flaws. They are signs of a system that's been under constant demand for too long.
What an overwhelmed ND nervous system looks like:
• Easily activated or triggered (i.e., your body reacts faster than your thoughts)
• Avoidance or over-functioning (i.e., using substances, screens, caretaking, or distraction to manage internal distress)
• Hyper vigilance (i.e., frequently scanning people or environments—tone, facial expressions, body language—for threats)
• Emotional dysregulation (i.e., feeling numb, hopeless, emotionally flat, or having difficulty accessing joy)
• Difficulty with self-trust (i.e., chronic shame, self-doubt, or a belief that something is fundamentally wrong with you)
• Interpersonal strain (i.e., swinging between relying heavily on others and pulling away due to fear of rejection)
• Dissociation (i.e., zoning out, memory gaps, feeling detached from your body)
• Physical symptoms without a clear cause (i.e., migraines, GI issues, or medically unexplained symptoms)
Therapy here doesn’t aim to override these patterns through insight or willpower alone. Instead, we focus on helping your nervous system settle, making sense of your internal experience, and gradually building regulation that allows change to hold. The goal isn’t to force you into someone else’s model of wellness — it’s to help you move from survival into a way of living that actually fits.
Healing in Practice
Brainspotting
Brainspotting works with the brain’s natural ability to process and integrate experiences that got “stuck.” Instead of reliving or analyzing trauma, we identify specific points of visual focus that activate the areas of the brain holding unprocessed emotional and physiological material.
This approach is especially effective when emotions feel overwhelming, reactions feel automatic, or talk therapy has only gone so far. Clients often notice changes not just in how they think, but in how their body responds — less intensity, more choice, more regulation.
Somatic Therapy
Your body often knows what your mind can’t articulate yet. Tightness, pressure, numbness, restlessness — these are signals, not just symptoms. We work with physical sensations to help your nervous system move out of chronic fight, flight, freeze, or fawn reactions. This isn’t about forcing calm and rest. It’s about expanding the capacity to feel without being flooded or shut down.
Over time, regulation becomes more accessible, not because you’re controlling yourself better, but because your system doesn’t need to stay on high alert.
IFS Informed Parts Work
We all have different parts of us — protective parts, critical parts, younger parts carrying pain. These parts aren’t pathological. They formed in response to threats (real or perceived) in the environment.
Rather than trying to get rid of them, we get curious about what they’re protecting and why they don't feel safe enough to soften. When these parts feel understood, they don’t have to work as hard. Change follows naturally, not through force. There are no bad parts, only parts shaped by experiences that haven’t been fully processed yet.
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Where You Start
Whether you're the type to dive into everything at once or you have a specific burden you're seeking relief from, the process is the same. We start by building foundational awareness—of your somatic sensations, your unconscious reactions, and your deep-rooted patterns—at a pace that feels steady and manageable.
From there, the work moves toward felt, real change: fewer automatic reactions, more internal peace and self-trust, and a growing sense that you’re not fighting yourself to get through the day.
Feeling more fulfilled, connected, and alive isn't some abstract idea or distant goal. It's something that can be experienced in tangible, embodied ways today. If you're ready to move in that direction, I'm here to support you at every step.