Online AuDHD counselling for adults

I provide online counselling across Canada for adults who identify as AuDHD or are exploring if autism and ADHD fits their experience. My practice is informed by both training and lived experience.

AuDHD is the largest percentage of my practice.

If you’re thinking you might be AuDHD, you might find some of the following experiences relatable:

  • Decision paralysis because we need the perfect amount of information before making a choice, yet gathering that information is a struggle

  • Contradicting needs: Routine is crucial… until but we fizzle out, panic, and immediately start building a new one.

  • Feelings can arrive hard and fast, but take days to understand, while other people’s emotions are immediately obvious

  • As kids, we’re often labelled as gifted or twice exceptional.

  • Passions can look different from ADHD hyperfocus and autistic special interests. We might disappear down a interests deep rabbit hole for months before suddenly going down a completely different one.

  • Several earlier diagnoses that maybe make sense… or maybe don’t. Common misdiagnoses include generalized or social anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, mood disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, or eating disorders.

  • A go-to meal that we eat for months at a time before suddenly feeling totally disgusted by it.

  • Struggling to fit in, make connections, and form friendships.

  • A personal favourite: painstakingly setting up a double-blind taste test of four brands of grapefruit-flavoured sparkling water, discovering an obvious winner, accidentally throwing out the results, and forgetting which brand won.

If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend checking out my blurbs on autism, autistic burnout, and ADHD because AuDHD can look like a lot of things.

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Counselling with an AuDHD Brain

Living with AuDHD in a neurotypical world is tiring. Here’s how I can support you:

  • Recognizing unique and suppressed sensory sensitivities

  • Decreasing the feeling of being a head floating through space by reconnecting the mind and body

  • Managing burnout

  • Holding space for the anger, grief, and unfairness of late diagnosis

  • Building self-compassion and regulation

  • Identifying strengths and finding ways to work with, rather than against, your neurotype

  • Defining and setting Boundaries (yes, with the capital B)

Above all else, having your experience witnessed and validated tends to be crucial.

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Frequently Asked Questions about AuDHD Counselling

  • No. AuDHD is a community term that describes people with both ADHD and autism. Formal diagnosis are typically recorded separately as ADHD and autism, but many folks use AuDHD to describe their experience.

  • Yes! You can read more about me here, and you’re welcome to ask further questions.

  • Counselling is a unique experience for everyone, and it depends on your needs. Common topics include boundary setting, alexithymia, coping, sensory experiences, rejection sensitivity, autonomy, masking, and practical skills, like organization.

  • Relief and grief, often referred to “gre-lief” by Kory Andreas, are a common experience following adult diagnosis. Diagnosis shifts our internal world, and it takes time to adapt. Your gre-lief is valid.

  • Hard no.

  • Diagnosis is not necessary to work with me. The benefits, costs, and implications of diagnosis are frequent topics. Regardless of your choice, I can support you during the journey.

  • As you probably know, AuDHD has significant nuance. Sometimes people recognise their ADHD traits long before recognising their autistic ones, and sometimes the opposite is true. It can take years to make sense of experiences that seem contradictory on the surface. The interaction between autism and ADHD is often more complex than simply adding the two together, which is why an affirming and informed approach can be so valuable.

  • Assessments are outside of my scope. However, if you’re interested in either assessment or a joint assessment, I can connect you with professionals who have expertise in assessment and diagnosis.

  • Yes, I offer online counselling to clients in Canada's unregulated provinces and territories, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Newfoundland & Labrador, Yukon, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories.