Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy offered virtually across Ontario and New Brunswick.
Support for Anxious, Exhausted, and overwhelmed Autistics and ADhDers who are experiencing neurodivergent burnout.
Support for Anxious, Exhausted, and overwhelmed Autistics and ADhDers who are experiencing neurodivergent burnout.
Specialized understanding, developing awareness about the energy drains, and building modifications to support yourself effectively shifts burnout status into recovery mode.
Neuro-Inclusiveness: is here! Whether You Self-identify or have a Neurodivergent diagnosis,
WELCOME and show up as you need to.
Feeling exhausted, currently in burnout, and wanting change?
You may have read things, felt understood, got a spark of hope that you can change your burnout and get your life back to where you want to be living, feeling that joy, in control of things again. Autism and ADHD Therapy specialize in how to support you with addressing your concerns effectively while building strategies that work for your neurotype, sensory needs, and energy levels.
Anxiety = normal experience with purpose of motivating us towards the path of change. When anxiety takes over, exhaustion results, you get stuck in a burnout. Perfectionism can lead to you seeking certainty that it will work out now. These factors keep you stuck.
That feeling of thoughts racing through your mind is setting off the anxiety inside of you. Your body gives you cues about the stress that you experience. Physiological reactions and being a highly sensitive person is very much relevant to your neurodivergence. The tension and tightness that feels all too familiar as neurodivergent person, not feeling understood, worrying about having to over explain your situation or triggers to the next therapist. You just want to scream or cry to release it, and maybe you cannot even verbalize anything due to shutdown status.
You find yourself procrastinating and avoiding those specific things that bother you. Unsure how to change this pattern, yet desperate to make changes and get them done ASAP. Sensory differences keep you stuck in a status of distress, and you are trying to use all the strategies that have worked in the past. You might be using strategies to manage your stress and anxiety that others won’t approve of, so you engage in masking to hide it. These aspects are important to share in therapy to work on feeling understood, connecting to a therapist who truly “GETS IT” without you having to over explain.
Neurodiverse affirming support with Stress & Anxiety Therapy in Ontario & New Brunswick.
Autistic Burnout and ADHD Burnout are common experiences that are discussed in Neurodivergent Affirming Therapy Sessions. They require specialized support to guiding you with recovery.
Whether you are questioning or have been formally recognized as being in a state of burnout tailored help makes a distinguished difference in your recovery.
BURNOUT RECOVERY INCLUDES:
Taking an inventory to understand what factors contributed to the burnout and are keeping you stuck there
Modifying demands, and increasing support aspects (having fun, stimming more, allowing yourself to relax with simulation or decompression).
Figuring out what actually works for you through individualized therapy approaches.
Supporting your nervous system
Giving yourself permission to do what works to help you recover.
Neurodiverse Affirming Anxiety Therapy Can Support You to Learn About Your Needs, and Create Strategies that work for your individual sensory, cognitive, and emotional needs.
Autistics & Adhd’ers have individual sensory differences.
Each person experiences the world through their own thoughts, feelings, senses, and experiences. It's important to build self-understanding to help you build your own lifestyle that fits you as a unique person.
Challenges present as opportunities to develop a new understanding about you
Challenges in our life can leave us feeling down and defeated. However, with the right support, you can learn how to re-frame your perspective into developing new self-understanding, and growing in positive ways.
Living in a world designed for neurotypical people
Neurodivergent individuals experience the world differently then neurotypical folks, and often can experience it in harsh and non-supportive ways. Having supportive people who understand you, and can support you to learning how to navigate the world in safe ways is important to your well-being.
Understanding your own experiences and emotions
A first step in therapy is often learning about your own emotions. This involves being able to name them, understand their purpose, and then finding ways to embrace them and cope with them.
Repairing & Building new relationship connections
As human beings we are biologically driven to live with close connections to others. Finding and developing healthy, sustainable, safe relationships is key to our overall wellness. Neurodiversity support can help you navigate and understand this aspect.
Goal setting & Life skills
Support with goal setting, and life skills (such as time management strategies that actually work for you) is an important ingredient in therapy supports.
Parent & Caregiver Support, within Neurodiverse Families with a Neurodivergent Affirming Approach
Parents & Caregivers Benefit from Support Too
Self-Care is Critical to Parents Sustaining a Caregiving Role for children and loved ones of all ages
Attending therapy yourself can help you understand the needs of your loved one, while creating strategies to meet both of your needs equally. As a parent you can learn strategies to change your interactions with your child, and this can have a positive influence on changing dynamics in your relationship, including reducing conflict. Supporting your loved one even when they don't want to get help themselves, can include getting your own therapy.
Therapy for caregivers and parents can include a focus on understanding your own unique and individual needs. Building self-care strategies can help reduce your own levels of stress. This can lead to you feeling more able to help your child during challenging and stressful times.
Ready to get STARTED? Schedule a free no obligation introductory call. Where you can explore if Shelley’s therapy services are good fit for your needs.