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Stacked Beach Stones

Online Counselling | Clinical Supervision | Neurodivergent-Affirming Practice

If you are neurodivergent, exploring whether you might be, or navigating a diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or learning disability, you are in the right place.

You might be dealing with burnout, stress, executive dysfunction, masking, overwhelm, or feeling like everyday life takes more effort than it seems to take others. You might also be in a process of late diagnosis, or trying to understand yourself in a way that finally makes sense.

 I offer online and  therapy sessions to pre-adolescents from 11 years old, young people and adults 

How I work

My work is neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally-informed.

This means I focus on understanding how your nervous system, lived experience, culture, and environment have shaped the way you cope, relate, and survive.

I do not see you as something to fix. I see patterns, adaptations, and survival strategies that may have once helped you, but now feel exhausting or limiting.

Together, we explore what is happening underneath anxiety, shutdown, overthinking, emotional overwhelm, or difficulty with focus and organisation — especially when executive dysfunction is making life feel unmanageable.

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Culturally informing & neurodivergent-affirming practice

 

As a mixed-race Brazilian neurodivergent therapist, I understand how culture, identity, and lived experience shape how you see yourself and how you are seen by others.

My practice is culturally informing, which means I consider your background, values, identity, and context as central to the work we do together — not separate from it.

I aim to offer a space where you do not have to mask, translate yourself, or fit into expectations in order to be understood.

 

 

                                         My approach

I work integratively, which means I draw from different therapeutic approaches depending on your needs and the way you experience the world.

These approaches include:

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) — exploring the relationship between thoughts, emotions, behaviours, and anxiety patterns

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — helping you build psychological flexibility and reconnect with what matters to you

  • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) — developing self-compassion and reducing shame and self-criticism

  • Psychodynamic and Attachment-Based Therapy — understanding how past experiences and relationships may continue to shape the present

  • Solution-Focused Therapy — identifying strengths, coping strategies, and practical changes

  • Internal Family Systems (IFS) — exploring different “parts” of yourself with curiosity and compassion

I also incorporate mindfulness-informed approaches, psychoeducation, and conversations around neuroplasticity to support greater self-understanding, emotional regulation, and nervous system awareness.

Who I work with

I work with:

  • Neurodivergent teens (11+)

  • Young people and young adults

  • Women with a late diagnosis of ADHD, autism, or learning disability

  • People navigating diagnosis or pre-diagnosis uncertainty

  • Individuals experiencing burnout, stress, and emotional overwhelm

  • People struggling with executive dysfunction, masking, and identity confusion

Many of the people I work with are high-functioning on the outside but exhausted internally.

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What you might be experiencing

  • Anxiety, OCD, intrusive or looping thoughts

  • Overthinking and rumination

  • Burnout and chronic stress

  • Emotional dysregulation or shutdown

  • Difficulty starting or completing tasks (executive dysfunction)

  • Masking or people-pleasing patterns

  • Feeling “different” or like you don’t quite fit

  • Struggling with relationships, identity, or self-trust

  • self harming or feeling suicidal 

Additional services

I also offer:

  • Clinical supervision

  • Workshops on anxiety, wellbeing, and neurodivergence

  • Support for professionals working with neurodivergent clients

"The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness."

Jon Kabat-Zinn

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