Therapy for Neurodivergent & Highly Sensitive Women
ND-AFFIRMING EMDR & SOMATIC THERAPY FOR DIFFERENTLY WIRED WOMEN AND QUEER ADULTS IN SANTA CLARITA, LOS ANGELES & ACROSS CALIFORNIA
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Therapy for ADHD
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Autistic Creatives
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Highly Sensitively People
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QTPOC Affirming
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Womens Mental Health
✸ Therapy for ADHD ✸ Autistic Creatives ✸ Highly Sensitively People ✸ QTPOC Affirming ✸ Womens Mental Health
For the ones who feel it all…
You've always known you were different. You just didn't always know why.
Somewhere along the way, through years of masking, adapting, and shrinking yourself to fit, you forgot what it feels like to just be you. You're tired of trying so hard just to feel okay. It doesn’t have to stay that way.
My practice centers the neurodivergent experience: ADHD’ers, autistic, highly sensitive women and adults who've spent too long in spaces that weren't made for them and are ready for a change.
Therapy shouldn't feel like one more place you don't belong.
This isn't your standard therapy: EMDR adapted for neurodivergent nervous systems and mindful somatic work meets art, movement, and nature to express what words sometimes cannot.
Your Healing gets to be as expansive as you are.
Does This Sound Familiar?
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On the outside, you’re successful, yet inside there is a grief for the version of life you thought you’d have by now. Perhaps loss has reshaped your story, family, friendship and relationship dynamics have felt lacking or harder than they should be, and you may wonder how things could have been different had you received earlier support in understanding the way your brain is wired.
The good news is that it’s never too late to understand yourself in a new way. With the right support, what once felt confusing or painful can begin to make sense, opening the door to more self-compassion, clarity, and choice moving forward.
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You may have been told that you were “too sensitive,” “too much,” or “not trying hard enough.” Over time, messages like these can lead you to hide parts of yourself or feel unseen, especially if your differences were misunderstood or unrecognized growing up.
You might also notice that a fear of rejection or feeling left out can hit harder than it seems to for others, sometimes leading to people-pleasing, overthinking interactions, or trying to anticipate others’ needs to avoid rejection.
This is called rejection sensitivity, and therapy can help you understand it, regulate the emotional intensity, and develop healthier ways of navigating and selecting relationships.
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You may notice that both falling asleep and waking up can be difficult. Your mind may stay active late into the night, and mornings can feel extremely fatigued due to a delayed circadian rhythm.
When something truly engages you, focus (and even hyper focus) comes naturally. When it doesn’t, transitioning to completing small tasks can feel almost painful. ADHD brains run on interest, novelty, urgency, and meaning.
For many women and womb-holders, shifts in energy, focus, and motivation can be closely tied to hormonal rhythms. These patterns may become noticeable across the monthly cycle, particularly during the premenstrual luteal phase, as well as during major hormonal transitions such as pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause. Recognizing these natural fluctuations can open the door to meeting yourself with more compassion rather than criticism.
Hi,I’m Amelia
I help differently wired women finally belong.
Maybe therapy hasn't always felt like the right fit.
I'm an ADHD and women's mental health therapist with lived experience. You don't need another strategy that makes the mask more comfortable to wear. You need real, body-based, trauma-focused work designed for women and queer adults who are tired of being "high-functioning" and barely functioning at the same time.
You’re not lazy, you’re exhausted.
My clients have spent years trying to fit into spaces that weren't built for them. The depression, burnout, and overwhelm that follow is an invitation to listen to what your body is telling you, and to finally do something about it.
You don’t have to keep carrying this alone.
You deserve a therapist who doesn't need you to constantly explain why you are the way you are. Where there aren’t any rigid templates or a one-size-fits-all approach. Just down to earth, heart-centered psychotherapy that was made for how you're wired.
START YOUR HEALING JOURNEY TODAY!
Here’s how I can help..
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Somatic Therapy
We work with the body as a source of wisdom rather than a problem to be managed. Drawing from Hakomi, we slow down together and get curious about what's happening right now: the subtle sensations and patterns that quietly run the show. No analyzing, no fixing. Just presence, and pacing that actually works for you. If talk therapy has left you feeling like something's still missing, somatic work creates the spaciousness and grounding that words alone rarely reach to find healing at the root.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR helps your brain and body process overwhelming experiences, trauma, and the patterns they leave behind: things like anxiety, shutdown, self-doubt, or feeling disconnected from yourself. For differently wired nervous systems, standard EMDR doesn't always fit, so in our work it's adapted to your pace, sensory needs, and the way your brain actually processes. Together we gently work through past experiences, including the weight of masking and chronic overwhelm, so you can feel more grounded, connected, and like yourself again.
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Nature-Informed Therapy
Whether we meet outdoors or bring the natural world into our virtual space, nature-informed therapy uses the living world around us as a guide for reflection and processing. Something shifts outside the four walls of a traditional office. Anxiety softens, what felt stuck begins to move. If you're navigating hormonal cycles, life transitions, or simply longing to feel at home in yourself again, this might be the space where something finally shifts.
SPECIALTIES
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Many women with ADHD have spent years feeling misunderstood in systems that weren’t designed for how their minds work. Because ADHD often overlaps with anxiety, depression, trauma, or burnout, we focus on understanding the whole picture so you can work with your natural rhythm rather than it.
As a therapist with lived experience of ADHD, I go beyond surface-level productivity advice by integrating nervous system informed therapy, DBT skills, and acceptance-based approaches. Common themes we may work on include executive functioning challenges, sensory sensitivity, people-pleasing, boundaries, energy management, and building self-trust and self-compassion.
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Hormonal changes across the menstrual cycle can significantly affect how we as women feel. You may notice that anxiety, depression, irritability, or overwhelm intensify in the luteal phase, which research suggests is especially common for neurodivergent women, including those with ADHD or sensory sensitivity.
Understanding and learning to attune to the body’s needs during each phase of our cycles can help mitigate the intensity of PMS, PMDD, PME. Together, we focus on building insight, self-compassion, and practical tools to support your changing needs throughout different seasons and cycles of life.
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You may be exploring your identity, questioning labels, or navigating what authenticity means for you beyond the binary. I work with LGBTQ+ adults, including those who are trans and nonbinary, as well as people whose identities exist beyond traditional categories. Your identity is not something that needs to be explained or defended here.
Many LGBTQ+ clients come to therapy to process the impact of growing up in environments where their identity wasn’t always understood, supported, or made space for. Therapy can be a space to explore self-acceptance, body image, intimacy, boundaries, and relationship dynamics in a supportive, sex-positive, and non-judgmental environment.
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EMDR Therapy
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Expressive Arts Therapy
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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Therapy
✸ EMDR Therapy ✸ Expressive Arts Therapy ✸ Hakomi Mindful Somatic Therapy
All of you is welcome here.
If my approach resonates with you, I’d be honored to support you in your healing journey. I welcome you to reach out for a complimentary 20-minute consultation so we can explore whether therapy together feels like the right fit.
Ready to start therapy?
Finding the right therapist can feel like one more overwhelming thing when you're already running on empty. If you're a highly sensitive, neurodivergent, or LGBTQ+ adult wondering whether EMDR or somatic therapy might be right for you, you don't have to have it all figured out before reaching out. Just reach out below and we’ll take it from there.