affirming, not correcting

you were never the problem to be fixed.

affirming counselling for neurodivergent adults. self-diagnosis is welcome, masking is not required, and you will not have to explain the basics first.

  • self-diagnosis welcome
  • virtual across bc
  • go at your own pace
  • free 20-minute consult

exhausted from doing it their way.

a lot of what gets called a symptom is the cost of translating yourself all day for rooms that were not built for you. that translation is expensive, and most people never get to put it down.

  • masking until there is nothing left

    you have learned the expressions, the pacing, the small talk. it works, and it costs you a lot of what you had left over.

  • a lifetime of being told to try harder

    the effort was always there. what was missing was anyone recognising the extra load you were carrying to keep up.

  • burnout that gets misread

    shutdowns and overwhelm get treated as laziness or attitude, including by you, because nobody named what was happening.

an affirming room, not a corrective one.

the goal here is not to make you appear more neurotypical. it is to work out what you actually need, unmask where it is safe to, and stop treating your wiring as a defect to manage. you do not need a formal diagnosis to be taken at your word, and we can go at whatever pace and format works.

A bowl of smooth river stones in focus, Paula sitting behind them in the garden

what working together looks like

predictable, unhurried, and adjustable. tell me what helps and we will build the sessions around it.

we talk

a free 20-minute phone call! bring notes if that is easier. no obligation either way.

we set it up your way

format, pacing, breaks, how much eye contact. we make the room work for you rather than the other way round.

we unpack the load

we separate the wiring from the exhaustion of accommodating everyone else's, and work out what you can stop doing.

stop

no performance required for this one. book a free consult and turn up exactly as you are.

book a free consult

translating