Many autistic women come to therapy because of relationships. A partner who reads a shutdown as coldness. Friendships that feel like work. A family that never quite understood. I know from my own long-term relationship how forgetting something can become much bigger than the forgotten thing. How getting overwhelmed can turn into shutting down. When nobody understands what is happening, everything can start to feel personal. As a couples therapist trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy, I can work with you on your own or with your partner. The goal is for both of you to understand what's actually happening, without either of you becoming the problem. CREATIVE WOMEN AND PERFORMERS Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than a decade as a professional musician and composer. Four full-length albums. Tours across the United States. Music for film, television, and advertising. Many autistic women are artists, writers, makers, and performers. Creative work gets tangled up with identity and worth. I know what it's like to perform on command, have your worth tied to your last output, and fall apart quietly while everyone assumes you're fine. HOW I WORK My work is emotionally focused, attachment-based, LGBTQ+ affirming, and neurodiversity-affirming. I'm trained in Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), with a psychodynamic, trauma-informed foundation. Sessions mix deeper emotional work with practical tools. For burnout. For sensory overload. For executive functioning. My work mentoring neurodivergent young adults gives me hands-on experience with that practical side. WHO I WORK WITH • Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD women, diagnosed or self-identified • Women who suspect they're autistic and are just beginning to ask the question • Late-identified women making sense of a lifetime of masking • Women in burnout, shutdown, or sensory overload • Women working through rejection sensitivity, people-pleasing, and boundaries • Women whose partners don't yet understand their neurotype, and couples working on it together • Creative women, performers, and professionals • Queer and nonbinary autistic adults WHAT TO EXPECT IN SESSION Sessions are conversational and collaborative. We go at your pace. You don't have to make eye contact. Or sit still. Or explain why the lights or the noise are too much. Movement, fidgeting, time to process, and written summaries are all welcome. I'll tell you what I'm noticing, and check whether it fits. You're the expert on your own experience. My job is to help you understand it. And trust it. You don't have to perform here.