Therapy for Neurodivergence

Neurodivergence is a term that describes people whose brains process information differently than most people. It's not a diagnosis, but rather a way to describe people using words other than "normal" or "abnormal". Neurodivergent people may have different strengths and challenges than people whose brains develop more typically. 

The field of knowledge and treatment of neurodivergent people is just being created. Right now, in real time, neurodivergent people are gaining awareness of the ways our experiences have always been different than the “neurotypical” default. We have more and/or different brain connections. Some of us have sensory sensitivities. Some of us have sensory numbness. Some of us hyperfixate, some of us struggle to focus on anything at all.

Sometimes we experience all those things in one day.

The world seems to be coming to the awareness that many of us have been walking through our experiences with more input or more thinking. The world outside of us feels very different than the world inside of us.

Therapy that addresses the neurodivergent experience involves getting to know an individual’s neurotype, or the style of processing they have. What are one’s strengths? What struggles are present? Social? Physical? Emotional? How has the existence one has been living been uniquely shaped by the way the nervous system experiences the world?

I adore working with neurodivergent people because every life experience is so unique. Like crystals with endless facets, people are endlessly unique in how they reflect the world they’re walking in.