Therapy Services at The Highland Practice

ADHD & Autism Therapy

When your brain feels like 27 tabs open at once, and 12 of them are playing different songs.

Maybe you just got diagnosed. Or maybe you’re pretty sure you’re ADHD or autistic, but you’ve been masking so long you don’t even know who you are underneath.

Either way: you’re exhausted. You’ve spent years wondering why “simple” things feel impossible, why you can’t just “get it together,” why everyone else seems to have their life on autopilot while you’re manually operating every single function.

Here’s the truth: Your brain isn’t broken. It’s just running different software in a world designed for someone else’s operating system.

In therapy, we’ll:

• Untangle what’s ADHD/autism, what’s trauma, and what’s just... being human in a weird world
• Build systems and routines that actually fit your brain (not the brain you “should” have)
• Reduce the shame spiral and stop beating yourself up for being “lazy” or “too much”
• Improve communication and self-advocacy at work, in relationships, and with family
• Help you stop masking so hard that you forget who you actually are

This isn’t about becoming “normal.” It’s about finally understanding yourself, and building a life that doesn’t require you to be someone else.

Trauma Therapy

When the past won’t stay in the past, even though you “should” be over it by now.

Trauma isn’t always one big event. Sometimes it’s a thousand small moments of not being seen, heard, or safe. Of being told you’re “too sensitive” or “overreacting.” Of learning that your needs don’t matter as much as keeping the peace.

And now? You’re an adult, but your body still reacts like you’re in danger. You freeze when someone’s upset. You replay conversations for days. You’re hypervigilant, exhausted, and tired of feeling like you’re “crazy.”

You’re not crazy. Your nervous system is just doing what it was trained to do.

Trauma therapy helps you:

• Reprocess old wounds so they stop hijacking your present
• Reduce intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and emotional flooding
• Reconnect with your body in ways that feel safe (not scary)
• Replace survival patterns with healthier beliefs about yourself and the world
• Finally put down the weight you’ve been carrying for years

You don’t have to “just get over it.” You need to process it, and that’s what we’ll do together.

Attachment & Relationship Work

When connection feels confusing, draining, or just... unsafe.

Do you:

• Over-function in relationships because you’re afraid people will leave if you’re not “useful”?
• Feel guilty every time you set a boundary?
• Struggle to know what you actually want because you’ve spent your whole life managing other people’s feelings?

A lot of my clients grew up with emotionally immature, narcissistic, or absent parents. You learned early that your job was to be small, helpful, and not “too much.” You became the therapist, the mediator, the responsible one.

And now you’re an adult who doesn’t know how to receive care without feeling guilty, or how to trust people without constantly scanning for danger.

In therapy, we’ll:

• Name what happened (and stop minimizing it as “not that bad”)
• Understand how emotionally immature parenting shaped your relationships
• Learn to set boundaries without drowning in guilt
• Practice expressing needs clearly—without apologizing for having them
• Build relationships that feel reciprocal, safe, and actually good

You don’t have to keep people-pleasing your way through life. You can learn to connect in ways that don’t leave you empty.

Burnout & Life Transitions

When you’ve given so much that there’s nothing left...

Burnout isn’t just about work. It shows up in parenting, caregiving, ministry, activism — anywhere you’ve been running on empty while telling yourself “just a little longer.”

And sometimes burnout comes with bigger identity shifts: realizing you’re neurodivergent, leaving (or rebuilding) your faith, coming out, losing someone, or just waking up one day and realizing the life you built doesn’t fit who you actually are.

In therapy, we’ll:

• Understand the roots of your exhaustion (it’s not just “doing too much”)
• Restore balance between responsibility and actually taking care of yourself
• Process grief, loss, and identity shifts with compassion (not judgment)
• Navigate family or community conflict when you change and they don’t understand
• Reclaim energy, purpose, and a sense of who you are underneath all the roles

You don’t have to keep running on fumes. And you don’t have to have it all figured out before we start.

Faith Transitions & Religious Trauma

When the faith that was supposed to save you, hurt you instead

Maybe you grew up in a high-control church. Or you’re realizing that “purity culture” left you with shame you can’t shake. Or you’ve deconstructed your faith and you’re grieving what you lost—even though leaving was the right choice.

Religious trauma is real. And it’s complicated, because it’s not just about beliefs. It’s about identity, community, family, and how you see yourself in the world.

Some of my clients have walked away entirely. Others are rebuilding a faith that actually feels life-giving. Both paths are valid, and I won’t try to talk you into (or out of) either one.

I have a seminary degree and years of experience with:

• Processing spiritual abuse and high-control religious environments
• Navigating deconstruction without losing yourself
• Healing from purity culture, toxic theology, and shame-based teaching
• Rebuilding identity and meaning after leaving (or staying and changing)
• Working through family conflict when your faith shift changes everything

You’re not broken for questioning. You’re not “backsliding” for needing to heal. And you don’t have to pretend it doesn’t hurt.