Areas of Practice
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Therapy for adults caught between living authentically and the expectations of family, culture, or community.
For people who want to understand themselves more deeply—not just cope, but make sense of their patterns, emotions, and internal world. Together, we explore identity, meaning, and the parts of you that have been shaped over time to create more clarity and alignment.
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Support for women navigating ADHD, especially those diagnosed later in life, who may feel misunderstood or overlooked. We work to untangle shame, build practical systems, and better understand how your brain works—so you can move through life with more ease and self-trust.
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A space to process the lasting impact of trauma, including experiences that may not always be obvious or easily named. This work focuses on understanding how past experiences show up in the present, while building a greater sense of safety, regulation, and self-connection.
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I support those who have experienced trauma from existing or past relationships, including relational trauma from a narcissist.
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Therapy for people who think deeply but struggle to feel grounded in themselves or their relationships. We explore how you relate—your attachment patterns, emotional responses, defenses, and desires—to support more secure, intentional connections, while actively challenging heteronormative scripts and expectations.
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As someone who deeply values the healing and companionship animals can provide, I also offer Emotional Support Animal (ESA) assessments.
Complex Trauma
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Complex trauma often develops through repeated experiences of emotional neglect, chronic invalidation, inconsistent caregiving, betrayal, or relationships where your needs, feelings, and reality were not consistently recognized or respected. Unlike a single traumatic event, complex trauma can shape how you see yourself and move through the world over time. You may find yourself struggling with self-doubt, feeling disconnected from who you are, or questioning whether your thoughts, feelings, and experiences are valid. Many people carry an underlying sense that they are "too much," "not enough," or somehow responsible for the difficulties they have experienced.
These experiences can also have a profound impact on relationships. When trust has been broken, safety has been inconsistent, or connection has come at the cost of abandoning yourself, relationships can become confusing and exhausting. You may find yourself people-pleasing, overexplaining, staying in unhealthy dynamics, fearing abandonment, or struggling to trust others' intentions. At the same time, you may long for deeper connection while feeling unsure how to create it.
Healing from complex trauma is not simply about reducing symptoms—it's about rebuilding your relationship with yourself. Therapy can help you make sense of old patterns, reconnect with your own instincts and inner knowing, develop healthier boundaries, and create relationships that feel more secure, reciprocal, and aligned with who you truly are.
Emotionally Harmful Relationships
& Relationship Trauma
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One of the most difficult aspects of recovering from an emotionally or psychologically harmful relationship is learning to trust yourself again. When your experiences have been repeatedly minimized, dismissed, criticized, or reframed by someone else, you may begin to lose confidence in your own perceptions. Decisions that once felt straightforward can become overwhelming. You might second-guess your memories, question your feelings, or find yourself constantly looking to others for reassurance before trusting your own judgment.
Over time, many people discover that recovery is not just about healing from what happened within the relationship. It is also about reconnecting with the parts of themselves that were pushed aside in order to maintain the relationship. You may be exploring questions about your values, desires, identity, sexuality, boundaries, or the kind of life you actually want for yourself. For some, this process feels less like becoming someone new and more like returning to parts of themselves that have been buried, silenced, or forgotten.
Therapy can provide space to separate your own voice from the messages, expectations, and survival strategies you developed along the way. As self-trust grows, many people find themselves making decisions with greater clarity, relating to others more authentically, and building a life that feels increasingly aligned with who they are rather than who they learned they needed to be.
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Many women with ADHD go unrecognized for years, often not discovering they have ADHD until adulthood—sometimes only after a child receives a diagnosis and they begin recognizing similar patterns in themselves.
In women, ADHD frequently shows up in less obvious ways than the stereotypical image of hyperactivity. It may look more like chronic overwhelm, perfectionism, difficulty slowing the mind, self-criticism, or a tendency to prioritize others' needs while struggling to meet their own.
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Many of my clients are thoughtful, capable women with ADHD who appear high-functioning externally while struggling internally.
Specializing in ADHD therapy for women, including late-diagnosis ADHD, overwhelm, masking, burnout, and emotional regulation.
Supporting women in understanding how ADHD impacts identity, relationships, self-worth, and daily life.
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Some misunderstood (and often missed) common experiences of women with ADHD:
Do you care deeply about things, but struggle to follow through in a way others can see?
Does your thinking feel expansive—but hard to contain or direct?
Is your time and energy taken up with coping, staying organized, and holding it together, with no time for fun or relaxation?
ADHD
in women and late diagnosis
Identity
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You may have spent years adapting to what was expected of you—within your family, relationships, culture, community, or social circles. You learned how to keep the peace, meet other people's needs, fit in, succeed, or survive. Those strategies may have served an important purpose at one point in your life. But many reach a place where they realize they're no longer sure what they want, what they believe, or who they are outside of those roles.
You might find yourself second-guessing your decisions, struggling to trust your instincts, or feeling disconnected from your own needs and desires. Maybe your life looks successful on paper, yet you feel disconnected from it.
For some people, this process unfolds after emotionally harmful relationships. Recovering from chronic invalidation, manipulation, coercive dynamics, betrayal, or relationships centered around another person's needs can leave you feeling disconnected from your sense of self. You may find yourself questioning your perceptions, struggling with self-trust, or trying to understand how you lost your footing in the relationship.
For others, this journey includes exploring parts of themselves that have felt hidden, misunderstood, or difficult to fully embrace—including aspects of identity, attraction, relationships, gender, culture, or the ways they experience connection and belonging in the world.
Therapy offers a space to untangle these experiences with curiosity and compassion. The goal isn't to become someone new—it's to reconnect with the person who has been there all along beneath the expectations, survival strategies, and old patterns.
Relational Patterns & Intimacy
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Many of the ways we move through relationships are shaped long before we become fully aware of them. Attachment wounds, family dynamics, relational trauma, and past relationship experiences can quietly influence how we communicate, trust, set boundaries, navigate conflict, or experience emotional intimacy. Even highly self-aware people may find themselves repeating painful relationship patterns, struggling with vulnerability, attracting emotionally unavailable partners, or feeling disconnected in relationships despite deeply wanting closeness and connection.
I offer depth-oriented relationship therapy for individuals seeking to better understand their attachment patterns, relationship tendencies, and emotional needs. This work explores how past experiences may still be shaping present-day relationships while building healthier ways of relating to yourself and others.
My work often focuses on intimacy, communication, boundaries, self-worth, relationship anxiety, people-pleasing, emotional availability, and fostering relationships that feel more secure, reciprocal, and aligned. This may include romantic relationships, dating patterns, friendships, or broader relational dynamics.
I also work with those navigating conflict, hurt, or disconnection within important non-romantic relationships, including parent-child relationships, sibling dynamics, family systems, and chosen family. These relationships often carry deep emotional complexity and can significantly impact our sense of identity, belonging, and safety. Therapy can support clearer communication, healing attachment wounds, working through long-standing relational conflict, and creating more meaningful and sustainable connection over time.
Let’s Connect
To get in touch or schedule an initial session, please use the form below or email me at:
therapy@heyalexa.one