Inner Journey Therapy is a neurodiversity-affirming counseling practice dedicated to using coaching to help individuals and neurodiverse couples build understanding, connection, and resilience. We specialize in working with couples and families where one or both partners are autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent, and where traditional therapy has often felt confusing, invalidating, or ineffective.
Our work is grounded in compassion, lived experience, and evidence-based coaching techniques. We don’t aim to change who you are. We help communicate more clearly, and create relationships that feel safer, more connected, and more sustainable.
Neurodivergence is not something to be fixed; it is a way of being. Our work centers on understanding, honoring, and supporting neurodivergent minds while helping individuals, couples, and families build lives that feel more regulated, connected, and sustainable.
We offer neurodivergent‑affirming coaching for autistic individuals, ADHDers, highly sensitive people, PDA profiles, and those with co‑occurring anxiety, trauma, burnout, or substance use concerns.
Many neurodivergent people have spent years being misunderstood, masked, overcorrected, or blamed for nervous system responses they did not choose. Over time, this can lead to shame, exhaustion, and a deep sense of being "too much" or "not enough."
Our therapeutic approach is grounded in the understanding that neurodivergence is a natural human variation, not a deficit. Emotional regulation is viewed as a nervous‑system process rather than a character flaw, and meaningful change happens when skills are paired with safety, compassion, and relational repair. We focus on helping clients feel understood and supported, rather than managed or corrected.
Neurodivergent adults often seek coaching for burnout, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, work stress, identity confusion, or late diagnosis. Many arrive exhausted from masking and feeling "behind," broken, or misunderstood.
Our coaching supports experiences such as autistic or ADHD burnout, chronic overwhelm, emotional dysregulation, shutdowns or going mute, anxiety or obsessive thinking, and trauma related to long‑term invalidation or misattunement. Many clients also seek support around identity development following a late diagnosis, executive functioning challenges approached without shame, and substance use that has functioned as a regulation strategy.
Sessions are adapted to your processing style and needs, including slower pacing, direct communication, reduced ambiguity, and respect for sensory boundaries.
When one or both partners are neurodivergent, relationships can be deeply loving—and deeply misunderstood. Many couples seek support after years of repeated conflict cycles, emotional injury, or caregiver fatigue.
Common concerns in neurodivergent relationships include differences in emotional processing speed, meltdowns or shutdowns during conflict, mismatched needs for closeness, routine, or stimulation, and executive functioning strain that impacts shared responsibilities. Often, one partner feels chronically unseen while the other feels persistently "wrong" or inadequate.
Our couples coaching techniques center on helping each partner understand their own and each other’s nervous systems, translating neurodivergent communication differences, and repairing emotional injuries without blame or pathologizing. We work to reduce parent‑child or manager‑employee dynamics and support couples in building shared language, clear boundaries, and realistic expectations that honor both partners.
Children are not miniature adults—and neurodivergent children often communicate distress through behavior, withdrawal, or emotional storms rather than words. We support children and teens who experience emotional outbursts, meltdowns, or shutdowns; school avoidance or academic stress; anxiety, perfectionism, or low self‑esteem; sensory overwhelm; social exhaustion from masking; or confusion about identity and belonging.
Our approach to coaching is developmentally appropriate, collaborative, and play‑ or interest‑informed. Caregiver involvement is included as appropriate, with an emphasis on understanding the child’s nervous system rather than controlling behavior.
Neurodivergence is affirmed rather than pathologized; our coaching techniques are adapted to how you think, feel, and process. Masking is gently reduced rather than reinforced, and emotional intensity is met with both structure and compassion. We honor strengths alongside challenges, creating space for growth without shame.
Getting Started
Individual, couples, and child coaching available. Please reach out to us to schedule a consultation and explore whether this approach is the right fit for you or your family.