Psychotherapy
Helping neurodivergent adults feel empowered, embodied, and fulfilled.
Please Note: Dr. Burnett is currently focusing on testing, consultation, and advocacy work.
She regrets that she is unable to accept new therapy clients at this time.
If you are located in MA, you can join the therapy waitlist to be notified when new clinicians are hired and trained.
The heart of the matter…
We live in a power-over culture maintained by systemic oppression and intergenerational abuse.
Deeply-engrained values of white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, and neuronormativity pervade our late-capitalist society and cause profound suffering. From a young age, we absorb these values and develop “internal oppressors” that cause us to stay small, dull our shine, shame ourselves for our struggles and differences, and perpetually-question our realities.
We may look like we “have it all together,” but constantly feel like anxious, burned-out, “broken neurotypicals.”
While masking and other trauma responses help us survive in oppressive environments, they also increase our emotional pain and disconnect us from our true selves.
Weekly, long-term, telehealth therapy for neurodivergent adults in MA, CA, & WA.
feel truly seen, understood, validated, and empowered in your true self
become more conscious of abuse dynamics and how you have been impacted
feel safer in your body and more trusting of your perceptions
increase insight into your sensory profile and support needs
feel more confident in self-advocacy and boundary-setting
experience increased authenticity, vulnerability, and flow in safe relationships
find self-acceptance and know how to work with your brain, instead of against it!
Experience transformation through an integrative approach:
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Connect with an AuDHDer therapist who helps you gradually un-mask while encouraging stimming and discussion of your special interests. Understand your neurotypes as evolutionary differences that create unique strengths and struggles within the social model of disability. Feel more empowered in your neurodivergent identities, equipped with ways to live in healthier and more authentic ways, and aware of how internalized ableism impacts you, while learning how to override it.
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Explore and integrate your LGBTQIA+ identities in an affirming and empowering way. Autistics, ADHDers, and other neurodivergent people often see and experience the world through an expansive lens. Have the space to grieve the realities of heterosexism, transphobia, religious discrimination, and ongoing violence and threats against queer rights. Process and override the impacts of painful messaging to discover, re-claim, un-mask, and CELEBRATE your true self.
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Experience what it is like to work with a feminist therapist who is aware of power dynamics and how they show up in therapy, calls out systemic oppression and abuse, and validates your perceptions and emotional experiences. Most marginalized people have been chronically gaslighted and tend to minimize the extent of their own mistreatment. Override self-doubt, become confident in your truths, feel affirmed in your values, and realize that your intuition has been right all along.
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Learn how childhood experiences shaped your personality, impact your current relationships, and affect how you view and treat yourself. Experience the freedom that comes from increased insight into these unconscious patterns, which will allow you to make new choices that are more aligned with your true self. If desired, learn how existential and spiritual dynamics have impacted you in both helpful and hurtful ways. Explore symbolism and synchronicities while strengthening your intuition and connection with the things that bring more meaning, wonder, and creative flow into your life.
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Feel safer in your body, learn holistic strategies for coping with stress, and develop a stronger relationship with your intuition and emotional compass. Work through traumatic events with a safe, nonjudgmental, and attuned trauma expert who knows the power of sharing your story with someone who understands. Learn how trauma impacted you, reduce self-blame and self-gaslighting, become more confident in how you deserve to be treated, and develop healthier ways of viewing yourself and navigating relationships.
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Experience a safe relationship with a grounded, authentic, and self-aware therapist who tells you what she thinks, sees, and feels in a compassionate way that won’t leave you guessing. Learn what it’s like to connect with someone who is attuned, non-defensive, and encourages you to share your emotions and use your voice, no matter how confrontational or “bad” it may seem. As this goes better than expected, you will feel more comfortable being authentic in other relationships and more confident setting boundaries with others.
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”