How can you provide care remotely?
For many of my autistic clients, unmet access needs, limited supports, and finding the existential trust required to authentically relate, often prevent them from appearing for in-person sessions. This is where telepsychotherapy via Zoom provides an opportunity for experiential growth and healing. Here, I conduct sessions in my home office home and ask clients to find a safe space that allows them to feel safe and secure as the session unfolds.
As an AuDHD (i.e. someone who is autistic and also happens to have ADHD), I am honored to work with neurodivergent people who have difficulty developing nourishing relationships, honoring themselves, and finding acceptance. I see my clients learning to sit with uncomfortable feelings and sensations, noticing their bodies, unmet needs, and humanity. From this, there is a shift from rejection to acceptance and holding. The body is no longer something to be avoided, but a home for healing, growth, and nourishment.