Hi, I’m Kirsten (she/her), a counsellor-in-training and late-diagnosed Autistic adult offering online neuro-affirming counselling. My own journey to discovering I was Autistic began during a period of severe burnout. After becoming a mother during COVID-19 — a stressful and isolating time — and later returning to work while navigating ongoing change and misunderstandings, I found myself struggling to get out of bed, let alone show up for my family, my employer, or myself. Around the same time, a close friend was diagnosed as Autistic. Her experience sparked something in me, and I began researching and exploring my own experiences.

This research lead me to receive my own diagnosis, which provided an explanation for many of my own experiences and helped me recognize how much of my life had been shaped by being misunderstood, masking, and trying to reduce the burden I felt I placed on others. But diagnosis wasn’t an instant fix. It has taken years of learning and unlearning to understand and validate my experiences, recognize my needs, and learn how to better support myself. I’ve worked to find ways of reducing anxiety and burnout while building a life that accommodates rather than fights against my nervous system. This process has changed how I understand myself, my family, and the neurodivergent people in my life — and it has fuelled my passion for supporting others on their own journeys of self-discovery and acceptance.

I’m especially interested in supporting neurodivergent people who are navigating late identification or diagnosis, burnout, masking, self-understanding, and the process of rediscovering who they are underneath years of expectations and adaptations. My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and grounded in neuro-affirming care. I believe counselling can be a space to slow down, become curious about your experiences, and learn how to honour your needs rather than continually pushing past them. I don’t see neurodivergence as something that needs to be fixed; instead, I’m interested in helping you understand yourself more fully and find ways of moving through the world that feel sustainable and authentic.

Receiving my own diagnosis ultimately changed the trajectory of my career. Autism became a special interest, and I returned to school to study psychology because I wanted to support other neurodivergent people through their own journeys. I’m proud of making that career change in my thirties and of the opportunity to now be doing work that feels so meaningful to me.

I’m a second-generation Canadian of European heritage, a cisgender woman, and a mother to a neurodivergent child. Outside of counselling, my special interests include gardening, and interior design. I enjoy spending time in nature, reading, listening to music, and spending time with my family and community. I’m continually learning, both personally and professionally, and I hope to offer a space where you can do some of that learning about yourself, too.

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Understanding that I am neurodivergent has brought a level of clarity I didn’t have for much of my life. Many of the challenges I experienced—particularly around executive functioning, emotional regulation, and navigating certain environments—now make sense in a different way. This shift has allowed me to move from self-criticism toward self-awareness, recognizing that these patterns reflect how my brain works, not my abilities. It has also helped me better understand and appreciate my strengths, including creativity, intuition, and ability to meaningfully connect with others.

This awareness has had a meaningful impact on how I show up in both my personal and professional life. As a parent, it has deepened my empathy and helped me better support my children in ways that are responsive to their individual needs. In my work as an educator and counsellor, it allows me to build authentic, validating connections with neurodivergent students and clients. I am more intentional about creating spaces that reduce overwhelm, honour differences, and support emotional regulation.

Perhaps most importantly, this understanding has strengthened my sense of self. It has allowed me to approach myself with greater compassion and to feel a stronger sense of belonging within the neurodivergent community. This continues to shape both my personal growth and my clinical work, reinforcing my commitment to helping others build self-understanding, confidence, and strategies that genuinely fit who they are.

I am especially drawn to working with individuals who are late-identified or questioning their neurodivergence, including those exploring autism or ADHD in themselves. I also support parents of neurodivergent children who are looking to better understand their child and navigate parenting with greater confidence and connection. Common areas I support include: - identity exploration - executive functioning challenges - emotional regulation - anxiety - navigating school, relationships and family dynamics through a neurodiversity-affirming lens

To see if we are a good fit for one another, I am happy to invite you to book a free 15-minute fit-check meeting.

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A warm welcome to you! I’m Helen (she/her), a late-identified AuDHD grad student currently wrapping up my internship (expected completion date: December 2026). I hold that we are not meant to carry burdens or navigate this journey we call life alone. With deep respect for your embodied wisdom and lived experience, I offer a space for you to unburden yourself and feel seen, heard, and believed - maybe for the first time.

As a guest who is invited to walk with you, I consider our work an opportunity for you to (re)discover who you are, and find new ways to understand your past experiences. Along the way, we may uncover and address unhelpful systems and oppressive social factors that have shaped or harmed you, expand your capacity for growth, and empower you to reclaim your authentic Self and reposition your life in ways that align with what you value most.

I am especially drawn to people who are outliers: those who have been told they are too much, not enough, or somehow both at the same time. If you are an adult who has ever been called gifted, overly sensitive, bossy, painfully shy, overachieving, really awkward, and/or ‘not working to your full potential,’ I welcome you. My clients include the multiply-marginalized, the racialized, neurodivergent adults, as well as parents of PDAers.

My style is relational-cultural; I believe that before we can tackle the hard stuff, we need to forge a connection that feels safe and supportive to you. Only then can we decide together when it feels right to shift from narrative and ND-affirming talk therapies to Brainspotting and IFS-informed parts work. I am also critically conscious of the systems and structures around us, and like to challenge them from a decolonial, anti-oppressive lens that liberates us from Western assumptions.

As a 2nd-generation uninvited settler living on unceded Coast Salish land, I recognize my own power and privilege. I also reclaim my cultural identity as a cisgender, heterosexual, Cantonese-speaking Chinese Canadian who was given the name 淑霞 (Shuk Ha), meaning virtuous, sunrise glow, and Helen, which is Greek for a bright light. Reclaiming the meanings of my names shapes how I show up in relationships and inspires me to shine my light in ways that bring clarity and illumination.

I also wear the hats of Mom, Wife, Homeschooler, and Certified (but inactive) Teacher. My autistic SpIns (special interests) include learning about people, psychology, and parenting. I have avoidant and social justice-oriented parts that love to challenge expectations and dismantle divisive hierarchies, indulgent parts that enjoy online shopping, deep tissue massages and fine dining, and hyperfocused parts that can get lost in a good paint-by-number kit, Netflix series, or new organizing system for some area of my home.

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I’m Baya (they/them), an AuDHD, queer, non-binary counsellor offering online neurodiversity-affirming therapy to clients across British Columbia. My lived experience deeply informs my practice. With deep respect and gratitude, I live and work as a counsellor on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. I honour their enduring connection to the land, waters, and community, and I am committed to ongoing reflection and action toward decolonizing my practice.

My counselling approach is rooted in acceptance, curiosity, respect, empowerment, and neurodiversity-affirming care. I am committed to anti-oppressive and decolonial practice, and to remaining accountable by actively reflecting on my own social location, privilege, and biases, and welcoming feedback on my language and actions as part of our work together. I centre your lived experience, cultural knowledge, and ways of knowing as expertise, while working to soften and reduce traditional therapist–client power dynamics. I recognize the harm many Eurocentric and pathologizing models have caused, and intentionally integrate frameworks that move beyond them, valuing relationship, reciprocity, and collective healing. I seek to recognize and address the systemic forms of oppression that impact neurodivergent people and their intersectional experiences of marginalization, including race, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, disability, and socio-economic status. As a polyamorous person, I also bring an understanding of expansive ways of relating outside of mono-normative and colonial frameworks. This is a sex-positive space where pleasure, liberation, and all forms of intimacy and relational expression are welcome.

I Specialize in: - Autism - AuDHD - Gender identity & sexual orientation - Polyamory & non-monogamous relationships - Chronic illness - Burnout - Trauma - Recently identified neurodivergence - Individuals questioning if they are Autistic or AuDHD - Anxiety - Depression - Unique lifestyles - Executive functioning

Please book a free fit-check meeting to see if we are good fit for each other!

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Growing up, I often struggled with school—not because I wasn’t trying, but because staying focused, meeting deadlines, and keeping up with expectations felt much harder for me than they seemed to for others. I developed countless strategies just to get through tasks that appeared effortless for my peers. For many years, I believed the problem was that I was lazy or somehow incapable of building the habits that everyone else seemed to manage with ease. I also found friendships confusing and often felt like I was missing an unspoken set of social rules that everyone else understood.

As an adult, I began learning more about how ADHD and autism present across the lifespan and in people of all genders. The more I learned, the more I recognized my own experiences reflected in what I was reading. At 32, I finally understood and accepted that I am both autistic and have ADHD. That realization wasn’t about finding a label—it was about finding an explanation that brought years of self-doubt into perspective. It allowed me to replace self-criticism with self-understanding and has shaped the way I approach both my own life and my work with others.

Understanding that I am AuDHD has fundamentally changed the way I see myself. Instead of viewing my challenges as personal shortcomings, I now understand them as differences in how my brain processes information, relationships, and the world around me. That shift has allowed me to replace years of self-criticism with self-compassion. Rather than constantly trying to force myself to fit expectations that weren’t designed for me, I’ve learned to identify my strengths, accommodate my needs, and build systems that support how I naturally function.

Knowing I am neurodivergent has also strengthened my relationships and my professional practice. It has given me the language to better communicate my experiences and advocate for what I need, while also deepening my empathy for others whose lives have been shaped by feeling misunderstood. I recognize how exhausting it can be to spend years masking, questioning yourself, or believing that you’re somehow “doing life wrong.” That understanding informs the way I work with clients.

Today, my neurodivergence is not something I see as needing to be fixed—it is an integral part of who I am. While it brings unique challenges, it also contributes to the way I think, connect with others, solve problems, and experience the world, and I am deeply grateful for that.

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Hi, I’m Oralie (she/her), a Registered Clinical Counsellor (BCACC #17076) and the Founder + Clinical Director of Neurodivergent Counselling Services Inc.

I offer a warm, collaborative, and radically neurodivergence-affirming space where you can explore your experiences without having to explain, defend, or change the ways your brain works. I believe therapy isn’t about becoming more “normal” or learning to fit yourself into a world that wasn’t designed for you - it’s about understanding yourself, reconnecting with who you are underneath the layers of masking and expectations, and building a life that works for your brain. As a late-identified AuDHDer myself, I bring both professional knowledge and lived experience to my work with neurodivergent clients.

I have a particular interest in supporting late-identified Autistic and AuDHD adults who are making sense of themselves through a neurodivergent lens. As someone who has been through late identification myself, I understand the process of questioning, unmasking, and rebuilding your understanding of who you are, including the post-diagnosis burnout that can come with finally recognizing just how long you’ve been pushing yourself to function in ways that weren’t sustainable.

I also enjoy supporting PDAers and people whose experiences don’t fit neatly into traditional therapeutic approaches. My approach is curious, non-judgmental, collaborative, and grounded in the belief that you are the expert on your own experience. I also recognize that our experiences are shaped by the systems, relationships, and histories we are part of, and my work is informed by an anti-oppressive and decolonial lens.

I am a queer, cisgender white woman and a 2nd/3rd-generation settler of primarily Ukrainian and some German ancestry. I live and work on the unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh-speaking peoples, and I believe that acknowledging the land and my own position within colonial systems is part of doing more accountable therapeutic work.

Outside of counselling, I’m a parent to homeschooled/unschooled neurodivergent teens, a former high school teacher, and lifelong learner with special interests in human behaviour, neurodivergence, and mental health. I enjoy puzzles, K-pop, redecorating my house, and the occasional deep dive that starts with “I’m just curious about this” and ends several hours later with 37 browser tabs open.

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Hi, I’m Selena (she/her), a pre-licensed counsellor and a queer, cisgender woman with lived experience of AuDHD. I offer a warm, curious, neurodivergence-affirming space where you can show up as yourself — whether you’re nerdy, creative, quirky, a little outside the box, or simply trying to figure yourself out.

My own journey with neurodivergence began in my early twenties, when I was struggling with burnout, insomnia, and the feeling that life seemed somehow easier for everyone else. After doing my own research, I realized that many of my experiences aligned with ADHD and had to advocate for myself to be formally assessed and diagnosed.

And then, of course, I thought that was it. Spoiler: it was not. A few years later, I came to recognize that I am also Autistic, opening up an entirely new part of my self-discovery. I know what it’s like to be told you’re “just anxious,” to have your struggles overlooked because you’re doing well academically, and to get stuck in the cycle of executive dysfunction, paralysis, suddenly having to do everything at once, and then burning out all over again. I also know the joy of those “wait, you do that too?!” moments with other neurodivergent people — the Spiderman pointing meme, but make it neurodivergent.

Learning to work with my brain rather than constantly fighting against it has been one of the most freeing experiences of my life. For me, that has meant building systems that actually work for me, making room for rest and recharge, carrying earplugs, allowing buffer time, and adding a little more whimsy into everyday life. I’m still learning and growing, and I’ve made a lifelong commitment to understanding myself — not from a place of fixing, but from genuine curiosity about who I am and how I experience the world.

I’m especially interested in supporting neurodivergent people who are curious about themselves and exploring what it means to live more authentically. My approach is grounded in curiosity, acceptance, openness, and respect for your individual experience. I believe therapy isn’t about fixing you; it’s about getting curious about who you are, how you experience the world, and what actually works for you.

Outside of counselling, my special interests include psychology, mythology, and neurodivergence. I enjoy arts and crafts, crocheting, walks, photography, trying new caffeinated drinks, video and board games, movies and animations, and getting completely lost in a good book. I’m a big believer in finding the glimmers and sparkles wherever you can — and I hope therapy can be a space where you get to do the same.

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