I’m Kirsten, a late-diagnosed Autistic adult that offers online neuro-affirming counselling. Similar to so many late-diagnosed adults, I experienced severe burn out that led to my diagnosis. I had my daughter during covid, an extremely stressful and isolating time coupled with the overstimulating experience of motherhood. After returning to work and experiencing additional on-going change and misunderstandings, I was struggling to get out of bed in the morning let alone show up for my family, my employer or myself. Around the same time, I experienced a close friend being diagnosed with Autism. Her diagnosis sparked something in me and I began my own research and online testing.

I was able to learn from her experience and pursue a formal diagnosis. This understanding of myself and my struggles was profound. It has taken years of reflection to understand and validate my own experiences and how they impacted me both mentally and physically. I have focused on un-learning and re-learning how to support my own needs to reduce my anxiety, depression and burn out. My diagnosis has provided me with understanding of myself, my family and my wonderful neurodivergent friends, and has fuelled my passion to support other neurodivergent people through collaborative counselling.

Receiving my diagnosis was life changing and has impacted almost every aspect of my life. It was a vital piece of information I had been searching for since I was a child and once I received it, everything made sense. However, this process was not instant and required years of learning and unlearning to better accommodate myself and heal from burn out.

Autism became a special interest, and changed the trajectory of my career leading me to go back to school to study psychology so I could support other neurodivergent people with their own journey of self discovery and acceptance.

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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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Hello! I’m Helen (she/her). I am grateful to live and work as an uninvited 2nd-generation settler on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Kwantlen, and Tsawwassen First Nations.

In recent years, I have been late-identified as Autistic (with some PDA traits) and late-diagnosed with ADHD; I also live with unilateral deafness, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember. My multiplex neurodivergences have taught me how nervous systems can adapt, resist, and seek safety—often in ways that are misunderstood or shaped by environments that don’t feel safe. Being a parent and partner to neurodivergent loved ones has further deepened my appreciation for the many ways autistic and ADHD minds perceive and navigate the world, particularly within PDA subprofiles.

My own journey of unlearning and relearning what it means to be me—accepting my flawed humanity and embracing the ways I understand and relate to the world—shifted how I make sense of distress, difference, and behaviour. I’ve come to recognize how sociocultural context, identity, and lived experience shape not only how we see ourselves, but also how we are seen, supported, or missed by others. Differential access to privilege and resources further complicates these experiences, revealing just how layered and contextual our stories truly are.

With deep respect for each of us as the expert in our own lives, this awareness guides how I show up in relationships—with curiosity, consent, choice, and collaboration.

While my heart-calling is to support Global Majority parents of neurodivergent children, I welcome the opportunity to walk alongside any adult (age 19+) who is seeking support, healing, and/or growth around experiences such as: Navigating systems, culture, and identity - systemic harm and marginalization (including racism, sexism, ageism, and ableism) - cultural tensions and intergenerational expectations - identity exploration, including neuroidentity and values

Relationships and emotional experiences - relational conflict - emotional repression, anger, or anxiety - self-compassion and self-understanding

Neurodivergence and daily living - autism, ADHD, and PDA - questioning or exploring neurodivergent identity - executive functioning challenges - parenting experiences and challenges

Meaning, work, and belief systems - career decisions and transitions - religious trauma or religious questioning

You do not need to have language for what you’re experiencing in order for us to work together. To see if we are a good fit for one another, I am happy to invite you to a free 15-minute fit-check meeting. I welcome the chance to connect with you.

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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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As an Autistic/ADHD counsellor, my approach is strengths-based, intersectional, and neurodiversity-affirmative. I believe that my role is to work alongside the individual to meet their therapy goals. The first step I take with any client is to develop a positive connection to help the client feel safe as it is only when we feel safe that healing can begin to occur. I am trained in Brainspotting, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems.

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Hi, my name is Selena, nice to meet you! Now that we have been introduced, let me tell you a bit about my journey to discovering my AuDHD self. I was 22 years old and in my final year of undergraduate studies at university. I was struggling at the time, facing burnout, bouts of insomnia and believing that I was alone in feeling this way and that life was just easier for everyone but me. After doing some of my own research, I found that a lot of my symptoms aligned with ADHD. I had to advocate for myself to be seen and formally diagnosed by a psychiatrist.

So that is it, right? I realized that was, in fact, not it, and I was on a lifelong journey of figuring out how to best work with my neurodivergent mind. I began dealing with the cycle of acceptance that some individuals who were diagnosed later in life tend to deal with. Sometimes I wished it could be different, and then I had a lightbulb moment. It was difficult because I was still trying to conform to a neurotypical society, fighting with myself instead of working with my mind, as hyper and racing as it can be. I began working on adapting my life, working with a therapist who specializes with ADHD, building systems to help with everyday functioning, setting reminders, and reorganizing my life to accommodate the bursts of energy and the days of low motivation. I found friends who were also neurodivergent and became a safe space for me to unmask and be my authentic self.

And honestly? It has been fun! Figuring out who I am without as much pressure from the outside world, learning how to accommodate myself, and leaning into what actually works for my brain instead of fighting it has been one of the most freeing experiences of my life. I am still learning, still growing, and probably always will be. But I would not trade it for anything. Living more authentically, quirks and all, has become something I value deeply for myself. For me, that looks like adding whimsy back into my life in whatever form that may take, whether that is dancing around the house, having floor time, or carving out designated me time. And honestly, that is a big part of why I do the work that I do.

Since figuring it out, the biggest shift has been moving from accepting half of myself to embracing the whole picture. About two years ago, I came to recognize that I am also autistic, and it has become another beautiful part of myself to get curious about and explore. I have made a lifelong commitment to learning and working on myself, not from a place of fixing, but from a place of genuine interest in who I am and how I experience the world. My AuDHD is not something separate from me; it is part of my being.

For me, embracing my AuDHD self looks like carrying earplugs to help with sounds that get too loud, building in buffer time between tasks, carving out designated me time to recharge, and fully leaning into my tendency to be a little raven, collecting shiny things, rocks, and tchotchkes wherever I go. In my relationships, it has meant having clearer conversations about communication and boundaries, focusing on what actually works rather than what is expected. And in terms of how I move through the world? Well, sometimes it is a walk, sometimes a jog, and sometimes a little dance, skip and jump. I try to find the glimmers and sparkles wherever I can and celebrate them when I do.

I decided to pursue a career in counselling because I wanted to support others who may be on their own journey of self-discovery. I am excited to work with the neurodivergent population and to sit with individuals as they explore and embrace who they are. Thank you for hearing my story, and I hope to hear about yours!

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