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Sensitive Care Counseling • Patricia Gaya

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Sensitive Care Counseling • Patricia Gaya

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at Sensitive Care Counseling. Therapy in En Welcome! Trabajo con adultos y familias. Bem-vindos!

As a therapist, I help my clients affirm and appreciate their individual strengths while helping them uncover inner resources that can help resolve conflicts, work through difficult relationships, and experience a healing and empowering life. I work with adults, parents, and families.

¡Bienvenidos! Como terapeuta ayudo a mis clientes a encontrar sus recursos personales para así poder resolver conflictos, fortalecer sus relaciones interpersonales y experimentar una vida más saludable y tranquila. Como terapeuta, eu ajudo meus clientes a encontrar recursos internos e assim poderem resolver seus conflitos, trabalhar com relacionamentos difíceis, e experimentar uma vida mais saudável e tranquila. Eu trabalho com adultos e famílias.

05/12/2025

Coercive control is used by abusers in a variety of ways, and can be anything from controlling someone's finances to isolating someone from their friends and family.

This type of behavior is a form of domestic violence and you can identify the signs and look for a safe plan to get back control of your life.

05/10/2025

People can experience verbal, physical, emotional, sexual, and financial abuse.

In my experience with my neurodivergent clients, most people that experience emotional and financial abuse have a hard time recognizing when it is happening.

Usually in emotional abuse, the abuser slowly control and isolate the person. The abuser finds ways to isolate the person, continually puts them down, it could be just a joke in front of others, but the joke’s to continue making you doubt yourself.

Some symptoms of emotional abuse:
• Lack of confidence;
• Difficulty controlling emotions;
extreme behaviors(having outbursts or becoming passive);
• Difficulty making and maintaining relationships (they usually lie about other people’s perception or comments about you or talk negatively about family and friends);
• Anxiety;
• Depression;
• Isolation;
• Self harm or su***de ideations or attempts.

03/24/2025

Neurodivergent people are more likely to experience abuse and domestic violence than others, and are often less likely to report it.

This can be due to a number of factors, including masking and the ability to accommodate other people’s needs and feelings before our own.

A good thing to look out for is when you don’t feel good after spending time with someone, when what looked like a nice conversation feels sad or you feel bad about yourself.

Another way to see if this relationship is not okay is that you don’t share the other person’s bad behaviors with friends and family because you know they will not approve of the partner’s behaviors. That might be a sign that something is off.

03/21/2025

Celebrating Women is so important. I’ve seen videos and heard people I love talking negatively about feminism. Most people feel it is too aggressive and some people even told me that they think it means women want to be better than men. It just means that women have the right to choose to do whatever they want to do.

Equal rights, opportunities, and treatment for all genders is a what feminism is about. That means that if you want to be a stay at home mom and cook all day you can, you can choose that, and if you want to work you can too. And women that want to do something else can do what they want as well.

03/12/2025

I'm going to do a series of posts about abuse and neurodivergent people.

Know that it's okay to ask for help to get out out of an abusive situation. Since there are many moments that the abusive person is great, it might not feel like abuse. Get familiar with the Wheel of abuse. Learn about love bombing. If you suspect that you are in an abusive relationship, research about it.

In my experience it is difficult to realize that you are a victim of abuse, specially emotional and financial abuse.

Anyone can be a victim of abuse, but research shows that those who are neurodivergent may be at increased risk of violence, bullying, or controlling behavior. In my experience my clients know when they’ve realized it was a toxic relationship or when things did not feel right. However, since Neurodivergency and masking makes you accommodate to other people’s needs and they are so used to doing that, that they continue with a relationship that feels very difficult, and not healthy.

Let's talk more about this and if you need help, you can contact me!

02/20/2025

I am celebrating Black History Month and wanted to share some of my favorite Podcasts and books:

Podcast and book:
The Sum of Us

And the book:
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

02/06/2025

Wanna talk? Send me a DM.

02/03/2025

Being autistic and having ADHD or both just mean you have a different brain, with positive traits and challenges. Nowadays we understand a lot more about Neurodiversity. It is a big difference to feel you have a diagnosis than to understand that your brain works in a different way. I get that many people will try to make it very positive, however, people really struggle with daily activity and tasks. It can be very frustrating. Talking about superpower is going to the other extreme and not acknowledging how difficult day to day can be.

01/20/2025

Hyperactivity in women can be internal and women usually are great at hiding it. It can feel more like restlessness, feeling agitated, skin picking, fidgeting.

12/19/2024

Both ADHD and Autism are highly genetic.

We are not looking for cure in both cases.
I help my clients learn about how their brain is impacting their daily life. We will be working with Self critic parts and improve self acceptance. We find ways to accommodate daily challenges and have a more regulated and joyful life.

A lot of people have both ADHD and Autism which is usually called AuDHD.

If you suspect you have ADHD, Autism, or both, please pay attention and get help. A lot of people, after getting a diagnosis, mention that their friends, family, used to joked about them having that diagnosis, but never took it serious or never got help. Please get help, you don’t have to go through this alone.

12/16/2024

When you are neurodivergent and sick it makes you more sensitive, feeling more behind on everything, the struggles with keeping up with daily tasks are harder. Executive function struggles get worse. It is even more important to work with self critical parts and practice daily self regulation activities.

I have been sick for a couple of days and I feel more emotional and more overwhelmed than usual. Laying down with my weighted blanket and a great book helps me self regulate.

Engaging in special interests is also important. If you have the strength and energy. But mainly self compassion is very important in sick times.

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Atlanta, GA

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Monday	9am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm
Friday	9am - 3pm
Saturday	9am - 3pm

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+14046186174

Website

http://www.sensitivecarecounseling.com/

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