Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy Training Institute

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Neurodiversity-Affirming Psychotherapy Training Institute

We offer neurodiversity-affirming continuing education for mental health professionals nationwide and networking for Colorado's neurodivergent therapists.

(2024 Rebrand: Formerly The Art of Self-Healing Center)

12/10/2025

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10/28/2025

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10/02/2025

NEW TRAINING: B**M as Neurodivergent Liberation on November 13th

Did you know that kinksters are 5x more likely to have an autism diagnosis? (Pliskin, 2022, citing Boucher, 2018) This presentation explores B**M as a liberatory framework for neurodivergent individuals, engaging the Neurodiversity Paradigm alongside crip theory, neuroqueering, and social models of....

08/18/2025

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08/18/2025

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08/14/2025

Join us for Su***de Prevention for Neurodivergent Clients Training - September 18th

Are you working with ADHD, Autistic, and/or trans clients? Then you're working with suicidality. New research indicates that neurodivergent individuals are at greater risk of suicidality and that they have unique support needs in this arena.

07/29/2025

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07/07/2025

Do you know the essentials to motivating ADHD clients in therapy? Check out these slides to get the details.

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06/26/2025

Collaborating with ADHDer clients is key to supporting and engaging their capacity to sustain growth and change. Check out these slides to get the details.

Want to learn more about the interest-based nervous system of ADHDers?

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06/26/2025

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06/24/2025

Don't forget to secure your spot in our NEW TRAINING: Interest-Based Nervous System of ADHDers on July 10th! https://wix.to/Z4FBZV1

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Welcome!

Thanks for taking the time to read my personal story of transformation. I share it with you not to gloat about my successes or to gain sympathy from strangers, but to connect with those who are struggling in the same ways I have struggled. I believe I have faced incredible challenges and traumas so that I could learn to heal, and go on to help others heal themselves in similar ways.

Perhaps you can relate to some of the things I’ve been through...

Until age 29, I lived my life in an almost constant state of stress and trauma. I had experienced so many different kinds of hardships as a child that my psyche was fragmented and I was not living in the same reality as everyone else. Instead, I was living in the hell my mind had created to try to protect me and help me survive. A hell where everyone was my enemy and no one, not even myself, could be trusted. I was in so much pain that on most days, I didn’t want to live on this planet anymore.

But something kept pushing me forward--the hope that I could heal and support others who had struggled with the same hardships I had to experience. It was the only thing that made sense to me.

Since age 13, I have been engaged in some kind of self-healing. First with therapeutic journaling as a teenager, then with yoga, mindfulness/meditation and entheogens as a young adult. During my NYU master’s program, I studied psychology, sociology and human behavior so that I could better understand what was happening to me and the therapeutic models designed to help others heal. I spent 6 years providing trauma counseling to young people and noticed that the more healing I gave to my clients the more I was healed.

I wish I could say that the 6 therapists I saw from age 6 to 29 helped me to heal. Unfortunately, because my relationship issues were so extreme, I unknowingly acted out the same patterns of distrust and dysfunction that I had learned as a child with my therapists. It seemed like no one could give me the support I actually needed and it perpetuated my social isolation.

In 2014, after my first trip to Burning Man and my mom’s death two weeks later, something clicked. I realized that I needed to stop depending on others to give me what I needed and instead take radical responsibility for my emotions and healing. I needed to be my own parent, because my mom was never going to be able to.

Over the last five years, I have been intensely engaged with my own personal healing from physical illness (auto-immune disorder), emotional and mental problems (emotional self-regulation, self-trust, trauma, abuse, alcoholism, suicidality, anxiety, self-harm, financial scarcity, and self-sabotage), social issues (social isolation, attachment dysfunctions, distrust, codependency, death/loss, and domestic violence), and spiritual disconnection (hopelessness, lack of trust/faith, and soul loss).

Now that I’ve healed on deep levels of mind, body and soul, most days I feel true happiness, freedom and safety. I trust in the universe and in the goodness of others in ways I have never felt in my life. I’m now in a healthy marriage with my soulmate (!) and we’re expecting our first child in January 2020. My life is exactly as I want it to be and I live every day with gratitude and love. Are there still challenges? Of course! But I have a strong foundation of self-healing tools to cope with them and bounce back with ease.

There’s nothing I want more than to teach and empower others’ self-healing, so that we can be leaders in creating a better world for everyone. I’m passionate about turning this chaotic, dysfunctional world into a place of healing and growth, and want to align with others who share this same vision. Team work makes the dream work. ;)

Interested in learning more? Follow me on social media and please feel free to reach out to me via private message with any questions you have. I’m here to help.

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