Your Unique Mind

02/25/2025

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09/13/2022

02/05/2021

My name is Rebecca and I am a clinical professional counseling state intern. I love working with and have extensive experience with people who are neurodivergent! I have a Masters degree in Professional Counseling, focused on Autism Spectrum and other neurodivergence (ADD/ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Anxiety etc). I also have experience with and specialize in LGBTQIA+, s*x positive (kink, B**M, poly/CNM/alternative lifestyles) and ketamine assisted psychotherapy. I am pursuing a PhD in Autism Studies as well.

In addition to my professional experience, I have personal experience as well with these populations and I identify as an ND therapist myself.

01/19/2021

Therapists can help with things like IEP goals too! Writing goals that do not support masking is imperative for ND folx.

https://therapistndc.org/masking-goals-autistic-middle-school-girls/?fbclid=IwAR2yx0xrWNuvbTYQJ11-a7u0wPzlPjzf_cFMahe84R8I_UXGu-VFNICs4DU

Our autistic female students are constantly mimicking and copying behaviors of peers so they can hide their autism. We, as clinicians, teach them to do this because we were taught that autism must be hidden and masked through the therapy we provide. We are licensed, credentialed ableists, “therapi...

01/19/2021

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/02/the-lost-girls-chaotic-and-curious-women-with-adhd-all-have-missed-red-flags-that-haunt-us?fbclid=IwAR2C8yzpiBbk5TykN6kqGDvUquOnetWMB02vRhdd-Zg31xfkHm-UBZXanjE

After multiple burnouts, in my early 30s I finally knew why life sometimes felt harder for me. It made perfect sense, so why had no one noticed before?

01/18/2021

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/18/953581851/ive-tried-everything-pandemic-has-cut-options-for-kids-with-mental-illness?sc=18&f=1001&fbclid=IwAR3MAa2aF6-ywmMUL-SougG7IlSbQ9akYFBSA41SDe6xbPo5jp7IJBNsOH8

When schools closed last spring, children with severe mental illnesses were cut off from the services they'd come to rely on. Many have since spiraled into emergency rooms and even police custody.