Therapy for Neurodivergent (ASD/ADHD) teens and adults by a therapist who gets it.

Hi, I’m Laury!

I support differently-wired people reconnect with who they authentically are.

I am a California–based Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist offering a creative, playful, and relational approach to therapy in dark times like these. I specialize in supporting fellow artists, creatives, neurodivergent people (ADHD / AUDHD / Autistic), and highly sensitive people (HSP) heal from overworked nervous systems and reconnect to their creative power. I support clients in rediscovering flow, deepening self-compassion, and building sustainable creative practices and lives that honor their unique nervous system differences and sensory needs.

Working together

If jazz was therapy.

If you have tried traditional talk-therapy, and found that it hasn’t “worked”, it may be time to get creative.

My approach to therapy goes beyond words, to get to the heart of things. Though words are welcome as they come, they are just de-centered, with the permission to go beyond them. After all, our very first human expression is a cry. Then we grow up, and have experiences in our lives that leave us utterly speechless. Grief. Trauma. A late neurodivergent diagnosis might be the catalyst for you (it was certainly for me).

After a lifetime of masking yourself, it can seem utterly impossible to love “yourself”, when that person is someone who hasn’t felt loved, or related to. You may be looking for a warm space to land. My approach is just that, warm and deeply understanding, because I know what it’s like to be late-diagnosed neurodivergent. I know the impact of being misunderstood over a lifetime.

Sometimes, we grow up and realize we didn’t get to experience the childhood we needed. Together, with the full range of creative possibilities, I invite back the freedom of our childhoods.

I too walk this path.

These days, darkness is all around us and being reflected back to us through these small handheld black mirrors. It’s an awfully isolating time to be growing up in this world. We are inundated with information, but left to our own devices.

After discovering my neurodivergence in grad school, I was left feeling so very lost. 7 years of in the field of psychology, and 10+ years of my own expressive arts therapy brought me to the edge of what I knew about who I am. So much brought me here to work within community. I know how hard the fight to heal can be, and I’ve been along all ends of it. I felt the waves of change that arose from the permission and trust built within therapeutic relationship, and I’ve watched that change ripple out. I’ve experienced those shifts through my own body and heart.

Through relational, play- and expressive-arts-based work, I’ve seen how much can change when there’s real permission and trust.

Over the course of a year, one child moved from being non‑speaking to befriending a group of girls who loved Studio Ghibli films just as much as she did. I sat beside an ADHD boy who drew, scribbled, and painted in contemplative silence for weeks; by year’s end we were trading self‑portraits, showing that we didn’t always need words to make meaning. In between sessions, I would scribble with paint pens and ask myself: what would it feel like to do something “badly” without needing it to be labeled “good”? What if I could create without chasing perfection in my own eyes or anyone else’s? With art and play, alongside my clients, I discovered an incredible capacity to transform experiences of suffering into curiosity, connection, and change.

Beyond pathology, beyond words: toward embracing the creative freedom of our unique neuro-complexity.

I know the way neurodivergent people experience, process and relate in the world doesn’t make us anything or anyone less. And now, there are some words with some letters that mean something, to me and my clients and my community. Neurodivergent, Neuro-complex, ADHD, Autistic, AuDHD. Why is this important? To have the language? Because finally. It says, nothing is wrong with us. We are unique. Our differences are not deficits.

I bring lived experience along with my clinical expertise into therapy with fellow neurodivergent adults and teens who may be worn out from trying so incredible hard to relate what it’s like to be them.

My approach to therapy does not require reopening relational wounds in order to heal them. I found the art of play to meet words, where language falls short to encompass what we experience. A pained stroke across the page is felt. Pencil in hand scribbling with regulating rhythms. And without being told or directed, our bodies know what to do. It’s what happens when we build trust with ourselves in relationship with someone who trusts in us, that deep healing can occur.

Where creative messes are allowed to be made. Where we can make mistakes, and still be held with compassion. Where we can relate to our failures as open moments for growth. Where we can begin to remember live our dreams in color, to become curious and creative once again.

So, whether its been months or years since you last picked up a paint brush, a marker (anything) and just made something for the sake of it, I can be the support you may be needing to safely reconnect with the truth of yourself, so you can experience remembering what all children instinctually know — how to be free.