Angela Overholt, LCSW, Autistic & Neurodivergent Affirming Therapist Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist Body Trust Specialist
I am a queer, late identified AuDHD therapist providing individual therapy to neurodivergent adults in Illinois. I work especially with Autistic and ADHD adults who are diagnosed, self identified, questioning, or exploring whether a diagnosis fits their experience. I also welcome LGBTQIA+ and gender diverse clients and bring an intersectional lens to understanding how neurotype, gender, sexuality, disability, body, relationships, and larger systems shape our experiences.
My approach is neurodivergent affirming, relational, somatic, trauma informed, and non pathologizing. I believe your ways of thinking, feeling, communicating, sensing, and moving through the world are valid. Therapy is not about teaching you to appear more neurotypical. Instead, we can get curious about what your mind and body are communicating, what you need, and what supports a life that is sustainable and meaningful to you.
Many of the people I work with are navigating masking and unmasking, Autistic or ADHD burnout, anxiety, sensory and interoceptive differences, identity, grief, attachment and relational trauma, chronic health concerns, or the experience of being misunderstood in environments that were not designed with neurodivergent people in mind.
I also specialize in food, eating, and body concerns, including ARFID. My Body Trust training informs a weight inclusive approach that recognizes how sensory experiences, interoception, executive functioning, trauma, access, identity, and neurodivergence can shape our relationships with food and our bodies.
As a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist, I integrate somatic and relational therapy with Internal Family Systems informed work. Sessions are collaborative and paced around you. We might talk, notice what is happening in your body or nervous system, explore different parts of your experience, problem solve around accommodations and access needs, or simply slow down enough to understand what is happening without judgment.
I value curiosity, consent, autonomy, humor, and the healing potential of an attuned therapeutic relationship. I bring both professional training and lived experience as an AuDHDer to this work. You do not need to mask or perform neurotypicality in therapy with me. My hope is to create a space that welcomes your complexity, affirms your identities, and supports you in reconnecting with your needs, values, body, and your own ways of knowing.
**In my practice I embrace Neurodiversity principles, including identity-first language, to promote inclusion and center the lived experience of Autistic and Neurodivergent folx.**
You can find out more about me here:
ND Therapist Listing: https://ndtherapists.com/illinois/
Therapy Den: https://www.therapyden.com/therapist/angela-overholt-champaign-il
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Therapist Listing: https://therapists.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/Angela-Overholt,-MSW,-LCSW
Center for Body Trust: https://centerforbodytrust.com/illinois/#illinois