Casey Donaghey, Integrative Psychotherapist

I offer online psychotherapy for neurodivergent adults, including Autistic, ADHD and AuDHD people, as well as people who are exploring or making sense of their neurodivergence. You do not need to arrive with everything figured out. Therapy can also be a place to explore what neurodivergence means for you and how you want to understand yourself.

I particularly welcome people navigating masking, burnout, overwhelm, anxiety, shame, self-esteem, relationships, identity, late identification or diagnosis, disability, LGBTQIA+ identity, trauma and major life transitions. I am interested in the whole person rather than reducing someone to a diagnosis, difficulty or set of symptoms.

My approach is pluralistic and integrative. This means there is no single “right” way to do therapy and I do not expect you to fit yourself around a particular therapeutic model. Instead, we work collaboratively to understand what is happening for you, what matters to you and what kinds of support are genuinely useful.

I take a neurodiversity-affirming approach. I do not view Autism, ADHD or other forms of neurodivergence as problems that need to be cured or trained out of someone. We can instead explore your particular ways of thinking, feeling, communicating and experiencing the world, alongside the environments, relationships and systems you live within. Where masking has helped you survive or belong, we can approach it with curiosity rather than judgement, while exploring where greater authenticity, choice and self-understanding might be possible.

Sessions are online and are shaped collaboratively around your needs. Our work might include talking and reflection, exploring emotions and relationships, understanding patterns, working with shame or internalised messages, making sense of bodily and nervous-system experiences, developing practical strategies, or exploring questions of identity, meaning and belonging.

You are welcome to tell me what helps you communicate, process information and feel comfortable in therapy. We can discuss access needs, communication preferences and ways of working together rather than assuming that therapy has to look a particular way.

My wider practice is disability-affirming and LGBTQIA+ affirmative, and I am particularly interested in the intersections between neurodivergence, disability, gender, sexuality, the body and identity. I recognise that distress does not exist only within an individual; inaccessible environments, ableism, discrimination, expectations to conform and experiences of being misunderstood can all shape how we feel about ourselves.

In our first sessions, we will get to know one another, explore what has brought you to therapy and decide together what you would like our work to focus on. You remain the expert on your own experience. My role is not to make you more neurotypical, more compliant or easier for other people to understand, but to help you understand yourself more deeply and build a life and relationships that work better for you.