Many of the clients who seek Jaeden’s support have spent years feeling different, overwhelmed, or out of sync in a world that was not designed for how their brain works. Some are adults finally making sense of lifelong masking, burnout, sensory overload, social exhaustion, or the reality that their intelligence, capability, or “high-functioning” presentation may have hidden deeper autistic needs for years. Others are teens and tweens trying to understand themselves while navigating peers, school, identity, and family expectations.
Jaeden also works with children and families when appropriate, especially when parents are trying to better understand and support an autistic child.
Her clients often include individuals navigating overlapping experiences such as:
- autism or AuDHD
- ADHD and executive functioning struggles
- sensory-related food or eating concerns
- anxiety, depression, or shutdown
- gender identity exploration
- LGBTQIA+ identity and belonging
- chronic medical complexity or disability-related stress
Jaeden has particular experience supporting trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and LGBTQIA+ clients on the autism spectrum, especially where identity development and neurodivergence intersect. She also works with clients whose eating-related struggles, sensory needs, and identity questions overlap in ways that are often misunderstood by more traditional systems of care.
How These Struggles Often Show Up
Many of Jaeden’s clients have learned to push through life without understanding why things feel harder for them than they seem to for everyone else.
Clients often describe experiences such as:
- feeling exhausted from masking or trying to “keep up”
- struggling with sensory overload, food rigidity, or daily routines
- feeling socially out of sync or misunderstood
- wondering why they can function in some areas but completely shut down in others
- battling shame around attention, focus, emotional regulation, or communication
- feeling like their needs are “too much” for other people
- carrying the emotional toll of living in environments not designed for neurodivergent people
For parents, these struggles may show up as constant worry, frustration, guilt, or uncertainty about how to support their child without losing themselves in the process.
What Therapy With Jaeden Is Like
Therapy with Jaeden is affirming, practical, and grounded in real life — a space where clients feel understood without needing to defend or over-explain the way their brain works.
Clients often describe her as warm and direct, playful and calm — someone who gets it without needing it explained. Sessions include real tools: psychoeducation, executive functioning support, parent coaching, identity exploration, and emotional processing clients can use outside the therapy room.
Over time, the shift is less about “becoming normal” and more about building a life that actually fits. Jaeden believes therapy should work with a person’s nervous system and neurotype, not against it.
Clinical Approach
Many of Jaeden’s clients experience their concerns as interconnected rather than separate. For example autism and anxiety, sensory needs and eating struggles, gender identity and neurodivergence often showing up together in ways that more traditional approaches treat in isolation.
Jaeden draws from:
- trauma-informed care
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
- relational approaches
- psychoeducation
- parent coaching
- executive functioning support
Her work helps clients and families move toward greater understanding, flexibility, and resilience.
When clinically appropriate, she also helps clients and families identify when additional care or a higher level of support may be needed.
Identity, Perspective & Lived Experience
Jaeden brings both clinical knowledge and lived experience to her work.
As someone with personal experience of autism / AuDHD and as the parent of a child on the spectrum, she understands many of the realities that clients and families are trying to navigate. She also brings personal understanding as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community, which informs her affirming approach to identity, belonging, and self-expression.
Jaeden also has lived experience with chronic medical complexity, which helps her understand how neurodivergence, health needs, sensory concerns, and emotional well-being often interact.
This perspective helps clients feel less alone and more deeply understood while keeping the work grounded in evidence-based care.
