Reconnect with your most authentic self
Online therapy for neurodivergent & highly sensitive people in Michigan
Acting like you have it all together is exhausting.
And you do have it together. Mostly.
You’re a deep thinker and feeler. A seeker who asks the big questions about life and sees beauty in the tiniest details. A high achiever who’s always felt quirky or somehow different from everyone else. An intuitive who seems to just know things about people and situations when you follow your gut instinct.
When you’re stressed out, you overthink every decision and judge yourself harder than anyone else does. You lay awake at night replaying embarrassing moments from years ago, feeling the hot rush of shame all over again and wishing you could hop in a time machine to change it.
Letting people down isn’t an option. You make it work, even though your already-stuffed schedule is side-eyeing you. Your boss asks you to add another project at work. Your best friend asks you to go with them to an event you’d really rather skip. How can you say no, especially when they tell you how much they rely on you? You feel like a doormat and you hate it.
You retreat to a quiet space when things are too overwhelming. Some days, moving to a remote island without leaving a forwarding address sounds pretty awesome.
It’s not all bad. Sometimes you feel on top of things. Confident, even. But recently, you feel like you might implode from the pressure to keep everything going and make everyone believe that you are okay. Deep down, you worry that people will find out that you don’t have the picture perfect life you present.
I can support you in finding balance, calm instead of constant overwhelm, and the safety to truly be yourself with the people in your life.
Meet Stephanie Gardner-Wright, LMSW(she/her)
I’m a neurodivergent, licensed therapist providing compassionate, collaborative, depth-oriented therapy for individuals.
I collaborate with highly sensitive and late-identified neurodivergent folks to reduce overwhelm and anxiety, heal deep-seated traumas and experience transformational change.
My educational background is in clinical social work with a focus in child & adolescent trauma and depth psychotherapy.
My Values
There’s so much power in getting curious about the intergenerational and societal messages we’ve internalized as truth, deciding what still fits for us and what is unhelpful. Exploring these messages can give us freedom, understanding and self-compassion for ourselves (and past versions of ourselves).
My practice is queer and neurodivergent affirming and PDA-Autistic knowledgeable. All of you is welcome in our co-created therapy space, as politics, gender identity, sexual orientation and racism are deeply intersectional with mental health.
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You can feel as calm and collected as people think you are. You don’t have to abandon yourself by filling everyone else’s needs while you die a little more inside each day.
Imagine having a relationship with yourself and others that makes you feel connected and whole instead of burnt-out and in survival mode.
That’s what I help folks find within themselves.