Meet Tasha

When you've sought out help in the past, does it ever feel like you are being put in a box? Do people offer you one-size-fits-all solutions, which just feel like another frustrating set of demands you have to meet when you are already stretched thin? As someone who is AuDHD and also blind, I, too, am frustrated by impersonal approaches to trauma, anxiety, depression, executive dysfunction and autistic/PDA burnout that don't account for complexity. I believe that people do well when they can, and what often gets labeled as laziness, rigidity or resistance, are actually signals from the nervous system that they are being pushed beyond their current capacity.

I hope to co-create a space that honors your nervous system's wisdom, with all its messy contradictions and distinguishes one's personal woundedness from collective and intergenerational trauma. I offer relational, person-centered psychotherapy that is informed by narrative therapy, parts work / IFS, and liberatory practices.

I believe therapy is political. We live in a culture where therapy is advertised as a cure-all for problems that stem from our hyper-independent, competitive, and troubled world. That said, therapy is one path that can help us disentangle our individual woundedness from hurts occurring on national and global levels, freeing ourselves from shame and building self-trust.

I hold dual master’s degrees in Social Work and Education and have completed doctoral coursework in Marriage and Family Therapy. I am licensed to practice in the state of Maryland under the supervision of Kimberly Gillette, LCSW-C. I have advanced training in coaching, student supports, neurodivergence-affirming therapy for ADHD and autism, and narrative therapy for trauma. I have 6 years experience as an executive functioning coach in addition to my counseling training.

My specialties include

• Neurodiversity-affirming therapy for adults including adjusting to later-in-life diagnosis of ADHD and Autism

• College and career transitions including executive functioning support

• Navigating burnout and disability from an affirming, non-pathologizing perspective

• Recovery from narcissistic abuse

• Trauma therapy with a focus on attachment trauma / family of origin work, parts work, and autistic trauma

• Limerence and related dissociative experiences