The Untangling Intensive for Autistic & AuDHD Adult Women
A focused therapy intensive for late-diagnosed autistic and AuDHD women. In person in Baton Rouge, online across Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia.
The Untangling Intensive is being rebuilt right now.
I'm redesigning it around Accelerated Resolution Therapy, with the work spread across a few focused sessions instead of one half-day. It'll be better for your nervous system and better for the work, and it's coming later this year.
If an intensive is something you've been considering, book a consult anyway. I'll tell you honestly whether it's worth waiting for, and if something else fits you better right now, I'll say that too.
You Feel Tired in a Way That Rest Doesn't Fix
Maybe you recently realized you're autistic or AuDHD, or you're starting to suspect it, and suddenly your whole life is asking to be re-read. Maybe you're coming out of a relationship that left you doubting your own memory. Maybe you can't tell anymore what was abuse, what was masking, and what was just you all along.
The Untangling Intensive is a focused time to sort it out, together, without spending the next year doing it one hour at a time.
Maybe This is You
Maybe weekly therapy has started to feel like one more thing you have to manage. The scheduling, the bracing, the masking you do even in the room, the hours afterward putting yourself back together. For a nervous system that's already running low, the weekly rhythm can become part of what's draining you.
Or maybe you've been meaning to start therapy for a while, but another standing commitment feels like too much right now, and the thought of a waitlist makes you want to put it off again.
Or maybe you already know the shape of what you're carrying, and you don't want to spend a year circling it one hour at a time. You want unhurried, focused time to actually move it.
Or maybe an intensive just makes intuitive sense to you. You'd rather go deep once, well, than stretch it thin across months.
What Focused, Concentrated Work Can Do
Contained, well-paced work can:
Give you unhurried time to work through something without the weekly start-and-stop.
Fit into your life with one block of time instead of an open-ended standing appointment.
Offer real relief from something that's been sitting heavy for a long time.
Help you make meaningful progress in a fraction of the calendar time, at a pace your nervous system sets.
This is not about pushing through or going faster than you can handle. It's about doing real work once, well, in a setting built around your nervous system instead of against it.
What is The Untangling Intensive?
It's private, one-on-one work, created entirely around you, to work through emotional abuse, masking, relational trauma, and burnout. Instead of the weekly model, where so much time goes to checking in, settling your nervous system, and then closing up again before anything fully resolves, we have one focused stretch of time to go where you actually want to go.
You don't need a diagnosis to be here, and I don't diagnose autism or ADHD. This is recovery and integration work, not an assessment.
Why an Intensive, When You're Already This Tired
Here's the thing about weekly therapy: It’s not the best format for everyone, particularly an autistic or neurodivergent woman who’s experiencing burnout. The scheduling, the preparing, the masking, the hours afterward re-regulating your nervous system. When you’re already depleted, that rhythm can become one more thing that’s taking from you every week.
An intensive works differently. We do focused, meaningful work in one contained block, with far fewer of those weekly sessions to manage. Less starting over. Less white-knuckling to the end of a session that may be too short to finish the work you started.
How It’s Designed to Protect Your Nervous System
This is not a marathon of talking. The intensive is designed to be doable:
You know the plan before you arrive. No surprises, no being put on the spot. We map it out together first.
Breaks are built in, not earned. We pace it to you.
You set the sensory terms. Lighting, camera on or off, movement, stimming, quiet, snacks. Your comfort is the working condition, not a distraction from it.
You lead the intensity. Nothing gets forced open. We go where you're ready to go.
We can use ART (Accelerated Resolution Therapy), a structured approach that helps you process hard memories (or difficult situations you regularly face) using eye movements and imagery, without having to retell every detail out loud. For a lot of people that makes the work feel lighter than they expected.
How It Works
Before we start, a pre-intensive interview. We meet first so I genuinely understand your history, your goals, your sensory needs, and your pacing. From that conversation, I build you a personalized workbook that guides and anchors our time together. This interview is 60 minutes.
The intensive itself. We work on easing what's been weighing on you while also strengthening your connection to steadier, more settled states. We do that with focused processing, often using ART, and by noticing together which specific supports actually help your system.
Afterwards, a post-intensive interview. A week or two later, we meet again for 60 minutes to reflect on what shifted, what felt most meaningful, and how to let those changes settle into the rest of your life, so you're not just dropped back into your week.
What A Therapy Intensive Can Look Like
Every intensive is built for the one person in it, so what follows is an example, not a fixed script:
We ground, get comfortable, and name what you most want to feel different by the end.
We untangle the threads, what was abuse, what was masking, and what was always just you, so they stop blurring together.
We do focused processing on the moments carrying the most weight, at your pace, often using ART.
We talk about what recovery actually asks of your nervous system, and what's yours to carry forward and what never was.
Your workbook goes home with you to keep.
Who Might Choose an Intensive
A therapy intensive may be a good fit if:
You want focused, meaningful work without an open-ended weekly commitment.
Something painful is still shaping your days, and you're ready to give it real, contained time.
You're sorting out a late realization that you're autistic or AuDHD, and you want help integrating it.
You've found eye-movement work like ART helpful before and want to go deeper.
You have a stretch of time coming up and want to use part of it for yourself.
You're already in weekly therapy and feel stuck, or close to a breakthrough you don't want to lose. An intensive can sit alongside your ongoing therapy, and with your permission I'm glad to coordinate with your current therapist before and after.
What a Therapy Intensive Can Help With
The Untangling Intensive can support, among other things:
Relational trauma, past or recent
The exhaustion of masking
Autistic burnout and depletion
A specific painful memory that keeps replaying
This is recovery and integration work. It is not an autism or ADHD evaluation, and it is not the right tool for active crisis or a relationship where you're currently being physically harmed. More on fit below.
About ART
Accelerated Resolution Therapy is a brief, structured approach that helps you process painful memories using guided eye movements and imagery, without having to retell every detail out loud. I'm trained in ART and use it when it fits. Many people find it gentler and more predictable than they expected, and it keeps you in control the whole way through. You can read more on the Accelerated Resolution Therapy page.
Is Focused, Intensive Work Evidence-Based?
ART is a recognized, structured approach that has been studied for trauma and PTSD symptoms. Delivering trauma-focused therapy in a concentrated format, rather than spread across many weeks, is a newer adaptation, and the research on it is still growing, with early findings encouraging. As with any therapy, results vary from person to person, and part of what we figure out together on the consult is whether this format fits what you're carrying right now.
The Investment
Pricing for the new version isn't set yet, and I'd rather tell you nothing than tell you something that changes.
What I can tell you: it's one flat package, private pay, with everything included. You'll have a Good Faith Estimate up front so the cost is clear before you commit to anything. A superbill is available on request if you want to seek out-of-network reimbursement, which usually requires a diagnosis code for the services provided.
You can book a consult, and I'll walk you through where it's landing.
About Fit
I want this to actually help you, which means it isn't right for everyone.
I don't provide autism or ADHD testing or evaluations. This is recovery and integration work, not an assessment. If a formal evaluation is what you're looking for, I'm happy to point you toward resources, but that isn't what happens during the intensive.
An intensive isn't the right tool if you're in active crisis, or if you're currently in a relationship where you're being physically harmed. Ongoing, steady support is safer and better for that, and I'm happy to help you find it.
We'll make sure it's a good fit on a short consult before you ever book. No pressure either way.
How to Get Started
We start with a free 15-minute consult, a chance to meet, see how we connect, and talk through whether an intensive fits what you're carrying. If it does, we choose your dates together, and I'll walk you through the deposit and payment terms on the consult once the new format is set.
You'll have a Good Faith Estimate up front, so the full cost is clear before you put anything down.
FAQ
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It's built so it isn't. We pace to you, breaks are part of the design, and you set the sensory terms. The day is long enough to do real work and structured so it doesn't run you into the ground. We also talk through what you need on the consult first.
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Yes. You do not need a diagnosis to start, and I don't diagnose, so nothing here hinges on a label. Plenty of women come while still figuring that part out.
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Accelerated Resolution Therapy Is a brief, structured approach that helps you process painful memories using guided eye movements and imagery, without having to retell every detail. I'm trained in ART and use it when it fits. It's often much gentler than people expect.
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That's allowed, and it's planned for. We slow down, take a break, or shift what we're doing. You're never stuck just pushing through. Your nervous system sets the pace.
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For focused work on specific things that have been weighing on you, a contained intensive can move more than people expect. It isn't a replacement for all support forever, but it can create real relief and momentum. We'll talk on the consult about whether it fits what you're carrying.
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Yes. An intensive can be a focused supplement to ongoing weekly work. With your permission, I'm glad to coordinate with your current therapist (if you have one) before and after, so you get the most from it.
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Online for clients in Louisiana, Florida, and Virginia, which many people prefer because they get to do the day in their own space. In-person is available in my Mid City office in Baton Rouge.
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You just need to be physically in one of those states at the time of our work together. Some people travel in for the intensive and make a small retreat of it, with the day set aside purely for themselves.
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More than the sessions themselves. You get a pre-intensive interview (60 minutes) where we plan everything around you, a personalized workbook built for you, the intensive itself, and a 60-minute post-intensive interview afterward to help it settle. It's a full experience, start to finish, not just the hours we're in session.
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IIntensives are private pay. You'll get a Good Faith Estimate up front so the cost is clear before you commit, and there are no surprises.
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Once we've decided on the consult that an intensive is a good fit, a deposit reserves your dates. The deposit holds your time and is non-refundable, since that time is set aside just for you. I'll give you the current terms on your consult. If something comes up and you need to move, reach out as early as you can and we'll do our best to find new dates.
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A focused day lets us go deeper without long gaps between meetings, which many people find powerful. Because we spend real time on hard material, you might feel tired or more emotional for a few days afterward. I check in throughout and adjust to keep things safe and manageable, and the post-intensive interview is there to help you land. As with any therapy, no one can promise a specific outcome, and results vary.
Ready for Deep, Focused Work?
You've spent a long time wondering if it's you. Focused work won't answer everything, but it can loosen the knot, one thread at a time, with someone who won't rush you and won't decide for you.