My aim is to help you go beyond coping.
Your neurodivergent brain comes with great strengths but also great challenges.
Being autistic, having ADHD, or being an AuDHDer can feel overwhelming. You may feel caught up in an exhausting cycle of anxiety, people-pleasing, and trying to live a neuro-normative (frankly overrated) life that is not aligned with who you truly are.
But neurodivergence is not a disorder.
You are not broken.
You’re just navigating a system that wasn’t built with your mind in mind. It’s time to find out what works for you and what you believe in. Imagine building a life you feel excited about.
Here’s what neuro-affirming therapy can look like:
- Not making assumptions about how you’re wired or what you need
- Supporting you to create a sensory environment that feels right to you
- Adapting treatment modalities to your neurotype
- Gently guiding you as you process past trauma
- Standing by you as you learn to discover who you are behind the mask
- Helping you deal with external and internalised ableism
- Empowering you to embody your values so that you can show up in a meaningful way in a world not made for you
We’ll do this through a completely personalised therapeutic roadmap that may include:
Schema
Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) Therapy
Emotion
Focused
Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Psychodynamically-informed
Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
Mind-Body
Practices
Hello, bonjour, bună ziua!
I’m Dr Natalia Rusnac (she/her)
My journey has led me through two masters, a PhD, and a move to the other side of the world, all to better understand the human brain (and myself along the way).
By studying psychology and neuroscience, I have developed a broad range of therapeutic tools that have helped me recognise my strengths and vulnerabilities and create a neuro-affirming life for myself. Now, I want to help you do the same.
You’re welcome here
I work with clients who:
- Are formally diagnosed, self-identify as neurodivergent, or are not sure
- Are over 18 years old
- Live anywhere in Australia (I work exclusively online)
- Speak English, French, or Romanian (I can hold sessions in all 3 languages)
I warmly welcome adults of intersecting identities (for example, LGBTQIA+, migrants, or people with chronic illness or disabilities).
