Liberating Expression: Neurodiversity & Identity
At Heart Body Therapy, we celebrate the beauty and power of human diversity. We believe that everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, and affirmed in their whole beings. For many neurodivergent and queer people, seeking genuinely effective therapy calls for earnest discernment. We acknowledge how medical and mental health systems have often caused harm through erasure, misdiagnosis, and the pathologizing of natural differences. Our identities, bodies, relationships, and ways of feeling, learning, understanding, and being are not bad, wrong, or something to be fixed.
We specialize in supporting neurodiverse and queer individuals, providing a warm space and affirming paths toward healing, clarity, and self-connection. By embracing the expansive biodiversity of interconnectedness, we empower you to thrive.
We understand that neurodiverse individuals may face challenges with health access, discrimination, internalized oppression, masking, executive dysfunction, and burnout. Our therapeutic approach is tailored to your specific needs and process, providing identity exploration, affirming support for stims and special interests, and strategies relating to executive function and social contexts. We share resources for advocacy to navigate systems of education, healthcare, work, and compulsory normality.
We celebrate queer ecologies, acknowledging the unique experiences and strengths of LGBTQ+ individuals with inclusive and liberatory practices, creating a courageous space for nurturing internal resonance, building supportive relationships, affirming expression, and liberatory action.
We explore how oppression embeds itself as internalized patterns of protection and survival and work with you to undo shame-based, colonial conditioning. Through examining the physiology of toxic oppressive stress, we address how the demands of societal pressures impact more than just the nervous system.
We conspire countless ways to fortify our resources, tap into embodied strengths, and honor our human needs. It is possible to transform fear, depression, anxiety, and trauma into the irresistible power of fierce love, intuition, joy, and mischief. To travel by stars. To dance with darkness. To play with shadows. To come to light, and so we rise with dawning insight. For a more just, equitable, and beautiful world, we need your spirit to shine bold and bright. Dazzle. Sparkle. Glitter. Glow up.
By recognizing your unique talents and abilities, you can move with confidence, trust, and resilience. We encourage your wondrous unfurling expression of life.