I work with late-diagnosed, high-masking neurodivergent adults, and with what tends to travel alongside, anxiety and OCD, emotional regulation, trauma and PTSD, perfectionism and people-pleasing, and men's mental health. The methods are evidence-based and chosen to fit. The throughline is depth and identity, not strategy lists. Available across Colorado by telehealth.
The people I tend to work with
The people who fit here usually look fine on paper. They are responsible, conscientious, and capable. Underneath, the work of holding it together costs more than the people around them can see.
Most are late-diagnosed or self-identified autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults. Many also live with anxiety, OCD, trauma, perfectionism, codependency and people-pleasing patterns, or emotional regulation struggles that feel like they should have been figured out by now. Some are men who do not usually walk into therapy until something forces it. If any of that fits, you are in the right place.
Most people here look fine on paper. The cost of holding it together is the part no one else sees.
What I focus on
Five areas, each with its own page that goes deeper.
- Neurodivergent adults. Late-diagnosed autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults doing identity and emotional work, including rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD).
- Emotional regulation and dysregulation. The thread that runs under neurodivergence, anxiety, and people-pleasing.
- OCD, panic, and anxiety. ERP-informed, plainly written, including health anxiety and reassurance-seeking patterns.
- Codependency and people-pleasing. Including perfectionism. Treated as an attachment and identity pattern, not an addiction.
- Men's mental health. Steady, non-shaming work for men who do not usually choose therapy.
These areas overlap more often than they sit cleanly apart, which is why the work often moves across more than one at a time.
Trauma, PTSD, and religious trauma
I also work with trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including complex trauma that built up over years rather than a single event. For PTSD I use Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), one of the most researched treatments for it. CPT looks at the conclusions a trauma left you with, about safety, trust, blame, and yourself, and helps you check whether they still hold.
That includes religious trauma and faith deconstruction. Some people come in having left a faith, some are still inside it and questioning, and some aren't sure yet. I don't have an agenda about where you land.
My approach, in plain terms
The methods are evidence-based. The four I use most are:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). Stop fighting the inner weather, get clear on what you actually value, take action toward it.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Examine the thinking patterns that feed how you feel and what you do, and test whether they still hold.
- Motivational Interviewing. Make change less of a fight by drawing out the reasons you already have for it.
- Parts and inner child work. Get curious about the protective parts of you that learned to keep you safe. Meet the younger version of yourself who came up with those strategies in the first place.
For specific problems I also use two structured treatments: exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD, and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) for PTSD.
I am not an EMDR-led or somatic-led therapist, and I am not a faith-based counselor. I do work with religious trauma and faith deconstruction. If EMDR, somatic work, or faith-based counseling is what you need, I am happy to point you toward clinicians who specialize there.
The throughline across every method is depth. The goal is to understand the patterns underneath what you are dealing with, where they came from, and what you actually want to do with them now that you can see them. Strategies have a place inside that, and we use them. They are not the whole job.
What a typical course of therapy looks like
There is no single template, but a few common patterns show up.
- A focused course of twelve to twenty sessions. Useful for a specific issue, an OCD or anxiety pattern, a relational situation, a stuck spot.
- Longer-term identity and depth work. Useful for late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults sorting out a lifetime of masking, and for people unwinding family-of-origin patterns.
- Open-ended steady support. Useful for people who already know they want a consistent, attentive presence in their life.
Sessions are 55 minutes, weekly to start. As the work settles, some people move to every other week. We figure that pace out together based on what is helpful, not on a formula.
How telehealth works in Colorado
I see clients across Colorado by secure video, including the Denver metro communities of Westminster, Arvada, Littleton, Golden, Lakewood, and Broomfield. The platform is HIPAA-compliant. You only need a private space, a stable connection, and a device with a camera.
Telehealth means you can keep the same therapist wherever you are in the state, which matters when leaving the house is itself one of the hard parts. The longer take on telehealth, and what makes it work, is on the Online Therapy in Colorado page.
Fees and access
Sagelight Counseling is private-pay. The standard fee for a 55-minute session is $150. I also offer a limited sliding scale based on need, with no documentation required. If cost is a concern, mention it on the consult and we will talk through whether a sliding-scale spot fits.
Whether I join insurance panels after full licensure is a question I am leaving open. For now, private-pay keeps the clinical work clean, the schedule manageable, and the records under your control.
Fees, insurance, payment, and the cancellation policy are detailed on the FAQ.