Therapy for neurodivergent adults who are capable, exhausted, and tired of translating themselves.
Relational, neuroqueer therapy for ADHD, autistic, queer, and gender-expansive adults throughout Washington—
with a therapist who understands these intersections from the inside.
Mandy Parida, MA, LMHC
Neurodivergent and queer therapist with more than 25 years of experience working with neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ individuals and families.
Therapy doesn’t have to require sitting still, making eye contact, speaking on demand, or performing regulation.
Examples include: typing when speaking is inaccessible; moving during sessions; using art, metaphor, or sound when useful; camera flexibility; directness, humor, and questioning inherited assumptions.
individual therapy
50-min session - $175
Therapy for neurodivergent, queer, gender-expansive, and highly sensitive adults. Together we explore the complexities of identity, relationships, and the challenges of living in a world that often misunderstands difference.
ways we can work together
Couples & Polycules
50-min session - $200
Relationships can be complicated. Especially when neurodivergence, differing communication styles, parenting, gender exploration, or life transitions are part of the picture. Therapy offers a space to slow down, understand one another more deeply, and move forward together.
professional consultation
50-min - $175
Thoughtful consultation for therapists navigating complex cases, neurodivergence, gender diversity, ethical questions, and relational practice.
therapy makes room for difference
I identify as neuroqueer, a term that reflects the intersection of my experiences as a queer, gender-fluid, and neurodivergent person.
people make sense in context
I believe people make sense in context. The struggles that bring us to therapy are not always signs that something is wrong with us. More often, they reflect the realities of being human in a world that doesn’t always make room for our differences.
Many of the people I work with have spent years being labeled high functioning. They are often thoughtful, creative, insightful, and remarkably capable. They are also deeply tired.
Most are navigating relationships, careers, parenting, identity, burnout, and the constant demands of systems that often require far more from them than others realize. They have learned to adapt, compensate, and push through. Often at a significant cost.
Therapy offers a space to set some of that down. Together we explore patterns, relationships, identity, and the possibility of living as more of who you are rather than who you’ve been told to be.
Credentials
Licensed Mental Health Counselor (WA)
MA, Expressive Therapies and Mental Health Counseling, Lesley University
MM, Vocal Performance, University of Kentucky
Over 25 years of working with neurodivergent and LGBTQIA+ children, adults, and families through therapy, expressive arts, education, and community work.
Explore my specialties
Specialties include late-identified ADHD/AuDHD, masking, and burnout
Queer, trans, gender-expansive, and neuroqueer identity
Neurodivergent relationships, couples, and polycules
Looking for training, education, and community projects centering neurodivergent, LGBTQIA+, and gender-expansive people — and the systems that support them?