Hi! I’m Jodi.

Throughout my journey as a therapist, educator, and coach, I have amassed more than 20 years of experience helping people with a multitude of challenges including autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, trauma, abuse, and codependency. I completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1997 and received a master’s degree in counseling in 2000. I am trauma-certified and trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy and hypnosis.

Although my professional training and experience have provided tremendous knowledge and insight, it is my own neurodiverse family and relationships as a partner, a mom, a daughter, and a friend that have truly served as my personal training ground for understanding and embracing neurodiversity. Moreover, as late-diagnosed ADHD, I have first-hand insight about my own neurodivergence and how it has impacted my life and relationships.

I am also a survivor of narcissistic abuse in multiple relationships beginning in childhood. I know the feelings of confusion, heartbreak, resentment, anger, terror, desperation, and hopelessness. I have been love bombed, devalued, discarded, physically and verbally intimidated, and gaslighted. I have experienced shame, guilt, humiliation, and the desperate desire to be loved by others who were incapable. Through years of my own therapy, I unraveled and healed from my own traumatic abuse. I confronted codependency, a dysfunctional survival mechanism from childhood that I brought into my adult relationship. I have emerged wiser and stronger.  I learned to love and value myself, which allows me to safely and securely love and be loved by others through connected communication, healthy boundaries, and realistic expectations coupled with care, empathy, compassion, and affection.