Jennifer Griffith

If you’re neurodivergent, you may be used to feeling misunderstood—or like you need a PowerPoint presentation, three supporting witnesses, and several footnotes just to explain what is happening in your brain. Maybe executive dysfunction keeps derailing perfectly reasonable plans. Maybe your nervous system treats an ordinary Tuesday like a five-alarm fire. Or maybe you’re exhausted from masking, managing everyone else’s reactions, and wondering why things that look “easy” from the outside require so much energy.

Parents can feel just as stuck. Conversations become puzzles, requests become negotiations, and getting out the door somehow turns into a full-blown group project no one signed up for. Usually, there is much more happening underneath the behavior than what appears on the surface—and that is where we begin.

I work with neurodivergent teens, adults, and parents to understand what is actually driving the struggle and find strategies that work with your brain, your nervous system, and your real life. We are not going to spend therapy politely nodding at advice you have already tried six different ways. My approach is warm, direct, collaborative, creative, and appropriately funny. You won’t need to mask, perform, or spend half the session convincing me that your experience is real.

I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 25 years of experience in behavioral health, trauma care, neurodivergence, and parent support. I earned my MSW from the University of Southern California and my bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the College of the Holy Cross. I am EMDR trained and certified in Collaborative Problem Solving. My work is neuroaffirming, trauma-informed, and grounded in one fairly important standard: strategies need to work in actual life—not just look impressive on paper.

My approach to therapy is warm, collaborative, practical, and tailored to how you actually think, learn, and process—not how a textbook says you should. I use trauma-informed and neuroaffirming approaches, including EMDR, DBT, CBT, ACT, Collaborative Problem Solving, mindfulness, and somatic strategies, but I don’t believe in forcing every client into the same clinical box. We’ll get curious about patterns, nervous-system responses, relationships, executive functioning, and the things that keep getting in your way, then build tools that make sense in real life.

Your first session is about helping me understand the full picture of who you are, what’s bringing you in, and what may be contributing to what you’re experiencing. I’m skilled at quickly identifying patterns, connecting important pieces, and seeing the bigger picture while still giving you space to tell your story in your own way. We’ll talk about what has and hasn’t worked before, how you tend to process information, and what you’d like to be different in your life. By the end of the session, we’ll usually have a strong starting point, a clear direction for therapy, and probably a few laughs along the way.