For Adults
Understand yourself deeply enough to build a life that fits.
Therapy for bright, sensitive, creative, and neurodivergent adults who want more than symptom management — and who are ready to understand their patterns, use what is already strong, develop what is not yet, and make more intentional choices.
You might recognize yourself
- You're the person everyone relies on, and you're quietly running on empty.
- You've done the therapy, read the books, and still don't have a clear picture of how you actually work.
- You can name what you're good at, but you can't seem to build a life that uses it.
- Decisions that used to feel obvious now spiral for days.
- You suspect you're neurodivergent — or you know you are — and you want to understand what that means for your real, specific life.
- Something needs to change, and you want to move toward a life that feels more deliberately yours.
I often work with adults navigating:
- ADHD and late-identified neurodivergence
- Anxiety and chronic overthinking
- Trauma and attachment wounds
- Burnout and overwhelm
- Shame and perfectionism
- Grief and major life transitions
- Identity shifts
- High-achieving people who look functional from the outside and feel exhausted underneath
- Neurodivergent parents trying to understand themselves while raising neurodivergent children
Much of this is ADHD and late-identified neurodivergence in adults, often alongside anxiety, trauma, or burnout. The work draws on IFS, AEDP, and other experiential approaches. I see adults across New York City and Long Island, and by telehealth anywhere in New York State. I'm also licensed in Connecticut.
What we actually do together.
First we get an accurate picture: your strengths, your patterns, what reliably depletes you, what you actually want, and which of your strategies were built for a situation you are no longer in. Curiosity before conclusions.
Then we work with it. That can mean questioning old assumptions, grieving what has happened, building skills, increasing flexibility, tolerating discomfort, and experimenting with different ways of living. Some environments need to change. Sometimes new capacities need to be developed. Often both are true.
There is room here for ambition, accountability, experimentation, and real challenge, alongside the slower work of understanding. Acceptance and change are not opposites; this is depth work that holds both.
Sometimes change happens through a different decision or a new skill. Sometimes it happens when an experience we’ve spent years avoiding finally has room to be felt, understood, and shared with another person. That can mean making sense of protective adaptations, or spending time with shame, grief, and old attachment patterns. I care about both. The practical changes matter, but so does what happens when you no longer have to relate to yourself in quite the same way.
Ways in
Three doors to the same work.
Individual therapy
Ongoing weekly or biweekly psychotherapy for adults in New York or Connecticut. Depth work that builds over time.
Immersive & experiential work
Therapy intensives and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for people who need more room than a traditional session allows.
Professional consultation
For therapists, coaches, and clinicians who want a second set of eyes on complex neurodivergent, trauma, or ADHD cases.
Ready to start a conversation?
The first step is a short note — not a commitment. We'll figure out together whether this is the right fit.
Individual therapy and clinical immersive work are available to eligible clients in New York and Connecticut, where Dr. Val is licensed.