Online Therapy in Carmel, IN for ADHD, Autism & Complex Trauma
Neurodivergent-affirming online therapy for adults exploring late-diagnosed ADHD or autism, complex trauma, grief, and complicated family relationships.
Maybe you've spent years being the person everyone depends on, managing responsibilities, keeping relationships together, and appearing to have everything under control. But underneath it all, you may feel exhausted, overwhelmed, or disconnected from your own needs.
For some adults, discovering ADHD or autism later in life helps explain why they've struggled with things that other people seem to manage more easily. For others, therapy begins with questions about childhood experiences, family relationships, or patterns that have followed them into adulthood.
I'm Dr. Christine Henry, a licensed psychologist offering online therapy to adults in Carmel and throughout Indiana through PSYPACT. I work with adults who want to better understand themselves, process difficult experiences, and find ways of living that don't require constantly pushing past their own limits.
My approach is relational, neurodivergent-affirming, and rooted in the belief that your experiences deserve to be understood within the context of your life, relationships, and identity.
I approach therapy through a feminist, anti-racist, social justice-informed, and LGBTQ+ affirming lens. I recognize that our identities, backgrounds, abilities, and lived experiences influence how we move through the world. My goal is to create a therapeutic relationship where you feel respected, where your perspectives matter, and where we can explore difficult experiences without judgment.
My Therapy Focus Areas for Carmel Adults
My work focuses on the emotional and relational experiences that often come with discovering ADHD or autism later in life. For many adults, this includes understanding years of masking, perfectionism, burnout, and the feeling that they've never quite lived up to expectations, despite how much effort they've put in.
I particularly enjoy working with adults who are questioning or discovering their neurodivergence later in life, including those who self-identify without a formal diagnosis. Therapy may also involve exploring how childhood experiences, complex trauma, or complicated family relationships have shaped the way you understand yourself.
I also work with highly sensitive people, adults navigating grief or religious trauma, and therapists who need their own space to process difficult experiences. These concerns don't always fit into separate categories, and our work can explore how they overlap.
When Holding Everything Together Becomes Exhausting
For many adults who discover they're ADHD or autistic later in life, burnout isn't something that suddenly appears. It can be the result of years spent masking, pushing through sensory overwhelm, compensating for executive functioning challenges, or trying to meet expectations that never quite fit. What once seemed like perfectionism, anxiety, or simply being an overachiever may begin to make sense through a different lens. But recognizing these patterns doesn't necessarily mean you know how to change them.
Sometimes the strategies you've relied on for years stop working as well. Changes in responsibilities, relationships, burnout, or the hormonal shifts associated with perimenopause and menopause can make longstanding challenges more noticeable. You might wonder why things that used to feel manageable suddenly require so much more energy.
Discovering your neurodivergence can bring relief, but it can also raise difficult questions. Why did everything have to be so hard? What might have been different if you'd understood yourself sooner? And how do you begin making changes when you've spent much of your life prioritizing what other people need from you?
In therapy, we can explore those questions without assuming that the solution is to become more productive or find another way to push through. Sometimes the work involves understanding your limits, recognizing what drains or replenishes you, processing grief or anger about the past, and giving yourself permission to do things differently.
Making Space for Your Own Needs
When you've spent years adapting to other people's expectations, figuring out what you actually want or need can be surprisingly difficult. You may be so accustomed to anticipating others' reactions, avoiding conflict, or pushing through discomfort that you don't always recognize when something isn't working for you.
Therapy can be a place to begin untangling those patterns. We might explore how early relationships, family dynamics, or past trauma have influenced your sense of responsibility for others, your ability to set boundaries, or the way you respond to your own emotions.
My approach is relational, neurodivergent-affirming, and informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), interpersonal and psychodynamic perspectives. I'm interested in understanding not just what's happening in your life today, but how your experiences have shaped the way you relate to yourself and other people.
Sometimes our work involves processing difficult emotions, questioning longstanding beliefs about yourself, or learning to recognize needs you've spent years overlooking. Other times, we might focus on practical strategies for managing overwhelm, navigating executive functioning challenges, or creating routines and environments that better support you.
I don't expect you to have everything figured out before coming to therapy. We'll work collaboratively, paying attention to what feels helpful, what doesn't, and what you want to change. And if something I suggest doesn't work for you, that's useful information too. We can approach it differently.
Online Therapy in Carmel, Indiana, From the Comfort of Home
Finding a therapist who understands late-identified ADHD or autism, complex trauma, and the ways these experiences overlap isn't always easy. Online therapy gives you the opportunity to work with someone whose approach fits your needs, even if they aren't located in your immediate community.
Whether you're in Carmel, Noblesville, Fishers, Westfield, Zionsville, or elsewhere in the Indianapolis area, you can meet with me from a private, comfortable space without having to travel to an office.
For neurodivergent adults, being in your own environment can also make therapy feel more accessible. You have more control over lighting, noise, seating, and other sensory needs. You're welcome to use fidgets, move around, or take breaks from eye contact without worrying about how you're supposed to behave in a traditional therapy setting.
We'll meet face-to-face through secure video sessions, much like we would in an office. You just get to choose where you feel most comfortable.
And, of course, your pets are welcome! Whether your dog wants to curl up beside you or your cat insists on making an appearance, they're welcome to join us.
Getting Started With Online Therapy in Carmel
If you're beginning to recognize yourself as ADHD or autistic later in life, feeling exhausted from years of masking or putting others first, or trying to make sense of complicated relationships and past experiences, I'd be glad to explore whether therapy together might be a good fit.
I provide individual online therapy for adults ages 26 and older in Carmel, throughout Indiana, and in other participating PSYPACT states. My practice is private pay, and I can provide superbills if you'd like to seek possible out-of-network reimbursement.
I offer a free 20-minute video consultation where we can talk about what brings you to therapy, answer your questions, and get a sense of whether we'd work well together.
You don't need a formal ADHD or autism diagnosis to begin therapy, and you don't have to know exactly what you want to work on before reaching out.
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