Build a life around who you are—not who you had to become to survive.

Therapy for over-functioning women exhausted from self-doubt, over-adaptation, and abandoning what they know to stay acceptable.

Weekly therapy, mini-intensives, and immersive therapy intensives designed for deep, lasting change.

In person and on-line in Burlington, VT

Build a life around who you are—not who you had to become to survive.

Therapy for over-functioning women exhausted from self-doubt, over-adaptation, and abandoning what they know to stay acceptable.

Weekly therapy, mini-intensives, and immersive therapy intensives designed for deep, lasting change.

In person and on-line in Burlington, VT

You became highly skilled at functioning while quietly abandoning yourself.

You may have spent years quietly asking "what's wrong with me?" Telling yourself you have no right to struggle because other people had it worse. So you push through and push harder.

You may have spent years quietly asking "what's wrong with me?" Telling yourself you have no right to struggle because other people had it worse. So you push through and push harder.

You’re thoughtful. Insightful. Capable. You can analyse a conversation from twelve angles before breakfast.

You are often the calm one in crisis, the dependable one who always has room for everyone else's feelings but your own.

And yet, inside, there’s often a different experience...

Second-guessing yourself after conversations.

Talking yourself out of boundaries your body already made clear.

Feeling ashamed of your needs.

Needing external confirmation before trusting your instincts.

Hi, I'm Maverick!

I help women recover their inner authourity.

I believe therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong” with you.

It’s about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that were never actually wrong to begin with.

Many of my clients are thoughtful, high-functioning women who have learned to survive through insight, competence, over-functioning, and self-abandonment.

Some identify as neurodivergent. Others simply know that conventional advice has never fully fit.

What connects them is this:

They have become extraordinarily skilled at functioning while quietly losing trust in themselves.

My work helps you rebuild that trust — so your intellect, emotions, body, and deeper knowing are no longer working against each other.

I believe therapy is not about fixing what is “wrong” with you.

It’s about helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that were never actually wrong to begin with.

Many of my clients are thoughtful, high-functioning women who have learned to survive through insight, competence, over-functioning, and self-abandonment.

Some identify as neurodivergent. Others simply know that conventional advice has never fully fit.

What connects them is this:

They have become extraordinarily skilled at functioning while quietly losing trust in themselves.

My work helps you rebuild that trust — so your intellect, emotions, body, and deeper knowing are no longer working against each other.

Support for the places self-trust breaks down most.

Self-doubt doesn’t stay neatly contained. It shows up in your energy, your relationships, your work, and your ability to trust what your body is telling you.

Self-doubt doesn’t stay neatly contained. It shows up in your energy, your relationships, your work, and your ability to trust what your body is telling you.

Burnout & Over-functioning

You became exceptional at coping, adapting, and carrying more than most people ever saw. Now your focus slips, motivation stalls, and everything takes more effort than it used to. Rebuild from burnout without abandoning the parts of you that made success possible.

Relationships & Communication

You care deeply—and still walk away from conversations feeling misunderstood, defencive, or like you somehow missed the real conversation entirely. Learn to navigate conflict, communication, and connection without the exhaustion of constant translation.

Neurodivergence & Late Discovery

Maybe a diagnosis changed how you see yourself. Maybe you just know life has always required more effort than it seems to for everyone else. Make sense of your wiring, reclaim self-trust, and build a life that actually fits.

Autism, Masking, & Identity

You learned to be insightful, accommodating, capable—and nearly impossible to read as struggling. Beneath the competence may be exhaustion, self-doubt, and a lifetime of adapting to environments that never truly fit. Therapy can help you come home to yourself.

Therapy Intensives

When weekly therapy feels too slow for what’s at stake, therapy intensives offer deep, focused support designed to create meaningful movement quickly. Immersive, strategic, and tailored to how you actually process change.

Burnout & Over-functioning

You became exceptional at coping, adapting, and carrying more than most people ever saw. Now your focus slips, motivation stalls, and everything takes more effort than it used to. Rebuild from burnout without abandoning the parts of you that made success possible.

Relationships & Communication

You care deeply—and still walk away from conversations feeling misunderstood, defencive, or like you somehow missed the real conversation entirely. Learn to navigate conflict, communication, and connection without the exhaustion of constant translation.

Neurodivergence & Late Discovery

Maybe a diagnosis changed how you see yourself. Maybe you just know life has always required more effort than it seems to for everyone else. Make sense of your wiring, reclaim self-trust, and build a life that actually fits.

Autism & Women

You learned to be insightful, accommodating, capable—and nearly impossible to read as struggling. Beneath the competence may be exhaustion, self-doubt, and a lifetime of adapting to environments that never truly fit. Therapy can help you come home to yourself.

Therapy Intensives

When weekly therapy feels too slow for what’s at stake, therapy intensives offer deep, focused support designed to create meaningful movement quickly. Immersive, strategic, and tailored to how you actually process change.

Burnout, over-functioning, relationship exhaustion, neurodivergent overwhelm, and late self-discovery often emerge from the same painful mismatch: the tension between what your body knows and what you learned was necessary to stay acceptable.

Burnout, over-functioning, relationship exhaustion, neurodivergent overwhelm, and late self-discovery often emerge from the same painful mismatch: the tension between what your body knows and what you learned was necessary to stay acceptable.

The answer isn't to try harder, be less sensitive, or be more disciplined.

If pushing harder worked, you wouldn't be struggling. You need a new path forward and blueprint to follow that is unique to you.

01.

Book a 30 minute consultation.

02.

Choose the pace that fits your needs—weekly therapy or a focused intensive to save time and create meaningful momentum.

03.

Build a life that no longer depends on over-functioning.

What becomes possible when success no longer depends on abandoning yourself?

  • Trusting your body when it says no

  • No longer believing your needs make you a burden

  • Living at a pace that feels sustainable, not like a constant emergency

  • Feeling like you are living a life that’s yours - not one you earned through compliance

  • Setting boundaries without panic, guilt, or overexplaining

  • Feeling secure in your relationships instead of second-guessing yourself

Healing isn’t becoming normal. It’s becoming fully yourself.

Intensives With Maverick

1 Mill St | Suite 312 | Burlington, VT 05401

[email protected]

Helping deeply sensitive and neurodivergent adults rebuild self-trust, inner authourity, and lives that actually fit.

Providing therapy in person and online for Burlington, Chittenden County, and anyone within Vermont.

Pre-licenced therapist in the State of Vermont 097.0135825.

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