With Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Life Coaching for Highly Sensitive, Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD Adults

You may have spent years feeling too sensitive, misunderstood, or unseen.

Perhaps you're hard on yourself, overwhelmed by everyday demands, or unsure what you need. You may be discovering autism, ADHD, or AuDHD later in life, navigating burnout or change, or wanting a deeper understanding of yourself.

Here, you'll find a warm, compassionate space with someone who understands what it's like to experience the world deeply. I bring both professional expertise and lived experience to help you feel understood as we explore what matters to you.

If something I've shared on my podcast, blog, or in my community has resonated with you, we can explore what it means for your own life, in a single session or through ongoing support.

Book online at your own pace. Choose your session length, preferred format, and an available time that works for you.

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Ways I Can Support You

What we can explore together:

  • Self-discovery and late identification: Make sense of high sensitivity, autism, ADHD, or AuDHD and what it means for your life.
  • Unlearning self-criticism and outside expectations: Explore masking, overextending, and others’ expectations with greater compassion for yourself.
  • Recognizing and honoring your needs: Discover what helps you feel supported, and practice making room for your needs.
  • Understanding intense emotions, overwhelm, and energy: Explore what builds up, how you respond, and what helps you feel steadier and recover.
  • Navigating life changes and loss: Find space for the feelings, shifting needs, and questions that can come with perimenopause, an empty nest, grief, or a new chapter in life.
  • Recognizing your strengths: Recognize and value your natural ways of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world.
  • Making everyday life more supportive: Find practical adjustments, boundaries, and accommodations that fit your needs and capacity.

Choose a single session or ongoing support at a pace that fits you.

50 minutes · $375
75 minutes · $550

Book online at your own pace. Choose your session length, preferred format, and an available time that works for you.

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About Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Julie Bjelland, LMFT

I'm Julie Bjelland, a licensed psychotherapist and adult autism assessor. I've been working with clients since 2011, and I bring that depth of clinical experience to my life coaching work.

I specialize in high sensitivity, late-discovered autism, ADHD, and AuDHD.

I'm also highly sensitive, late-diagnosed autistic, a self-identified AuDHDer, and queer. I know how much it matters to have your needs understood and respected.

I care deeply about helping you feel seen, heard, and comfortable being yourself, from our very first conversation. We can take our time, and you're welcome to express yourself in whatever words come.

My experience informs the questions I ask and the connections we explore together. I help people put words to experiences that have been difficult to explain, understand themselves with greater compassion, and find practical ways to make daily life more supportive.

I'm the author of the forthcoming W. W. Norton book Autistic Women: A Clinician's Guide to Neurodiversity-Affirming Identification and Support. I'm also the founder of The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Community, Podcast, and Blog.

I welcome working with adults of all genders.

LGBTQ+ affirming · BIPOC adults warmly welcomed

More about my approach

One of the most meaningful parts of my work is helping people feel truly seen, heard, and understood, sometimes for the first time. I value creating a warm, supportive space where people can make sense of their experiences, deepen their understanding of themselves, and begin recognizing and honoring needs that may have gone unrecognized or unsupported for years.

My approach is compassionate, collaborative, and thoughtful, grounded in deep respect for each person's experiences, strengths, and capacity. I believe that greater self-understanding and self-acceptance can open the door to more confidence, self-compassion, and a life that feels more authentic to who we are.

I look forward to connecting with you and exploring how I can support you.

What to Expect

Choose a format that feels comfortable for you. Meet by Zoom video, audio-only, live written chat through Zoom without video or audio, or phone within the U.S. You can select your preference when booking.

Before we meet: The booking form gives you space to share your background and what you would like support with. You can arrive with questions still taking shape. We'll explore them together.

During your session: We begin with what feels most useful to you. We can explore your experiences, notice patterns, and make room for questions and feelings as they come up, at a pace that respects your capacity.

Finding your next steps: Together, we can clarify what matters to you and identify a practical next step, a new way of understanding yourself, or an adjustment to try in daily life.

You are welcome at any stage of discovery. This includes formal identification, self-identification, or exploring high sensitivity, autism, ADHD, or AuDHD.

A single session or ongoing support

A single session can focus on a particular question, decision, or situation. Ongoing sessions give us space to deepen what you discover, explore practical ways to honor your needs, and reflect on what feels supportive over time.

Both 50- and 75-minute sessions are available. We can discuss a session rhythm that fits your needs.

Please note: Life coaching is not appropriate for someone currently experiencing an immediate mental health crisis or active suicidality.

Looking for a comprehensive Adult Autism Assessment?

Learn more about Adult Autism Assessments →

Make Space for Support That Fits You

You can begin with one conversation. Bring a question, a decision, or something you've been trying to understand about yourself. Ongoing support is also available.

Choose 50 minutes for a focused conversation or 75 minutes if you would like more time to explore.

50 minutes · $375
75 minutes · $550

Book online at your own pace. Choose your session length, preferred format, and an available time that works for you.

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Prefer a different time? Select Join Waitlist beneath the available times on the booking calendar to share your preferred dates and times.

Professional Consultations

Guidance for your professional work supporting highly sensitive, autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD people.

These sessions are for therapists, mental health and medical professionals, other helping professionals, and teams seeking guidance about their clients, their approach, or the spaces and services they provide.

We can explore a specific client question or consider how to make your practice, workplace, or other setting more accessible and neurodiversity-affirming.

Professional consultation topics

What We Can Explore

  • Understanding clients more fully. Consider high sensitivity, autism, ADHD, and AuDHD, including masking, sensory needs, capacity, and presentations that may have been overlooked.
  • Adapting your approach. Explore communication, pacing, expectations, and practical supports that better fit the person you are working with.
  • Creating neurodiversity-affirming spaces. Explore ways to make sensory environments, appointment processes, communication, and workplace practices more accessible and supportive.
  • Supporting teams. Build understanding of individual strengths and needs, and explore more accessible ways of working together.
  • Considering next steps. Discuss when further assessment, additional support, or a referral may be helpful.

Choose 50 minutes for a focused question or 75 minutes for more complex situations, multiple questions, or deeper exploration.

50 minutes · $450
75 minutes · $675

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Prefer a different time? Select Join Waitlist beneath the available times on the booking calendar to share your preferred dates and times.

Professional consultations provide education and guidance; they do not include psychotherapy or a diagnostic evaluation of your client.