With Julie Bjelland, LMFT

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

LGBTQ+ affirming · BIPOC adults warmly welcomed

You may have spent years keeping up, meeting expectations, or caring for others while setting aside your own needs.

Here, you’ll find a warm, compassionate space to feel seen and understood, with room to slow down and reflect.

If you’re discovering your neurodivergence later in life, we can make space for the feelings and questions that arise, drawing on my professional and lived experience.

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

50 minutes · $375
75 minutes · $550

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Ways I Can Support You

Together, we can focus on:

  • Self-discovery and late identification: Making sense of high sensitivity, autism, ADHD, or AuDHD, especially if you have spent years feeling different or misunderstood.
  • Recognizing and honoring your needs: Identifying needs you may have overlooked, minimized, or learned to suppress, and finding ways to take them seriously in everyday life.
  • Understanding overwhelm and energy: Recognizing patterns of sensory, emotional, and cognitive overload, understanding what drains and restores you, and exploring ways to reduce exhaustion.
  • Unlearning self-criticism and outside expectations: Exploring long-standing patterns of masking, overextending, and feeling obligated to meet everyone else’s expectations, with greater compassion for yourself.
  • Recognizing your strengths: Understanding and valuing your natural ways of thinking, feeling, processing, and experiencing the world.
  • Making everyday life more supportive: Finding realistic adjustments, boundaries, and accommodations that fit your particular needs, energy, and capacity.

What to Expect

Before we meet: The booking form gives you space to share what you would like support with. We can explore your questions 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 identify what you want to understand more deeply or a realistic adjustment you might like to try. We can take this one step at a time, in ways that feel manageable for you.

No formal diagnosis is required. You are welcome whether you have been identified, self-identify, or are still exploring high sensitivity, autism, ADHD, or AuDHD.

Session formats and ongoing support

Choose How We Meet

Sessions are offered by Zoom video, Zoom audio only, live written chat through Zoom without video or audio, or phone within the U.S. You can choose your preferred format on the booking form.

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.

Life coaching provides education, practical guidance, and support. It does not include psychotherapy or a diagnostic autism assessment.

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

About Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Julie Bjelland, LMFT

I'm a licensed psychotherapist and adult autism assessor with expertise in high sensitivity, late-discovered autism, ADHD, and AuDHD, particularly in women and gender-diverse adults. I welcome working with adults of all genders. I'm also highly sensitive, late-diagnosed autistic, a self-identified AuDHDer, and queer.

Through my professional and personal experiences, I've come to understand how much effort can go into navigating a world where our needs often go unrecognized or unmet. Many of us spend years masking, pushing through overwhelm, and adapting to others' expectations without fully recognizing the impact on our well-being.

More about my approach and work

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 they may have overlooked 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'm the founder of The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Community, Podcast, and Blog. I'm also the author of the forthcoming W. W. Norton book Autistic Women: A Clinician's Guide to Neurodiversity-Affirming Identification and Support, written to help clinicians better recognize, understand, and support autistic women whose experiences have historically been overlooked.

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

Looking for a comprehensive Adult Autism Assessment?

Learn more about Adult Autism Assessments →

Make Space for Support That Fits You

Begin wherever you are. Choose a single session or ongoing support for the questions and experiences that matter to 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

Schedule a Professional Consultation →

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.