About Alexa

If you've spent years feeling unseen, misunderstood, or dismissed because you don't fit someone else's idea of what autism, ADHD, etc. are supposed to look like, you're not alone.

I'm not just a psychologist who works with neurodivergent adults. I'm neurodivergent myself, a high-masking AuDHD psychologist with complex trauma and other co-occurring challenges.

I've experienced the mental health system from both sides, as a psychologist and as someone who has needed psychological care.

I know what it's like to live through autistic burnout, to spend years masking, sometimes without even realizing that's what I was doing, and to discover that even a field dedicated to understanding the mind is still learning how to recognize and support people like me.

That experience has changed the kinds of questions I ask, the assumptions I make, and the way I think about psychological care.

Professionally, I've spent 17 years studying and working in mental health across community agencies, inpatient treatment, corrections, university counseling centers, private practice, and Indigenous health systems.

I earned my doctorate in Counseling Psychology, am a licensed psychologist in Oklahoma, and participate in PSYPACT, allowing me to provide telehealth services in participating states.

I'm also a holistic health educator and have developed community wellness programs that integrate psychology, holistic health, and Indigenous wisdom.

I have contributed to the integration of artificial intelligence into psychology, exploring ways technology can support clinicians while preserving the human relationship at the heart of psychological care and maintaining the ethical values of the helping professions.

I am of Celtic and Cherokee descent and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Those parts of my identity have shaped the way I think about healing, community, and our relationship with one another and with the natural world.

My work is grounded in trauma-informed, holistic, and decolonizing perspectives, with a focus on neurodivergence, complex and generational trauma, holistic wellness, and societal health.

About Divergent

The goal of Divergent isn't simply to provide psychological assessments. It's to change the way we understand neurodivergence.

In our society, many of us have been taught that being different means something is wrong with us. If we don't fit easily into the world around us, we're often made to believe we're lazy, too sensitive, too intense, too much, or not enough.

I don't believe those stories are true.

I believe many neurodivergent people have spent their lives adapting to systems that weren't designed with us in mind. Too often, even the professionals trying to help are working from incomplete understandings of what autism and ADHD can actually look like.

Divergent exists to help people understand themselves through a neurodivergent-affirming lens, especially those whose experiences have been overlooked because they don't fit outdated stereotypes.

To me, an assessment isn't simply about determining whether someone meets diagnostic criteria. It's about looking beyond outward appearances and asking a different question:

Who are you underneath the mask?

My goal is to understand not only what someone does, but what it costs them, what they're experiencing internally, and which parts of themselves they've learned to hide.

We have to stop assuming that a successful performance means a person is not struggling.

When people finally have language for their experiences, they can begin seeing themselves through a more accurate and compassionate lens.

The goal isn't simply to assign a diagnosis. It's to help you understand what has been happening beneath the surface, recognize the strength it has taken to survive, and begin uncovering who you are underneath the mask.