You deserve informed, affirming care
Therapy and Support for Exploration and Healing at Divergent Path Wellness
For those who walk uncharted paths
Because therapy should be a space where you can show up as yourself...
At Divergent Path Wellness, we offer affirming, evidence-based, and trauma-informed therapy for people navigating life outside the margins—queer and trans folks, neurodivergent adults, and anyone unpacking spiritual wounds or untangling from oppressive systems.
Our therapists integrate multiple approaches to meet you where you are, honoring your lived experience and inner wisdom. Whether you’re seeking clarity, healing, or space to finally exhale, therapy here is about reconnecting to your values and building a life that feels like yours.
The Focus of Affirming Therapy
Exploring identity might be what’s nudging you to reach out—or it might not be. Whatever brings you here, we’re committed to affirming who you are while supporting your growth and healing. You might be coming in because you're overwhelmed, stuck in a relationship pattern, tired of intrusive thoughts, or carrying the weight of old wounds. Therapy doesn’t have to focus on your identity—but make no mistake: who you are, the experiences that make you you, always matter in good-fit therapy. Whatever brings you to therapy is worth exploring.
Areas of Specialization
We offer support for:
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Support Groups & Workshops:
Neurodivergent Mental Health
We work with adults who have unique ways of thinking and experiencing—including Autistic, ADHD, sensory-sensitive, and self-identified neurodivergent clients—who are tired of pushing themselves to fit a world not built with them in mind. You might be burned out, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move through life without masking. Therapy can be a space to reconnect to your wiring, your values, and a more sustainable way of being.
Therapy for Adults with ADHD
Maybe you’ve rolled your eyes when someone called ADHD a superpower—and wondered if you could trade in your chronic self-doubt for a cape. Being a person with ADHD often means carrying years of misunderstanding, criticism, or pressure to be someone else. Therapy can help you explore what actually works for your brain, support executive function, embrace your unique strengths and interrupt the shame spiral that follows missed deadlines and misunderstood intentions.
Autistic-Informed, Autism-Affirming Therapy
Whether you’re formally diagnosed, self-identified, or still exploring, we offer therapy that affirms your way of being. Together, we’ll work on unmasking, navigating sensory and social fatigue, and building relationships that feel mutual and safe. This is a space to let go of performative expectations and explore what connection, rest, and self-care look like on your own terms.
Therapy for Burnout: High-Achievers and Gifted Adults
If you were once praised for being exceptional but now feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected, or unseen, you’re not alone. We support adults carrying the weight of internalized pressure, the belief that self-worth depends on performance, and the quiet isolation that can come with social differences. Together, we’ll work to reclaim creativity, authenticity, and a sense of self that’s not built around proving your value.
Explore More: Stories, Tools, and Reflections from Our Team
Therapy is just one part of the journey. Our blog offers reflections, resources, and real talk from our team on what it means to live, feel, relate, and heal outside the norm. Whether you're looking for practical tools, identity-affirming insights, or simply the reminder that you're not alone—we invite you to explore.
LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy & Gender Affirming Care
You deserve care that sees you fully. Our therapists are queer- and trans-affirming, drawing from both best practices and lived experience to support identity exploration, navigating dynamics with family, gender transition, and relationship diversity. We offer a space where you can untangle identity from expectation and reconnect with self-acceptance and expression in ways that work for you.
Gender Affirming Care
Therapists at DPW can support you through gender identity exploration, navigating the social, emotional, or physical aspects of transition, and accessing affirming resources. Whether you're new to thinking about gender or have been navigating gender for years, therapy can offer a space to process dysphoria, grief, and hope—while building connection and safety in your body and self-understanding.
LGBTQ+ Relationships: Navigating Boundaries & Self-Expression
Our work with queer, trans, and nonbinary clients often includes unpacking how societal and internalized norms shape how we relate to others. We support you in cultivating relationships that reflect your values, exploring boundaries, communicating needs, and reclaiming joy in connection—whether with partners, friends, family, or community.
Queer Self-Acceptance & Internalized Bias
Many of our clients come to therapy still carrying the weight of messages that told them who they are is dangerous, perilous, or wrong. That sort of harm, whether intended or not, tends to stick with you. Therapy can be a space to process internalized shame, make sense of your experience on your own terms, and move beyond surviving to reconnect with or discover what makes life meaningful for you.
Underrepresented in Queer Spaces: Bi+, Ace, and Nonconforming Clients
If you’ve ever felt invisible or invalidated—even within LGBTQ+ spaces—you’re not alone. We hold space for clients whose experiences as bisexual, asexual, or gender-nonconforming individuals haven’t always been reflected or affirmed in community. Together, we explore what it means to be fully seen, supported, and celebrated—and support you in taking action when ready—without having to fit someone else’s mold.
Explore More on Queer and Gender-Affirming Care
Religious Trauma, Spiritual Reclaimation & Deconstruction
Spiritual harm can leave lasting wounds. Many of our clients carry grief, shame, anxiety, or identity confusion from high-control religions, purity culture, or spiritual abuse. Whether you're questioning what you were taught or grieving what you lost, you don't have to explain why it was harmful—our starting place is to trust your experience.
Exvangelical Mental Health: Healing After High-Demand Religions
If you’re recovering from Evangelical, fundamentalist, or other high-demand religious environments, therapy can support you in naming harm, processing fear, and rebuilding your sense of self. We understand the specific intersections of religious trauma with queerness, neurodivergence, and complex relationship dynamics—and offer space to begin disentangling all of it at your pace.
Reclaiming Spirituality: Personal Meaning-Making
For many people who’ve experienced religious deconstruction, a connection to spirituality still matters—whether within or beyond a faith tradition. If you’re looking to reconnect with meaning, ritual, or values outside of rigid systems, therapy can support you in finding what resonates—for you. We're not spiritual advisors. We follow your lead, holding space for grief, curiosity, and reclamation without pressure or prescription.
Secular Therapy: Respecting Nonbelief & Making Space for Questioning
If you’ve stepped away from faith or identify as agnostic, atheist, or spiritually unaffiliated, you still deserve care that honors your experience. Therapy at DPW doesn’t assume belief or push for spiritual meaning. We support questioning, rebuilding, and grounding your healing in whatever brings you clarity and ease.
Explore More on Religious Trauma and Healing
Couples Counseling & Relationship Support
Our relationship work starts with the understanding that every partnership has its own mini-culture—what works for one couple may not work for you. That's okay. Our work isn't to find the way—it's to find your way.
We support partners navigating neurodivergence, identity shifts, changing relationship structures, or rupture and repair. We specialize in working with queer, polyamorous, and unconventional couples seeking greater alignment, shared understanding, and depth of connection.
Neurodivergent-Affirming Couples Therapy
We support couples where one or more partners is Autistic, ADHD, or otherwise neurodivergent. Our work is guided by the principle of mutual accommodation—each person’s needs and experience are valid. Therapy may include translating differences in processing and communication, exploring sensory needs, addressing neurotypical norms (it's okay if you don't know what those are yet) in the relationship, and finding shared rhythms that honor each partner’s experience.
Queer & Nontraditional Relationship Support
We work with queer couples, polyamorous partnerships, and relationships that don’t fit many social rules and expectations. We ask how those rules are actually working and support you in moving away from social scripts towards relationships that encourage relational intimacy and authentic connection. Whether you’re navigating boundaries, power dynamics, family-of-origin stressors, or opening a relationship, we hold space for vulnerable conversations, honest reflection and values-based co-creation of a connection that works for you.
Repair, Resentment & Reconnection
Relationships can be deeply affirming—and when things are going poorly they can seem to disrupt and destabilize darn-near everything. Maybe a pattern has been playing out for years—or a rupture has left you both reeling. We offer support for healing trust, naming needs, and shifting painful cycles without defaulting to blame or oversimplification. Relationship work is hard. We’ll walk with you through it.
Want to start deepening your connection today?
Download a free sample of Be My Person, the relationship workbook created by DPW Founder Helen Dempsey-Henofer, LCSW
Support Groups & Workshops
Healing happens in community, too. We offer these rotating focused peer support groups and skill-building workshops, in addition to a general support group for DPW clients and groups offered by specific clinicians, for adults navigating identity, grief, activism fatigue, executive function challenges, and more. These are not therapy groups, but they are facilitated by our therapists and interns with care and intention. They're designed as lower-cost spaces for connection, mutual support, and learning new tools in community.
How is Divergent Path Wellness different?
There are a lot of therapy options out there—and for many of us, the thought of scrolling through endless directories fills our divergent minds, hearts, and veins with overwhelm and dread.
Here, we understand what it is to feel like an outsider - to have reasons why opening up, the very action of being in therapy, is super challenging. We also know that the things that are the hardest - the scariest - are often really scary because we care about them.
Having the right fit for a therapist in it with you, that matters. If you're up to take the next step together, we are too. And trust us, the road ahead is a heck of a lot easier to navigate when you've got someone who gets it, walking beside you.
Lead the way
Intrigued? Ready to make some space for a life that feels more like your own? Your adventure in healing and growth starts with a simple step. Schedule your free consultation today. Let's see what's possible together.