Why Therapy w. Jasany? 

When I started Therapy w. Jasany in 2020, I wanted to build something I hadn't been able to find myself: a truly safe space for Black and brown folx carrying identities that get shamed — sometimes even by our own communities. So many communities of color hold onto harmful beliefs about gender, sexuality, nonmonogamy, mental health, and disability. That means people already facing racism and xenophobia from the outside world can face judgment from the very communities they belong to, too. I wanted to build something different: a place of real acceptance and healing for people holding more than one marginalized identity at once.

Around that same time, a number of things collided — the pandemic hit, I was going through a breakup and opening my practice, and the murder of George Floyd. Together, they pushed me to discover my own neurodivergence. A lot of neurodivergent women and AFAB folks don't get diagnosed until life simply stops working: starting a business, getting a promotion, having a child. For me, it was opening this practice and becoming heavily involved in local, racial justice movements, while adjusting to life after the ending of a long-term relationship. The pressure led to autistic burnout — a period of losing skills I used to have, functioning less, and feeling raw and overstimulated by everything around me.

The more I learned about my own neurodivergence, the more I started seeing it in my clients, too — especially the ones holding these same overlapping identities. In 2021, I rode out a wave of hard emotions while I made sense of my own life through this new lens. I turned that into fuel: I became an Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (I just call it Autism Clinical Specialist) and kept learning everything I could about neurodivergent conditions.

That journey is why I do this work now — helping neurodivergent people, especially those holding other marginalized identities too, understand themselves, get properly assessed, and build a life that actually fits who they are.

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If any part of this story sounds like yours, I'd love to talk.