I’m so glad you found your way here!

I’m Jessica Armitage, a Licensed Professional Counselor in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with over 15 years of experience as a counselor. I specialize in supporting neurodivergent women, including women with ADHD, autism, AuDHD and other forms of neurodivergence.

Many of the women I work with have spent years masking their struggles while trying to meet expectations to be organized, emotionally composed, dependable, accommodating, and able to take care of everyone else.

They often come to therapy during burnout, after receiving a diagnosis later in life, while beginning to question whether they may be neurodivergent, or when hormonal changes such as perimenopause make their usual ways of coping much harder to maintain.

As a neurodivergent woman and therapist, I understand how much can be happening behind the scenes even when others do not see it. My approach brings together lived experience, professional training, and an ongoing curiosity about the ways neurodivergence can shape a woman’s emotions, relationships, identity, and experience of the world.

We can begin wherever you are and start making sense of the whole picture together.

Whether you have an established diagnosis or are newly recognizing your own neurodivergence, you do not need to have everything figured out before reaching out. You do not need the right words, a formal diagnosis, or a perfectly organized explanation of what has been happening.

You deserve therapy that feels human

You may have spent years feeling misunderstood, dismissed, or told that you were too sensitive, too emotional, too scattered or simply not trying hard enough. You may even worry that a therapist will misunderstand you, too.

In our sessions, you will not have to convince me that something is difficult just because it looks easy to someone else.

Therapy with me is warm, conversational, and collaborative. I want our sessions to feel like a place where you can settle in, take a breath, and slowly untangle everything that has been circling in your mind.

I’m relatable and straightforward, and I’m not a blank slate therapist. I’ll be present with you, ask thoughtful questions, share what I’m noticing, and sometimes use humor because therapy can be meaningful without feeling formal or heavy every minute.

As a neurodivergent woman myself, I understand many of the experiences that other people may not see: the constant mental noise, emotional intensity, masking, sensory overwhelm, time blindness, relationship confusion, and enormous amount of effort it can take to appear like everything is fine.

Your experience will still be uniquely yours. My role is not to assume that I already know your story. It is to listen, stay curious, and help you understand what your experiences mean for you.

What we can work on together

You deserve the space to understand yourself more deeply and create a life that feels more like you. We can slow things down and begin making sense of how your neurodivergence, emotions, relationships, past experiences, and current stressors may all be connected. Our work will be shaped around what matters most to you, whether that means understanding your brain, moving out of chronic survival mode, developing healthier relationships, communicating your needs, working through past experiences, or rediscovering who you are after years of masking and adapting to everyone around you.

Clinical Experience

    • Master of Arts, Professional Counseling, Liberty University (2011)

    • Bachelor of Science, Psychology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (2009)

  • My post-graduate journey included more than 3,000 hours of clinical work, complemented by 150 hours of supervision. That experience gave me a strong clinical foundation and shaped my commitment to keep learning, asking questions, and growing alongside the needs of my clients.

  • I began my counseling career in 2011 and have worked with children, adolescents, and adults in community mental health, in home, outpatient, and school based settings.

    In 2017, I opened my private practice with a focus on women experiencing anxiety, perfectionism, difficult relationships, and trauma. Over time, I began noticing how often these experiences overlapped with unrecognized ADHD, masking, emotional dysregulation, and years of believing they were somehow failing at life.

    That recognition led me to specialize more deeply in ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence in women. Today, my work focuses on helping neurodivergent women understand how their brains, emotions, relationships, past experiences, and environments connect.

  • Specialized Training and Continued Learning

    Continuing education is an important part of how I support my clients. My recent focus of trainings has focused on the intersection of neurodivergence, anxiety, trauma, emotional regulation, relationships, and the nervous system.

    This is not an exhaustive list of every training I have completed or attended throughout my 15 years as a counselor. It highlights the areas most relevant to my current practice and the women I support.

    My learning also extends beyond formal trainings. I continually read books, review current research, and learn from neurodivergent clinicians, researchers, and lived experience. As our understanding of ADHD, autism, AuDHD, OCD, trauma, and the nervous system continues to evolve, I want my work to evolve with it.

    Areas of specialized training include:

    • 24 hours of specialized training toward an ADHD specialist certification

    • Adult ADHD assessment and treatment

    • ADHD and emotional regulation

    • Autism and AuDHD in women

    • Anxiety and obsessive compulsive patterns

    • Autonomic nervous system regulation and somatic techniques

    • Attachment focused and trauma informed treatment

    • Ongoing training in OCD assessment and evidence informed treatment

    • Continued training in primarily obsessional OCD (“Pure O”), mental compulsions, rumination, and reassurance seeking

    • Anxiety treatment, including panic disorder and primarily obsessional OCD presentations

    • Extensive training in trauma treatment, including trauma foundations, ethics, stabilization, attachment, and somatic approaches

    • Somatic and Attachment Focused Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (SAFE EMDR)

    • Autonomic Nervous System with Somatic Techniques

    • Relationship patterns, communication, and boundaries

    • The Three Instincts through the Enneagram Institute

  • Licensed Professional Counselor, Mental Health Service Provider in the State of Tennessee (License #4104)

    Telehealth Privileges in Georgia via Counseling Compact
    Privilege # LPC-GA-3282

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