You have spent your whole life being the one who shows up, for your kids, your clients, your colleagues, your friends, everyone who needs something from you. You are good at it. You are so good at it that no one has thought to ask if you're okay in a very long time. And honestly?
You're not sure you'd know how to answer.
The part you don’t say out loud.
You just know that something is off, and that you're exhausted in a way that a good night's sleep hasn't fixed in years.
Hi. I'm Whitney.
Founder of Intuitive Healing Therapy
I'm an AuDHD millennial mom of three neurodivergent children, servant to three cats, maybe a few jumping spiders, and a house that I can’t keep up with to save my life. I’m your neighborhood spooky girly who keeps Halloween decor up all year round, loves a good murder documentary, and will absolutely never tell you to look on the bright side. After all, don’t all creatures of darkness and shadow come undone with sunlight? Ok, fine we might need just a little.
I know what it is to move through a world that wasn't built for you. To navigate life without the manual that everyone else seems to have. To look like you have it together from the outside while something unnamed lives and haunts you quietly underneath.
I know what is it To be the capable one, the one everyone leans on, while wondering, if anyone will ever show up for you.
I work with this population because I am this population. Not in a way that makes this about me, but in a way that means when you walk in, I already understand the landscape. I know what it is to carry something heavy and unnamed for years while appearing completely functional on the outside. I know what it costs. I know what changes when you finally find the right room. I chose this work because I believe my clients. the ones who have been too much for some spaces and invisible in others. You deserve a clinician who has been in the dark too.
Who isn't afraid of it. Who will stay.
Why I do this work.
Training & Licensure
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A graduate-level clinical degree
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Licensed in the state of Michigan - LMSW #6851105679
State licensure means I've met Michigan's requirements for independent clinical practice including education, supervised hours, and board examination.
It's what allows me to legally provide therapy and diagnosis in Michigan.
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A post-graduate certification that required additional specialized training specifically in trauma including the neuroscience, the treatment models, the body-based approaches. It means trauma isn't a side interest. It's the thing I trained for specifically, on top of everything else.
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Comprehensive DBT isn't a skills handout, it's a full treatment model that requires specific team-based training to implement properly. I trained on the full model and worked as part of a team for a comprehensive IOP DBT program: individual therapy, skills training, phone coaching, and DBT-PE for trauma processing.
Special note: IHT does NOT offer an DBT program, rather this information is to speak to my level of experience/training in this modality.
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Specialized training in how ADHD and autism actually present, particularly in late diagnosed women and adults who have been masking for years. This isn't general mental health knowledge with a neurodivergent label on it. It's training built around the specific experience of people who have been missed, misdiagnosed, and misunderstood.
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Extensive training in the presentations that tend to make other clinicians uncomfortable, layered trauma histories, dissociative experiences, the kind of complexity that doesn't fit a tidy treatment protocol. This is not the part of the work that intimidates me. It's the part that called me here.
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Training in two of the most powerful frameworks for understanding the part of you that wants to heal and the part that will burn everything down before it lets anyone close enough to help. Both make sense. Both have a story.
