Michelle Roberts, MS, PLMHP
Therapy for People Who Have Survived, Adapted, and Are Ready for Something Deeper
Earned-Secure Attachment
You may have learned how to survive, understand yourself, and even heal largely on your own, but still struggle to feel safe, known, or fully yourself in relationships.
I work with adults carrying the effects of emotional neglect, inconsistent caregiving, chronic invalidation, abandonment, and other early attachment wounds. Therapy can become a place to understand how those experiences still shape closeness, trust, conflict, need, and self-protection, and to begin moving from healing alone toward healing in relationship.
Making a Life Around What Cannot Be Replaced
Grief is not limited to death. It can come through estrangement, the loss of health or capacity, the end of a relationship, a family you could not remain inside, or the future you once believed you would have. I work with adults carrying both visible and ambiguous losses, including grief that other people may not fully recognize or understand. Therapy can become a place to stop rushing toward acceptance, make room for what cannot be repaired or replaced, and learn how to carry grief without letting it erase the life that is still here.
AuDHD and Neurodivergence
Neurodiversity-Affirming Therapy
Many neurodivergent adults come to therapy after years of masking, overcompensating, burning out, or being told that the way they move through the world is a problem to fix. I work with adults navigating ADHD, autism, AuDHD, sensory needs, executive dysfunction, rejection sensitivity, late identification, and the emotional impact of being misunderstood for a long time. Therapy can help you understand your mind more clearly, reduce shame, identify the support you actually need, and build a life that does not require you to constantly override yourself.
Therapy That Does Not Dismiss the Body
Chronic illness can change your relationship with your body, your future, your work, your independence, and the people around you. I work with adults living with pain, fatigue, disability, changing capacity, medical uncertainty, and the trauma of not being believed or adequately cared for. Therapy can make room for the grief, anger, fear, and identity shifts that come with illness without reducing your physical symptoms to anxiety or treating your emotional responses as proof that what is happening to your body is not real.
Chronic Illness and Medical Trauma
Emotional and Narcissistic Abuse
Rebuilding Self-Trust After Relational Harm
Emotional and narcissistic abuse can leave you doubting your memory, minimizing what happened, second-guessing your perceptions, and feeling responsible for another person’s behavior.
I work with adults recovering from gaslighting, coercive control, chronic invalidation, scapegoating, trauma bonding, and relationships that gradually eroded their sense of self. Therapy can help you make sense of the confusion, understand why leaving or setting boundaries may not have ended the attachment, and begin rebuilding trust in your own reality, needs, and judgment.
Michelle Roberts, MS, PLMHP
"I believe healing happens through connection. We heal together, not alone. Therapy is a space to show up as your authentic self and feel truly seen and understood. My goal is to help you know yourself deeply and feel confident showing up as you are in the world. It’s an honor to walk alongside you on this journey.”

