All services at Somatic Paths Wellness are grounded in somatic, trauma-informed care. Different approaches are used depending on what best supports your nervous system, stage of recovery, and goals.
Autumn Rock (she/they)
SRRC, Somatic Therapist
Neurodivergent-Affirming Coach & Consultant
Autumn Rock is an addictions recovery coach and somatic, trauma- and attachment-informed practitioner who brings both professional expertise and lived experience to her work. As a neurodivergent practitioner with ADHD, Autumn understands from the inside the intensity, creativity, pattern recognition, emotional depth, sensitivity, and cycles of overwhelm and burnout that many adults with ADHD navigate.
Autumn’s work is grounded in the belief that ADHD is not a failure of discipline or willpower, but a difference in nervous system wiring that comes with both profound strengths and real support needs. She supports clients in learning how to recognize and embrace where they naturally excel — such as insight, empathy, creativity, and problem-solving — while also compassionately accommodating areas that require structure, pacing, external supports, or nervous system care.
After overcoming substance use disorder, codependency, and complex PTSD rooted in relational trauma, Autumn now supports others on their paths toward recovery, nervous system safety, and a reclaimed sense of self. She is an Internationally Certified Professional Life and Recovery Coach, Interventionist, and Dependency Awareness Facilitator, with additional training in Somatic Attachment Therapy and Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy.
Her work sits at the intersection of ADHD, trauma, addiction recovery, and attachment, an overlap that is both clinically significant and deeply personal. Research consistently shows that individuals with ADHD are at significantly increased risk for substance use disorders, with studies estimating rates up to five to ten times higher than the general population, particularly when ADHD is unrecognized or unsupported (Biederman et al., 2000; Wilens et al., 2011). Autumn’s lived experience allows her to name this reality without shame and to support clients in understanding how impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, dopamine-seeking, and chronic overwhelm can increase vulnerability — while also emphasizing that recovery is absolutely possible with the right supports.
With over 25 years of experience in mentoring, coaching, and supportive leadership, Autumn works with individuals and families navigating ADHD-related overwhelm, addiction and recovery, relational trauma, trauma bonding, narcissistic abuse, domestic violence, adverse childhood experiences, and the long-term impacts of masking, people-pleasing, and misattunement. Many of the people who resonate most deeply with her work are neurodivergent adults who are healing after relational trauma and learning, often for the first time, how to relate to themselves with compassion rather than criticism.
Autumn’s approach is collaborative, paced, and deeply respectful of autonomy. She does not impose rigid frameworks or one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, she works alongside clients to build practical, sustainable rhythms that support nervous system regulation, reduce burnout, and strengthen a sense of agency and self-trust.
Alisa Harrison (she/her)
PhD, ACC, COC
Neurodivergent-Affirming Coach & Consultant
Alisa Harrison is a neurodivergent-affirming coach and consultant who brings a rare blend of intellectual depth, lived experience, and deep compassion to her work. As a late-identified autistic woman, Alisa understands from the inside the complexity of navigating work, relationships, identity, and purpose in systems that are often not designed with neurodivergent nervous systems in mind.
Her coaching focuses on supporting people through workplace conflict and challenge, personal and professional transitions, project planning and completion, neurodivergent self-discovery and identity development, recovery from burnout, trauma, moral distress or injury, anxiety, perfectionism, and disordered eating. She also offers support around gender-affirming parenting and relationships, and the ongoing work of unlearning oppression, including ableism, sexism, racism, and other systemic harms.
As an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach, Certified Organizational Coach, and She Recovers® coach, Alisa approaches her work as a collaborative, client-led partnership. She believes deeply that people already carry wisdom about what they need, and her role is to walk alongside clients as they imagine what’s possible and move toward lives that feel more aligned, sustainable, and meaningful.
Alisa’s professional path weaves together leadership, learning, and healing. She holds a PhD in History and African American Studies from Duke University and has taught at the post-secondary level for over 25 years. She currently teaches Leadership at Royal Roads University, including supervising graduate theses and capstone projects. For nearly two decades, she has also worked as a leader, educator, and consultant in the health and social services sector, with a focus on trauma-informed, anti-oppressive practice and systems change.
Alongside her professional work, Alisa brings honesty and humility shaped by her own recovery from complex trauma, eating disorders, workplace moral injury, and burnout. She holds a grounded understanding that healing is not linear and that there is no perfect path forward. Justice matters. Connection matters. And gentleness matters — especially when people are figuring things out in real time.
Alisa invites clients to come to coaching exactly as they are. Whether you are rebuilding your sense of self, navigating expectations at work or school, reconnecting with your body or purpose, or sensing a change calling you — even without clear words yet — she offers a steady, thoughtful presence. Together, you’ll explore how your experiences, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations shape the stories you tell about yourself and the world, and where you may have choice in shaping what comes next.
Alisa is currently welcoming new clients for individual, group, and team coaching, and offers complimentary discovery calls to explore whether working together feels like a good fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does everything feel overwhelming for me?
For many neurodivergent adults, overwhelm is not a failure of coping or resilience. It is the result of a nervous system that has spent years adapting to environments that were not built for how your brain processes information, emotion, and sensory input. Trauma, chronic stress, masking, and unmet support needs can keep the nervous system in a near-constant state of overload, making everyday demands feel unmanageable.
Is my ADHD or autism actually trauma?
ADHD and autism are neurotypes, not trauma responses. However, many neurodivergent people develop trauma because of chronic misunderstanding, pressure to mask, repeated experiences of failure, or relational harm. This can make it difficult to tell where neurodivergence ends and trauma responses begin. In reality, both often exist together and both need to be supported for real healing to occur.
Why do I shut down, freeze, or melt down instead of using coping skills?
Shutdowns and meltdowns are nervous system responses, not conscious choices. When the brain perceives threat or overwhelm, it shifts out of thinking mode and into survival mode. In these states, access to language, logic, and coping strategies is reduced. This is why insight alone is rarely enough. Regulation has to come before strategy.
Why hasn’t traditional therapy or coaching helped me?
Many neurodivergent adults find that approaches focused on changing thoughts, increasing productivity, or modifying behavior miss the root of the problem. If your nervous system is overwhelmed or dysregulated, no amount of trying harder will create lasting change. Trauma-informed, somatic approaches work with the body and nervous system first, creating the conditions where insight and skills can actually be used.
Why am I exhausted all the time?
Chronic exhaustion is extremely common for neurodivergent adults, especially those who have spent years masking, managing sensory overload, or pushing through burnout. Your body may still be operating as if it is under constant demand or threat, even when life looks calm on the outside. Rest alone is often not enough if the nervous system never fully settles.
What kind of support actually helps neurodivergent adults?
Support that helps respects your neurotype, reduces nervous system load, and builds capacity rather than compliance. This often includes somatic regulation, trauma-informed therapy or coaching, pacing, and learning how to work with your brain instead of against it. The goal is not to become someone else, but to create a life that is sustainable for how you are wired.
Our work with neurodivergent adults integrates somatic trauma therapy and recovery-oriented coaching to support nervous system regulation, identity repair, and sustainable ways of living that honour how your brain actually works.
Neurodivergent Coaching & Trauma-Informed Support | Somatic Paths Wellness
Neurodivergent-affirming coaching for adults with ADHD and autism. Trauma-informed, somatic support grounded in lived experience.
Somatic Paths Wellness offers neurodivergent-affirming, trauma-informed coaching and somatic support for adults with ADHD, autistic adults, and people who identify as neurodivergent. Our work is grounded in lived experience, nervous system science, and a deep respect for autonomy, consent, and pacing.
Many neurodivergent adults seek support after years of being misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or harmed by systems that prioritized compliance over care. If traditional therapy has felt invalidating, too fast, or disconnected from your lived reality, you are not alone — and you are in the right place.
We provide neurodivergent coaching, somatic support, and trauma-informed care that works with your nervous system, not against it.
Neurodivergent Support Grounded in Lived Experience
At Somatic Paths Wellness, neurodivergence is not viewed as a disorder to be corrected. It is understood as a difference in nervous system wiring that requires environments of safety, attunement, and flexibility.
Our neurodivergent support team brings complementary lived experience:
One practitioner knows ADHD from the inside — including the intensity, creativity, hyperfocus, emotional depth, sensory overwhelm, burnout cycles, and the long history many adults with ADHD carry of being told to “try harder,” “be more organized,” or “just focus.”
The other practitioner knows autism from the inside — including sensory processing differences, social translation fatigue, pattern-based thinking, the cost of masking, and the harm caused by being expected to perform neurotypical norms. With a PhD in history and extensive interdisciplinary training, her work bridges lived autistic experience with rigorous intellectual and systemic understanding.
Together, we offer ADHD coaching, autistic adult support, and neurodivergent-affirming care rooted in respect, insight, and collaboration.
Trauma-Informed, Somatic Coaching for ADHD, AuDHD and Autism
Many neurodivergent adults carry trauma — not always from a single event, but from years of cumulative stress, misattunement, coercion, exclusion, or chronic overwhelm. This often shows up as burnout, shutdown, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, relationship strain, or a deep sense of exhaustion.
Our work is trauma-informed and somatic, meaning we focus on the nervous system, the body, and the conditions required for safety and integration. We do not push disclosure. We do not pathologize coping strategies that once kept you safe. We move at a pace that respects capacity.
Support may include:
- Trauma-informed ADHD, Autistic and AuDHD coaching
- Autistic adult support grounded in lived experience
- Understanding neurodivergent nervous system responses
- Reducing chronic stress, burnout, and overwhelm
- Somatic tools for regulation and recovery
- Support around unmasking safely and intentionally
- Navigating work, relationships, parenting, and systems as a neurodivergent adult
- Identity integration after late diagnosis or self-recognition
This is neurodivergent therapy-adjacent support for those who want something relational, embodied, and collaborative rather than clinical or pathologizing.
Who This Neurodivergent Coaching Is For
This support may be right for you if:
- You are an adult with ADHD, autistic, or identify as neurodivergent
- You are seeking a neurodivergent coach rather than traditional therapy
- You experience burnout, overwhelm, or nervous system dysregulation
- You are navigating late diagnosis, self-identification, or identity shifts
- You want trauma-informed support that respects your intelligence and autonomy
- You are tired of masking or performing to survive
You do not need a formal diagnosis to work with us. Many people seeking neurodivergent support are self-identified, late-identified, or still exploring what fits. Curiosity and consent are enough.
Somatic Paths Wellness: A Neurodivergent-Affirming Practice
Somatic Paths Wellness exists to provide neurodivergent-affirming coaching and trauma-informed somatic support for people who have not felt seen or supported elsewhere.
We believe healing happens in relationship — with our bodies, our histories, and each other. We work alongside you, not above you. We build skills, insight, and capacity together.
We are the medicine.
If you are looking for ADHD coaching, autistic adult support, or trauma-informed neurodivergent care that feels grounded, respectful, and real, you are welcome here.