Neuroaffirming Adult Autism and ADHD Assessments
Welcome Natacha Desille Clinical Psychologist
Natacha is a neurodivergent clinician and writer who brings depth, warmth, and sharp psychological insight to everything she creates. As an autistic and twice-exceptional (2e) woman, she combines lived experience with a strong background in assessment and human behaviour. She specialises in neuroaffirming diagnostic reports that honour lived experience rather than pathologise difference, and works with neurodivergent and gifted individuals who think deeply, intensely, and divergently. Her work is grounded in evidence, compassion, and a profound respect for the complexity and exceptional intelligence of the minds she supports — helping people feel accurately understood, validated, and valued exactly as they are.
She has a strong commitment to both neurodiversity, gender diversity and LGBTQ+ inclusivity. Autistic/ADHD’s are important, legitimate, and valuable people that contribute immensely to our communities and world in general. Based on this perspective, her approach towards assessing autism/ADHD in adults is described as ‘refreshing’, ‘empowering’, and ‘informed’ by an understanding of what it feels like to be in the world as a neurodivergent person.
Her approach embraces neurodiversity and progressiveness. She believes that terms like 'diagnosis' don't fully capture the positive autistic/ADHD experience, and that celebrating and including, the strengths and differences of each unique autistic/ADHDer’s is imperative.
Her assessments cover, in detail, her personal narrative and lived experiences of the world, from your perspective, and include a personal account of your needs and abilities.
My special interests
I’m someone who can happily lose an afternoon to arts and crafts, talking to my plants, or reading about microbiology like it’s celebrity gossip. I love the tiny, intricate systems that make things work — whether that’s soil ecosystems, human psychology, political movements, or the delicate choreography of relationships.
My interests are delightfully diverse. One day I’m deep in history, the next I’m learning about gut bacteria, then I’m designing something creative, planning travel, or having a very enthusiastic conversation about someone else’s niche obsession (I genuinely love hearing what lights people up).
I care deeply about health and wellbeing — not the beige, perfectionist version, but the real, messy, human kind. I’m especially passionate about neurodivergence, authenticity, and helping people understand themselves with more compassion and less shame.
I believe creativity is a survival skill. That activism can be tender as well as fierce. That design should feel alive. That plants are very good company. And that curiosity is one of the most underrated forms of joy. Mostly, I just really like being interested. In ideas. In people. In the strange and beautiful ways we all make sense of the world. And if we end up talking about compost, attachment styles, travel plans and social justice in the same breath — even better
My interests are delightfully diverse. One day I’m deep in history, the next I’m learning about gut bacteria, then I’m designing something creative, planning travel, or having a very enthusiastic conversation about someone else’s niche obsession (I genuinely love hearing what lights people up).
I care deeply about health and wellbeing — not the beige, perfectionist version, but the real, messy, human kind. I’m especially passionate about neurodivergence, authenticity, and helping people understand themselves with more compassion and less shame.
I believe creativity is a survival skill. That activism can be tender as well as fierce. That design should feel alive. That plants are very good company. And that curiosity is one of the most underrated forms of joy. Mostly, I just really like being interested. In ideas. In people. In the strange and beautiful ways we all make sense of the world. And if we end up talking about compost, attachment styles, travel plans and social justice in the same breath — even better
Assessment Autism (adults only)
A comprehensive, neuroaffirming autism assessment that explores social communication, sensory processing, interests, and lived experience across the lifespan. Grounded in clinical evidence and deep respect for neurodivergent identity, it aims to provide clarity, validation, and meaningful insight — not pathologisation. NDIS Functional Capacity assessment may be added ($500)
Assessment ADHD (adults only)
A comprehensive, neuroaffirming ADHD assessment that explores attention, executive functioning, motivation, emotional regulation, and lived experience across contexts to provide clarity, validation, and practical insight.
Assessment Combined autism/ADHD (adults only)
A neuroaffirming combined autism and ADHD assessment that explores social communication, sensory processing, attention, executive functioning, and lived experience across settings, providing a holistic understanding, validation, and practical insights tailored to each individual’s unique neurodivergent profile. NDIS Functional Capacity assessments may be added ($500)
Recent Projects
There are books about neurodivergence. There are books about sensitivity. But almost none speak to the people who live at the intersection — the ones who feel everything, notice everything, and carry the invisible weight of processing a world that was never designed for their nervous system.
The Sensitive Neurodivergent is not a book that tries to toughen you up, fix you, or teach you how to be less. It is a book that finally explains why you are the way you are — and why that is not a flaw, but a different operating system.
This book speaks directly to the people who:
-Absorb emotional atmospheres before words are spoken
-Feel exhausted by environments others call “normal”
-Have been told they are “too much” and “not enough” in the same breath
-Think deeply, love deeply, and break deeply
-Mask competence while privately navigating overwhelm
-Experience intuition as data, not fantasy
-Live with the constant tension between depth and survival
Written by me, this book bridges something that is rarely done well —deep lived recognition and rigorous evidence-based research.
Inside, readers will find insights grounded in:
-Contemporary neuroscience of sensory and emotional processing
-Research on autistic, ADHD, and gifted neurotypes
-Evidence-based nervous system and stress-response science
-Psychological research on masking, burnout, and cognitive load
-Trauma-informed and neuroaffirming clinical frameworks
It is clinically informed, research-backed, and translated into language that sensitive neurodivergent people can actually feel and use.
Inside this book you will find:
-A radically validating framework for understanding sensitive neurodivergent wiring
-The neuroscience of why you process emotion, information, and social data differently
-The hidden cost of masking sensitivity in neurotypical systems
-Survival strategies that protect your nervous system without asking you to become someone else
-Language for experiences you may have never seen reflected anywhere.
This is not about resilience through hardening.
It is about survival through self-recognition, precision boundaries, and nervous system truth. Because sensitive neurodivergent people are not fragile.
They are high-resolution humans living in a low-resolution world.
And when you finally understand your sensitivity —
you don’t just cope better. You start to live in a way that is aligned, powerful, and sustainable.
If you have ever felt like:
“I am built for depth in a world built for speed”
This book was written for you.