Vicki-Lee works with individuals who have often spent years adapting to systems that didn’t recognise them. Many arrive articulate, capable, and outwardly functioning, while privately managing cognitive exhaustion, sensory overload, chronic health symptoms, and a deep sense of being misread. Her work is authentic, attentive, and rigorous while creating space for complexity, where others see complication.
Vicki-Lee is dedicated to supporting people whose health experiences have long been overlooked or misunderstood. Her work is shaped by a deep awareness of the quiet toll of masking, repeated misinterpretation, and the consequences of separating neurodivergence from physical health. She is committed to integrative, whole-person care – bridging psychological and physiological understanding so clients never have to choose between being believed and being well supported.
High-masking neurodivergent individuals often present with anxiety, fatigue, or burnout rather than overt developmental traits. Years of compensating place sustained load on the nervous system, frequently resulting in shutdown, somatic symptoms, or loss of functional capacity. Standard assessment models often miss these patterns, interpreting distress as personality-based or trauma-only. Vicki-Lee’s approach adapts assessment and therapy to account for internalised traits, learned coping strategies, and the cumulative cost of masking, supporting clarity and self-understanding rather than further self-doubt.
When neurodivergence intersects with conditions such as POTS, EDS, MCAS, or ME/CFS, psychological distress is often shaped by the body as much as the mind. Fluctuations in energy, sensory tolerance, cognition, and emotional regulation are influenced by illness burden, environmental demands, nutrition, sleep, and daily rhythms. Vicki-Lee works with a deep appreciation for how these physiological and contextual factors shape neurodivergent functioning, rather than treating them as background noise. Her approach integrates these drivers into care, using them as practical tools to support greater stability, clarity, and wellbeing within each person’s real-world limits.
Neurodivergent assessment becomes unreliable when masking, trauma, giftedness, and chronic illness are treated as confounders rather than context. Vicki-Lee conducts comprehensive assessments that prioritise differential diagnosis, and invisible traits such as pattern recognition, over simplistic DSM criteria checklist confirmation. Her process integrates developmental history, internal experience, functional impact, and co-occurring conditions.
For individuals with invisible illness and/or neurodivergence, psychological symptoms often reflect depleted regulatory capacity rather than disordered thinking. Vicki-Lee understands how sustained cognitive effort, sensory processing demands, and autonomic dysregulation reduce available brain energy. Her work focuses on supporting regulation through attuned pacing, psychoeducation, and nervous-system-aware interventions, helping clients stabilise function without pushing beyond what their system can sustain.