For the ones who have always felt built for a world that wasn't quite built for them.
Maybe you've recently discovered you're autistic. Maybe you've always known you were wired differently but never had the words for it. Maybe you've masked for so long you've forgotten who you actually are underneath.
This is a space built for nervous systems like yours. Where you don't have to perform, explain, or translate. Where your reactions make sense. Where the work meets you exactly as you are wired.
At Kimberly Grace Counseling, we don't start with words. We start with you: your body, your breath, the tension you've been carrying in places you didn't even realize. We work with what your nervous system has been holding long before your mind found a name for it.
Our work is grounded in a whole-person approach, integrating art-based and parts-oriented work (IFS), along with somatic and body-based techniques, including EFT (tapping), to support nervous system regulation and emotional safety. Rather than relying on talking, we create space for your body and emotions to slow down, settle, and begin to make sense of what you’ve been carrying. Color, movement, sensation, stillness. The parts of you that never got to speak finally get a channel. And healing starts to happen not because you figured something out, but because your body finally felt safe enough to let it go.
This space was made for the ones who are tired of translating themselves for everyone else. Who feel things deeply but struggle to be understood. Who know something needs to change but can't quite find the words for what. You don't need the words here. You just need to come as you are.
Our approach
Healing happens when the whole person is cared for: mind, body, and nervous system working together. At Kimberly Grace Counseling, we believe real, lasting change lives not just in the thinking mind, but in the nervous system, the body, the parts of you that have been quietly holding everything no one ever saw. Whether you're navigating relational trauma, neurodivergent burnout, or the exhaustion of masking who you really are, our work meets you in the places words don't always reach, with approaches as gentle as they are transformative.
Body-Based Approaches (Somatic Techniques & EFT/Tapping)
Body-based work focuses on how stress, trauma, and emotion live in the nervous system, not just in thoughts. For neurodivergent clients, autistic adults, and anyone whose nervous system has been stuck in overdrive, this work is especially powerful. Through somatic awareness, grounding practices, and EFT tapping, we help the body settle, release stored tension, and finally feel safer. This is nervous system regulation that actually works at the level where reactions live, not just where thoughts do.
Art-Based Interventions
Art-based therapy offers a channel for experiences that have never had words, and for many neurodivergent and autistic clients, that's most of them. When verbal communication feels like translating a language that doesn't quite fit, creating something can feel like the first honest expression you've ever made. For adults and adolescents alike, art therapy slows the nervous system, builds self-awareness, and creates space for healing to emerge naturally. No artistic experience needed. No right or wrong. The focus is never on the art itself, it's on what shows up when you finally have a safe place to put it.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS is a compassionate, parts-based approach that helps you understand the different sides of yourself, the parts that protect you, the parts that carry old pain, and the calm, grounded Self beneath it all. For autistic and neurodivergent clients this work can be particularly meaningful, offering a framework that makes sense of why you feel and respond the way you do, without judgment or pressure to be different than you are. IFS supports healing from the inside out and builds genuine trust within yourself.
Couples & Co-Parenting Support
We use Gottman Method Couples Therapy to support healthier communication, trust-building, and emotional connection. We also work with neurodivergent couples and partners navigating the unique dynamics that come with autism spectrum relationships, including communication differences, sensory needs, and the impact of masking on intimacy. Co-parenting support is also available for families navigating relational challenges with clarity and care.
Together, these approaches help you stop translating yourself, regulate your nervous system, and finally feel at home in who you are; in your relationships and in your own body.
“You were never too much.
You were just in the wrong rooms.”
— Author unknown
Visit Us
215 S. Palmetto Ave.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
(Telehealth available in Florida)
Hours
Monday–Friday
9am–8pm
Phone
(386) 243-9072