Welcome! Meet Our Therapists
We started Millennial Therapy Project because we are passionate about providing affirmative, compassionate care that focuses on the strengths of neurodivergent minds. For a long time the mental health community has pathologized and stigmatized neurodiversity, focusing on deficits rather than the uniques skills and qualities that can make neurodivergence so incredible. As neurodivergent people ourselves, we have been on the receiving end of the stigmatization. Our lived experiences with ADHD and Autism have given us insight into the challenges neurodivergent people face in a neurotypical world. We are modernizing therapy and want to give you the freedom and support to get to know and love yourself with out the mask. This is neurodivergent therapy by neurodivergent therapists. This is the Millennial Therapy Project.
-Jess & Nerissa
Nerissa Whitlock, MSW, LSWAIC
Nerissa specializes in therapy for those with Autism, ADHD, and other Neurodivergent minds. Nerissa serves those in Port Angeles, Sequim, Port Townsend, Poulsbo, Bremerton, and across Washington state. Nerissa has worked in the field of mental health, medical social work, and healthcare for over a decade. She incorporates expressive art approaches to foster self-expression, exploration, and connecting to your inner wisdom. Artistic skill is not required however she will support the creation of a supportive and accepting therapeutic space that fosters curiosity.
Nerissa is familiar with the frustration, pain, and fatigue of not knowing where you belong, what you truly want, or what it might mean to meet your authentic self. Nerissa’s therapeutic approach supports your journey to unmask, learn who you truly are, find your authentic voice, and come out of the closet to find your community and connections in this world. Nerissa is familiar with and affirming of identities which may include LGBTQI+, kink, consensual non-monogamy and/or polyamory.
As a therapist and human, Nerissa believes that therapy for neurodivergent people needs to come from those with lived experience. She is firmly anti-ABA. Nerissa believes our liberation is rooted in the embrace of our beautiful, glorious, and complex neurotypes. Nerissa will support your self-diagnosis and work with you. As a member of the neurodiversity affirmative community, she will not pathologize you.
Jess Piper, MSW, LICSW, ADHD-CCSP
Jess is an ADHD therapist serving clients in across Washington state. Jess has been working the the field of mental health counseling, medical social work and healthcare for over five years. She has received training as a ADHD Clinical Specialist and is actively working to make therapy neurodivergent-friendly. She aims to provide compassionate listening, an adaptive and ADHD friendly therapy experience and a positive, empowering approach to healing.
Like a true neurodivergent, Jess is passionate about connecting with and empowering people from many different backgrounds, however her counseling specialties are working with neurodivergent people (ADHD, ADD, AuDHD and Autism), parenting when you have ADHD, burnout and ADHD paralysis. She also has been working on developing ADHD specific grief work.
For Jess, therapy is all about meeting you where you are and adapting her style to a way that is going to best support your needs. Jess specializes in creating an ADHD and neurodivergent friendly counseling experience. She offers active online therapy sessions and invites you move, walk, spin or stim as you need. She also offers body doubling and supportive body doubling therapy sessions to help you with the areas many ADHD people struggle with such as helping you complete that task causing your anxiety, help you work on establishing a healthy, sustainable hygiene or cleaning system or work through your mile-long todo list to maximize your productivity and avoid “squirreling”(aka getting distrac-SQUIRREL!). Jess will support you in whatever helps your body and brain feel good, because when those things are regulated, the emotional work can be done. Jess is provides you with the space you need process the pain, the struggle and the trauma caused by a world that only sees you for what you are not.