I'm not the therapist you expected.

Alisha Olson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker based in Wisconsin, specializing in neurodivergent parents, adults with ADHD, new moms navigating postpartum, and families doing the early, hard work of the parent-child relationship.

She is neurodivergent herself. She knows what it means to be the person who always felt like they were doing it wrong — too much, not enough, exhausted by the gap between who they are and who they thought they should be. She didn't come to this work from the outside looking in. She came to it because she needed it.

When she's not in session, Alisha collects antiques — the kind of things that have a history, that carry weight, that most people walk past without looking twice. She travels to places most people wouldn't think to go. She has strong opinions about what makes a space feel like a space worth being in. She is, in short, not your typical LCSW.

She is trained in Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), an evidence-based model for working with children 0–5 and their caregivers. This is not play therapy. This is clinical work that treats the relationship between parent and child as the unit of care — because that relationship is where so much of what matters most gets built or broken in the earliest years.

She works with adults who are late-diagnosed with ADHD and finally making sense of their whole life. She works with new moms who are running on empty and trying to figure out how to parent a newborn when their own brain is in chaos. She works with parents who love their kids fiercely and still find the relationship hard. She will not hand you a worksheet and call it therapy. She will sit with you in the real thing.