Michael Holker (HBA, BSW, MSW, RSW) is a Registered Social Worker and the founder of Becoming Yourself Counselling, a virtual practice serving adults across Ontario. He specializes in neurodiversity-affirming therapy for ADHD, autistic, AuDHD, and gifted/twice-exceptional (2e) adults — particularly those who are late-diagnosed, self-identifying, or still exploring, and high-masking, high-achieving people who appear capable on the outside but feel exhausted or unseen underneath.

Michael’s approach is built on lived experience as well as training: he spent years masking his own differences before discovering his neurodivergence later in life, and he understands both the grief and the relief that come with finally making sense of yourself. His work begins from a simple conviction — you aren’t broken — and centres on understanding how your brain actually works rather than correcting it.

Drawing on over 15 years in mental health, Michael offers a relational, client-centred, trauma-informed, and strengths-based approach, integrating ACT, CFT, CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and IFS- and polyvagal-informed practices. Sessions are collaborative and paced to you, with support for masking fatigue, burnout, sensory overwhelm, executive functioning, anxiety, depression, relationships, and late-diagnosis identity work. Here, you don’t have to mask — therapy becomes a process of unlearning who you had to be, and becoming yourself

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Michael Holker (HBA, BSW, MSW, RSW) is a Registered Social Worker and the founder of Becoming You... Read More