Cassie Roybal, LPC
I’m a late-identified Gifted and AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD) woman and licensed therapist in Colorado. I’m also a White, millennial empath, wife, mom of two, Swiftie, dog lover, traveler, amateur photographer, and book-devouring reader. I was born and raised in Colorado and, after brief stints living in North Dakota and Chicago, I’m here to stay.
When I’m not working, you can usually find me in my home library reading romantasy, engaging in my latest ADHD hyperfixation (usually some sort of creative expression), or listening to Taylor Swift on repeat.
I was identified as Gifted early in elementary school, but Autism and ADHD didn’t show up on my radar until my early thirties. I lived the majority of my life misunderstanding myself—masking my true neurodivergent identity and blending in to survive. When the pandemic hit and parenting two neurodivergent boys collided with my hidden wiring, everything crumbled. That collapse pushed me into autistic burnout (though I didn’t know what it was at the time), forcing me to reckon with every truth I thought I knew.
Only then did I begin to understand my nervous system and its sensory needs, my strengths and limitations, and the accommodations I actually needed to live—not just survive. That unraveling became the beginning of my healing.
Now, I specialize in supporting neurodivergent women in Colorado who are going through the same reckoning. I help late-diagnosed Autistic, ADHD, AuDHD, and Gifted women unmask, reclaim their identity, and build lives that feel like theirs.
Hi, I’m Cassie.
If you’re ready to meet your true self and learn to unapologetically claim an authentic neurodivergent life, book a free consult. I’d love to chat more with you!
My Approach
My therapy style is deeply relational and grounded in connection. I believe real change happens when clients feel seen, understood, and safe in their full humanity. My approach is warm, emotionally honest, and built on trust—not performance. I bring my whole self to the work, because I know my clients already carry the answers—they just need a space where they can hear themselves think.
As a late-diagnosed AuDHD woman who has lived through the chaos and clarity of unmasking, I offer something many therapists can’t—lived resonance. I don’t just understand neurodivergence. I embody it. That gives me a unique lens to walk beside other neurodivergent women in Colorado as they rediscover who they are and how they want to live.
In practice, this means I share my own lived experiences and real-time reactions. You might see me stimming, pausing, swearing, or talking with my whole nervous system while a Taylor Swift song plays softly in the background. I won’t perform neutrality. I won’t water down your truth. I believe therapy for neurodivergent women should feel like oxygen, not obligation.
So we’ll unmask together.
We’ll name the wiring behind the pain.
And we’ll carve a life that works for your brain, not the one the world told you to build.
Reach out today to set up a free 15 minute consultation. I can’t wait to connect with you!
Education
M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling
2016 | Walden University
B.S. in Psychology
2012 | University of North Dakota
Credentials
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
2019 | LPC.0015470
(Listed under Cassandra Roybal)Professional Background
I started my mental health career working in inpatient psychiatric hospitals in Colorado and Illinois, supporting adults with severe and persistent mental illness. During grad school, I completed my practicum on an adolescent inpatient unit and interned at a 28-day residential substance use program.
After graduating with my Master’s, I joined a community mental health agency in Colorado, serving a diverse population of clients—many of whom were BIPOC, marginalized, and underserved. When I became fully licensed, I transitioned to a school-based setting for high school students. That’s where everything clicked. Nearly every client I saw had some form of neurodivergence: ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, or Giftedness.
It lit a fire in me. I created a group curriculum called Thriving with ADHD for Teens and began focusing my work on supporting neurodivergent clients in embracing their brains. I dove headfirst into research, trainings, and an intensive ADHD Professionals course—anything that would help me understand the lived experience of neurodivergent people, especially those assigned female at birth.
It wasn’t just professional curiosity. It was personal. As a late-diagnosed AuDHD woman, I recognized myself in my clients. I started drawing on my own lived experience, using my pattern recognition skills, emotional intensity, and deep empathy to meet my clients exactly where they were. That’s when I stopped “adapting” therapy for neurodivergent people—and started reimagining it entirely.
I also began to see how mental health systems routinely failed neurodivergent women and girls—especially when it came to identification and care. My personal unmasking overlapped with this growing awareness, and I realized that my neurodivergence wasn’t a liability. It was my edge. My empathy, intensity, and insight weren’t just tools—they were the map. That’s when I stopped trying to fit into the therapy world and started creating my own.
That’s when EmpowHERed Divergence Therapy was born.