Hayden Bell

About

Not long ago, a client stopped mid-sentence and said, 'I have never actually said that out loud before.' Those small, quiet turning points are the reason I do this work. Executive functioning is a real set of skills, and struggling with it says nothing about your intelligence or your effort. Many of my clients are rebuilding a professional identity that slowly buckled under years of masking and overcompensating. As a gender expansive therapist, I know what it costs to be constantly misread, and my practice is one place where that finally stops. When ambivalence shows up, and it always does, we get curious about it together instead of bulldozing through it. I came to this field after a first career doing something entirely different, which keeps me humble about how hard change really is. If you would like a thoughtful companion for the messy middle of things, I would love to hear from you.