Madeline Mueller

I approach therapy as a sacred space for the process of returning home to ourselves. As a late-diagnosed autistic, multi-disabled, chronically ill person, I’m deeply familiar with navigating systems not built with bodies, minds, and ways of being like mine in mind. I know what it takes—to show up (or not), to exist, to have made it to where you are. I’m here to meet you there and to carve out a space-time in your world that is just that: yours.

That might look like lying down, tending to your body/pain, stimming, shifting the sensory environment, exploring creative or nonverbal ways of processing, or sitting with grief, contradiction, or uncertainty. Maybe all of that. Maybe none. There’s no one right way to be here.

I don’t see your struggles as personal failures, but as signs of surviving systems like ableism, racism, poverty, stigma, and gender and sexual oppression. My work is grounded in collective liberation, disability justice, and the belief in your inherent worth, complexity, and wholeness.

It would be my deep honor to be someone with whom you feel safe to bring every part of yourself—your joy, grief, contradictions, silliness, and shame. I want to see you flourish.

Madeline is in her fourth and final year of her dual-degree graduate program at Columbia University where she will receive a Master’s of Public Health (MPH) and a Master’s of Science in Social Social Work (MSSW), with concentrations in Population and Family Health, Mental Health and Disability, and Psychedelic-Assited Therapy. She holds a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies, is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer, AmeriCorps Alumna, LEND fellow, and former educator. She is on several research teams producing affirming autism research and intervention science.

Madeline also offers KAP.