Abigail Ajodha

Therapy for Overthinking, Burnout & Emotional Overwhelm

EMDR & Trauma Therapy for Women Who Carry Too Much

Many of the women Abigail works with have spent years carrying everyone else's emotional needs before their own. They may struggle with people-pleasing, feel guilty setting boundaries, or automatically take responsibility for keeping everyone else okay. Whether that responsibility comes from family expectations, parenting a neurodivergent child, cultural pressures, caregiving, or constantly being the dependable one, therapy offers a place to understand why these patterns developed—not simply how to cope with them.

Using EMDR, parts-informed, and trauma-focused approaches, Abigail helps clients look beneath these patterns to understand the deeper attachment wounds, relational experiences, or protective beliefs they may be connected to. Her approach is warm, grounded, and deeply human, helping clients process what sits underneath these patterns while supporting the nervous system in developing new ways of responding.

Who Abigail Supports

Abigail works with women who have become used to putting their own needs last—often without realizing how much emotional responsibility they are carrying. Her clients may know they are overwhelmed or need stronger boundaries, but find that guilt, family expectations, or deeply learned patterns make change much harder than it sounds. Her clients often include:

• Women Who Can't Switch Their Brain Off: For women who replay conversations, second-guess decisions, worry about what others think, or find themselves thinking through every possible outcome before they can feel settled.
• Women Who People-Please & Struggle With Boundaries: For women who find themselves saying yes when they want to say no, worrying about disappointing others, over-explaining their decisions, or feeling guilty when they prioritize their own needs.

• Women Experiencing Burnout & Emotional Overwhelm: For women who have been pushing through for so long that they feel exhausted, irritable, emotionally depleted, or increasingly disconnected from themselves—and aren't sure how to keep doing everything that's expected of them.

• Mothers Raising Neurodivergent Children: Supporting mothers navigating advocacy fatigue, caregiver burnout, parenting stress, and the emotional realities of raising a neurodivergent child while trying not to lose themselves in the process.

• First-Generation Women Navigating Family & Cultural Expectations: Helping first-generation women explore family responsibility, cultural expectations, identity, boundaries, and intergenerational patterns while finding ways to honour both their relationships and their own needs.

Behind the Bio: The Human Behind the Therapist

(Because yes, therapists are humans too—coffee-loving, podcast-bingeing, deep-feeling humans!)

Comfort Food Favourite: Mac and cheese—rich, cheesy, and unbeatable
A Highly Recommended Read: Anything by Freida McFadden—Abigail loves a twisty psychological thriller
A Go-To Way to Unwind: Cringy reality TV (hello 90 Day Fiancé), a soft blanket, and zero judgment

Articles By Abigail Ajodha

• Abigail writes about the invisible emotional load women carry, including caregiver burnout, first-generation family expectations, neurodivergent parenting, chronic guilt, and the mental load of motherhood.

Most Read Articles: 

→ What Does Feeling Responsible For Everyone Feel Like

→Parenting a Neurodivergent Child Without Burning Out

→ Caring for Aging Parents: Coping with Stress, Guilt & Caregiver Burnout

→Why You Feel Guilty for Wanting a Different Life Than Your Parents

→ Mom Rage: Why it Happens and What Your Nervous System is Trying to Tell You

→The Default Parent Mental Load

→ The Mental Health Cost of Infertility