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Savannah Thrower, MS, ALC, NCC
Your Brain Is Not Broken. Your Child's Isn't Either.
You're a person trying to live well with a brain that works differently — or you're the mother of someone who is — and you deserve support from someone who truly understands.
Savannah Thrower is a licensed therapist who specializes in neurodivergence-informed counseling for teens and adults with ADHD and autism, and for the mothers raising neurodivergent children alongside their own lives. She brings clinical depth, lived parenting experience, and a steady belief that brains that work differently are not problems to be fixed.
Her approach is rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and neuroaffirming care — helping you, or your child, stop fighting the way your brain works and start using it the way it works best, so the life you build actually fits the brain you have.
Savannah Thrower, MS, ALC, NCC
Neurodivergence-Informed Therapist · Therapist for ADHD and Autism · 504/IEP Support for Parents
If You Have Found Your Way Here,
Something Is Probably Hard Right Now
Maybe you've spent your whole life working twice as hard to get half as far — the systems, the lists, the over-preparation, all of it built to hide the fact that things other people do automatically take everything you have. "I feel like everything is harder for me." "Why does it seem so easy for everyone else?" The exhaustion is real, and so is the loneliness of pretending it isn't. There's nothing wrong with the way your brain works — there's just a better way to use it.
Maybe you're raising a child whose brain works differently than you expected, and a grief no one warned you about lives right alongside the fierce, particular love for the child who is here. "I love her completely, but this isn't the life I imagined for her, and I feel so guilty." "Everyone has advice, but none of it has worked for our family." You are not the parent who's failing. You're the parent who's paying attention — and paying attention this hard, this long, with this little support, is its own kind of weight.
Maybe you've walked out of one more 504 or IEP meeting feeling outmatched in a room built for professionals, trying to advocate for the most important person in your life with a fraction of their fluency. "I leave every meeting feeling like I lost, and I don't even know what game we were playing." These plans are designed by professionals, run by professionals, and explained — when they're explained at all — in a vocabulary built for professionals. You're not supposed to do this alone.
Whatever brought you here — you do not have to have it figured out. You just have to show up.
What It Feels Like to Sit Across From Savannah
Sessions with Savannah are warm, practical, and honest. There's no pressure to perform a more neurotypical version of yourself, no agenda pushing you or your child toward a particular version of normal — just a steady, grounded presence that meets you where you are and helps you build forward. The feelings get space. The next steps get attention. Neither gets sacrificed for the other.
Clients describe Savannah as someone who gets it — not because she read about it, but because she has lived alongside it. She holds space for your individual story with deep understanding of what you're going through, drawn from both her training and her personal experience as the parent of neurodivergent children. From there, the real work becomes possible.
Savannah works with teens, adults, and parents who are navigating:
- ADHD and autism in teens, college students, and adults
- Late-identified neurodivergence — and the identity work that follows
- Adult women whose ADHD has been masked or missed for years
- Mothers raising neurodivergent children
- 504 Plan and IEP development and advocacy
- Burnout, sensory overload, and nervous system regulation
- Executive function, motivation, and goal setting
- Anxiety, overwhelm, and adjustment concerns
- Coparenting and post-separation family restructuring
- Recovering from toxic or narcissistic relationships
- Emotional regulation and attachment patterns
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What Happens when you reach out
Your first session is not a test, and it's not an intake form brought to life. It is a conversation. Savannah will want to understand what's been hard, what you've already tried, and what you're hoping for — even if all you're hoping for right now is to feel less alone in it. There's no pressure to arrive with a diagnosis or the right vocabulary. The pace is yours.
Over time, sessions become a steady place to think clearly, regulate the overwhelm, and take real action — in your relationships, your parenting, your daily functioning, and the school and family systems shaping your life. Most clients find that what shifts first isn't the external chaos but the relationship they have with their own brain. The chaos becomes more manageable from there.
What Savannah Believes about you
She believes your brain is not broken. She believes the brain you have — and the brain your child has — is full of gifts that have been drowned out by the work of pretending it's something else. The goal of therapy isn't to make a neurodivergent person more typical; it's to build a life around how this particular person actually works.
She also believes mothers of neurodivergent children deserve more than survival. The picture you had of motherhood was never the only picture. The child in front of you is the one worth building a life around — not because the grief for the imagined version isn't valid, but because the wonder of the actual version is real, and reachable, and yours.
You Deserve Support. Savannah Is Here.
Whatever you're carrying — the exhaustion of compensating, the grief of a life that looks different than you expected, the meetings that feel like battles, the daily management that never lets up — you don't have to manage it alone. You reached out. That matters.
In person in Birmingham · Online throughout Alabama.
You are not alone. Let's begin.
How Savannah Helps
The approach: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Savannah's clinical foundation is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), adapted for the way an ADHD mind actually works — a well-researched, evidence-based method that meets the anxiety, perfectionism, and burnout that so often travel alongside a late-recognized or long-masked ADHD diagnosis.
ACT does not ask you to white-knuckle your way into focus or shame yourself into discipline. It teaches you to notice how your attention, energy, and motivation actually move — without treating those patterns as proof that something is wrong with you — and to build a life around your values instead of around systems that were never designed for your brain. For women whose minds have always run a little faster and a little louder than they were told they should, ACT offers something to work with instead of against.
ADHD is not a failure of effort or a deficit of character. It is a different operating system, and most of the struggle comes not from the wiring but from years of forcing it to run software built for someone else. The exhaustion of masking, the chronic sense of falling behind, the quiet conviction that everyone else got an instruction manual you somehow missed — these are not personal failings. They are information.
Savannah also works with parents, most often mothers, raising neurodivergent children — helping them understand a child's profile, advocate in 504 and IEP meetings, and parent without disappearing inside the effort. (She provides neurodivergence-informed counseling, not formal ADHD evaluation — she works alongside the psychiatrists and psychologists who handle diagnosis.)
Her goal with every client is the same: to help you understand how your mind actually works, build skills that hold up in real life, and reconnect with the values waiting underneath the noise.
Background & Training
Savannah Thrower holds a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). She is an Associate Licensed Counselor (ALC) in Alabama and a National Certified Counselor (NCC), practicing under the clinical supervision of Lacey Amos as she accrues hours toward full licensure. Her specialty training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is with Russ Harris — the clinician and author behind much of ACT's most widely used training — which she applies to ADHD in her practice. In addition to her ACT for ADHD training, she is also trained in how to provide neurodivergence-informed care.
A Little More About Savannah
Outside the therapy room, Savannah's approach to wellbeing is holistic and mindfulness-centered. She believes movement, breathwork, and grounding are forms of therapy in their own right — part of how a nervous system learns it is safe. You will usually find her at the gym or outdoors, rarely far from a dog, and just as happy with a good book or a film.
Savannah is a single mother of three, and her parenting spans both neurodivergent and neurotypical children. That experience is not a footnote to her clinical work — it is part of its foundation. What grounds all of it is what she values: authenticity, resilience, and lifelong growth.