A soft place to land, for real life.

SOLA is a neurodivergent education and community, built under SOLA Wellness. It is not therapy and it is not a quick fix. It is a place to understand your brain and keep growing, with people who get it.

The people behind SOLA

Leah Hunter, MAMFT

Founder

Leah founded SOLA from a place of deep understanding, personal as well as professional. She knows what it is like to feel overwhelmed, to overthink everything, to push through when the body is asking for rest, and to wonder whether you will ever feel like yourself again.

Over the years she studied the brain, the nervous system, and the patterns that keep people stuck. More importantly, she walked beside many people who were ready for something different, and something softer. As she synthesized all of it, her ideas came together into a single framework: a way to understand the cycle, and to change it.

Her conviction is simple. Healing happens when people feel safe, seen, and supported, and nobody should have to do it alone.

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Neely Thomson

Marketing & Technology Partner

Neely builds and runs the parts of SOLA you don’t see in a session: the website, the member portal, the calendar, and the systems that make it easy to find your way in and keep coming back.

A marketing leader with more than 15 years in B2B software and nonprofits, she most recently led marketing at Dwolla, a fintech payments company, through a company-wide AI transformation. Earlier she built engagement programs for the ASPCA and LifeLine Animal Project and served in the Peace Corps. Today she works as a fractional CMO for companies in regulated industries.

At SOLA, all of that goes toward one thing: a calm, clear, accessible place for neurodivergent adults to land.

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Why SOLA exists

“People don’t need another place to perform. They need a place to understand themselves.”

Leah saw the same pattern again and again in practice. People finally understand themselves during therapy or treatment. They build relationships and learn real skills. Then treatment ends, and the structure, accountability, language, and community that helped them grow are suddenly gone.

SOLA is the bridge: a place where learning and healing continue, so the breakthroughs don't fade when the appointments stop. It sits alongside the care you already have and does not replace it.

What SOLA believes

Every brain makes sense.

Behavior is meaningful.

Healing happens through understanding before judgment.

Community changes nervous systems.

Progress matters more than perfection.

Understanding creates possibility.

Where SOLA is headed

SOLA grows by teaching the framework, holding groups that use it, and training others to run their own, so that the community sustains itself. Over time, SOLA Wellness will add courses, facilitator training, workshops, and resources for both clients and the therapists who serve them.

Further down the road, SOLA Wellness may grow to include faster access to licensed mental-health care, built carefully and under the right clinical and legal framework, when the time is right. For now the focus is simple: understand yourself, find your people, and build a life that works with your brain.

You don't have to have it all together.You belong here.

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