About Me - I see what others miss

 I have Asperger’s — or what some people call high-functioning autism. It’s not a disorder, but a different operating system and architecture of mind. It’s why I think the way I do: with depth, clarity, and uncomfortable precision. I see patterns others can’t. I don’t just hear what you’re saying — I track the structure underneath it. The pattern. The system. The why.  I have what some would call an encyclopedic — even photographic — memory for the things I study. Once I’ve absorbed something, it’s there forever. I can retrieve it, connect it, and apply it instantly — whether it’s a forgotten psychiatric case study from the ’70s, an obscure principle from quantum field theory, or the precise moment your language drifted from emotion to performance. It’s how I’ve always seen straight through noise and into truth.

Therapists have turned to me for help seeing their own blind spots. It's why l've been the quiet force behind insights that changed the entire tone of the room. It's not psychic. It's precision — built from a unique nervous system that never stops tracking the signal beneath the noise. My brain is optimized for truth-finding. What seems subtle or complex to others is often startlingly clear to me. 

That’s why people come to me when they’re stuck. Because I don’t just listen — I see.

But it's not just the way I'm wired.

It's also what I've survived. 

I see the invisible — because I’ve lived it.

Most people aren’t looking for someone with answers. They’re looking for someone who believes what they already know inside — someone who can see the thing no one else ever named. That’s what I do. Because I’ve lived through it, too.

I’ve been the one in the room who sensed something was wrong, while everyone else smiled and denied it. I’ve spent years trapped inside systems that looked normal from the outside — but were eating me alive from the inside. I know the shape of unspoken pain. I know what it’s like when the worst thing isn’t the trauma — it’s that no one believes it happened.

That’s why people breathe differently around me. Because I don’t just sound smart — I feel safe.

I’ve walked this path. I’ve named the monsters. And I’ve come out the other side with clarity, language, and tools to help others do the same.

I’m not a therapist — but I’ve spent years in a therapist’s world. I’ve lived with a licensed psychologist in full-time private practice and helped reshape how she saw her clients, her family, and herself. During the pandemic and continuing to this day, I analyze anonymized cases and sit with real-world session material to sharpen my diagnostic instincts. I studied the neuroscience and anatomy of how trauma affects the brain, how trauma hides, how patterns repeat, and how even brilliant people can’t always see the systems they’re trapped inside.

One of the deepest insights I’ve gained — and it changed everything — was understanding what personality disorders really look like in real life, not just in a textbook. 

Through a combination of lived experience, deep research, and hundreds of hours of direct mentoring from a full-time clinical psychologist I live with, I’ve developed an unusually sharp lens. She's in private practice, and she’s taught me with the depth and rigor of a graduate-level education. I learned how to spot subtle behaviors, manipulations, and system-wide distortions — often when no one else in the room can see them.

I also helped translate her clinical expertise into a 40-module online course on the Psychology of Permanent Weight Loss. That included material tailored for those using GLP-1 medications. I shaped the course messaging, built the website, and crafted the social presence around it. That experience gave me even deeper insight into how people change - and what gets in their way. Most therapists are never trained to recognize these patterns until graduate or doctoral-level programs, and even then, many still struggle to identify them in vivo. I’ve seen how entire families bend around the dysfunction of one disordered parent — while therapists hand out communication worksheets. 

That gap in the field is part of why I do this work. I’ve filled in the blind spots, and I know how to name the thing no one else is willing to name — because I’ve lived it, studied it, and coached people through it.

I'm the guy who gives radical insight. The kind that rearranges your nervous system, not your calendar. You don't need another session. You need someone who can show you exactly why you do what you do, how it began, and how to break the cycle. I've done it for CEOs, psychologists, trauma survivors, and truth seekers who've outgrown surface-level help.

This isn't mindset coaching. This is reality architecture. Built from the ground up.

My coaching style is radically honest, focused on giving you the deepest kind of clarity possible, and psychologically precise. I draw from frameworks like Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian shadow work, family systems theory, trauma and the brain, and decades spent studying philosophy - from ancient to modern, Eastern to Western. I was introduced to Alan Watts in my teens, and over the years, I’ve come to understand what The Buddha meant by the teaching of anattā or "no-self" — not as a concept, but as a lived psychological truth. I blend Western depth psychology and Eastern clarity to help people name the unconscious contracts that have run their lives — and then rewrite them.

I’ve helped accomplished therapists realize what they’d missed. I’ve helped parents understand their children. I’ve helped people walk away from years of gaslighting, indecision, and confusion. I help people finally see the architecture of their life — and then I help them rebuild it. I have worked with people from many different ethnic, religious, and cultural backgrounds

This isn’t coaching in the way you’ve seen it advertised or experienced. This is psychological excavation and transformation. And transformation doesn’t begin with a calendar or a checklist. It begins with truth. Real, science-backed truth.

If you’ve tried everything and nothing’s worked — if you’ve read all the books, seen the therapists, journaled until your pen ran dry — and you’re still stuck, there’s a reason. You don’t need more affirmations. You need an educated, insightful mirror that doesn’t flinch. That’s what I am. 

This isn’t therapy. It’s not coaching. It’s something rarer: a direct encounter with someone who can help you see clearly — because I already do.  

You don’t need someone to manage your time or give you false hope. You need someone to help you reclaim your reality. That’s what I do. And I can do it for you too. 

This is Truth Architecture.

-- Dave Baxter, CPC

The Truth Architect