The Unfolding Room™
.png)
Identity-Aligned Strategy for Women Who Refuse to Contort
The Unfolding Room™ helps layered, neurodivergent, and culturally complex women and the organizations they lead align identity, capacity, and leadership without code-switching, self-erasing, or burning out.
Our women-first consulting blends behavioral science, feminist strategy, and lived neurodivergent expertise to address the root causes of burnout, identity blur, and leadership fatigue.
What Makes This Different
Not Coaching. Not Traditional DEI. Not Wellness with a Side of Burnout.
The Unfolding Room™ is identity-aligned consulting built for layered, neurodivergent, and culturally complex women—and for the organizations ready to lead with depth and integrity.
We blend behavioral science, feminist strategy, and lived neurodivergent expertise to address the root causes of burnout, identity blur, and leadership fatigue without asking you to perform a palatable version of yourself just to be taken seriously.
Here, complexity isn’t a problem to fix—it’s the blueprint for how we work. Every offer is designed to move you or your organization from performance mode into sustainable alignment, capacity clarity, and cultural truth.
No shame tactics. No identity theater. Just frameworks that work for women who refuse to contort, and for systems ready to do better.
About Us
Our Story
The Unfolding Room™ was born from lived experience and unapologetic truth.
While earning my PhD in I/O Psychology, raising a neurodivergent teen, and caregiving for a post-9/11 combat veteran, I saw clearly what I’d always known: the systems we work, live, and lead in were never designed to hold layered identities like mine.
I also know what walking in cultural backlash feels like, being mixed and feeling out of place because you have blondish-brown kinky hair and freckles, and you don’t match the “accepted” version of being Latino. Even worse is when your own people push you out for looking and being different. Tradition told me I needed to look and act a certain way, but that was never truly who I was. I had to unlearn systems to embrace my cultural complexity and stand unapologetically in my identities — my freckles, my kinky hair, and my neurodivergence.
That intersection, cultural complexity, neurodivergence, and high-capacity leadership is where I work, and it’s why my clients never have to translate themselves to be understood.
I built The Unfolding Room™ as women-first consulting for layered, neurodivergent, and culturally complex women—and for the organizations ready to center them. My work blends behavioral science, feminist strategy, and lived neurodivergent expertise to address identity blur, burnout, and leadership fatigue at the root.
This isn’t coaching with platitudes. It’s a call to truth for the overextended, the high-capacity, and the quietly brilliant. Together, we create lives and leadership that match the truth you’ve carried all along—without apology, performance, or permission-seeking.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help layered, high-capacity women reclaim power, purpose, and identity through women-first consulting rooted in psychology, feminist strategy, and lived neurodivergent expertise.
We build systems and strategies where culturally complex and neurodivergent women don’t have to translate themselves to be understood—where their truth, capacity, and leadership aren’t just respected, they’re prioritized.
Unfold into your full brilliance.
At The Unfolding Room™, we don't fix people — we unfold them.
Our services are designed for multi-role women, neurodivergent professionals, and values-driven organizations ready to stop shrinking and start aligning.
Whether you're reclaiming your own identity or building a workplace where belonging isn't performative — you're in the right place.
Choose your path. Claim your space. Begin unfolding today.
Our Services
Unfold into your full brilliance.
Unfold into your full brilliance — without code-switching, self-erasing, or collapsing under pressure.
At The Unfolding Room™, we don’t “fix” women — we unfold them.
We work with multi-role, neurodivergent, and culturally complex women who have mastered survival-mode success but are ready to lead and live from an identity that actually feels like their own.
Using my proprietary Identity Intelligence™ framework — along with the ND Needs Map™, Capacity Lens™, Boundary Strategy Selector™, and Cultural Belonging Conflict Map™ — we help you:
-
Reclaim the roles and rhythms that honor your capacity
-
Untangle cultural and systemic expectations from your self-worth
-
Build leadership and life strategies that work with your neurotype, not against it
Whether you’re navigating leadership burnout, cultural backlash, or the quiet grief of outgrowing who you were taught to be, be you belong here, every damn thread of you.
Our Approach
Rooted in Truth. Designed for Wholeness.
At The Unfolding Room™, we don’t fix people, we unfold them. Our approach integrates I/O psychology, lived experience, and sentient-centered strategy to help you or your team reconnect with what’s real.
We believe clarity, care, and courage can co-exist. That’s why every offering centers your identity, honors your story, and creates room for the layered truth of being human in a world that often demands you shrink.
We work with depth and intention not rushing your process, not bypassing the hard parts — so the shifts you make are sustainable, soul-deep, and genuinely yours.
Words From the Founder
I’m Itzel. NeuroCaribeña™. Identity Strategist. Behavioral systems thinker.
I didn’t step into this work to inspire; I stepped in to interrupt.
The Unfolding Room™ was born out of necessity. Not a trend or a brand vision board. A lived reality.
I’ve worked inside institutions that rewarded assimilation, punished neurodivergence, and collapsed “wellness” into performance metrics. But the pressure wasn’t only external. As a mixed Afro-Latina — a NeuroCaribeña™ — I’ve navigated the cultural backlash that comes from within your own people. The kind that questions your authenticity, polices your identity, and tells you who you’re “allowed” to be.
I’ve been a mother while caregiving. A PhD candidate while surviving systems that reduce people like me to compliance checkboxes. And like many multi-role women, I’ve been told to “narrow myself” to be taken seriously.
This space is my response. Not to market demand, but to what I know is missing:
A space for neurodivergent, multi-role, culturally complex women and other women navigating code-switching, identity blur, and capacity fatigue, and to be seen without flattening their complexity. And for values-driven organizations that are ready to stop treating inclusion as a performance and start building it into their systems.
I don’t coach people through imposter syndrome. I address the environments causing it.
I don’t teach inclusion. I architect identity-aligned strategies for people and institutions done performing it.
Through my proprietary Identity Intelligence™ framework, I consult with organizations and coach leaders who are ready to move with clarity — not code-switch. Who wants structure, not shame. And who are done negotiating their identities for a seat at a table that was never built with them in mind.
If that’s you, we don’t wait for permission here.
We unfold.
— Itzel Yagual, Founder, PhD(c)
Ready to Unfold?
Tell me what’s on your mind. Whether you’re exploring 1:1 support, bringing identity-first strategy to your team, or just feeling curious.
This is a safe space. Show up as you are.
