ADHD therapy that goes beyond productivity and time management.
ADHD can affect the way you function, regulate emotions, relate to yourself, and navigate relationships. Therapy with me focuses on the practical and personal impact of ADHD, helping you understand what's getting in the way while developing strategies and skills that fit your life.
ADHD Therapy That Looks at the Whole Picture
ADHD typically doesn't exist in isolation. The challenges you're experiencing today may be connected to years of compensating, criticism, perfectionism, difficult relationships, or simply trying to keep up with expectations that don't always account for how your brain works.
My work with ADHD often falls into four interconnected areas:
Executive Functioning:
ADHD can make everyday tasks require significantly more effort than they appear to from the outside. Therapy can help identify where your current systems aren't working and develop strategies that support task initiation, organization, time management, follow-through, and other executive functioning skills.
The goal isn't to become more productive for productivity's sake. It's to make everyday life feel more manageable.
Emotional Regulation:
For many people with ADHD, the emotional side of the experience can be just as significant as the executive functioning challenges. We may work on recognizing emotional patterns, navigating frustration and overwhelm, building regulation skills, and understanding experiences like rejection sensitivity.
The goal is greater flexibility and choice in how you respond—not never feeling difficult emotions.
Self-Esteem & Relationship With Self
Years of being told to try harder, pay better attention, be more organized, or simply “get it together” can shape the way you see yourself. Therapy can help separate ADHD-related challenges from the beliefs you've developed about your character or abilities.
This may involve working through perfectionism, shame, people-pleasing, self-criticism, anxiety, or low mood while developing greater self-understanding and self-trust.
Relationships & Life Experiences
ADHD also exists within the context of your relationships and life experiences. We may explore family dynamics, relational patterns, boundaries, parenting, identity, or other transitions that have influenced the way you understand and navigate yourself.
For women with ADHD, pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood can bring an entirely new set of demands on executive functioning and emotional regulation. Therapy can provide space to understand those changes without adding another layer of guilt or self-criticism.
Therapy for Adult ADHD
Adult ADHD in Women: Why Diagnosis Often Comes Later
For many women, ADHD isn't recognized until adulthood. ADHD has historically been under-recognized in girls and women, in part because symptoms may look different from the stereotypical image of ADHD and because many women often become highly skilled at masking, compensating, and working harder to keep up.
You may have spent years relying on perfectionism, over-preparing, rigid routines, or simply putting in more effort than others realize. From the outside, you may have looked organized and successful while privately feeling exhausted by how much energy it took to maintain it.
It's also common for women to first seek help for anxiety, depression, burnout, or chronic stress without realizing that ADHD may be contributing to the picture. Major life transitions and changes in demands—including pregnancy, postpartum, motherhood, or perimenopause—can make previously effective coping strategies harder to maintain and bring ADHD-related challenges more clearly to the surface.
If you've spent years wondering why you're struggling despite doing everything “right,” ADHD may be worth exploring.
What Therapy With Me Looks Like
I consider myself a relational therapist, so our relationship matters. I want therapy to be a place where you feel comfortable being honest about what's actually happening—not just what you think you should be doing.
Our work will also be practical. We won't spend every session talking about ADHD in theory; we'll apply what we're learning to your actual life.
Some sessions might involve figuring out why you're stuck on a task you've been avoiding for three weeks. Others might involve unpacking why a small mistake triggered an intense reaction, or exploring how years of feeling “behind” have affected the way you see yourself.
We'll work together to understand the pattern, figure out what you need, and decide what to do next.
ADHD Doesn't Have to Be Something You Constantly Work Around
Therapy isn't about forcing yourself to function like someone else.
It's about finding ways to work with your strengths, accommodate your challenges, and build a life that doesn't require you to constantly operate at your limit.
