ADHD Therapy
You're not lazy or broken. Just exhausted by a world that isn't designed for you.
The short version
ADHD in adults often affects attention, executive functioning, emotional regulation, time management, relationships, motivation, and self-worth, and it frequently overlaps with anxiety and depression. Whether you've known you were neurodivergent for years, recently received a diagnosis, or are still figuring it out, therapy can help you better understand how you work and build strategies that fit your life.
Many adults with ADHD carry years of shame, burnout, anxiety, self-criticism, or feeling misunderstood. Together, we'll explore both the practical challenges of ADHD and the emotional weight that often builds up so your brain starts to feel like something you know how to work with.
I have ADHD myself and I know what it's like to be fully aware of what you're capable of while watching yourself struggle with things that seem effortless for others. I don’t approach ADHD as a personal failing or deficit to fix, but as a different way of operating that comes with some real frustrations and real strengths.
Common Patterns
Executive Dysfunction
ADHD can affect task initiation, organization, working memory, prioritization, task breakdown, switching tasks, follow-through, and the ability to manage responsibilities consistently.
ADHD Paralysis
Feeling stuck when you know what you need to do and still can't start. This can be task paralysis, decision paralysis, or mental paralysis and feeling foggy or frozen under stress.
Emotional Overwhelm
Experiences of emotional intensity, rejection sensitivity, anxiety, burnout, frustration, overwhelm, cycles of shame, emotional dysregulation, years of overcompensating, masking, or relying on anxiety to stay afloat.
Overstimulation
Sensory sensitivity, noise, crowds, clutter, or too much input at once can leave an ADHD nervous system overloaded faster than it looks like it should be.
Time Management
Trouble with time perception, impulse control, hyperfocus, hyper-fixation, decision-making, transitions between tasks, time blindness, chronic lateness, difficulty estimating time, or feeling constantly behind.
Women & High Performers
ADHD in women and high performers often shows up as restlessness, exhaustion, impostor syndrome, or a lifetime of quietly working twice as hard.
ADHD in adults can look like unopened mail piling up for weeks, losing track of things the moment they're out of sight, getting stuck in hyperfocus and forgetting to eat, avoiding tasks until they feel impossible to start, losing track of time, paying the ADHD tax in late fees and forgotten renewals, or feeling overwhelmed by responsibilities that seem easy for other people.
How I Work with ADHD
We'll look at how ADHD shows up specifically for you, including patterns around focus, overwhelm, routines, relationships, avoidance, motivation, and nervous system regulation that can easily become overloaded or dysregulated. If ADHD strains a relationship you're in, here's a piece on explaining ADHD to a partner.
We'll build approaches tailored to your interest-based, dopamine-seeking nervous system, which may include environmental structure, task batching, emotional regulation tools, habit support, or understanding the patterns underneath procrastination and avoidance. We'll also explore the emotional impact, shame, fear of failure, perfectionism, or internalized beliefs about productivity and self-worth. If substance use or compulsive behaviors developed as coping strategies, we'll work on that too.
I draw most on psychodynamic therapy for the deeper patterns underneath behavior, CBT for practical tools, emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and AEDP for working with emotional experience directly, internal family systems (IFS) for the different parts of yourself that show up around ADHD, and executive functioning tools and techniques.
What Therapy Can Help With
Daily Functioning
Build tools for executive functioning, task initiation, routines, time management, and reducing the overwhelm that tends to accumulate when those things consistently feel harder than they should.
Emotional Patterns
Understand rejection sensitivity, emotional regulation, burnout, self-criticism, anxiety, and the emotional weight ADHD can create over time.
Self Understanding
Many adults with ADHD spend years without understanding how much of their experience connects to ADHD, and how to separate the ADHD patterns from the stories built around them.