ADHD Therapy for Adults
Therapy for adults with ADHD, diagnosed or still figuring it out. You've heard "just use a planner" your whole life. This isn't that. It's structured, practical work built around how you actually function, not how people keep telling you to.
You've been trying harder for years. Effort was never the problem.
You can hyperfocus for six hours on the thing that doesn't matter and can't start the ten-minute task that does. You know exactly what to do; the doing is the problem. And by now the hardest part isn't the ADHD, it's what years of it have done to how you talk to yourself. If this sounds familiar:
- Time either doesn't exist or is suddenly gone; you're chronically early to nothing and late to everything
- Starting a task feels physically impossible until panic finally does it for you
- A mildly critical email can wreck your entire day; rejection lands like a physical blow
- Your home and inbox are archaeological sites of abandoned systems that each worked for two weeks
- You got diagnosed as an adult, and now your whole history looks different, including the years of being called careless
- You've white-knuckled it through school and work by masking, and the exhaustion is catching up
The problem isn't the task. It's the loop.
ADHD struggles rarely stay contained to attention. They run in a cycle that recruits panic to get things done, then charges shame as interest. Naming the loop is the first phase of the work, because you can't interrupt what you can't see.
The work is interrupting the loop, not gritting through it. Every stage has an intervention point, and none of them is "try harder."
Every version of an ADHD adulthood
Diagnosed last month or twenty years ago, self-identified or still questioning. If you run on interest instead of importance, this work was built for it.
Late-diagnosed adults
Diagnosed in adulthood, re-reading a whole life through a new lens.
High-masking ADHDers
Outwardly "fine," inwardly exhausted. Often missed for decades, especially in women.
AuDHD adults
ADHD and Autistic together: two systems that sometimes want opposite things.
Self-identified & questioning
No formal diagnosis required. If the pattern fits, the work fits.
ADHD in your relationship
When ADHD is straining a partnership, couples work may fit better.
Four fronts, worked in sequence
Each intervention point from the loop gets its own focused work, matched to how your ADHD actually shows up.
Executive function, built for you
Task initiation, time blindness, working memory, and follow-through, using external scaffolding built around your actual life. Not the forty-third planner. Systems that assume ADHD instead of punishing it.
Emotional intensity & rejection sensitivity
The ADHD nobody warned you about: emotions that arrive at full volume, and criticism that lands like a verdict. We work on recognizing the surge earlier and widening the gap between feeling it and being run by it.
The shame story
Decades of "lazy," "careless," and "not living up to potential" leave a narrator in your head. This is the deeper therapy work: separating what ADHD does from what you decided it means about you.
Work, relationships & daily life
Where the loop actually costs you: missed deadlines, strained partnerships, the friend you forgot to text back for three months. We take the skills into the specific places your ADHD is doing the most damage.
A clear, structured plan, built in sequence
This is structured, ND-affirming work, not open-ended venting. By session three you'll know your plan, its phases, and roughly how long the work takes. Sessions are 50-55 minutes.
ADHD isn't treated as a character flaw to fix but as a neurotype to work with. If medication questions come up, I'll coordinate with your prescriber or help you find one; therapy and medication address different parts of the picture, and they work well together.
Assessment
Your ADHD profile: where it helps, where it costs, what's been tried.
Your loop map
Where your version of the cycle runs, and its intervention points.
Skills phases
Executive scaffolding, emotional regulation, and the shame story, in sequence.
Consolidation
Making the systems yours, so they survive contact with real life.
All sessions online via secure, HIPAA-compliant video. You must be physically located in Texas, Maine, Montana, or New Hampshire at the time of session. Online works especially well for ADHD: no commute to forget, no waiting room to dread.
Visit the services page to see which insurances are accepted, along with current rates and private pay options.
ND-affirming, structured therapy informed by specialized neurodivergence training, including AANE coursework. Full credentials →
Whenever you're ready. Even if you meant to book last month.
The consultation is free and short. We'll talk by phone (I'll call you at the time you schedule) and see if we're a fit. No pressure, no commitment.