Therapy that helps you thrive with ADHD, not just survive

Having an accurate understanding of ADHD is crucial to finding the correct support, yet even most therapists get ADHD wrong. ADHD isn’t just about struggling with attention—that’s just a small part. ADHD is best understood as a distinct neurotype where differences show up most within the area of executive functioning. Executive functions include things like: planning, prioritization, organization, task initiation, working memory, time management, emotion regulation, and self-monitoring (known as meta-cognition).

When you have ADHD, your brain often does not have the resources to perform these executive functions to their full capacity. It’s not that you don’t know what to do, it’s that your brain can’t do what it knows. For women especially, the most disabling symptoms are often the ones that stay hidden: emotional dysregulation, task paralysis, and working memory issues. This can result in struggling to keep up with responsibilities at work, home, and in your relationships, even when you have the motivation to. Read more about what executive dysfunction look like here.

Therapy for ADHD can help you:

• banish shame and unhelpful beliefs about yourself

• better understand your unique executive functioning challenges

• develop tools to reduce executive dysfunction and reclaim your energy

Your brain works differently, but that doesn’t mean you’re doomed to suffer.