Specialized Care for ADHD
ADHD in women and girls tends to look different than the hyperactive presentation most people picture, and it is often masked or misdiagnosed as anxiety or mood struggles instead. I help clients understand their own brains, build systems that actually fit how they think, and unlearn the years of self-criticism that so often come from being told to just try harder.
Signs You May Need Support with ADHD
Time moves strangely for you; you are either four hours early or twenty minutes late, and you have very little sense of how long anything actually takes.
You have been called sensitive, dramatic, or too much, and you have a strong internal reaction to criticism
You have spent years masking, meaning you have built an exhausting set of workarounds that keep things looking fine from the outside while costing you nearly everything on the inside.
Your systems work beautifully for about nine days, then collapse, and you start over with a new planner and the same shame.
Your symptoms shift with your cycle, your pregnancy, your postpartum year, or perimenopause, and no one has ever mentioned to you that hormones and attention are related.
You were diagnosed recently, or you have just started to suspect, and you are grieving the version of yourself who could have known this earlier.
You can hyperfocus for six hours on something that interests you and cannot start a fifteen minute task that does not, and this inconsistency is the part that makes you doubt yourself most.
Our Approach to ADHD Therapy
Diagnostic clarity and psychoeducation first, so you understand how ADHD actually presents in women and girls, which looks far less like hyperactivity and far more like internal restlessness, overwhelm, and years of compensating.
Cognitive behavioral therapy adapted for ADHD, which targets the thought patterns that turn a missed deadline into evidence that you are fundamentally unreliable.
Externalized executive function support, meaning we build structures that live outside your brain rather than relying on the part of your brain that is not going to cooperate.
Focused work on rejection sensitivity, including how to recognize the flood in your body, ride it out, and respond after it passes instead of during it.
Self-compassion and shame repair, because most women arrive with a decade of internalized criticism that no organizational system is going to touch.
Attention to hormonal shifts across the lifespan, including cycle tracking, pregnancy, postpartum, and perimenopause, so treatment accounts for the fact that your symptoms are not static.
Support navigating accommodations, evaluations, and conversations with schools, employers, and prescribers.
Coordination with your psychiatrist or prescriber when medication is part of your care, so the therapy and the medication are working toward the same thing.