Therapy Intensives

What we cover

• How ADHD works in your brain

• The compensation strategies you built without noticing, what they cost, and which ones to retire

• Executive function systems designed around how you operate rather than how you were told you should

• How symptoms shift across your cycle, through pregnancy and postpartum, and into perimenopause

• Rejection sensitivity, emotional regulation, and the parts that rarely appear in a report

• Work: where it shows up, what to ask for, and what is worth disclosing

• Medication questions worth asking your prescriber, and how to tell whether it is working

• The shame that accumulates around time, money, and clutter, and what to do with it

• Where to put your attention in the next ninety days

Format
Two half-days of three hours each, usually a week apart.

An optional partner session.

A follow up session two months after

You leave with
A written plan covering your systems and your supports

Investment: $1,850

What we cover

• What actually changes in your brain and body the months after birth

• Your own risk picture

• Sleep, and a specific division of night responsibility negotiated out loud rather than assumed

• Feeding decisions held loosely, and what to do when the plan meets reality

• Intrusive thoughts: what they are, why they happen to most new mothers, and why they are almost never what you are afraid they mean

• The difference between the baby blues, a mood or anxiety disorder, and an emergency

• Warning signs, thresholds, and exactly who to call at each one

• A support map covering who does what, in writing

• A partner session on what to watch for

Format:

Two half-days of three hours each

45 minute partner session

Follow up session between 3-8 weeks postpartum

You leave with A written postpartum plan your partner, your mother, and your OB can all read.

Investment: $1,800

What we cover

• What is happening hormonally, and what that does to attention, memory, sleep, and mood

• Why this gets misread as anxiety or depression, and how to tell the difference

• Tracking your symptoms in a form a physician will take seriously

• How to prepare for and hold your ground in a medical appointment

• What responds to psychological treatment and what needs a prescriber

• ADHD that surfaces or worsens in this window, which is more common than most women are told

• Identity and role change, meaning the part of this that is not hormonal at all

• A plan for the next six months

Format One full day of six hours, with a break or two half day sessions, 3 hours each.

You leave with A symptom log you can hand to a physician, and a written plan.

Investment: $1,600

What we cover

• What actually changes when the structure of home disappears all at once

• Her specific patterns, and how they are likely to behave under new conditions

• Routines that survive without anyone supervising them

• Managing her own healthcare

• Roommates, boundaries, and conflict she has not had to handle before

• Sleep and alcohol

• Consent and Coercion

• Her own thresholds for asking for help, written down while she is calm

• Campus counseling: what it offers, what it does not, and how to access it before she needs it

• A 30 minute parent session on what to watch for from a distance and how to raise it without shutting her down

Format Two half-days of three hours each.

A parent session.

One check-in in during fall or winter

You leave with A written transition plan, and a campus support plan set up before move-in.

Investment: $1,600