ADHD Therapy for Adults
If you're here, you've probably already been told to try a planner.
You may have five of them. You may have bought a sixth last month, used it for nine days, and felt something familiar settle in when you stopped. That pattern isn't a willpower problem, and it isn't going to be solved by finding the right app.
Here's what ADHD actually looks like for a lot of adults: the email you've been meaning to send for three weeks that would take four minutes. The dentist appointment rescheduled twice and now avoided entirely because rescheduling it again feels worse than the tooth. A brain that can do six hours of focused work on something interesting at 11pm and cannot start a twenty-minute task at 2 in the afternoon. Being called lazy by people who have never watched you try.
You're not lazy. You're running a nervous system that handles attention, time, motivation, and emotional regulation differently than most people's — and most of the advice aimed at you was written by people whose brains don't work that way.
ADHD responds well to treatment. Not to trying harder, which you've already done more of than anyone gives you credit for, but to approaches built for how your brain actually operates. Whether you were diagnosed at nine or you started reading about this six months ago and something clicked, there's real work we can do.
What I Treat
Adult ADHD — inattentive, hyperactive, and combined presentations
Executive function difficulties — planning, prioritizing, initiating, and completing tasks
Time blindness and chronic lateness
Emotional dysregulation and low frustration tolerance
Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD)
Hyperfocus and difficulty transitioning between tasks
Working memory challenges
ADHD and co-occurring anxiety or depression
Burnout from years of masking or overcompensating
Shame and self-criticism related to ADHD symptoms
What This Isn’t
This isn't a productivity coaching engagement, and I'm not going to hand you a system and check whether you used it.
You also don't need a diagnosis to start. Plenty of people I work with suspect ADHD and have never been evaluated — often because they did fine in school, or because nobody was looking. If it turns out ADHD isn't the right frame for what's happening, we'll find the one that is. Either way, the executive skills work is the same.
And you don't have to decide anything about medication to be here. Some of my clients take it, some don't, some are trying to figure it out. That's your call, not mine.
My Approach to ADHD
Most ADHD advice fails for the same reason: it assumes the problem is not knowing what to do. You know what to do. You've known for years. The gap is between knowing and doing, and no system fixes that by being a better system.
So I start somewhere else — with what actually happens in the moment things stall. What the task feels like at the point you veer away from it. Whether it's boredom, or dread, or the fact that the first step is undefined and your brain won't start on something undefined. Those are different problems with different solutions, and lumping them together as "procrastination" is why generic advice keeps missing.
From there we build things that work with how your attention actually behaves rather than against it. External structure instead of memory, because memory isn't where your reliability lives. Ways to make a task concrete enough to start. Deadlines that don't depend on manufacturing panic at the last minute — which works, technically, at a cost that compounds over a career.
I'll also ask what you actually want this for. Not "be more productive" — that's somebody else's goal wearing your clothes. The specific things: finishing the degree, being someone your kids can count on, getting through a workday without ending it ashamed. Motivation built on those holds up better than motivation built on guilt, which has been your fuel source for a while now and is running out.
I'm an ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider, which means specialized training in treating ADHD specifically rather than general therapy pointed at an ADHD client. That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. I serve adults in Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Vermont, New Hampshire, Ohio, and Minnesota.
When the Diagnosis Explains Too Much
A late diagnosis often brings relief and something harder alongside it. People look back at a marriage, a career, a decade of near-misses and start recalculating what it cost to go unsupported. That's grief, and it's worth real time — not a footnote on the way to strategies. Separation, divorce, career losses and hurt relationships are common, and they have a cost. Relationships come up constantly here. Years of "you weren't listening" and "you said you'd handle it," where both people were describing something real and neither knew what it was.