Affirming Therapy for ADHD Adults

    • You need therapy suited for your ADHD brain!

    • Offering creative, movement-based, trauma-informed therapies

    • Virtual, for PA residents

    • I have lived experience, and have studied how ADHD works

    • Trained in Internal Family Systems (Levels 1 & 2)

    • Trans-Affirming, Anti-Oppressive Lens

    • Contact me or explore the website to learn more!

Do you criticize yourself when you:

  • measure time wrong,

  • miss deadlines,

  • or flake on commitments to friends and family?

Do you wish you could recover from rejection and failure without beating yourself up so much?

When we mess up once, we can usually forgive ourselves, apologize, and move on.

But for ADHDers, we might keep repeating the same types of mistakes and start to lose trust in ourselves.

We also might form habits such as avoidance or defensiveness because we’re so tired of disappointing ourselves and others. 

For ADHD adults, “a few minutes,” can actually mean hours, days, weeks! We don’t live in a vacuum, so that kind of time distortion can lead to getting in trouble at work, or conflicts with our partners, family, and friends.

As this keeps happening, our lives feel more difficult to manage, and shame can build up!

It is possible to process shame and self-doubt in a constructive way, but we need help and support.

You are NOT alone.

I’ve been there myself (read more about my story here) and I know how these kinds of patterns can leave you feeling ashamed, self-critical, or hopeless. Whether you use the term ADHD or not, having an ADHD brain in a capitalist society is hard, but can be less of a struggle with therapy designed specifically for you.

How I Do:

Three (of many) things that are essential for the ADHD mind/body are:

  • Movement

  • Creativity

  • Connection

Less of these = more struggle,

More of them = more thriving

My training in dance/movement therapy helps clients integrate movement and creativity in the therapy process, and my Internal Family Systems training centers the healing energy of connection and compassion we all have within us.

ADHD is just one of the many ways a brain can work, but we often are carrying frustration and shame about the ways it has made our lives so tough.

Therapy can help you move through it and become a better friend to yourself.

And did you know….

ADHD-ers actually THRIVE with a challenge!

The more you learn about yourself and what you need, the more you can see life as a series of challenges that need creative solutions.

The practices I use in therapy can help you to:

  • Feel more compassionate towards yourself and others

  • Increase confidence moving through shame and other difficult feelings

  • Increase accountability in your relationships

  • Use creative problem-solving instead of self-blame

If you’re resonating with all this, but not looking to start 1:1 therapy, you can:

2. Check for any upcoming events!

You deserve 

  • to learn more about how your brain works,

  • to have a felt sense that there’s nothing wrong with you, 

  • and to develop some confidence in your complex/messy/awesome self!

    You have something special to bring to this world.

Contact me to learn more!

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