ADHD in adults looks different
ADHD in adults doesn’t look like it does in kids. If you’ve spent years working around it, with systems, longer hours, and effort nobody else seemed to need, it can go unnoticed for a long time. It usually shows up when the workarounds stop working. A promotion. A new baby. A job where no one else is keeping you on track anymore.
And it costs more than focus. Fall short of your own standards for long enough, and it stops feeling like a problem you have. It starts feeling like who you are. I should be able to do this. It seems so easy for everyone else. Sooner or later, someone’s going to notice.
That’s the part I work on. Systems help, but so does looking at what all that effort has done to how you see yourself.
It’s also worth saying that trouble concentrating has more than one cause. Anxiety, depression, trauma, and being under pressure for too long can all do it, and knowing which one you’re dealing with changes what helps.
What therapy helps with
Not being able to start, staring at an important email, deck, or project, knowing exactly what to do, and still feeling frozen
Running on deadline adrenaline, needing pressure, a crisis, or panic to finally focus and get it done
Losing track of time, misjudging how long things take, disappearing down rabbit holes, and always rushing
Working twice as hard to keep up, putting in extra hours behind the scenes to cover what’s slipping, until you’re running on empty
Feeling knocked off balance, when criticism, mistakes, or small setbacks hit much harder than they should
Hyperfocus and crashes, locking onto a problem for hours without eating,
Here's how we get there
We integrate neurodivergent-affirming, evidence-based methods to untangle executive bottlenecks, quiet shame loops, and build sustainable momentum:
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Targeting executive function challenges & untangling RSD
Depth Psychotherapy
Healing the Shame Wound & Masking Fatigue
Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)
Regulating Somatic Overstimulation & Panic
FAQs
Therapy for Adult ADHD
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Intelligence, perfectionism, and a strong work ethic can hide ADHD well into adulthood. When you were younger, structure did a lot of the work for you: school schedules, parents keeping you on track, or simply being smart enough to get by. As life asks more of you, like leading a team, working through hard conversations in a relationship, or running a household, there’s more to plan, track, and remember than effort alone can cover. A late diagnosis doesn’t mean your symptoms aren’t real. It means the strategies that used to work stopped being enough.
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Medication can raise baseline dopamine levels and quiet internal noise, but it does not teach you how to organize a calendar, break through task paralysis, or regulate emotional reactivity. Pills do not build systems. Therapy targets the operational scaffolding and the behavioral habits that medication alone cannot solve. Whether you choose medication, manage holistically, or combine both, our work engineers the external systems, pacing routines, and cognitive tools needed to run your life with predictability.
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For most of your life, you’ve probably been told your struggles were laziness, a lack of discipline, or immaturity. Often it’s something called executive dysfunction. It’s the email you’ve meant to answer for a week, the laundry that sits in the dryer for days, or the bill you forget to pay even though the money is there. You know what to do and you want to do it, but you can’t make yourself start. When that happens again and again, it’s easy to start blaming yourself. That shame comes from years of trying to use systems built for brains that work differently than yours. In our work, we separate your worth from how your brain works, and build routines that motivate you without relying on shame.
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Most productivity advice tells you to buy a planner, write a longer to-do list, or just sit down and focus. With ADHD, that often adds to the overwhelm instead of fixing it. In our work, we look at how your brain handles planning, starting, and follow-through, and at the feelings that get in the way, like putting things off, freezing because it has to be perfect, or only being able to start when a deadline is breathing down your neck. There’s no one-size-fits-all system. We build simple, flexible routines around how you actually work.
Session Cost
Private Individual Therapy: $225/ 50-minute session
Couples Therapy: $250/ 50-minute session
In-person in Hermosa Beach or via telehealth anywhere in California.
EMDR
$275/ 50-minute session
In-person in Hermosa Beach or via telehealth anywhere in California.
Insurance: I am an out-of-network provider and do not bill insurance directly. I provide a monthly "superbill" that you can submit to your insurer for potential reimbursement. Check with your plan to verify your out-of-network mental health coverage.
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