Therapy for ADHD & Mental Health

ADHD Shapes Your Emotional Life

If you have ADHD, you may notice that managing your mental health feels different from what most advice is built for. Strategies that seem to work for other people do not always land for you. Self care can feel impossible to maintain. Emotions may come on fast, feel intense, or stick around longer than you expect.

This is not about doing anything wrong. It is about the way your brain processes emotion, motivation, and stress, along with the patterns you learned over time. Therapy works better when it starts from that reality.

How ADHD Affects How You Feel

ADHD influences more than focus. It shapes:

• How quickly emotions show up

• How intense they feel

• How you make sense of your experiences

• How you cope with stress and pressure

• How conditions like anxiety or depression intertwine with daily life

Having language for this can be a relief in itself.

What Shows Up Most Often

Emotional Intensity

Many people with ADHD move from calm to overwhelmed much faster than they want to. These reactions often blend your wiring with earlier experiences of not having enough support when big feelings hit.

Impulsivity with a Purpose

Impulsivity is usually an attempt to manage discomfort or avoid something scary, even if it does not look that way on the surface. Once you understand what is driving it, it becomes easier to slow down.

Anxiety and Old Wounds

Racing thoughts, fear of letting people down, perfectionistic pressure. These often reflect both ADHD and past experiences. Sorting out what belongs to each can make your reactions feel less confusing.

The Self Care Gap

You may know exactly what would help yet struggle to follow through. This is a familiar experience with ADHD and has nothing to do with laziness.

Coping in the Moment

People often use whatever helps them get through the day. That might bring relief in the moment but create stress later. These patterns usually develop for good reasons and deserve understanding, not shame.

Stress and Overload

Work, relationships, caregiving, and everyday responsibilities can feel heavier when your executive functioning is already stretched. Support needs to match how your brain works.

Identity and Old Messages

Experiences with gender, culture, family, and past relationships all shape how you see yourself. Many people carry years of being told they are too much or not enough. Therapy helps soften these messages so they have less power.

When ADHD Meets Other Conditions

ADHD rarely shows up alone. Depression, anxiety, and trauma responses often overlap with executive functioning challenges. Treatment works best when all of these layers are considered together.

Schedule a 15-minute consultation so we can discuss what you’re looking for help with, answer any questions you have, and discuss if we might work well together.

How Therapy Helps

Therapy is not about pushing harder. It is about slowing down enough to understand what is happening inside you and building support that fits your life.

Together, we might work on:

• Understanding your emotional patterns

• Building self care routines that match your energy and attention

• Making sense of anxiety, depression, or trauma responses

• Creating strategies for impulsivity

• Developing coping skills that work for your brain

• Untangling shame and internalized messages

• Building systems that feel realistic and sustainable

• Exploring how ADHD intersects with identity and relationships

You do not have to figure this out alone.

Who This Work Is For

This work is for you if:

• Your emotions feel fast or intense

• You are stuck in patterns you can see but cannot shift

• You have tried common strategies and still feel overwhelmed

• You sense deeper emotional dynamics underneath ADHD

• You carry old messages about being too much or not enough

• You want to understand the meaning behind your reactions

• You want support that takes your complexity seriously

What to Expect

You can expect a space where your emotional intensity is understood, your ADHD traits are not pathologized, and your inner world is taken seriously. We will combine insight with practical strategies so change feels possible rather than overwhelming.

Change takes time, especially when emotions and motivation work the way they do for ADHD. With approaches grounded in both your neurology and your history, many people begin to feel more clarity, more steadiness, and more room to be themselves.

Ready to begin?

The first step is to schedule a 15-minute consultation call so we can discuss what you’re looking for help with, any questions you may have for me, and whether we might work well together and be ready to schedule our first therapy session.