ADHD Therapy for Adults in Austin
When your brain works differently, trying harder isn't always the answer.
Therapy for adults with ADHD navigating overwhelm, procrastination, burnout, perfectionism, emotional intensity, relationships, and the exhausting feeling that you should somehow be doing better.
A space to understand your patterns, untangle ADHD from shame and self-criticism, and find ways of living and working that actually fit you.
Austin, Texas + Online Therapy Across Texas
When everything feels harder than it seems like it should...
You may know exactly what you need to do and still have trouble doing it. Starting can feel impossible until suddenly you’re hyperfocused for six hours. Small tasks pile up. Time disappears. Your brain can feel simultaneously overwhelmed, bored, restless, and exhausted.
Maybe you’ve spent years being told that you’re too much, not trying hard enough, disorganized, overly sensitive, inconsistent, or somehow failing at things that seem easier for everyone else.
Over time, ADHD can become tangled up with shame. Instead of thinking, “my brain struggles with this,” it can start to feel like “there’s something wrong with me.”
And ADHD doesn’t only show up in productivity. It can affect relationships, emotional regulation, self-esteem, creativity, work, decision-making, and the way you understand yourself.
Therapy can be a place to understand your brain without reducing you to a diagnosis.
ADHD is about more than productivity.
EMOTIONS + RELATIONSHIPS + ATTENTION
ADHD can affect much more than your ability to focus, organize, or get things done. It can shape how you experience emotions, relationships, rejection, motivation, creativity, and your sense of yourself.
You may feel things intensely, replay conversations long after they happen, become deeply absorbed in an idea or relationship, or have difficulty shifting your attention away from something that feels emotionally important.
Some adults with ADHD also describe becoming intensely focused on romantic interests or relationships—replaying interactions, searching for signs of reciprocation, struggling with uncertainty, or experiencing what is sometimes called limerence, an intense preoccupation with another person.
Rather than assuming ADHD explains everything, therapy gives us room to get curious about what may be interacting underneath these experiences, including attention, novelty, attachment, rejection sensitivity, past relationships, unmet needs, and the meaning a particular person or relationship holds for you.
The goal isn't to make you less intense. It's to help you understand your intensity so it doesn't have to run the show.
What might bring you to therapy?
01 — OVERWHELM + EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
Starting tasks, managing time, staying organized, making decisions, following through, or feeling like everyday responsibilities require far more effort than they seem to for everyone else.
02 — BURNOUT + INCONSISTENCY
Cycling between periods of intense productivity and exhaustion, struggling to maintain routines, or wondering why something that worked yesterday suddenly feels impossible today.
03 — EMOTIONAL INTENSITY + RELATIONSHIPS
Rejection sensitivity, rumination, conflict, impulsivity, difficulty regulating emotions, or trying to understand how ADHD patterns may be showing up in your relationships.
04 — SHAME + SELF-TRUST
Years of feeling lazy, too much, disorganized, unreliable, or not good enough—and wanting to separate who you actually are from the criticism you've absorbed along the way.
You don't need another person telling you to try harder.
IFS + EXISTENTIAL THERAPY
AUSTIN + ONLINE THERAPY ACROSS TEXAS
Many adults with ADHD have spent years trying to become more organized, more disciplined, more consistent, or simply better at functioning the way they think they should.
In therapy, we can get curious about the parts of you that have developed around those struggles: the part that procrastinates or avoids, the part that pushes until you're burned out, the inner critic that believes you should be doing more, and the part that may have learned to see ADHD struggles as personal failures.
Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and existential therapy, we'll explore both what's happening inside you and the larger questions underneath it: What actually matters to you? Which expectations are truly yours? What would your life look like if it were built around the way you actually function rather than the way you think you're supposed to?
The goal isn't to turn you into a more efficient version of yourself. It's to help you understand yourself more deeply and build a life that works with your brain instead of constantly fighting against it.
If goal setting has become another place to feel like you're failing, I wrote more about approaching goals differently with ADHD.
Therapy for adults with ADHD
You might recognize yourself here if you are:
01 — LATE-DIAGNOSED ADULTS
Making sense of ADHD later in life and reconsidering years of struggles you may have understood as laziness, inconsistency, lack of discipline, or personal failure.
02 — HYPERFOCUS + STIMULATION-SEEKING
Getting intensely absorbed in interests, projects, ideas, or people; struggling to shift your attention; chasing novelty or stimulation; or finding ordinary tasks painfully difficult to engage with.
03 — CREATIVES + ENTREPRENEURS
Navigating ADHD in work that requires self-direction, including inconsistent motivation, procrastination, creative blocks, overwhelm, burnout, and the freedom—and chaos—of making your own structure.
04 — RELATIONSHIPS + ATTACHMENT
Becoming intensely focused on another person, replaying conversations, feeling especially sensitive to rejection or changes in connection, struggling with uncertainty, or wondering why relationships can take up so much space in your mind.
Questions about ADHD therapy
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No. You don't need a formal ADHD diagnosis to begin therapy with me. You may already have a diagnosis, suspect you have ADHD, or simply recognize yourself in some of these patterns. We can explore your experience without requiring you to arrive with everything figured out.
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ADHD therapy can make space for more than organization and productivity. We might explore overwhelm, procrastination, burnout, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, relationships, self-esteem, shame, hyperfocus, or the ways ADHD has shaped how you understand yourself.
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ADHD can intersect with relationships in complicated ways. Some adults describe intense focus on another person, rumination, sensitivity to rejection, difficulty with uncertainty, or experiences they identify as limerence. Rather than assuming ADHD is the cause, therapy can help us explore how attention, attachment, novelty, emotional intensity, past experiences, and unmet needs may be interacting.
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No. I provide psychotherapy rather than psychological testing or medication management. If formal ADHD assessment or medication evaluation would be helpful, those services would need to come from an appropriate medical or psychological provider.
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Yes. I offer online ADHD therapy to clients throughout Texas, in addition to working with clients in Austin. If you're temporarily or permanently outside Texas, contact me and we can determine whether I'm able to work with you based on your location and applicable licensing requirements.