Adult ADHD, Anxiety & Overwhelm

You’re not lazy. You’re exhausted from working so hard to keep up.

Maybe you’ve always been capable—good at your job, responsible, the person other people depend on. But behind the scenes, everyday life can feel surprisingly hard.

You procrastinate until the pressure kicks in. You lose track of time. You start five things and finish none of them. Your brain feels like it has 27 tabs open at once. You make lists, buy planners, create systems—and then wonder why you can’t seem to stick with any of them.

Or maybe you are getting everything done—but your brain never seems to stop.

You overthink decisions. Replay conversations. Worry about what you forgot or what might go wrong. You hold yourself to impossible standards and have a hard time relaxing because there is always something else you should be doing.

And sometimes it's hard to know: Is this ADHD? Anxiety? Perfectionism? Or all of it tangled together?

For many women, ADHD doesn't look like what they expected. It can show up as overwhelm, perfectionism, anxiety, emotional sensitivity, overthinking, difficulty starting tasks, inconsistent motivation, or constantly feeling like you're trying to catch up.

And anxiety can create its own version of many of those same struggles. Sometimes anxiety exists on its own. Sometimes years of struggling with ADHD—forgetting things, falling behind, feeling different, or never quite trusting yourself to stay on top of everything—can create a tremendous amount of anxiety and self-doubt. And sometimes it's both.

You don't have to figure that out before you come to therapy. We can explore it together.

Therapy can help you understand what's happening, let go of some of the shame and self-criticism you've accumulated along the way, and build practical strategies that actually fit your life.

The goal isn't to make you better at forcing yourself to function like everyone else. It's to understand yourself, have compassion for what's genuinely hard, recognize strengths you may have overlooked, and find ways of doing life that work better for you.

Is This Right for Me?

Adult ADHD, Anxiety & Overwhelm may be a good fit if you're looking for ongoing therapy—not a quick fix or a one-time action plan.

You don't need an ADHD diagnosis to reach out. You might already know you have ADHD, be wondering whether you do, or have spent years thinking, I'm just an anxious person.

This may sound like you if you find yourself thinking:

I know what I need to do. Why can't I just do it?

I'm doing everything. Why can't I stop worrying and just feel like it's enough?

You may struggle with getting started, following through, managing time, staying organized, maintaining routines, or regulating your attention and emotions. Or you may be getting all of those things done while overthinking, people-pleasing, worrying, second-guessing yourself, striving for perfection, and feeling exhausted by the pressure you put on yourself.

Maybe you've spent years creating new systems, buying planners, setting reminders, telling yourself to stop worrying, or promising that this time you'll stay on top of things. When none of it seems to stick, it's easy to assume the problem is motivation, discipline, or something about you.

That's where I want us to get curious rather than critical.

We'll typically meet for 50–60 minutes weekly, especially when we're first getting started. As you make progress, we may decide together that meeting every other week makes more sense.

Our sessions give us room to look at the bigger picture—not just productivity, organization, or anxiety symptoms, but how everything may intersect with relationships, emotional regulation, self-esteem, perfectionism, motivation, identity, and the expectations you've carried for yourself.

Some weeks we'll dig into patterns and where they come from. Other weeks we may troubleshoot something very practical happening in your life. Often, we'll do both.

Why I Do This Work

Looking back at my education, it's remarkable how little I learned about ADHD.

I studied psychology and education, went through graduate school, completed my clinical internships, and received extensive training in behavior analysis—and ADHD was still something we barely talked about.

It wasn't until I began working extensively with children with autism that I started noticing how often ADHD showed up alongside it. I wanted to understand what I was seeing, so I started learning more.

And then I moved into private practice and started working primarily with adults.

I saw ADHD everywhere.

Not necessarily in the stereotypical ways I had originally been taught to recognize it, either. I saw it in intelligent, capable adults who were overwhelmed by seemingly ordinary tasks. In women who had spent years thinking they were simply anxious or needed to be more organized. In people who could accomplish incredible things when they were interested or under pressure but couldn't understand why other parts of life felt impossibly hard.

Anxiety is a little different for me.

Anxiety is an area I've understood personally as well as professionally for a very long time.

Because of that, I've spent years wanting to understand it—not just what anxiety is, but what actually helps when your brain knows something logically and your nervous system seems to have an entirely different opinion.

I've learned tools because I needed to understand the tools. I've studied different approaches because I've seen that what works beautifully for one person may do very little for another. And I've become particularly interested in the difference between understanding anxiety intellectually and actually knowing what to do when you're in it.

That experience has shaped the way I work. I don't want to simply tell you to challenge your thoughts, take a deep breath, or stop worrying. I want us to build a toolbox—and figure out which tools actually work for you, when to use them, and why.

And over time, I've become increasingly interested in the place where ADHD and anxiety meet.

Is the anxiety its own thing? Is it coming from years of forgetting things, running late, feeling behind, or never quite trusting yourself to stay on top of everything? Is perfectionism helping you compensate for executive-functioning challenges? Is the overthinking anxiety, ADHD, or both?

Sometimes the answer is clear. Sometimes it's complicated. We can get curious about it together.

And I Keep Learning

I've taken countless continuing-education courses, read books and research, listened to experts and podcasts, and continued seeking out new perspectives on ADHD, anxiety, neurodivergence, and the ways they overlap.

The more I learn, the more aware I become of how much our understanding continues to evolve.

That's something I actually love about this work.

I don't think specializing in something means reaching a point where you know everything about it. I think it means caring enough about it that you never stop learning.

As our understanding changes, I want my work to change with it. I want to keep questioning what I think I know, discovering better ways to help, and bringing what I learn back into the therapy room.

Because ultimately, I'm less interested in what ADHD or anxiety is supposed to look like and much more interested in what it's like for you.

What does it cost?

Unlike my focused Reset services, this is psychotherapy and may be covered by your health insurance. I am in-network with a number of insurance plans, and your individual cost will depend on your specific benefits, deductible, and copay/coinsurance.

Private-pay therapy is also available.

You don't need to know exactly what you want to work on before you start. We can figure that out together.