ADHD in Women
It was never a character flaw.
ADHD therapy for women in Pasadena and across California, particularly if the diagnosis arrived late and rearranged the story you had been telling about yourself.
Book a free consultDoes This Sound Like You
Some of this may land.
- You were told you were anxious. For about twenty years.
- You are capable of extraordinary focus on the wrong thing at the worst time.
- Your house is either immaculate or a crime scene, with no middle setting.
- A mildly critical email can take the afternoon off you.
- You have been managing this with sheer effort, and the effort is getting expensive.
- You care deeply about things and people, and still struggle to follow through in a way others can see.
- The diagnosis explained everything and somehow also made you grieve.
The Work
What the Work Looks Like
The grief first
A late diagnosis is good news that arrives as a bereavement. There is a version of your life that would have been easier, and you are allowed to be angry about it.
Unpicking the story
Most of what you filed under lazy, careless or too much was a brain doing its best without instructions. We go back and re-label it accurately.
Systems that survive contact with you
Not the productivity advice that assumes a neurotypical brain. Structures built around how you actually operate on a bad Tuesday.
Rejection sensitivity and masking
The two most exhausting parts, and the two least discussed. We work on the cost of performing normal.
What Changes
What Changes
People usually arrive wanting to be more functional and leave with something better than that: a working relationship with their own mind. The keys still go missing. You stop treating it as a moral event.
There is also, generally, more room. Less energy spent on self-surveillance is a lot of energy back, and most people are surprised by what they do with it.
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Where this work happens.
Come as you are.
A free, confidential ten-minute call. No paperwork, no pressure, and no obligation to book anything afterwards.