Altadena · ADHD in Women
ADHD Therapy for Women in Altadena, CA
Twelve half-finished projects, one immaculate work record, and a private theory that you are secretly a fraud.
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Called scattered at nine, called high-strung at thirty.
Women with ADHD are often diagnosed decades late because the hyperactivity went internal. It looked like daydreaming, then like anxiety, then like being disorganized about the wrong things while excelling at the visible ones. Nobody screens for a girl who gets good grades and loses every water bottle she has ever owned.
By the time the diagnosis lands, the compensations are load-bearing. Taking them apart carefully, rather than all at once, is most of what we do.
Living Up Here
Space, quiet, and a commute that eats the margin.
Altadena gives people room, and room is genuinely good for an ADHD nervous system. It also means most things involve a drive, and drives are where intentions go to die. A day with three separate errands down the hill can consume the entire executive function budget before anything you actually care about gets touched.
So we look at your real week rather than an idealized one, and we build around the drive instead of pretending it is not there.
Common Ground
Things clients are relieved to hear are normal.
- Time blindness is real, and it is not the same as not caring.
- Interest-based motivation is a wiring fact, not a discipline failure.
- Hyperfocus can be a strength and a hazard in the same afternoon.
- Rest often needs to be scheduled as deliberately as work, which is annoying but true.
Underneath
Strategies fail when shame is running the system.
You can have every app and still not open one, because the moment you sit down a voice arrives with a full inventory of past failures. That voice is not a scheduling problem. Parts work gives it a place at the table without letting it run the meeting, and EMDR works on the specific memories it keeps using as evidence.
I am not a prescriber and I do not conduct formal ADHD evaluations. I work alongside the people who do.
Practical Details
Details.
$225 per 50-minute session, by secure video across California or in person at the Pasadena office. There is no Altadena office. Superbills for out-of-network. Free 10-minute consult. Alexa Aversano, LMFT, license CA 140766.
Adults and teens. Not appropriate for severe mental illness or psychotic disorders.
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