In clinical terms, we work on challenges related to:

• Executive Dysfunction: Difficulty with planning, organizing, task initiation, and time management—the “CEO” of your brain.
• Emotional Dysregulation: Intense, quick-shifting emotions that are hard to manage.
• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD): Extreme emotional sensitivity to perceived criticism or rejection.
• Neurodivergence: A non-medical term that describes people whose brains process information differently. ADHD is a form of neurodivergence.

How We Deal With It in Therapy Together

My approach is practical, strengths-based, and collaborative:

• Skill Building & Strategy: Co-creating personalized, sustainable systems for organization, time management, and task initiation that you’ll actually use.
• Emotional Regulation Skills: Using techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to manage RSD, frustration, and big feelings more effectively.
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Challenging the patterns of negative self-talk and shame that often develop after years of struggling undiagnosed.
• Strengths-Based Focus: Identifying and leveraging your innate ADHD strengths—like creativity, hyperfocus, problem-solving, and big-picture thinking.
• Environment Optimization: Problem-solving to adapt your home, work, and social environments to set you up for success, not constant frustration.

A Little Something to Help You Now: The “Body Double” Trick

If you have a task you’ve been avoiding, try this:

• Ask someone to be your “body double.” This doesn’t mean they help you with the task. They simply need to be physically present in the same room (or on a video call) while you work on it.
• Their presence creates accountability and can often quiet the mental noise that makes starting so difficult. You can even mutual body double: Both of you work on your own separate tasks quietly together. The shared focus is often enough to unlock productivity.
• Stop struggling against your brain and start partnering with it. Let’s build the strategies and self-compassion you need to thrive.