IN-PERSON AND ONLINE IN CALIFORNIA
ADHD Therapy in Gold River, CA
You can stop pushing yourself so hard.
You know you hold so much potential. But sometimes it feels like you’re blocked from accessing it.
One week, you might breeze through your to-do list and then some. The next week, you might struggle to focus enough to do meaningful deep work. Maybe you think back on how easily things flowed before and feel like you’re failing.
There could be times you say yes to extra tasks because you know you can handle it, then you think about it nonstop until the deadline spurs you into action. You get it done, but you're depleted for days afterward, and overwhelmed by everything that piled up in the meantime.
Then there are the days when you cancel plans you were initially excited about because you’re too drained or busy when the time comes to follow through. Maybe you feel bad about it so you write a long explanation to justify canceling instead of just saying you’re not up for it.
In relationships, you’re usually the one making sure everyone has what they need and that things are getting done. You can handle it all for a while, until it becomes too much and you’re left wondering why it always seems to fall on you.
You feel like you…
Are either all-in or all-out, with very little middle ground or consistency.
Struggle to get started even when you know exactly what needs to happen.
Use so much energy to keep your head barely above water, even though you hide it well.
Have so much going through your head it’s hard to know where to put your focus.
Need to feel pressure or urgency for a task before you can get started, but being under so much pressure wears you out.
Keep failing at doing the things you know you’re capable of, even though you’re putting in tremendous effort.
How i work
You don’t need to push yourself harder. You just need a new approach.
You're already capable of getting an incredible amount done. The challenge is that you’re trying to operate in a way that might work temporarily, but cost too much energy to keep up with consistently. This is exhausting and unsustainable to maintain. (And that’s true for anyone—not just you!)
We start by understanding how your brain works. I won’t give you generic productivity advice, because that advice wasn’t made for you. We'll look at how attention, energy, urgency, and activation actually work for you, then build supports around that.
I’ll also introduce deeper work to address feelings like anxiety or tendencies toward overdoing it or people-pleasing. I see these often in my clients who have spent a whole lifetime putting so much pressure on themselves to reach a certain level of performance all the time.
Between sessions, we build small, low-stakes experiments to help you rebuild your self-trust by practicing new skills in everyday life. Our time together will be collaborative and focused on helping you make changes that fit your life, instead of trying to fit into someone else’s.
Therapy can help you…
Understand how your energy and attention shift and develop ways to plan and follow through that account for that.
Notice when you're overextending yourself and have the tools to make adjustments to avoid a crash.
Recover from a setback in a productive way that doesn’t involve self-blame.
Make decisions about what to take on based on your actual capacity that day, not what you think you “should” be able to handle.
Build in flexibility for the days that don't go as planned, instead of treating those days as failures.
Understand how your brain works, so the systems you build are shaped around it as it is, not what you want it to be.
ADHD THERAPY IN CALIFORNIA
It’s time to work with your brain instead of fighting against it.
Questions? I’ve got answers.
Frequently asked questions —
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You don't need a formal diagnosis to work with me. Therapy can help us work with the patterns you're experiencing, but it isn't the same as a formal ADHD evaluation. A lot of my clients come in suspecting they might have ADHD or a neurodivergent brain, but have never been formally evaluated or diagnosed. That’s perfectly fine. I offer a free consultation during which we can discuss what you’re going through and determine if this kind of therapy will be the right fit for you.
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I’m a neurodiversity-affirming therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker with clinical experience working with neurodivergent adults and teens. I understand ADHD is more than just an issue with productivity. I take a practical approach to help clients develop tools and systems that work with how their brain already functions, instead of trying to change their brain to be different. My clients leave our sessions with strategies that have real-world applications.
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I work with clients on:
Procrastination
Overfunctioning
Cycles of pushing and crashing
Overcommitting
Overwhelm
Anxiety
Difficulty trusting their own capacity
Relationship strain
Executive functioning
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I work with both teens and adults who have ADHD or suspect they have ADHD. This can be difficult to live with regardless of age or life stage and I’m here to offer my support for it.
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Both. I see clients in person in Gold River, and online throughout California. Online sessions work just as well for most of what we do together, and can be easier to fit into a schedule that's already stretched thin.
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Understanding the pattern is often where clients start, not where they're stuck. A lot of my clients can explain exactly what happens and why, and it still keeps happening anyway. Our work will take that understanding and use it to build practical systems for your life that work with how your brain already operates.
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I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who specializes in working with neurodivergent adults and teens. My approach combines executive-functioning support with deeper work around anxiety, perfectionism, relationships, self-criticism, and the patterns people often develop after years of struggling to meet expectations.