ADHD Therapy
Coaching & Counselling for Women and Queer People Online Across British Columbia
“ADHD isn’t a lack of knowing what to do—it’s a challenge with doing what you know.”
— Dr. Russell Barkley
Living with ADHD isn’t just about being unfocused or disorganized. It is about having a uniquely wired and different brain, while navigating a world that often misunderstands it.
As Dr. Russell Barkley explains, “ADHD isn’t a lack of knowing what to do—it’s a challenge with doing what you know.” Simply put, ADHD can be understood as a difference in executive functioning, affecting skills like attention, time management, impulse control, and emotion regulation. But ADHD is much more complex than this as its ripple effects can touch nearly every part of life, including work, relationships, and overall wellbeing. Exploring how ADHD shows up for you, and finding ways to navigate its impact, is something we can explore together.
Dr. Barkley, one of the foremost ADHD experts, suggests that treatment for ADHD is quick, easy and highly effective. With the right support, you can experience meaningful relief, improved focus and acquire skills for a greater sense of confidence in your daily life.
You may find yourself cycling through bursts of hyper-focus and fatigue, forgetting important tasks, or feeling overwhelmed by simple decisions.
Time can feel slippery, motivation inconsistent, and your emotions can feel intense and fast-moving. Shame, self-doubt and low-self-worth can follow, especially when your strengths, like deep empathy, the rapid generation of ideas, or out-of-the-box thinking, go unrecognized or unsupported.
Whether you’ve been recently diagnosed with ADHD, you self-identify as having it or you have known for years…
This is a supportive, strengths-based, space offering ADHD coaching and ADHD counselling for Women and Queer folks, with neurodivergent minds to explore their patterns, build practical tools and reconnect to themselves and others with confidence and greater understanding.
ADHD Support
We offer compassionate, strengths-based, and inclusive support for ADHD through education, screening, ADHD Coaching and Therapy that is tailored to meet you where you are at.
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We can discuss what ADHD is, explore where it shows up in your life and the areas it can impact and options to treat and manage it.
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ADHD Coaching is a more active and directive approach to treating and managing ADHD.
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In therapy for ADHD, I can screen you for ADHD and if it looks likely that you have ADHD, I will send you to a medical provider to get officially assessed.
The next step involves education and information about your options to treat ADHD to manage your symptoms.
We explore areas that may need some attention such as organization or skill building, memory strategies or tips to manage impulsivity.
You will then apply your new skills in your life and enjoy the new positive outcomes that can emerge after you treat your ADHD.
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A booster session is a drop-in session, after you have treated ADHD, to periodically refresh your skills and fine tune your newly optimized brain and life!
Understanding ADHD
According to ADHD expert Dr. Russell Barkley, ADHD is a challenge of self-regulation which impacts how we manage time, organize our behavior and use internal motivation to guide our actions. This means that people with ADHD often know what they want to do, but struggle to initiate, sustain or complete tasks in a timely and consistent manner. It’s not about effort or intelligence; it’s about how the brain prioritizes, filters and acts on information in real time.
Some of the most common struggles include:
Time blindness: difficulty estimating how long things take or feeling the urgency of future deadlines
Working memory challenges: forgetting tasks, losing track of plans, or struggling to hold ideas in mind long enough to act on them
Emotional dysregulation: intense frustration, low tolerance for stress, rejection sensitivity and emotional "snap" responses
Impulse control issues: speaking or acting without pause, struggling to delay gratification or stop certain behaviors
Task initiation and follow-through: procrastination, paralysis with unstructured time or burnout from constantly playing catch-up
Chronic self-criticism: internalizing past failures or being labeled lazy, messy or unmotivated by others—even when you try your best
These challenges can erode self-trust, impact relationships and make everyday life feel difficult, scattered and overwhelming.
ADHD Coaching and Counselling that Meets You Where You Are At
In ADHD-informed coaching and therapy, we focus on helping you build practical strategies and emotional insight. We can support you to create systems to work with your brain, like structuring your time, clarifying goals and developing routines that stick. We can also help you to explore and unlearn shame, understand your emotional patterns, improve your relationships and rebuild your sense of confidence and self-worth.
Together, we will:
Break goals into manageable steps
Develop sustainable routines based on how you function best
Use externalization tools like visual cues, body-doubling and accountability systems
Build emotional regulation techniques and resilience
Reframe the ADHD narrative—so you stop blaming yourself and start working with your unique wiring
Identify your core values and strengths to guide decision-making and create a life that feels aligned with your goals.
If you have ever been called lazy, felt deeply unmotivated, or felt that no achievement will ever be enough, you are living in a system that wasn’t designed for you!
In working together, you’ll find support that’s affirming, nonjudgmental and personalized. You’ll learn how to get motivated and design systems that actually work for you. It is not you, it is your brain.
Whether we’re building habits, navigating overwhelm, or clarifying your focus, we’ll move at your pace, with curiosity, care and guidance.
ADHD has a profile of strengths and superpowers, and when you have the right support, you can feel more confident and achieve your goals with ease.
