You're Not Broken. Your Brain Just Works Differently.

A women-centered approach to ADHD — grounded in compassion, somatic wisdom, and acceptance.

You've probably spent years wondering why things that seem easy for everyone else feel so hard for you. Maybe you've been called lazy, scattered, or too sensitive. Maybe you carry a quiet shame about the lists you didn't finish, the emails sitting in your drafts, or the brilliant ideas that never quite made it out of your head. I want you to know: none of that is a character flaw. It's ADHD — and it's time to work with your brain, not against it. This is a space where your whole self is welcome.

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ADHD Isn't What You Think It Is

For many people — especially women, late-diagnosed adults, and those who learned to mask early — ADHD doesn't look like a kid bouncing off the walls. It looks quieter, more internal, and often more exhausting.

⏰ Time Blindness

You look up and somehow three hours have vanished. Or you're convinced there's plenty of time, right up until you're late again.

🌊 Emotional Flooding

A small criticism lands like a wave. Rejection, frustration, or overwhelm can feel physically overwhelming — not dramatic, just real.

📋 The Paralysis of Starting

You know exactly what you need to do. You even want to do it. And yet… you can't seem to begin. The gap between intention and action feels impossible.

💡 Hyperfocus & Crash

Hours disappear into something that caught your interest — then you surface exhausted, behind on everything else, and wondering what just happened.

🎭 Masking & Exhaustion

You've gotten really good at looking "fine." But performing neurotypicality all day is draining — and it often costs you the energy to take care of yourself.

💬 The Shame Spiral

Forgetting, losing things, interrupting, over-committing — and then the familiar inner voice that wonders what's wrong with you. It's exhausting.

If any of this feels familiar, you're not alone — and you're not failing. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental difference, not a character deficit. Therapy can help you understand your nervous system, work with your patterns, and find strategies that actually fit how you're wired.

What Is W-CAT?

Women-Centered ADHD Treatment

W-CAT is a women-centered therapeutic framework designed specifically around the ways ADHD shows up in women's lives — the masking, the late diagnoses, the internalized shame, the emotional intensity, the exhaustion of performing "fine." Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all model, W-CAT grounds treatment in your lived experience as a woman with ADHD, weaving together somatic awareness, self-compassion, and acceptance-based practices to support healing from the inside out.

Women-Centered Lens

ADHD research and treatment have historically centered male presentations. W-CAT corrects that. We work with the specific ways ADHD shows up for women — including inattentive presentation, hormonal influences, people-pleasing patterns, and the unique weight of masking in gendered contexts.

Compassion-Based Healing

Women with ADHD are disproportionately burdened by shame, perfectionism, and self-blame. Compassion-focused work is woven into every session — not as a soft add-on, but as a clinically grounded intervention that directly reduces shame and increases psychological flexibility.

Acceptance & Values-Based Action

Drawing from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we practice making space for difficult inner experiences without being controlled by them — and reconnecting with your values so action becomes meaningful and sustainable, not just effortful.

Threaded throughout all of this is somatic and mindfulness-based work — because your nervous system holds the story, and healing happens in the body as much as the mind. Sessions are paced to your nervous system, never rushed, and always led by what's alive for you.

Why It Works

Your Nervous System Deserves a Therapy That Gets It

Traditional approaches to ADHD often focus on productivity hacks, behavior management, or cognitive restructuring. These can help — but they often miss something essential: the emotional and somatic experience of living with an ADHD nervous system. W-CAT meets you there.

It works with your nervous system, not against it

ADHD brains are wired for novelty, emotion, and interest-based motivation. Somatic and mindfulness practices help you build a relationship with your nervous system so you can recognize dysregulation earlier, return to regulation more easily, and stop fighting yourself.

It addresses shame at the root

Research consistently shows that shame is one of the heaviest burdens ADHD adults carry — and it actively interferes with functioning. Compassion-focused work isn't soft; it's clinically powerful. When shame decreases, capacity increases.

It helps you reconnect with what matters 

ACT's values-based approach is particularly suited to ADHD, where motivation is often sporadic and external structures fail. When action is connected to genuine meaning and personal values, it's far more sustainable than willpower alone.

It honors your whole experience

W-CAT doesn't pathologize your brain. It's built on the understanding that ADHD is a difference, not a disorder to be eliminated. We work to build a life that works for you — not a life that makes you look more neurotypical.

Our Work Together

What to Expect in Sessions

Sessions are collaborative, relational, and tailored to you. There's no rigid agenda, no homework you'll be shamed for not doing, and no expectation that you'll show up perfectly regulated.

We start with safety

Before we dive into anything heavy, we build a therapeutic container where you genuinely feel safe — in your body, in the room, and in the relationship. For many ADHD clients, this is itself healing.

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We map your nervous system

We get curious together about how your system responds — to stress, to overwhelm, to joy, to boredom. Understanding your patterns is the first step to working with them.

We work with what's present

Sessions follow what's alive for you. If you're in a shame spiral, we work there. If your body is buzzing with anxiety, we start in the body. The "plan" is always secondary to what you actually need.

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We practice, not just talk

Mindfulness, somatic check-ins, compassion practices, values clarification — these aren't homework to do later, they're things we practice together in session, so they actually land.

We celebrate and integrate

Your progress matters, and we name it. ADHD brains often skip past wins — in therapy, we slow down to let growth register and integrate into your sense of self.

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Sessions are 55 minutes, offered via telehealth across Colorado and in person if you're local to Loveland. I work with adults (18+).

Is This For You?

You Might Be in the Right Place If…

This work is designed for women who are done white-knuckling their way through life and ready to try something gentler, deeper, and more aligned with how they're actually wired.

You're a woman who's been diagnosed with ADHD (recently or years ago) and are still figuring out what that means

You suspect you have ADHD but haven't been formally diagnosed

You're exhausted from masking and performing "normal" all day

You struggle with shame, self-criticism, or feeling like you're perpetually failing

Traditional productivity tools and systems haven't stuck — and you blame yourself for it

You're a late-diagnosed woman who spent years wondering why things felt so hard

You want to understand your nervous system and build a life that actually fits you

You're drawn to a somatic, women-centered approach that goes beyond talk therapy

You've Got Questions. I've Got Honest Answers.

Reaching out for therapy — especially when you've been let down before, or when your brain is very good at finding reasons to wait — takes courage. Here are the questions I hear most often. If yours isn't here, please ask.

Not sure if this is the right fit? That's okay. A free consultation is the best way to find out. We'll talk, ask questions, and see if working together feels right — no pressure, no obligation.

Do I need a formal ADHD diagnosis to work with you?

No — and this is something I feel strongly about. Many women go years, even decades, without a formal diagnosis because ADHD in women often presents differently than the textbook description, which was largely built around research on boys. If you recognize yourself in what you've read on this page — the exhaustion, the shame, the sense that something is just harder for you than it seems to be for everyone else — that's enough to start. We can explore what's going on together, and I can support you in pursuing a formal evaluation if that feels right. But a diagnosis is not the price of admission here.

Is W-CAT only for cisgender women?

W-CAT was developed with women's experiences at the center, and it's also open to anyone who feels that their ADHD has been shaped by gender, socialization, or the particular pressures of navigating the world in a gendered body — including non-binary, trans, and gender-expansive people. I'll never make assumptions about your identity. If you're wondering whether this would feel like a good fit, let's talk. That's what the free consultation is for.

How is therapy different from ADHD coaching?

ADHD coaching is typically focused on the outside: building systems, routines, accountability, and practical skills. That work can be genuinely useful. Therapy goes to the inside — to the shame you've carried since childhood, the grief of a late diagnosis, the nervous system patterns that no planner has ever been able to fix. In W-CAT sessions, we might absolutely talk about practical strategies, but the deeper goal is changing how you feel about yourself, not just how you manage your to-do list.

Do you prescribe medication?

No — as a Licensed Professional Counselor, I don't prescribe medication. That's done by a psychiatrist, psychiatric NP, or your primary care provider. I do work comfortably alongside clients who take ADHD medication, and I'm happy to collaborate with your prescriber when it's helpful. Some clients find that therapy and medication together are more effective than either alone. Others prefer to do this work without medication. There's no one right answer — only what's right for you.

Do you accept insurance?

I am in network with several, but not all insurances. Depending on your plan, you may be able to use your plan or out-of-network benefits, an HSA, or an FSA to help offset the cost.  I'd encourage you to check your benefits before we meet, and we can talk through fees and options openly during the consultation — I want you to have a clear picture.

How long does this work take?

There's no honest one-size-fits-all answer here. Some clients come with a focused goal — processing a recent diagnosis, moving through a specific life transition — and feel ready to wrap up after several months. Others find ongoing therapy deeply valuable and continue longer-term. What I can promise is that I won't keep you in therapy longer than serves you, and I won't rush your healing to meet an arbitrary timeline. We check in regularly about how things are feeling, and you're always in the driver's seat.

I've tried therapy before and it didn't help. Why would this be different?

I hear this a lot, and I take it seriously. Many people with ADHD have had therapy experiences that felt frustrating or even harmful — a therapist who didn't understand ADHD, an approach that was too rigid, or an unspoken expectation that you'd just try harder. W-CAT is built specifically for how ADHD shows up in women's lives. Sessions are flexible, relational, and paced to your nervous system. And if something isn't working, I want you to tell me — we'll adjust. You deserve a therapy experience that actually feels useful.

What if I struggle to show up consistently — with scheduling, remembering, or following through?

This is one of the first things many ADHD clients worry about, and I want to say clearly: you don't have to be perfect to benefit from this work. I use reminder systems, send confirmations, and build in as much flexibility as I responsibly can. And if you forget a session, go through a hard stretch, or disappear for a bit — we'll talk about it without judgment when you come back, because navigating that is part of the work. Inconsistency will never be weaponized against you here.

Do you offer in-person sessions?

I currently offer telehealth sessions for clients located in Colorado and in person for clients local to Loveland. I know some people feel uncertain about telehealth, especially if they've never tried it — but many of my ADHD clients find it actually works better. No commute, no unfamiliar waiting room, no sensory overload before we've even started. You can session from your own couch, backyard, wherever you feel most comfortable. If you have concerns about it, bring them to the consultation — I'm happy to talk it through.

How do I know if we're a good fit?

Honestly? We won't know for certain until we talk — and that's exactly what the free 15-20-minute consultation is for. It's a low-stakes conversation: you can ask questions, share a little about what's bringing you in, and get a real feel for whether my style resonates with you. I'll be honest with you if I think someone else might serve you better. Your wellbeing matters more to me than filling a spot on my calendar.

Your Brain Has Never Been the Problem.

Let's build something that actually works for you.

Taking the first step can feel hard — especially when you've been let down before, or when your brain is very good at finding reasons to wait. I get it. And I also know that you deserve support that truly sees you. I'd love to talk.