adhd
For the Mind That Works Differently
ADHD in adults rarely looks like what people expect. It's not always the inability to sit still. It's the forty open tabs. The project that consumed you completely for three days and then vanished. The thing you genuinely meant to do that somehow never happened. The gap between how capable you know you are and how your life actually looks right now.
I work with ADHD not as a productivity problem to be solved but as a nervous system that works differently, and as a self-concept that has often taken a significant amount of damage from years of being told it's doing life wrong.
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The Part Nobody Talks About
Most ADHD content focuses on strategies. Time management systems, habit stacks, external accountability structures. Some of that is genuinely useful. But it doesn't touch the thing that is often doing the most damage: the story you've built about yourself from years of falling short of your own intentions.
Lazy. Careless. Too much. Not enough. Unreliable. These aren't just words other people have used. They become the internal architecture through which you experience yourself, and they make everything harder. The shame of another missed deadline lands differently when it confirms something you already believe about who you are.
That accumulated self-concept is where I spend a significant amount of our work. Not because the practical challenges don't matter, but because no strategy works reliably when the person implementing it fundamentally doesn't trust themselves. That's the piece most ADHD support skips, and it's often the most important one.
ADHD Lives in the Nervous System, Not Just the Mind
ADHD is a nervous system difference. The way it regulates attention, emotion, and activation is fundamentally different from a neurotypical system, and that difference shows up physically. The restlessness that has nowhere to go. The shutdown when overwhelm hits a certain threshold. The way emotional experiences land with an intensity that feels disproportionate to the situation.
I bring somatic awareness into ADHD work because the body is part of what's happening. Learning to recognise your own activation and deactivation patterns, what dysregulation actually feels like in you before it takes over, is some of the most practical and lasting work we can do together. I draw from somatic and sensorimotor approaches alongside DBT for regulation skills, and from the Enneagram to understand the specific self-concept patterns that have formed around the ADHD over time.
For clients whose ADHD is entangled with a trauma history, which is more common than most people realise, I integrate EMDR as well. Trauma and ADHD interact in specific ways and addressing both together changes the work significantly.
This Isn't Coaching. It's Something Deeper.
ADHD coaching focuses on systems, output, and accountability. That has its place. What I offer is different. I'm interested in why the systems keep not working, what happens internally in the moment before the avoidance kicks in, and what it would mean for you to actually trust yourself.
Sessions are collaborative and follow what's most alive for you in the room. I don't expect linearity. ADHD minds move associatively, and that's not a problem to be managed in session. It's often where the most interesting and useful material surfaces. I work with the way your mind actually moves rather than against it.
My goal isn't just to help you cope. It's to help you become who you're actually capable of being, including someone with a fundamentally different relationship to yourself than the one ADHD and its aftermath have produced so far.
This might be right for you if...
Trauma Therapy
The gap between your potential and your output has become a source of genuine shame
You've tried every system and productivity approach and the problem keeps returning
ADHD has left you with a story about yourself that you're ready to examine
You're exhausted by the effort of compensating and masking in daily life
Emotional overwhelm, rejection sensitivity, or shame spirals are part of your ADHD experience
Your ADHD and your trauma history feel entangled in ways that strategies alone don't reach
You want a therapist who works with the whole of who you are, not just your executive function
You're ready to stop managing your ADHD and start understanding it
How I Work With ADHD
I work with ADHD through a whole-person, depth-oriented lens that holds the nervous system, the self-concept, and the relational patterns alongside each other. My Master's from Naropa University in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling gave me a foundation in presence and somatic awareness that shapes how I work with nervous system differences like ADHD. Boulder's culture of curiosity and self-inquiry tends to draw clients who are ready to go beyond symptom management, and that's the level I work at.
I hold certifications in EMDR (Maiberger Institute), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma, Somatic Psychotherapy, Gestalt Therapy, and Existential Psychotherapy. For ADHD specifically, the somatic and sensorimotor training gives me tools for working with regulation and activation patterns directly, while EMDR addresses the trauma that often underlies or compounds the ADHD experience.
Sessions and Pricing
I'm private pay only, which means our work is never shaped by insurance timelines or approval requirements. Sessions are $140 for 50 to 55 minutes. A free 15-minute consultation is available before any commitment. You can reach me at (720) 663-0334.
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That fear is common and makes complete sense, especially if previous therapy involved retelling the story without feeling better afterward. In my practice, we don't begin with the traumatic material. We build safety first, develop internal resources, and move at a pace your system can actually tolerate. EMDR and somatic work don't require you to narrate the experience in detail. They work at the level of the nervous system, which means we can process what happened without retraumatising you in the process.
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That's not a problem. ADHD minds move associatively, and I work with that rather than against it. Some of the most useful material surfaces precisely because the conversation moved somewhere unexpected. I don't need you to be linear. I need you to be present, and we can work with whatever that looks like for you on a given day.
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No. If you recognize yourself in what's described on this page, that's enough to have a conversation. Many adults come to therapy having suspected ADHD for years without a formal diagnosis. The work doesn't depend on the label. It depends on what's actually happening for you.
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Sessions run 50 to 55 minutes and cost $140. I'm private pay only, which means the structure of our work stays entirely between us. A free 15-minute consultation is available before any commitment.