Research Informed ADHD Counselling
What I regularly hear from clients: • “I know what I need to do. I just can’t make myself do it.” • Intense productivity followed by exhaustion • Procrastination despite caring enormously about the outcome • Difficulty switching tasks • Perfectionism and overpreparation • Hyperfocus • Time blindness • Emotional dysregulation • Rejection sensitivity • Elaborate systems for keeping life together • Career success alongside chaos elsewhere • Anxiety developed partly as a compensatory mechanism • Relationship friction around forgotten tasks, attention, or household responsibilities If you relate to any of these experiences, I'm here to help. You may have completed university, built a successful career, maintained relationships, and developed systems that keep your life moving. None of that rules out ADHD. Sometimes capability simply means you’ve become very good at compensating.
Successful on paper, struggling underneath.
My doctoral research explored the experiences of high-functioning adults with ADHD, with particular interest in how adults can appear capable or successful while privately expending significant effort managing executive-function challenges.
There is a real cost to ADHD, even when it looks like you have it all together. Overworking. Anxiety. Perfectionism. Last-minute pressure. Exhaustion. Shame. Feeling inexplicably overwhelmed by seemingly simple tasks.
Already diagnosed? Recently diagnosed? Wondering whether ADHD explains your experiences? You don’t need a formal diagnosis to work on ADHD-related challenges in counselling. If you’re an adult who has managed to accomplish a lot but ADHD is making life much harder than it looks from the outside, I might be someone you should talk to.
I particularly enjoy working with thoughtful and intellectually curious adults, including professionals, academics, healthcare providers, entrepreneurs, and others navigating cognitively demanding work.