CBT and Mindfulness for Attention Issues

Whether your attention difficulties are from adult ADHD or something else like stress, anxiety, trauma, or depression, therapy to develop executive functioning may help gain a sense of cognitive clarity.

I can help you build the necessary skills to quiet the mental chaos while improving your focus, your home’s organization, family’s connection, and self-compassion.

With empirically-supported Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, you can learn to work with your wiring even if you’re not sure exactly why you struggle with motivation and organization. It might be adult ADHD, it might be something else, like stress, lack of sleep, a depressive disorder, anxiety…there are a number of reasons why people can’t focus and there’s help to move forward with or without a diagnosis of adult ADHD.

If you struggle to remember commitments and complete tasks…if you have brain fog or time blindness…I can help you with strategies to improve your executive functioning while we seek to understand the cause.

Therapy for Attention and Self-Compassion

With ADHD and conditions that compromise cognitive functioning—trauma, depression, chronic stress, and compulsive scrolling behavior—there is a common psychological aftermath of anxiety and self-criticism from repeatedly feeling like you dropped the ball and let people down. Therapy can help you let go of life-limiting thoughts and change your behavior so you can develop new skills despite your brain’s wiring.

Adopting a reality-based perspective about your circumstances, combined with learning evidence-based techniques, can bring relief from brain fog and turn down the volume on ADHD’s most debilitating symptoms. If your brain fog is from depression, therapy for executive functioning can help you get your life back in order.

Parenting with Attention Symptoms

When you struggle with planning, memory, task initiation and motivation, it’s easy to be extra hard on yourself and come up with stories lies about being a bad parent. The black and white thinking common in conditions like ADHD and depression can lead you to strive for perfection in parenting, which puts you at risk for anxiety and unnecessary hardship on your parenting path. Perfection is an impossible standard and kids don’t need perfection for a healthy upbringing.

When it feels like your brain won’t cooperate, it’s hard to follow the rigid routines of parenting blogs and aesthetics social media tell you equals good parenting. Therapy can help you understand what children actually need to develop optimally (parental rigidity isn’t it).

Parenting with adult ADHD symptoms often comes with strengths like creativity and playfulness but executive functioning difficulties put parents at-risk for exhaustion and burnout. With help from a therapist you can find the balance that allows you to be the parent you want to be.

Therapy for attention and ADHD traits can help you develop self-compassion and perspective so you are no longer a prisoner to your history or feelings. It can guide you towards practical changes in your environment, which can improve focus and allow you to take better care of yourself and family.

Working with a therapist can help you feel grounded as a parent with a mental health condition. You can develop the ability to handle normal stressors without being reactive or frozen. Small but significant changes can deepen your connection to your children.

Professional Help is Available:

• Evidence-based and emerging treatments

• Increase cognitive flexibility

• Strengthen psychological resilience

• Reduce brain fog

• Deepen social relationships

• Stop avoiding things that are boring, painful or hard

• Plan and execute your goals

• Live a life aligned with your values and model this for your children

Therapy can help you move forward despite your brain’s challenges