Like many others, I experienced radical transition as a result of the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic.

I suddenly found myself working from home with my pets instead of colleagues and supervisors (which I loved).

What I didn’t love and didn’t do well with, was the unexpected shift from clinician to clinician and administrator. As someone who has ADHD, I struggled to keep up with my workload. I began double-booking myself for clinical intakes, entering clinical data in one computer storage system but not another, and forgetting to schedule urine tests for my clients enrolled in their IOP. I also found myself exhausted at the end of my day because I had no reserve of emotional or executive functioning. This didn’t make for a happy or healthy marriage. 

I needed a self-imposed change!

I decided to focus on private practice and to primarily work with clients who needed support for their own ADHD.

I personally knew the challenge of finding a therapist who specializes in working with adults who have ADHD or who are otherwise neurodiverse. Also like me, many adults with ADHD have experienced trauma. Years of being misunderstood and mislabeled (spacey, lazy, reckless, disorganized, ad infinitum) can leave us traumatized. 

I’ve learned that not all trauma is chronic and complex like my experience of it. Some traumas are acute and time specific, such as sexual assault, unexpected loss of a loved one, divorce, or an accident.