Many adults arrive at ADHD late, sometimes after a child's diagnosis, sometimes after years of feeling that something didn't fit. Whether you have a formal diagnosis, are exploring whether ADHD might be a factor in your difficulties, or are self-identifying without seeking diagnosis, therapy can help you make sense of how your brain works and build a life that works with it.
What ADHD actually is
ADHD isn't a deficit of attention. It's a difference in how attention is regulated. Attention can be highly focused (sometimes hyper-focused) on what's interesting or urgent, and almost impossible to direct toward what's important but neutral. The executive functions that most people use to plan, prioritise, transition between tasks, and follow through can work differently in an ADHD brain.
This isn't a character flaw. It's neurological. But because it's invisible and inconsistent, ADHD often gets misread, by others and by the person themselves, as laziness, lack of motivation, or unreliability. Years of that misreading take a toll. Many adults with ADHD arrive in therapy carrying significant shame, anxiety, or depression layered on top of the ADHD itself.
How I work with ADHD
Therapy for ADHD isn't about fixing your brain. It's about understanding how it works and building strategies that actually fit you, not strategies designed for neurotypical brains that you've been failing to implement for years.
Psychoeducation is often a significant part of early work. Understanding the actual mechanics of ADHD, executive function, dopamine, time blindness, rejection sensitivity, can be genuinely transformative. A lot of what you've been blaming yourself for starts to make sense.
Practical strategy work focuses on real-life adaptations: external scaffolding, body doubling, environment design, and ways of working with motivation rather than against it. The goal isn't to push you to be neurotypical. It's to help you function more sustainably as yourself.
Processing what ADHD has cost you is often part of the work too. There's frequently grief, anger, or relief that needs space, for the years spent struggling, for the relationships strained, for the missed potential. Therapy can hold all of that.
I don't carry out ADHD assessments or provide diagnoses. If you're looking to be assessed, I'm happy to signpost you toward appropriate assessment services in Ireland.
What therapy with me looks like
I work in a way that fits how ADHD brains actually function. Sessions aren't rigid. We can be flexible about structure. You don't need to mask, perform, or pretend that everything is going better than it is.
We'll figure out what matters most to you, what you want to change, and what's been getting in the way. Then we'll work with the brain you have, not the one you've been told you should have.