Licensed Depth Therapy and Clinical Hypnosis in Minneapolis–St. Paul
Therapy for Adult ADHD, Executive Function, and the Weight of Trying Harder
Working with adults, especially late-diagnosed or newly identifying, whose minds don't cooperate with the life they're trying to build.
You Might Be Here Because…
You can hyperfocus on what interests you and feel paralyzed by what doesn't, even things you care about
You've been told (or told yourself) that you're lazy, scattered, unmotivated, or not living up to your potential
You start more than you finish, and carry quiet guilt about what's still undone
Time seems to behave differently for you than for other people: it disappears, compresses, or stretches in ways that are hard to explain
You've been masking, over-functioning, or white-knuckling your way through life, and you're exhausted
You're noticing how much of your inner life has been shaped by rejection sensitivity, self-criticism, and the belief that something is wrong with you
Many of the people I work with are late-diagnosed or newly identifying with ADHD: capable and accomplished people who've spent years wondering why everything feels harder than it seems like it should.
What's Actually Happening
ADHD isn't a deficit of character, effort, or intelligence. It's a different way your brain handles attention, motivation, and time.
The ADHD brain doesn't allocate attention based on what's important. It allocates attention based on what's interesting, urgent, novel, or emotionally charged. This means the things you most need to do, especially if they're boring, ambiguous, or delayed in reward, can feel almost physically impossible to start. Not because you don't care. Often because you care so much that the task has become emotionally overwhelming.
Most adults arriving for ADHD therapy have spent years, sometimes decades, trying to force a neurotypical system onto a non-neurotypical brain. The strategies that worked for other people didn't quite work for you. So you tried harder. You masked. You over-functioned. You built a life on willpower and compensation.
And somewhere along the way, most people internalize the same story: that the struggle means something is wrong with them. That they're lazy, broken, selfish, or fundamentally flawed.
None of that is true. Knowing that isn't enough. That's what the work is for.
The Quiet Cost of Untreated ADHD
The costs of ADHD aren't always dramatic. They accumulate in small ways, over long stretches of time, until they shape the texture of daily life.
People often notice:
Underperformance in areas where you know you're capable of more
Chronic late nights catching up on what didn't get done during the day
Relationships strained by missed messages, forgotten plans, or feeling misunderstood
The sense of having multiple unfinished selves: projects, ideas, and intentions that never got to become real
Persistent low-grade shame, self-criticism, and the feeling of always being a little behind
A growing distance between who you are and who you believe you could be if your mind would just cooperate
What This Work Looks Like
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We name what's actually happening, and what isn't. Most adults arrive having spent years explaining their struggles to themselves in language that doesn't fit. Together we develop a more accurate understanding of how your particular mind works, what it actually needs, and which strategies have been quietly making things worse rather than better.
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We work with the shame underneath the symptoms. Late-diagnosed adults usually arrive carrying years of internalized criticism: the belief that they're lazy, broken, or fundamentally flawed. This belief drives much of the suffering, and none of it is true. Through depth-oriented work, we examine where the story came from and begin loosening its grip on how you see yourself.
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We build skills and tools that work with your brain, not against it. Insight alone doesn't solve executive function challenges. Together we develop practical approaches to attention, time, task initiation, and follow-through built around how your mind actually operates rather than how you've been told it should. This includes environmental design, working-memory strategies, and routines that don't require constant willpower to maintain.
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We use Clinical Hypnosis to work with patterns conscious effort can't reach. Many of the most stubborn ADHD challenges: paralysis at the start of tasks, looping rumination, emotional flooding, the inability to shift gears live below conscious effort. Clinical Hypnosis (also called Hypnotherapy) is particularly well-suited to these patterns. It allows us to work directly with the automatic processes that sustain them, rather than only addressing them from the outside.
Who This Work Tends to Help Most
This approach works well for adults who are ready to look at ADHD as more than a list of symptoms to manage.
If you value depth, honesty, and a steadier relationship with your own mind over quick fixes or generic productivity systems, this work is a strong fit.
My clients tend to be late-diagnosed or newly identifying professionals, students, and adults navigating major life transitions. Many have already done their own research, tried apps and systems that didn't quite stick, and are looking for something more thorough and integrated than what they've found so far.
Your Mind Isn't the Problem
This work is grounded, focused, and confidential.
Reach out to schedule a free 20-minute consultation.