1:1 Support + Virtual Community for ADHD and Executive Dysfunction

Are you a lifelong procrastinator, putting off everything from doing the dishes to actualizing your greatest passion project? Are you chronically embarrassed and self-critical about forgetting appointments, missing deadlines, and losing important items?  Do you find yourself highly sensitive to feeling rejected, judged, or controlled, so that even little emotional injuries can send you spiraling?

Chances are, you’re living with “Now-Brain”. Now-Brain is a new, non-pathologizing term for what has traditionally been called Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or executive dysfunction. Rather than thinking of it as an illness, in this group we’ll be talking about ADHD as a brain type, with it’s own particular strengths and challenges.

Living Well with “Now-Brain”

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So what’s a Now-Brain??

Every brain type has certain strengths and weaknesses, skills that it’s naturally good at and skills we need to put in extra effort to develop. What are some of the common strengths of Now-Brain? To name a few: Creativity, innovation, empathy, sensitivity, spontaneity, humor, willingness to take risks…I could go on. Basically, it’s things that involve the ability to tune in to what’s right in front of you or right inside you at this moment, to discern what would feel good/relaxing/exciting/interesting for you and everyone around you right NOW. 

But as you know too well, there are other parts of being a person that don’t come as naturally with Now-Brain. And they just about all relate to the ability to take care of things that will set us up to feel good in the FUTURE. These are the what are often called the brain’s executive functions:

  • Mobilizing yourself for important tasks that seem boring, effortful, too long, or overwhelming

  • Sticking to projects or routines even once they are no longer new and exciting

  • Paying close attention to what you’re hearing or reading, so that you’ll have the memory when you need it later

  • Bothering to organize rooms, bags, notes, desktops, inboxes, calendars etc, so that you can find what you need later 

  • Sitting with or tolerating hard emotions rather than diving for whatever will make me feel better NOW - whether it’s a different project, email, TV, food, social media, or drugs and alcohol - which don’t solve the problem and very often make it worse

Deciding to get on top of these issues is a way of honoring yourself and your right to live happily and comfortably. In Living Well with Now-Brain, you’ll join a community of fellow travelers, learning, sharing and working together to create a more joyful and less stressed way of living.

The Program

It starts with 1:1 coaching-style therapy…

Your individual sessions occur weekly and focus on your unique needs and goals:

  • Understanding how your Now-brain works and learning to work with it rather than against it

  • Identifying the executive functioning strategies that are actually a good fit for you

  • Building practical nervous system regulation skills that reduce, overwhelm, stress and increase capacity

  • Problem-solving specific challenges related to work, relationships, parenting, organization, finances, and daily responsibilities

  • Creating and maintaining a shared Google document to track goals, strategies, and progress

  • Accountability check-ins between sessions to help you stay connected to your intentions and commitments

  • When useful, we may also incorporate EMDR, a powerful and effective therapy approach that helps transform the painful experiences, negative self-beliefs, and old emotional wounds that often make ADHD significantly harder than it needs to be.

…and then brings in the missing ingredient: Community

While individual support can be transformative, I've learned something important through both my professional work and my own ADHD journey:

Doing this work in community is far more powerful than doing it alone.

That's why everyone participating in individual sessions is also invited to attend a weekly virtual skills and support group at no additional cost.

During group time, you’ll get a chance to check in with celebrations and accountability goals, ask questions, practice your overwhelm-busting skills with somatic self-regulation practice, and get a whole bunch of s*** done with a half hour of full group body-doubling. Bring your lunch. Bring your questions. Bring your to-do list.

Because so much of what makes adult ADHD difficult isn't the symptoms themselves.

It's the loneliness. It's the feeling that everyone else seems to have received an instruction manual that you somehow missed. It's the shame that accumulates after years of struggling with tasks that appear effortless for other people.

One of the most healing experiences for many adults with ADHD is simply discovering that they are not alone. When you sit with a group of people who genuinely understand the challenges you're facing, something begins to soften. Self-judgment gives way to self-compassion. Isolation gives way to connection. And change becomes easier because you're no longer carrying the burden by yourself.

Rather than simply talking about ADHD, we'll be actively supporting one another in creating lives with more ease, calm, effectiveness, and self-trust.

Ready to do this together?

What people are saying….

  • "I loved it - right thing at the right time for me. I feel lucky to have found it"

    -M., group member

  • "It's a unique perspective on how to work with ADHD that's hard to find elsewhere."

    -D., group member

  • "I just think that I learned a lot. And it was a very positive experience overall."

    -L., group member

  • "Honestly, every aspect of the group was helpful because they varied so much. The variance of techniques/styles was helpful."

    -Y., group member