If you’re here, you are a woman who has been diagnosed with ADHD and are seeking support to make sense of how this shows up in your life and your identity. There’s also a good chance that you came to this page not because you already had an ADHD diagnosis, but rather because you’ve been “trying to keep it together” for years and can never seem to escape from the frustration and shame spiral.

Contrary to popular belief, women are just as likely to have ADHD as men are, but it is woefully under-diagnosed because it shows up very differently in women. Girls and women tend to work harder to compensate for their symptoms, which means the outside world does not see the internal efforts and emotional turmoil that often result. Some common manifestations of ADHD in women include:

Women with ADHD (diagnosed or undiagnosed) oftentimes carry long stories of shame and habits of self-criticism. Those patterns can be difficult to shift alone. I am passionate about helping women heal from this shame and integrate their ADHD identity through education, confidence, and personal empowerment.