Stress, Overwhelm & ADHD
Stress and overwhelm can affect how you think, feel, focus, organize your day, and respond to everyday demands. For people with ADHD, challenges with attention, executive functioning, time, motivation, and emotional regulation can sometimes make these demands feel even more difficult to manage.
Understanding your mind.
Finding your rhythm.
Stress & Overwhelm
ADHD
& Executive Functioning
Explore what contributes to feeling stretched too thin, mentally overloaded, or unable to switch off. Together, we can develop practical ways to recognize stress earlier and respond before overwhelm takes over.
Work with challenges related to organization, planning, prioritizing, time management, task initiation, working memory, and follow-through. We can identify strategies that fit your actual life rather than relying on systems that don't feel sustainable.
How I can support...
Explore the impact of workplace demands, pressure, perfectionism, and difficulty setting boundaries.
Explore the factors behind procrastination, avoidance, and difficulty getting started—including overwhelm, perfectionism, boredom, anxiety, or difficulty identifying where to begin.
Work Stress & Burnout
Procrastination
& Motivation
When stress, overwhelm, or ADHD-related challenges begin to interfere with everyday life, it can feel like you’re constantly trying to catch up. You may find yourself struggling with competing demands, difficulty getting started or staying organized, emotional overwhelm, or simply feeling like your usual strategies aren't working.
Therapy can help you understand how stress, executive functioning, attention, motivation, and emotional regulationinteract for you. Together, we can develop practical strategies for managing demands, reducing overwhelm, setting boundaries, and creating routines that feel realistic and sustainable.
The goal goes beyond simply becoming more productive or fit more into your day. It’s about finding ways to work with your mind, manage stress more effectively, and create greater balance and confidence in your everyday life.
How Therapy can Help
How I can Help...
Therapy is not one-size-fits-all. I draw from a range of evidence-informed approaches and tailor our work to your needs, strengths, and goals, with an emphasis on practical strategies that can support greater focus, regulation, and balance.
Here are some ways I can support you:
Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Helpful for stress, attention, emotional regulation, and learning to notice thoughts and sensations without immediately reacting to them.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Develop psychological flexibility and reconnect with your values while making room for difficult thoughts and emotions.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Identify patterns of thinking and behaviour that contribute to stress, procrastination, avoidance, and self-criticism.
Solution Focused Therapy (SFT)
Build on your existing strengths and identify practical, achievable steps toward the changes you want to make.
Polyvagal-Informed Approaches
Explore the connection between the nervous system, emotional responses, and sense of safety while developing greater awareness of how your body responds to stress and overwhelm.
Emotion-Focused Approaches
Develop greater awareness of emotional experiences and learn ways to respond to emotions with greater understanding and flexibility.
Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)
A strong option if self-criticism, shame, perfectionism, or feeling “not good enough” are contributing to stress or ADHD-related difficulties.
Finding What Works.
If stress, overwhelm, or ADHD-related challenges are making everyday life feel harder to manage, I invite you to reach out when you’re ready to explore what greater balance and ease could look like in your life.