Online ADHD therapy
Online ADHD therapy in Ontario
ADHD-affirming therapy for adults and teens — strategies that fit how your brain actually works, and space to unlearn the shame.
What might bring you here
The gap between intention and follow-through.
You might know exactly what you need to do and still find yourself unable to start. The gap between intention and follow-through can be huge — and from the outside, it can look like laziness or carelessness. From the inside, it feels nothing like that.
Time tends to work differently. There's “now” and there's “not now,” and “not now” can mean ten minutes or three weeks. You might hyperfocus on one thing for six hours and then completely stall on the simple task you've been telling yourself to do for a month. The inconsistency that looks like a character flaw from the outside is exhausting from the inside.
Then there's the masking — the years of compensating, the energy spent looking like you have it together. The rejection sensitivity that makes small feedback land like a verdict. And often, for adults, the late-arriving realization that this has a name — after a lifetime of assuming you were lazy, careless, or broken.
What therapy can look like
A working relationship with your own brain.
Working with ADHD in therapy isn't about fixing or curing it. ADHD is a way your brain is wired, not a flaw in it — and the work isn't to make you a non-ADHD version of yourself. It's to understand how your specific brain actually works and build a life that fits.
The work often involves developing strategies that work for you — not generic productivity advice that assumes a non-ADHD brain. That can include externalizing what's in your head, working with your energy rhythms instead of against them, and finding structures that don't feel like punishment.
A big part of the work, for many people, is the shame. Years of “you're so smart, if you just applied yourself” tend to leave a mark. We might explore the gap between “I have ADHD” and “I'm a failure,” and what it would mean to stop conflating them.
For late-identified adults, there's often grief to make room for — for the years spent not knowing, the path that was harder than it needed to be. Self-compassion takes practice after a long time of self-blame. What we work toward isn't a non-ADHD life — it's a working relationship with your own brain.
How I approach this work
Working with your brain, not against it.
This is ADHD-affirming work. Your brain isn't broken — it's wired differently, and the work treats it that way. A lot of what shows up in sessions is unlearning the messaging that's been layered on top: the years of being told you were lazy, careless, not trying. Internalized ableism is real, and it's worth taking apart.
For clients from immigrant or high-expectation families, ADHD often went unnamed for a long time. Sometimes it was missed because you were “smart” — your intelligence masked your inconsistency. Sometimes it was explained away as laziness or disrespect. Sometimes it simply wasn't on anyone's radar. That history is part of the work if it's relevant to your story.
I work as a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registered with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), drawing on evidence-based modalities. The approach is relational and affirming first — you arrive in the room with a lot of self-knowledge already, and the work builds from there.
Approaches I draw on
How the modalities show up in ADHD work.
I draw on four core modalities, woven based on what someone needs in the room.
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Building practical strategies that fit your brain — and working with the thought patterns ADHD tends to feed: all-or-nothing thinking, the shame spiral, the harsh inner critic.
- Acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT)
- Values-based action for when motivation is unreliable, plus the self-compassion piece — making room for difficulty without turning it into another reason for self-attack.
- Person-centered therapy
- You're the expert on how your own mind works. The work builds from your experience of your brain, not from a generic template.
- Mindfulness
- For ADHD, mindfulness isn't “clear your mind.” It's the gentler practice of noticing where attention has gone and returning to where you wanted it — without judgment.
When it helps, I draw on creative expression and externalizing tools — particularly with younger clients, or when it's useful to get what's in your head into a form you can actually see and work with.
Common questions
Things people often want to know before they book.
Can you diagnose my ADHD?
No — I don't provide ADHD assessments or diagnoses. That's done by a physician, psychologist, or psychiatrist. What I offer is therapy and support for people living with ADHD, whether you have a formal diagnosis or strongly suspect it. If you're looking for an assessment, I'm happy to point you toward appropriate options during a consult.
Do I need a formal diagnosis to work with you?
No. Many people come to ADHD-focused therapy while they're still figuring out whether to pursue an assessment, or after deciding the formal route isn't a priority for them right now. The traits, the patterns, and the impact are real and workable whether or not there's a formal label attached.
I'm on medication, or thinking about it. Does therapy still make sense?
Therapy and medication tend to do different jobs — medication decisions are between you and a prescribing physician, and that's outside my scope. What therapy adds is the work around strategy, self-understanding, shame, and the day-to-day relationship with how your brain works. For many people the two are complementary; for some, therapy alone is what they want. That's yours to decide.
Your brain isn't the problem.
If this resonates, a free 15-minute consult is a low-pressure way to see whether the way I work feels useful to you. No paperwork, no commitment to continue.