We provide ADHD assessments specifically designed to capture the complex ways this condition presents in women. Our evaluation process goes beyond symptom checklists to understand how ADHD affects your specific life domains, relationships, and goal pursuit patterns, with particular attention to presentations that may have been previously overlooked.

Assessment Includes:

• Detailed clinical interview focusing on ADHD's impact across your lifespan, including childhood symptoms that may have been missed

• Evaluation of executive functioning challenges and their practical effects

• Assessment of co-occurring conditions commonly seen with ADHD, particularly those that may have led to previous misdiagnoses

• Consideration of hormonal factors and their impact on symptom presentation

• Values clarification and analysis of the values-action gap

• Relationship and family functioning evaluation

• Review of previous diagnoses and treatment history to identify patterns consistent with ADHD

• Comprehensive treatment planning based on your unique presentation

Our assessment process ensures that treatment recommendations are tailored to your specific needs, presentation patterns, and life circumstances, while addressing any previous diagnostic confusion or incomplete understanding of your symptoms.

Our individual therapy approach combines specialized ADHD expertise with personalized treatment planning that addresses your unique presentation and life goals. We focus on helping you understand how ADHD affects your daily functioning, relationships, and ability to pursue what matters most to you, with particular attention to the ways women's presentations may have been previously overlooked or misunderstood.

What We Address:

• Executive functioning challenges and their impact on goal pursuit

• The values-action gap that creates feelings of "self-sabotage"

• Emotional dysregulation and mood-related difficulties, including hormonal influences

• Relationship patterns affected by ADHD symptoms

• Professional challenges and workplace accommodations

• Self-esteem issues stemming from years of misunderstood struggles

• Processing experiences of misdiagnosis or delayed diagnosis

• Understanding how masking behaviors may have protected but also exhausted you

Through weekly sessions, we develop ADHD-compatible strategies that work with your brain rather than against it, helping you build confidence in your ability to create meaningful change while honoring your authentic self.

Our group therapy for women with ADHD provides a supportive environment where women with can connect, learn from shared experiences, and practice new skills together. Group work offers unique benefits for ADHD treatment, including peer accountability, normalized experiences, and opportunities to practice social and communication skills in a supportive setting.

Group Benefits Include:

• Validation and understanding from others with similar experiences, including shared stories of misdiagnosis or late diagnosis

• Reduced isolation and shame around ADHD-related struggles

• Peer support for goal-setting and skill implementation

• Practice with time management and communication in a structured environment

• Cost-effective access to specialized ADHD treatment

• Normalization of the complex ways ADHD presents in women's lives

Groups are facilitated by clinicians with advanced training in both ADHD and group therapy processes, ensuring that sessions remain focused, productive, and therapeutically beneficial for all participants.

Our innovative Accountability-Assisted Therapy program provides additional support for translating therapeutic insights into consistent behavioral change—often the biggest challenge for individuals with ADHD. This evidence-based enhancement works alongside your primary therapy to address executive functioning barriers to progress.

How It Works:

• Skills and exercises are assigned by your primary therapist based on your treatment goals

• Trained accountability partners provide structured support between therapy sessions

• Lower-cost skill practice sessions bridge the gap between weekly therapy and daily life

• Regular check-ins help maintain momentum on therapeutic homework and goal implementation

• Integration with your primary therapy ensures all support remains aligned with your treatment plan

This program is available as an enhancement to individual, group, couples, or family therapy services and provides the additional scaffolding many ADHD clients need for successful treatment outcomes.

ADHD significantly impacts intimate relationships, often creating patterns of misunderstanding, frustration, and disconnection. Our couples therapy approach addresses how ADHD symptoms affect relationship dynamics while helping both partners develop strategies for improved communication, emotional connection, and mutual support.

We Focus On:

• Communication patterns affected by ADHD symptoms (interrupting, distractibility, emotional intensity)

• How executive functioning challenges impact household responsibilities and shared goals

• Managing the parent-child dynamic that can develop when one partner has ADHD

• Developing understanding and empathy for neurobiological differences, particularly when ADHD was previously undiagnosed or misdiagnosed

• Creating relationship structures that support both partners' needs

• Addressing intimacy and emotional connection challenges

• Understanding how years of masking or compensating may have affected relationship patterns

Our approach helps couples move from conflict and misunderstanding toward collaboration and mutual support, recognizing that ADHD affects the relationship system, not just the individual.

When one family member has ADHD, the entire family system is impacted. Our family therapy services help all family members understand ADHD's effects and develop strategies for healthier family functioning, improved communication, and mutual support.

Family Therapy Addresses:

• How ADHD symptoms affect family roles and responsibilities

• Communication patterns that may have developed around ADHD-related challenges

• Sibling dynamics when one child or parent has ADHD

• Parenting strategies that work effectively with ADHD presentations

• Reducing blame and increasing understanding across family members, particularly when diagnosis is new or was delayed

• Creating family structures that support everyone's wellbeing

• Processing how undiagnosed ADHD may have affected family dynamics over time

We work with families to develop systems that honor neurobiological differences while maintaining appropriate boundaries and expectations for all family members.

While our clinical team specializes in ADHD-informed therapy and treatment, we recognize that comprehensive care often requires formal diagnostic evaluation and medication management. We have carefully cultivated a curated network of psychiatrists and psychologists who have been personally vetted by Lauren to ensure their understanding of ADHD and other neurodivergent conditions in women reflects the latest research and clinical best practices. When you need specialized assessment or medication support, we'll help connect you with the best clinical psychologists in Sacramento for Women with ADHD.

Our Community Partners Provide:

• Up-to-date diagnostic evaluations that recognize the unique ways ADHD presents in women

• Comprehensive psychological testing when indicated

• Medication management with understanding of hormonal factors and women-specific considerations

• Affirming, trauma-informed approaches that honor your lived experience

• Clinically sound assessments that avoid common diagnostic pitfalls and biases.

When we provide a warm handoff to one of our community partners, you can trust that you'll receive an evaluation or medication consultation that is both clinically excellent and deeply informed about the complexities of neurodivergent presentations in women. This collaborative approach ensures continuity of care and understanding across all aspects of your treatment journey.

Women with ADHD Peer Support Groups

Our peer support groups are facilitated by Brilla but are not a therapy service.

The goal is to provide a place for women navigating similar challenges to connect, reducing isolation and offering practical strategies from those with lived experience. Peer-to-peer support sessions combine educational components with peer support, creating a comprehensive learning environment.