ADHD Counselling in Pitt Meadows & Online Across BC
Living with ADHD can feel overwhelming, frustrating, and exhausting. Whether you're constantly forgetting things, struggling to stay organized, feeling emotionally overwhelmed, or wondering why life seems harder for you than everyone else, you're not alone.
ADHD affects much more than attention. It can impact emotional regulation, confidence, relationships, school, work, and everyday life. Therapy provides a safe, supportive space to better understand your unique strengths and challenges while developing practical strategies that work for you.
You May Be Experiencing…
☼ Feeling overwhelmed by everyday tasks
☼ Forgetting appointments, deadlines, or important conversations
☼ Constantly losing or misplacing things
☼ Struggling with focus or staying organized
☼ Experiencing emotional outbursts or emotional dysregulation
☼ Feeling restless or unable to slow your mind down
☼ Starting projects but struggling to finish them
We understand how overwhelming it can feel to watch your child struggle with anxiety, big emotions, behavioural changes, or low confidence.
Through child and youth counselling, we help children and teens build emotional regulation skills, confidence, and healthier ways to express and navigate their feelings in a safe, supportive space.
Understanding ADHD
Helping You Work With Your Brain, Not Against It
Whether you've recently been diagnosed or have been navigating ADHD for years, therapy can help you better understand your unique patterns while building practical tools that support everyday life.
Many people think ADHD is only about attention, but one of the most common challenges is emotional regulation.
People with ADHD often experience emotions more intensely and may find it difficult to slow down, recover from frustration, or shift their focus after becoming overwhelmed.
Through therapy, you'll learn how to:
☼ Better understand your emotional patterns
☼ Develop practical emotional regulation skills
☼ Calm your nervous system during moments of overwhelm
☼ Strengthen executive functioning and coping strategies
☼ Build resilience and confidence in everyday life
Learning to regulate your emotions doesn't mean you'll never feel overwhelmed—it means having the tools to respond with greater confidence, flexibility, and self-compassion.
A Holistic Approach to ADHD Counselling
No two people experience ADHD in the same way.
My approach is collaborative, compassionate, and tailored to your unique strengths, challenges, and goals. Together, we'll explore not only how ADHD impacts your daily life but also how anxiety, chronic stress, relationships, life experiences, and your nervous system may influence your wellbeing.
Using evidence-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), nervous system regulation, attachment-informed, and trauma-informed care, we'll develop practical strategies that help you feel more confident, capable, and supported.
Understanding Emotional Regulation & ADHD
Areas of Support
I support children, teens, and adults navigating and living with ADHD. Some who experience the following:
☼ Attention challenges
☼ Emotional dysregulation
☼ Executive functioning difficulties
☼ Anxiety and chronic stress
☼ Low confidence and self-esteem
☼ Perfectionism and masking
☼ Overwhelm and burnout
☼ School, work, and career challenges
☼ Relationship and communication difficulties
☼ Parenting with ADHD
☼ Nervous system overwhelm & stress responses
Together, we'll build the skills to better understand your ADHD, strengthen emotional regulation, improve executive functioning, manage stress, build confidence, develop practical coping strategies, and create routines that support your everyday life.
Support for Parents Too
ADHD doesn't just affect the individual it can shape family life, parenting, relationships, routines, and daily responsibilities. Whether you're parenting a child with ADHD or navigating ADHD as a parent yourself, you deserve support, too.
Parenting a child with ADHD can be both rewarding and incredibly demanding. You may find yourself feeling exhausted, frustrated, or unsure how to best support your child through emotional outbursts, executive functioning challenges, school concerns, or difficulties with attention and impulse control.
Therapy provides a supportive space to help you better understand your child's unique brain, strengthen your confidence as a parent, and learn practical strategies that foster connection, emotional regulation, and resilience at home.
Parenting a Child with ADHD
Parenting while living with ADHD can bring its own unique challenges. Managing routines, balancing responsibilities, remembering appointments, regulating emotions, and carrying the invisible mental load of family life can feel overwhelming.
Together, we'll explore strategies that work with your brain, not against it, helping you improve executive functioning, emotional regulation, organization, self-compassion, and confidence so you can feel more present, supported, and connected in both your parenting and everyday life.
No matter where you are in your ADHD journey, therapy offers a compassionate space where you can feel heard, understood, and empowered with practical tools to support both yourself and your family.
Living with ADHD as a Parent
Frequently Asked Questions
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ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is a neurodevelopmental condition that affects attention, executive functioning, impulse control, and emotional regulation. ADHD can impact children, teens, and adults, and often looks different from person to person.
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Yes. I provide teen counselling in Pitt Meadows and online across BC. Adolescence can be a challenging stage of life, and therapy can help teens navigate anxiety, stress, depression, self-esteem concerns, emotional regulation, friendships, family conflict, school pressures, ADHD, and identity development. My goal is to create a safe, supportive space where teens feel heard, understood, and empowered.
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Yes. While therapy does not "cure" ADHD, it can help you better understand how ADHD affects your daily life while developing practical coping strategies, emotional regulation skills, routines, and tools that support success at home, school, work, and in relationships.
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Yes. Many people with ADHD also experience anxiety. Constantly trying to stay organized, meet expectations, manage responsibilities, or mask symptoms can contribute to chronic stress and anxiety. Therapy can help address both ADHD and anxiety together.
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Yes. I support children, teens, and families navigating ADHD and related challenges. ADHD can impact emotional regulation, focus, confidence, organization, school performance, and relationships.
Therapy can help children and teens better understand how their brain works while building practical coping strategies, emotional regulation skills, confidence, and self-awareness. Support is tailored to each child's strengths, needs, and goals.
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Emotional dysregulation refers to difficulty managing and responding to emotions. It is a common but often overlooked part of ADHD and may include feeling emotions intensely, becoming overwhelmed easily, or having difficulty calming down after stressful situations.
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Yes. ADHD often presents differently in women and girls and can sometimes go unrecognized until adulthood. I support women navigating ADHD, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, masking, perfectionism, burnout, and the unique challenges that often accompany living with ADHD.
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Yes. Child therapy can be highly effective in helping children understand and manage anxiety. Anxiety in children may show up as excessive worry, perfectionism, difficulty separating from caregivers, physical complaints, sleep challenges, avoidance, or emotional outbursts. Through counselling, children can learn coping skills, emotional regulation strategies, and ways to feel more confident navigating fears and uncertainty.
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Yes. I offer secure online counselling for clients throughout British Columbia, as well as in-person counselling in Pitt Meadows.
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