
Licensed Clinical Social Worker · California LCSW 70635
ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider
Pursuing certificates in Somatic Yoga and Women's ADHD Care
I work with adult women who are tired of being told to try harder.
I also have ADHD and was diagnosed as an adult. I share this because when a woman tells me about her experience with ADHD, a misdiagnosis, or the struggle to be understood, I am not just working from a textbook.
I spent my childhood getting good grades and not rocking the boat, and I became a master at masking. It taught me some valuable skills, and it cost me the ability to live fully and freely as myself. Sometimes my ADHD symptoms were treated as strengths. Other times I was told they were too much.
It wasn't until a stressful season of life that the masking stopped holding. The dam broke wide open, and I went searching for answers in a moment of desperation and hyperfocus. How could I have ADHD, be a therapist, have friends who are therapists, and not one of us saw it? It was humbling, and I was pissed. Angry that the system, the research, the training, all of it had failed me and failed women.
That began my journey, not just to understand myself, but to become the person I needed when I was searching for answers. I got myself support first. Then I began studying and training, paying close attention to the gaps in what was being taught and not taught about women, and seeking out neuroaffirming trainings specific to women and ADHD.
This is not a clock in, clock out job for me. It is personal, and I care deeply about this work. I like to keep it real and genuine. I would love to work with you, or help support you in finding the care you need.
A specialty certification from Evergreen Certifications for clinicians with advanced training in ADHD across the lifespan. It is not a license and does not expand my scope of practice. It does mean my ADHD work is a deliberate specialization, not something I picked up along the way.
Certification number 116465, valid through August 2028.
Training in body-based, nervous-system-informed practice. Regulation is physical before it is cognitive, and talking about a dysregulated nervous system is not the same as changing one.2 My training in this work is with Dr. Arielle Schwartz. I use somatic approaches within therapy where they fit, and always with your consent.
Focused training on how ADHD shows up in women, why it gets missed, and how it shifts across the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and postpartum, and perimenopause. This includes the W-CAT model, developed by Dr. Amelia Kelley.3
Ongoing rather than finished. ADHD and PTSD occur together in a substantial share of adults, and each makes the other harder to see clearly.4 I will always tell you when something sits outside what I am trained to treat.