ADHD Therapy

For people who are tired of hearing they just need to try harder.

If trying harder were enough, it probably would have worked by now. Whether you've had an ADHD diagnosis for years or are only beginning to recognize it in yourself, therapy can help you understand how your brain works, why certain patterns keep repeating, and how to build a life that works with—not against—the way you're wired.

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There's More to ADHD Than Meets the Eye

ADHD shapes far more than focus. It can affect how you organize your days, regulate your emotions, navigate relationships, and manage the countless small demands of everyday life.

The Challenge

When the demands of daily life don't align with how your brain works, you naturally develop ways to compensate—doing what you can to navigate everyday life.

The Labels

This misalignment often gets labeled in unkind ways: lazy, unmotivated, not trying hard enough, making an already difficult experience even harder.

The Healing

Together, we become curious about how your brain works and the patterns you've developed over time, making room for greater self-understanding, self-trust, and flexibility.

Living With ADHD Can Feel Exhausting

You may experience:

  • Constantly feeling overwhelmed by everyday tasks

  • Difficulty getting started—even when something matters to you

  • Feeling stuck between wanting to act and being unable to begin

  • Forgetting appointments, conversations, or important details

  • Losing track of time

  • Feeling emotionally reactive or easily overwhelmed

  • Chronic guilt or self-criticism

  • Perfectionism that makes it difficult to start or finish things

  • Relationship conflicts around responsibilities, communication, or follow-through

  • Feeling like you're always working harder than everyone else just to keep up

A Different Way of Working With ADHD

There isn't one right way to live with ADHD, and no single strategy works for everyone. The approaches that tend to be most helpful are the ones that fit the way your brain works—not simply the ones you're told should.

The goal is to help you build a life that reflects your strengths, values, and the way your brain works.

Your Experience with ADHD is Unique. Therapy Should Be, Too.

Together, We Might Explore

Navigating executive functioning challenges

Strengthening emotional regulation

Reducing shame and self-criticism

Developing systems that fit your life

Improving relationships and communication

Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries

Working through perfectionism and procrastination

Reconnecting with your strengths and values

Meet Your ADHD Therapist

Lirone Losoff, ALMFT

Lirone works with adults and teens navigating ADHD using Internal Family Systems (IFS) alongside attachment theory, relational neuroscience, and neuroscience-informed ADHD strategies. She helps clients better understand how their brains work, reduce shame and self-criticism, strengthen relationships, and develop practical approaches that fit the way they're naturally wired.

Alongside her clinical training, Lirone also brings lived experience with ADHD. Her neurodiversity-affirming approach emphasizes understanding over self-judgment, integrating practical strategies with deeper therapeutic work that is tailored to each person's unique strengths, challenges, and goals.

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Your Questions, Answered

  • No. Many people begin therapy because they're wondering whether ADHD might help explain their experiences. We can help you explore those patterns and, when appropriate, discuss whether an evaluation may be helpful.

  • Yes. Medication can be an important part of treatment, but it doesn't address everything. Therapy can help you better understand your patterns, strengthen emotional regulation, reduce shame, improve relationships, and develop strategies that fit your life.

  • Absolutely. Many adults aren't diagnosed until later in life. Receiving a diagnosis can bring relief, grief, or both. Therapy offers space to make sense of that experience and integrate it into how you understand yourself.

  • You don't have to organize your thoughts before coming to therapy—that's something we can do together. For some clients, extended sessions provide the extra space to slow down, make connections, and leave feeling like we've had time to fully explore what matters most.

  • Yes. ADHD is often missed or misunderstood in women, particularly when symptoms are internalized or masked. Hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause can also make ADHD traits more noticeable or more difficult to manage.

  • Absolutely. ADHD can influence communication, emotional regulation, conflict, household responsibilities, intimacy, and the patterns that develop between partners. If relationship challenges are part of what brings you to therapy, we'll explore how ADHD may be shaping those dynamics and work toward new ways of relating that support both you and your relationship. If it would be helpful, we also offer couples therapy for relationships where one or both partners have ADHD.

  • Yes. We provide ADHD therapy both in person in Chicago and virtually for clients located in Illinois.

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