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, manage what's on your plate, regulate your emotions, move through relationships, and keep track of the hundred small things a life quietly requires. Many people are surprised to discover that what they'd long blamed on themselves was actually ADHD.

When the demands of daily life don't align with how your brain works, you compensate—and many people with ADHD have been compensating for so long they don't even realize they're doing it. Over time, those gaps often get explained in unkind terms: lazy, unmotivated, scattered, not trying hard enough. Those stories can make an already difficult experience even harder.

Therapy begins from a different place. We become curious about how your brain works, the patterns you've developed over time, and how those patterns have helped you navigate a world that hasn't always fit the way you think.

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 there isn't one strategy that 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.

That's why we don't start with strategies—we start by understanding the bigger picture.

Together, we'll explore how your executive functioning, emotional regulation, nervous system, relationships, and life experiences interact to shape the way you move through the world. From there, we'll develop practical strategies that fit your strengths, values, relationships, and responsibilities.

The goal isn't to help you become someone else. It's to help you build a life that works for the person you already are.

What We May Work On

  • 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

You May Also Be Navigating

  • Anxiety or burnout

  • Depression

  • Trauma

  • Relationship challenges

  • Masking

  • Parenting

  • Perimenopause & menopause

  • Late diagnosis & identity shifts

Your experience with ADHD is unique. Therapy should be, too.

Meet Your ADHD Therapist

Finding a therapist who understands ADHD is about more than recognizing the diagnosis.

It's about working with someone who understands the ripple effects ADHD can have on your relationships, your nervous system, your sense of self, and the way you move through everyday life.

Lirone Losoff, ALMFT

Lirone works with adults 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.

  • 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.

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

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