Therapy for ADHD
Learning to thrive—helping kids and adults navigate daily life with ADHD
You may know what you need to do, genuinely want to do it, and still struggle to get started or follow through. The gap between your intentions and your actions can quickly become a source of frustration, shame, and self-doubt. You may wonder why things seem to come more easily to others or find yourself working harder than anyone realizes just to keep up.
ADHD affects attention, motivation, and executive functioning, including the ability to plan, organize, manage time, and follow through on tasks. Over time, these challenges can affect more than your daily routines. They can shape how you see yourself, how you navigate relationships, and what you believe you're capable of. At Relate Therapy Center, we take a psychodynamic approach to ADHD, exploring not only the challenges you're experiencing but also how your experiences have shaped your relationship with yourself and others.
Perhaps you've learned to rely on perfectionism, constant pressure, or self-criticism to keep yourself moving. Maybe asking for help feels uncomfortable or struggling to follow through leaves you feeling as though you're disappointing the people you care about. These patterns often develop for understandable reasons, particularly when you've spent years feeling misunderstood, falling short of expectations, or working hard to compensate for your difficulties. Together, we can explore how these patterns developed, how they affect you today, and whether they are still serving you.
HOW CAN THERAPY HELP?
Understanding yourself is important, but you also deserve support with the challenges you face every day. Therapy can help you develop practical strategies for task initiation, time management, organization, and follow-through, while exploring the overwhelm, avoidance, and self-criticism that can make these challenges harder to navigate. Our work is tailored to your needs, bringing greater understanding to your experiences while helping you find more sustainable ways to manage daily life.
If you're ready to explore a different relationship with yourself and your ADHD, we invite you to connect with Relate Therapy Center to learn more about working together.
Meet our Therapists
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Dr. Mary Mansour
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, individual therapy intensives, psychological assessments.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationships & dating, caregivers, relational trauma, family dynamics, identity & culture, grief & loss, college & graduate students, attachment & relationship patterns, life transitions.
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Dr. Celeste Carlson
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE | PASADENA + SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, psychological assessments, couples therapy, individual therapy intensives, couples therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Unresolved childhood trauma and abuse, relationship conflict, athletes, student-athletes, spirituality and faith concerns, LGBTQIA+ topics, adolescents, college students, young adults, performance pressure, perfectionist behavior, attachment issues, ADHD, anxiety/panic, depression, identity exploration.
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Dr. Lauren Mueller
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationships, self-esteem issues, sexuality/sexual identity, spirituality, life transitions, women's issues, body image, new moms, overwhelmed moms, parenting concerns, history of abuse, identity issues.
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Nicole Wilkins, MA
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY INTERN |
PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPYnicolewilkins.relate@gmail.com
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults, and Adults
Attachment issues, unresolved trauma, relationships, faith and spirituality, shame, trauma and the body, stress and anxiety, self-esteem, codependency, identity issues, parenting, new moms, body image concerns.
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Dr. Steve Simpson
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationship problems, infidelity, sexual issues for couples and individuals, sexual performance, ADHD, depression, anxiety, impulse control, self-esteem, identity concerns, spirituality.
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Dr. Kelsy Richardson
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, individual therapy intensives, adoption assessments, reading group for therapists
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Therapists in training/new therapists, gender/sexual identity, religious/spiritual issues, cultural identity, OCD, trauma/history of abuse, chronic illness & disability, psychodynamic case conceptualization
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Dr. Mollie Shrader-Perry
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | SAN DIEGO + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual Therapy, Couples Therapy, Premarital Therapy, Individual and Couples Intensives.
Ages: Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Interpersonal Relationship Concerns, Identity Development & Exploration, Eating & Body Image Concerns, Grief & Loss, 3rd Culture Kids/Cross-Cultural Concerns, Religious & Spiritual Trauma, Family of Origin Concerns, Mood Disorders, Sexual & Gender Concerns, and Chronic Stress related to Intersecting Identities.
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Dr. Rebecca Rouse
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Anxiety, depression, unhealthy relationship patterns, trauma, identity issues, infertility, pregnancy and loss, postpartum, parenting.
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Dr. Melissa Hofstetter
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Couples therapy intensives
Ages: Adults
Infidelity, relationship struggles and crisis, married couples, unhealthy relationship patterns.
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Dr. Brett Veltman
LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST | FOUNDER + DIRECTOR | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy, family therapy, couples therapy intensives, individual therapy intensives.
Ages: Children, Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Relationship struggles, leaders and professionals, infidelity, life stressors, relationships, separation & divorce, premarital therapy, dating struggles, spirituality and faith, college students, young adults, adolescents, work struggles, therapists, alcohol & substance abuse, industry professionals, identity issues, infertility, adoption, men’s issues.
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Gry Apeland, MA
ADVANCED CLINICAL THERAPIST | PASADENA + CA TELETHERAPY
Services Offered: Individual therapy, couples therapy, premarital therapy.
Ages: Children (10 and up), Adolescents, Emerging Adults and Adults
Religious and spiritual trauma, faith questions and deconstruction, coercive control and high-control groups, identity exploration, LGBTQIA+ affirming care, neurodivergent-affirming care, college and graduate students, shame and self-criticism, perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, couples therapy, premarital counseling, life transitions.
