ADHD Counselling Cottesloe
ADHD Counselling. You're not alone. Let's embrace your journey and help you thrive.
As awareness of ADHD grows, more clients are receiving adult diagnoses and seeking deeper self-understanding with a compassionate therapist who truly understands, which we're honoured to offer at our Cottesloe practice. Whether diagnosed as a child or recently, navigating this journey can feel lonely without genuine support from people who get it.
As experienced Cottesloe therapists, we create a nurturing, welcoming space where you can explore what living with ADHD means for you, embracing both the challenges and gifts, while gently uncovering and celebrating the unique brilliance that makes you, you.
Our counsellors use proven, caring techniques to help you navigate daily life, nurture your relationships, and build authentic confidence in both your personal world and professional endeavours.
Understanding ADHD Counselling
ADHD therapy focuses on exploring how ADHD influences a person's thinking patterns, emotional responses, and daily actions. A qualified counsellor supports clients in building effective management tools, including organisational strategies, ways to navigate emotions, and cultivating self-kindness. Sessions often delve into deeper emotional struggles, such as worry, confidence concerns, and interpersonal challenges. The aim is to develop a personalised pathway that enables clients to flourish.
Inside an ADHD Counselling Session
ADHD therapy appointments generally run for 60 minutes and are customised to suit each person's particular circumstances. Your counsellor will collaborate with you to pinpoint specific difficulties and present effective tools to enhance concentration, structure, and self-understanding. Sessions might incorporate objective planning, evidence-based therapeutic approaches, grounding exercises, and compassionate emotional guidance. The duration of therapy varies based on personal development and the outcomes you're working towards.
We see your challenges and we’d love to help you.
ADHD shows up differently in women, often more quietly, more inwardly — and that can lead to years of feeling misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or simply exhausted. Counselling can be a turning point.
Here are the most common challenges women with ADHD face, and how counselling can help you navigate and ease them:
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You might feel like your brain never shuts off, juggling tasks, to-dos, emotions, and expectations all at once. ADHD counselling helps you untangle that mental mess, find systems that work for your brain, and breathe again.
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Struggling to sense how time passes? Always running late or underestimating how long things take? Together, we’ll explore tools and strategies to improve your time awareness and build more reliable routines, without the shame spiral.
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Do your emotions sometimes feel too much, like they take over your whole system? You’re not “too sensitive.” ADHD often heightens emotional responses. Counselling can help you understand your emotional patterns and regulate them in healthier ways.
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That voice that says, “If I can’t do it perfectly, why bother?” That’s ADHD and self-pressure colliding. In therapy, we’ll work on realistic standards, self-compassion, and learning how to move forward, even imperfectly.
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When you’ve masked your symptoms to fit in or keep the peace for years, it’s easy to lose sight of who you are. Counselling helps you peel back those layers and reconnect with your authentic self, without apology.
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Your home, your workspace, your digital life, if it all feels chaotic, it’s not a personal failing. It’s a symptom. Together, we’ll develop a structure that supports you, not systems that shame you.
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Many women with ADHD are high-functioning on the outside and utterly depleted on the inside. Therapy offers a space to pause, unload the invisible burdens, and redefine what it means to be “enough.”
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Saying yes when you want to say no, and then resenting it, is a common experience. In counselling, we’ll work on boundaries that are clear, kind, and sustainable, so you can protect your energy and your peace.
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You may carry shame about things others take for granted. forgetting appointments, losing things, interrupting, struggling to stay organised or focused. That shame can run deep, especially if you’ve been masking it for years. In therapy, we gently untangle that shame and replace it with self-understanding, healing, and genuine self-worth.
You’re one of a kind, let’s show the world your magic with counsellors who have ADHD themselves, and thrive.
Finding Support Through ADHD Counselling
ADHD counselling is beneficial for people across all life stages who are looking for guidance in navigating ADHD experiences. Our Cottesloe practice supports:
Teenagers and adults with an ADHD diagnosis, those who recognise they may have ADHD or identify as neurodivergent but aren't ready to pursue formal assessment at this stage.
People who find difficulties with concentration, impulse control, or managing their emotions
Individuals experiencing worry, self-doubt, or overwhelm stemming from ADHD-related struggles
Family members or partners seeking to deepen their understanding and provide meaningful support to someone they love who has ADHD
Understanding the Limits of ADHD Counselling
ADHD counselling may not be the most appropriate support for clients who are currently managing:
Urgent mental health concerns that require immediate attention and should be addressed first.
Current substance dependency requiring specialised treatment.
Applying proven modalities to ADHD counselling for individuals and couples with therapists who truly get it. We want to celebrate your divergance, not mask it.
Our counsellors are well-trained in a variety of evidence-based modalities that they will apply to your unique experiences.
Neuro-affirming counselling will adapt, adjust and integrate awareness of ADHD into how the counsellor supports you and the diversity of ADHD presentations and symptoms.
Our counselling will give you the insight, tools and confidence to manage your symptoms and flourish in life.
Relationship Counselling for couples with ADHD.
We see both individuals and couples in our practice for ADHD counselling, as a speciality area of our Practice.
If one or both partners in your relationship have ADHD, there will be unique experiences, triggers, patterns and opportunities for growth and understanding from an ADHD-informed perspective.
We believe working with an ADHD-informed therapist for couples counselling is invaluable for your relationship.
Without in-depth knowledge of ADHD and relationships, other couples counsellors may miss your unique dynamics, mislabel or misdiagnose symptoms, patterns or behaviours or provide strategies that won’t work for you.
We’ll see and deeply understand your experiences and provide ADHD informed solutions and approaches, and give you the language to articulate how ADHD is showing up in your relationship as you work through your challenges as a couple.
All of our ADHD counsellors are also couples counsellors, bringing a rich and dynamic level of expertise to your sessions.
We help couples with ADHD work through:
Emotional Regulation
Rejection Sensitivity
Conflict patterns
Avoidance and procrastination
Negative Core beliefs or shame
Practical habits, routines and daily living.
Helping you understand yourself and your partner.
Frequently Asked Questions
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You can expect a safe, structured, and supportive environment where your therapist will help you explore ADHD-related challenges and develop personalised strategies for improvement. Sessions focus on practical skills, emotional support, and long-term strategies for managing ADHD effectively.
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ADHD counselling can benefit many individuals who want to learn more about themselves and discover ways to adapt and thrive in a neurotypical world. Clients seeking support outside of, or alongside, medication could greatly benefit from ADHD counselling.
We're also passionate couples counsellors who can help navigate relationships where one or both partners has ADHD, supporting you through the unique dynamics and strengths this brings.
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ADHD counselling can assist with time management, organisation, emotional regulation, impulsivity, self-esteem, and relationship difficulties. It provides tools to manage daily challenges and improve overall well-being. Our counsellors also help clients navigate and process the diagnosis journey, which often brings up strong feelings that can be confronting, and our therapists can support you through.
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While medication can help manage ADHD symptoms, counselling addresses the emotional, behavioural, and practical challenges associated with ADHD. Many individuals find a combination of therapy and medication to be the most effective approach.
Our ADHD Informed Therapists in Cottesloe and their specialties
Justyna Ptak-Broers
Registered Counsellor
ADHDer- Hi, I’m Justyna!
ADHD in relationships- Including Couples Counselling.
Identity and self-compassion counselling for a person with ADHD.
Skills-based counselling to improve functioning and self-understanding once diagnosed.
Emotional regulation and reactivity support.
Support for partners/family members living with a person with ADHD.
Processing Diagnosis/medication.
Physical aspects of ADHD.
Strategies, habits, goals and progress check-ins.
Congratulations- You have ADHD! We’re changing the world!
Britt Tyrrell
Registered Counsellor
ADHDer- Hi, I’m Britt!
ADHD in relationships- Including Couples Counselling.
Helping clients understand and soothe emotional and physical overwhelm.
Building ADHD-friendly systems to manage time, tasks, and mental clutter.
Addressing inner criticism, letting go of people-pleasing, and developing kind, clear boundaries.
Reconnecting with your authentic self.
Supporting connection, intimacy, conflict resolution, and self-advocacy in the context of ADHD.
Training attention, calming the mind, and tuning into the body’s wisdom.
ADHD and motherhood.
Martina | Associate
Registered Counsellor
Neurotypical, ADHD specialist
ADHD in relationships- Including Couples Counselling
Re-learn who you are through the lens of ADHD.
Access your innate strengths to thrive and function optimally.
Embrace and nurture your creative, non-linear brain.
Release shame and build a kinder inner dialogue
Communicate your uniqueness and needs to create safer connections.
Understand how your brain works differently.Own your ADHD: Your uniqueness is your strength.
Mindfulness, acceptance, and compassion to support everyday.
Book an ADHD Counselling Appointment
Contact our Practice to discuss working together. We’ll guide you to which therapist is most suitable for you and your needs.
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