Your brain isn't broken. It's just never had the right resources to settle.
Somatic therapy for ADHD and nervous system overwhelm, supporting adults and teens in Marin County and throughout California.
You know what you need to do. You just can't seem to make yourself do it. Or you hyperfocus on one thing for hours and completely lose track of everything else. You're either running at full speed or completely checked out. And sadly, the steady and grounded place everyone else seems to inhabit, feels genuinely foreign.
Living with ADHD is exhausting in ways that are hard to explain to people who don't experience it. It's not just the distractions or the disorganization. It's the shame of not living up to your own potential and seeing others easily manage. Then there’s the relational strain of forgetfulness or emotional intensity. The constant effort of trying to function in systems and environments that were not built for the way your brain and nervous system work.
Underneath these struggles is a body that never quite knows how to be still and at peace.
Why somatic therapy for ADHD
How I work with ADHD & nervous system overwhelm
My work with ADHD clients is curious, adaptive, and genuinely attuned to neurodiversity. I am not trying to make you neurotypical. I am trying to help you find what works for your brain and nervous system while healing the shame, exhaustion, and self-doubt that so often accompany years of struggling in systems that weren't built for you.
We work somatically by tracking the body's experience of overwhelm, under-stimulation, and everything in between. Our goal is to build your capacity to regulate from the inside out. I draw on mindful movement and expressive practices that work with the ADHD nervous system's need for engagement and embodiment rather than against it. Internal Family Systems (IFS) is particularly powerful here, helping you develop a compassionate relationship with the parts of you that scatter, procrastinate, explode, or shut down. You walk away understanding what they're trying to do for you rather than simply trying to suppress them.
The Rhythms of Resource framework is also a natural fit for ADHD. In particular, the states of Presence (feeling settled and connected to yourself), Purpose (finding genuine direction and motivation from within), and Persistence (building stability to keep going even when the ADHD brain wants to move on). I show clients how to access these ways of being through mindful movement.
What clients often discover
This might be for you if:
ADHD is not only a cognitive experience. There’s an underlying nervous system experience. The ADHD brain and body are wired for novelty, intensity, and stimulation, which means the everyday world can feel simultaneously too much and not enough. Standard approaches to addressing ADHD, such as behavioral strategies, time management systems, and medication, can be genuinely helpful, and I support their role. But they often don't address the somatic reality of living in an ADHD nervous system: the dysregulation, the sensory sensitivity, the emotional intensity, the deep need for movement and stimulation that a sit-still world doesn't accommodate.
Somatic therapy offers something different: a way of working with your nervous system rather than against it. Learning what genuine regulation feels like in your body. Building the capacity to move between activation and ease. Developing an embodied relationship with yourself that makes the everyday demands of life more navigable; not by forcing your nervous system to comply, but by understanding and working with what it actually needs.
Adults and teens with ADHD frequently experience through our work together:
A more compassionate understanding of their own nervous system. There’s relief from the shame of feeling like they should be able to just get it together.
Practical, embodied tools for regulation that actually work for the way their brain is wired.
More access to their considerable strengths. The creativity, sensitivity, passion, and intensity that are a part of ADHD experience gets to shine.
Improved relationships, as they develop more capacity to stay present and emotionally regulated while connected with others.
A growing sense of being at home in themselves, rather than constantly at war with the way their mind works.
You have a diagnosis of ADHD, or suspect you might, especially if you're an adult who slipped through the diagnostic cracks, or a woman whose ADHD presented differently than the textbook description.
You feel chronically overwhelmed, understimulated, or caught between the two with very little in between.
You carry significant shame around productivity, follow-through, or meeting your own expectations.
You've tried behavioral strategies and found them helpful but incomplete.
You want to understand and work with your nervous system, not just manage your symptoms.
