ADHD therapists

Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC

Perla Salazar is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Fort Worth with 12 years in practice, including work in nonprofit and school settings. She sees teens and adults individually and specializes in play therapy with children of all ages. Her focus areas include school issues, parent support, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, OCD, trauma, autism and self-esteem, and she also works with couples, families and postpartum concerns. She believes each person can grow given the right support, and offers empathic listening in a nonjudgmental setting. Her methods include play therapy, sandplay, expressive arts, CBT and Adlerian and person-centered work. She sees clients in person in Fort Worth and online.

Psychologist, PhD, LP

Dr. Sheân Sattari is a licensed psychologist in McKinney, licensed in Texas and Montana. She helps adults recover from trauma, anxiety or other painful experiences in a calm and nonjudgmental space, and with parents of young children who need practical guidance when a child is struggling emotionally or behaviorally. She also helps with depression, ADHD and family concerns, and provides neurodevelopmental evaluations. Her work with families is play-based, using child-centered play therapy and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and she also draws on CBT, mindfulness, neurofeedback and psychodynamic methods. She sees toddlers through adults and families in person in McKinney and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW

Kelly Adams is a licensed clinical social worker in Richmond who focuses on children and teens. She helps young people affected by recent changes, stress or past trauma, and by anxiety, low mood, anger or low self-esteem, and she also works with ADHD, OCD, grief, family concerns and LGBTQ+ issues. She partners closely with parents, holding regular parent sessions alongside the child's therapy, and tailors evidence-based methods to each child to build self-understanding and resilience. Her approaches include EMDR, exposure and response prevention, CBT, DBT, Internal Family Systems and attachment-based work. She offers a free consultation and sees children, teens, adults and families in person in Richmond and online.

Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC

Drew Card is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Magnolia who works with teens, adults and older adults. His focus areas include anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, grief and bipolar disorder, along with school issues, career questions and life transitions. He places trust, integrity and compassion at the heart of the therapy relationship and keeps a nonjudgmental, person-centered stance while helping clients find ways to move forward. He also uses rational emotive behavior therapy to help clients examine unhelpful beliefs, alongside CBT, mindfulness, narrative work and motivational interviewing. He sees clients in person in Magnolia and online.

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC, NCC

Yousef Essex is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor listed in Bethesda who serves clients across Maryland and Washington, DC. His specialties are trauma, ADHD and the mental health of men, and he also helps with anxiety, depression, burnout and relationship difficulties. Before becoming a therapist he worked for over a decade in international education and as a federal Foreign Affairs Officer, living and working in places such as Cairo, Beirut and Damascus; his own burnout led him here. He combines Internal Family Systems, Somatic Experiencing and CBT, and uses Gottman and emotionally focused methods with couples. He also offers psychedelic harm reduction and integration support, plus a free 20-minute consultation. Sessions are in person and online.

Psychologist, PhD

Dr. Laís Granemann is a licensed psychologist in Bethesda with 14 years in practice who works in English, Spanish and Portuguese. She provides individual and couples therapy for adults and neuropsychological testing for ADHD, autism, learning disabilities and mental health concerns in children, teens and adults. Many of her clients have moved for work, school or family and are adjusting to a new place or to cross-cultural relationships. She also supports people with cancer and their caregivers and treats blood and needle phobias. She trained and practiced in Brazil before earning her PhD in clinical psychology at Fordham University. Her approach is warm and collaborative. She offers a free 15-minute consultation and sessions in person and online.

Family Therapist, MS, LCMFT

Jennifer Fang Brehm is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Silver Spring, Maryland, with 18 years in practice and licenses in Maryland and DC. She sees individuals, couples and families of all ages, from young children to older adults, and her specialty is couples work, including communication, conflict, intimacy, co-parenting, premarital preparation and separation or divorce. She also helps with grief, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD and family conflict. She views the therapy relationship as a judgment-free place to explore and heal emotional, interpersonal and spiritual concerns. Her methods are research-supported, mainly CBT, emotionally focused therapy and solution-focused therapy, with play therapy for children. She offers a free phone consultation and sessions in person and online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LICSW, MSW

Kelly Redmon Loo is a licensed clinical social worker in Arlington, Virginia, with 21 years in practice and licenses in Virginia and Florida. As a neurodiversity-affirming therapist and diagnostician, she specializes in autism assessments for adults, and many of her clients arrive in autistic burnout that may have been mistaken for depression or anxiety. After assessment she builds individual therapy goals with each client. She also helps with stress, depression, anxiety, ADHD, chronic illness and pain, unmasking, and the mixed emotions that come with a late diagnosis. She uses ACT, EMDR, mindfulness and solution-focused coaching. Aware that many neurodivergent people have had poor experiences with providers, she offers a free 20-minute phone consultation. Sessions are online.

Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, LCSW-C, LCSW

Matt McQuilkin is a licensed clinical social worker in Washington, DC, practicing in the Barracks Row and Capitol Hill area, with six years in practice. He is also licensed in Maryland and Michigan. He works with adults on anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family concerns, questions of identity and sexuality, life transitions, and substance use or recovery, and he welcomes LGBTQ+ clients and men's issues. His approach is psychodynamic, relational and attachment-based, exploring how earlier experiences and relationships shape the present while moving at the client's own pace. He offers sessions in person in Washington, DC, and online.