CBT for Adult ADHD
Helps challenge shame-based beliefs and build practical systems for planning, prioritizing, and follow-through.
Austin, Texas + Online Across Texas
Adult ADHD Therapy
I work with adult ADHD because I know how painful it is to spend years thinking you just need more discipline.
Therapy helped me understand my brain, my shame, and the support I actually needed.
9+ years supporting ADHD, anxiety, burnout, and shame
Do you spend the whole day busy, then realize you somehow escaped the one thing that actually mattered?
Do you lose hours inside a topic you never meant to research, then come back exhausted and still not started?
ADHD can make ordinary life feel harder than it looks from the outside.
You may care deeply and still forget. You may know what needs to be done and still feel unable to start.
That does not mean you are lazy.
It means your brain may need support that actually fits how it works.
Clients Come To Me For:
- Difficulty starting tasks
- Time blindness
- Forgotten messages
- Emotional overwhelm
- Routines that never stick
- Feeling behind in life
This is not a character flaw.
Many adults with ADHD have already tried to fix this.
Planners. Apps. Timers. Morning routines. Productivity videos. Notes you forgot to check. Systems that worked for three days, then became one more thing to keep up with.
If every system eventually becomes another reason to feel behind, therapy should not hand you another perfect plan.
It should help you understand why the systems keep breaking.
Let’s TalkHow therapy works
How Adult ADHD Therapy With Me Works
ADHD therapy starts with understanding your actual life.
Not the version where you magically wake up with perfect motivation and a planner you remember to check.
The real version, with unopened emails, half-finished tasks, late-night motivation, good intentions, and systems that work for a few days before disappearing.
Together, we look at your attention patterns, avoidance, emotional triggers, routines, and the shame that often builds after years of feeling inconsistent.
Modalities I Use
Support that meets both the practical and emotional parts of ADHD.
Executive Function Support
Focuses on task initiation, time management, routines, and breaking overwhelming tasks into doable steps.
ACT
Helps you move toward what matters, even when discomfort, boredom, fear, or self-doubt shows up.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Builds awareness of attention, impulses, emotions, and body cues before the spiral takes over.
Self-Compassion Work
Helps soften the inner voice that says you are lazy, dramatic, or always behind.
Skills-Based Therapy
Gives practical support for daily life while we work on the deeper emotional impact of ADHD.
Build a Life That Works With Your Brain
The goal is not to become a different person.
As ADHD becomes better understood and supported, life can start to feel less like constant catching up.
The goal is to stop measuring yourself by systems that were never built for your brain.
After ADHD Therapy With Me, Clients Report
- More self-understanding
- Less shame around productivity
- Better task initiation
- More realistic planning
- Improved emotional regulation
- More follow-through on what matters
- A kinder relationship with themselves
You do not have to keep living in the cycle of pressure, avoidance, panic, and self-blame.
Meet With Me
About Maya Brooks, LCSW
Therapy for adults who are tired of performing capability while quietly feeling stuck.
My therapy is designed for adults who are tired of being told they are smart and capable, while quietly feeling like they cannot trust themselves to follow through.
Sessions with me are collaborative, warm, and practical.
We slow things down, identify where the ADHD loop is happening, and build support around your actual life.
You do not have to perform or prove that your struggles are real here.
Outside of therapy, I love trail walks, strong coffee, used bookstores, and making detailed lists that I sometimes forget to check.
Availability: I work with adults through online therapy across Texas and in-person therapy in Austin.
Education, Credentials, & Trainings
Grounded clinical support for ADHD, anxiety, burnout, and shame.
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker
- Master of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin
- Training in CBT for Adult ADHD
- Executive-function and ADHD-coaching-informed therapy
- ACT-informed therapy
- Mindfulness-based therapy
- Self-compassion approaches
- 9+ years working with ADHD, anxiety, burnout, and shame
3 Steps To Get Started
You don’t have to go this alone.
Let’s find a way through together.
Contact Me
Fill out the contact form with as much or as little detail as you can manage. If I am not the right fit, I will help point you toward someone who may be.
Brief Consultation
We’ll talk about what has been hard, what you are hoping therapy can help with, and whether working together feels supportive.
First Session
You do not need to arrive organized. We’ll begin by understanding your ADHD patterns and the support that would make life feel more manageable.
Ready to feel less alone with your ADHD?
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Adult ADHD therapy in Austin, Texas and online across Texas.
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