Understanding your particular pattern
ADHD-related difficulties and anxiety can overlap, but not everyone with ADHD has anxiety. Your experience may involve worry about deadlines, avoiding a task that feels overwhelming, or feeling increasingly stressed as responsibilities pile up.
You and Lance can explore whether distraction, uncertainty, self-criticism, organization difficulties, or emotional reactions are contributing to a problem. The aim is to understand your situation rather than assume every difficulty has the same cause.
Work on both the task and the feelings around it
A practical plan may need to address more than the to-do list. CBT can help examine beliefs about mistakes or falling behind. Mindfulness can support noticing worry or frustration before reacting. Planning strategies can make the next step clearer and more realistic.
- Notice the cycle of worry, avoidance, and unfinished tasks
- Separate a manageable next action from the entire project
- Explore flexible responses to self-critical thinking
- Practice pausing during emotionally intense moments
- Adjust routines around real demands and available energy
Individualized virtual therapy
Sessions are a place to bring real examples, discuss your priorities, and review what you try between appointments. Lance uses an integrative approach based on your goals and preferences.
Adult individual therapy is available virtually in North Carolina. Formal ADHD testing, psychological assessments, and medication management are not offered.
A few common questions
Things you might be wondering.
Does ADHD always include anxiety?
No. Some people experience both, while others do not. Therapy begins with your experience and needs.
Do we have to choose one concern to work on?
You can discuss multiple concerns and agree on priorities together. Work can include practical difficulties and the worry or emotions around them.