Therapy for ADHD Women, Overwhelmed Parents & Burnout in Vancouver, BC
Maybe you're an ADHD woman who's been masking for years and finally hit burnout. Or you're a parent whose nervous system is depleted from holding everyone together while parenting neurodivergent children.
You love your family, but the exhaustion is crushing. The old strategies aren't working. The advice doesn't fit. You're tired of feeling like you're failing at something that should come naturally.
You're not broken. You're navigating something hard with a nervous system that's running beyond its capacity. You deserve support that actually sees you and helps you regulate from the
You're not broken. You're overloaded, running on empty, and holding everything.
Virtual therapy across BC | In-person in Vancouver | Certified ADHD Professional
I Specialize in:
ADHD Support for Women
ADHD in women shows up as chronic overwhelm, emotional flooding, and exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. You might be managing everything on the outside while drowning on the inside.
I help ADHD women understand their nervous systems, stop masking, and build regulation strategies that actually work for your brain - not against it.
Emotional dysregulation and overwhelm
Executive functioning challenges
ADHD and motherhood
Late diagnosis processing
Reducing masking and building capacity
What I Help With:
Parenting Burnout & Overwhelmed Parents
Parenting burnout isn't just tiredness - it's nervous system depletion. When you're parenting ADHD or highly sensitive children, the dysregulation is contagious and your capacity gets depleted faster than you can rebuild it.
I help overwhelmed parents understand what actually rebuilds capacity: nervous system regulation, sensory strategies, and reducing the invisible mental load.
What I Help With:
Parenting neurodivergent or highly sensitive children
Chronic overwhelm and capacity depletion
Sensory overload from daily parenting
Co-regulation with your children
Rebuilding your nervous system capacity
Perinatal & Postpartum Support
Pregnancy and postpartum bring massive nervous system shifts. Anxiety, identity changes, sensory overload, and the weight of new motherhood are real and deserve specialized support.
I help new and expecting mothers navigate perinatal anxiety, postpartum depression, birth trauma, and the tender, exhausting early seasons of motherhood.
Perinatal and postpartum anxiety
Postpartum depression and mood changes
Birth trauma processing
Identity shifts in new motherhood
Pregnancy anxiety and overwhelm
What I Help With:
Does This Sound Like Your Days?
✓ You try to rest but your mind won't turn off. Even when you have time to sleep, your nervous system stays activated and alert.
✓ You keep everyone else organized but feel completely empty inside. The mental load is crushing and no one else can see it.
✓ You're parenting a child with big emotions or neurodivergence. Their dysregulation triggers yours, and you're running out of capacity.
✓ You're an ADHD woman who's been masking your whole life. The strategies that got you through your 20s and 30s aren't working anymore, and you're exhausted.
✓ Anxiety follows you everywhere. It doesn't turn off, and you can't remember the last time you felt truly calm.
✓ You want to be patient but you're past your limit. You snap at small things because your nervous system has nothing left to give.
✓ You feel guilty for needing support. Like you should be able to handle this, but you're drowning.
✓ You love your family and you're not enjoying this. Both things are true at the same time, and the gap between them is painful.
If this is you, you're in the right place. This is what nervous system depletion looks like and it's fixable.
My Approach: Compassion, Clarity, and Collaboration
Compassion I hold a steady, non-judgmental space for the parts of you that feel overwhelmed, ashamed, exhausted, or stretched thin. My approach is trauma-informed and grounded in nervous-system science, helping you understand what is happening inside your body rather than blaming yourself for struggling. Compassion means space for all of it: the rage, tears, shame, exhaustion. You don't need to have it together to deserve support.
Clarity Together we make sense of your internal patterns, the stressors in your relationships, and the daily demands that shape your capacity. You learn how your nervous system communicates, why certain moments feel harder, and what you and your family actually need to feel safer, more regulated, and more connected. Clarity helps you see patterns and understand what you and your family actually need to feel safer and steadier.
Collaboration Therapy is a co-created process. We build tools and strategies together — practical, attachment-based, sensory-aware supports that fit your real life. No generic scripts. No pressure to be someone you’re not. Just grounded, evidence-informed work that helps you move forward with steadiness and choice. Collaboration means we build this together. No generic scripts. Trauma-informed, attachment-based tools that fit your real life.
Why ADHD Women and Overwhelmed Parents Choose Nurtured Foundations
✓ Certified ADHD Professional with sensory integration expertise - I understand how ADHD brains and sensory systems work, not just emotional overwhelm.
✓ Over a decade supporting neurodivergent families - Deep experience with ADHD, autism, sensory processing differences, and highly sensitive children.
✓ Advanced perinatal mental health training - Specialized certification in pregnancy, postpartum, and early motherhood support (PSI).
✓ Practical, body-based tools that fit real life - Nervous system regulation strategies, sensory tools, and capacity-building practices you can actually use.
✓ Warm, steady, grounded support - No judgment, no shame. Just clear guidance and compassionate collaboration.
What Clients Say
“I was drowning in postpartum anxiety and couldn’t tell anyone because I felt so guilty. Lisa gave me space to say the hard stuff and helped me regulate my nervous system. I feel like myself again.”
“I got diagnosed with ADHD at 39 and didn’t know where to start. Lisa helped me understand why I’ve been overwhelmed my whole life and gave me tools that actually work for my brain. For the first time, I’m not fighting against myself.”
“Lisa helped us make sense of our child’s big emotions and sensory needs and showed us how to respond with confidence instead of panic. We finally understand what’s happening and have a plan.”
“Parenting with ADHD meant I was always dysregulated, and my kids could feel it. Lisa helped me understand my nervous system and my kids’ nervous systems. Our whole house is calmer now. I finally have tools that work.”
“ I thought I was a bad parent because I was so depleted and irritable. Lisa helped me understand that I wasn’t broken - I was just running beyond my capacity. Learning about nervous system regulation changed how I parent and how I take care of myself.”
Common Questions
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Yes. I work with women who have ADHD or suspect they might, especially those dealing with burnout, overwhelm, and the invisible load of managing a household. Many women don't get diagnosed until adulthood because ADHD in women often looks like anxiety, people-pleasing, or "trying harder" rather than the hyperactive presentation most people recognize.
In our work together, we focus on building systems that match how your brain actually works instead of forcing yourself into neurotypical strategies that never quite fit. We address executive function challenges, emotional regulation, sensory sensitivities, and the shame that often comes from years of feeling like you're failing at things that seem easy for everyone else.
ADHD therapy isn't about fixing you. It's about understanding your nervous system, identifying what supports you need, and creating a life that feels more sustainable.
https://nurturedfoundations.com/blog/why-do-the-holidays-hit-adhd-women-so-hard
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Parenting burnout is a state of complete physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion that comes from the chronic stress of caregiving without enough recovery time. It's different from just having a hard day. You might notice feeling emotionally flat with your kids, fantasizing about running away, or feeling like you're just going through the motions instead of being present.
Common signs include feeling touched out, resentful about another bedtime routine, crying over small things, or struggling to regulate your emotions the way you normally would. Your nervous system gets stuck in survival mode, which makes everything feel harder than it should.
Parenting burnout is not a personal failure. It's what happens when the demands on your system consistently exceed your capacity to recover. Therapy can help you rebuild that capacity, regulate your nervous system, and create sustainable rhythms that actually work for your real life.
Check out my blog on parenting burnout here: https://nurturedfoundations.com/blog/building-capacity-isnt-about-doing-more-its-about-resourcing-what-you-already-have
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There’s no set timeline — some people come for a few focused sessions around a specific transition, while others find value in longer-term reflection. We’ll check in regularly to make sure therapy continues to feel helpful and aligned with your goals.
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Yes. While therapy doesn't treat the neurological aspects of ADHD (that's where medication and psychiatric support come in), it can significantly help with the emotional, relational, and practical challenges that come with having an ADHD brain.
Therapy helps you understand how ADHD affects your daily life, your relationships, and your sense of self. We work on emotional regulation strategies, building routines that actually stick, managing overwhelm and sensory overload, and healing from shame or past experiences of being told you're "too much" or "not enough."
For parents with ADHD, therapy also addresses the unique challenges of managing your own executive function while supporting children. We create realistic strategies for your actual life, not an idealized version.
Many of my clients combine therapy with other supports like medication, coaching, or occupational therapy strategies. Therapy is one important piece of a bigger support system.
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Yes. I provide virtual therapy to clients anywhere in British Columbia. Online therapy means you can access support from your own home without adding travel time, childcare logistics, or parking stress to your already full plate.
Virtual sessions work well for parents, pregnant and postpartum people, and anyone managing chronic stress or burnout. You can join from a quiet room, your car, or wherever feels private and comfortable.
I'm registered with the BC College of Counsellors, which means I can only provide therapy to residents currently located in BC. If you're temporarily outside the province, we'll need to pause services until you return.
Whether you're seeking support for ADHD overwhelm, parenting burnout, or perinatal anxiety, there's room here to slow down, catch your breath, and find solid ground again.