Helping overwhelmed parents move out of survival mode and into grounded confidence.
I help parents understand their child's behavior and build their own capacity, using a neurodivergent-affirming, nervous system-informed approach that creates steadier, calmer family life for everyone.
Many parents come to therapy because something feels off. They're worried about their child's behavior, managing neurodivergent needs, or navigating the constant overwhelm of family life. You might not call it burnout yet, but you know you're running on empty.
For some parents, this exhaustion started in pregnancy or the postpartum period and never quite lifted. For others, it crept in slowly over years of caregiving, navigating child behavior challenges, and managing the constant demands of family life. Either way, the depletion is real, and you don't have to keep pushing through alone.
I'll help you understand what's happening beneath the surface so you can build steadier capacity and show up the way you want to.
Virtual therapy across BC | In-person in Vancouver | Certified ADHD Professional
I Specialize in:
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.
This work focuses on understanding what's driving your child's behavior AND building your own nervous system capacity to respond with steadiness. We work on both: practical strategies for your child's specific needs and tools for your own regulation and recovery. You don't have to choose between supporting your child and supporting yourself.
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
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.
Many ADHD parents I work with are also navigating parent burnout. Learn more about parent support →
Emotional dysregulation and overwhelm
Executive functioning challenges
ADHD and motherhood
Late diagnosis processing
Reducing masking and building capacity
What I Help With:
Perinatal & Postpartum Support
From pregnancy anxiety and birth trauma to postpartum depression and the exhausting early months of new motherhood. The nervous system demands of pregnancy, birth, and caring for a newborn often set the stage for the overwhelm that continues into parenting. I support women through this entire tender, depleting arc.
I help new and expecting mothers navigate perinatal anxiety, postpartum depression, birth trauma, and the tender, exhausting early seasons of motherhood.
What I Help With:
Perinatal and postpartum anxiety
Postpartum depression and mood changes
Birth trauma processing
Identity shifts in new motherhood
Pregnancy anxiety and overwhelm
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 pregnant or postpartum and everyone keeps asking about the baby, but no one's asking how you are. The exhaustion goes deeper than sleep deprivation.
✓ Parenting stress is affecting your relationship with your partner. You're disconnected, exhausted, and struggling to be a team.
✓ 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.
✓ You need strategies for your child's behavior AND support for your own depletion. You can't figure out which to address first.
✓ Parenting stress is affecting your relationship with your partner. You're disconnected, exhausted, and struggling to be a team.
✓ 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.
✓ Your child's behavior feels overwhelming and you're not sure if it's "normal" or something more. You're exhausted from trying to manage meltdowns, anxiety, or daily resistance.
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.
This work is grounded in over a decade of experience working directly with children, youth, and families. Before focusing my practice on parent support, I worked extensively as an occupational therapist in pediatric and school-based settings. This means I understand child development, sensory needs, and nervous system regulation deeply, not theoretically. When we work together, we address both what's happening with your child and what's happening in you. Both matter. Both get attention.
Why Choose Nurtured Foundations Therapy & Consulting
✓ 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 strategies for your child AND tools for your own nervous system - We work on both: understanding your child's behavior and building your capacity to respond with steadiness.
✓ Warm, steady, grounded support - No judgment, no shame. Just clear guidance and compassionate collaboration.
✓ Autism Funding Unit (AFU) approved provider - Many families use their AFU allocation for parent support and family therapy, a valuable and eligible use of funding.
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.”
Ready to explore how therapy can help? Learn more about parent support or book a free consultation.
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.
Have More Questions?
Answers to all the most important questions about what to expect, how sessions are scheduled and more are on my Frequently Asked Questions Page.
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.