Who I Help
ADHD & Executive-Functioning Support in Kent, Ohio
When Knowing What to Do Does Not Make Doing It Easier
Maybe you understand the assignment, care about the deadline, and genuinely want to begin—but your brain still feels stuck at the starting line.
When organizing, starting, remembering, prioritizing, or following through feels harder than it “should,” it can be easy to call yourself lazy or unmotivated. But struggling with executive functioning is not a character flaw.
Does This Feel Familiar?
- You wait until urgency creates enough pressure to begin.
- Large or multistep tasks quickly become overwhelming.
- You lose track of assignments, appointments, or belongings.
- You underestimate how long something will take.
- You move between tasks without completing them.
- Motivation appears unpredictably and disappears just as quickly.
- You create new routines but struggle to maintain them.
- Falling behind leads to shame, avoidance, or emotional overwhelm.
- Other people see inconsistency when you are actually trying very hard.
- You keep asking yourself, “Why can’t I just do it?”
What It Can Look Like
Executive functioning is not one skill. It is a chain — start, plan, hold, finish — and it usually breaks in the same two or three places for the same person.
Starting
- The task sits there and the hours do not move.
- Cleaning the kitchen instead of sending one email.
- Waiting for the deadline to turn into a feeling.
Keeping
- Three half-finished systems, each one the answer.
- A reminder you dismissed and now cannot remember.
- A bill that was paid, or was not — and no way to check.
The Cost
- A story about yourself that is not true.
- Explaining, again, that you were actually trying.
- The exhaustion of being told to just be more organised.
Let’s Work With Your Brain Instead of Constantly Fighting It
Therapy can help us understand what happens between wanting to do something and being able to begin. We may work on task initiation, planning, time awareness, motivation, realistic routines, emotional regulation, and breaking large responsibilities into smaller steps.
The goal is not to force you into someone else’s system. It is to find tools that make sense for your brain, your responsibilities, and your actual life.
We can also make room for the shame and self-criticism that often grow after years of being misunderstood.
What a Session Asks of You
A first session is not a test of your organisation. It is a conversation about a normal week — what was on it, what got pushed, and what the pushing cost you — and it is the only assessment we need to begin.
From there we usually pick one thing to make easier rather than everything at once, because a plan that requires you to become a different person by Monday is the fifth plan that will not survive the month.
Where Else This Shows Up
These difficulties rarely arrive alone. Anxiety is the most common companion — the loop about the task is often louder than the task — so anxiety and overthinking is worth reading next. If the thing stopping you is that the work has to be right before it can be finished, that is perfectionism and people-pleasing. And if the years of being misunderstood have become a story about who you are, start with self-esteem and identity.
Ways We Can Work Together
This service offers therapy and executive-functioning support. It is not presented as a stand-alone ADHD diagnostic evaluation.
What to Expect
It starts with a free 15-minute consultation — a short call to say what has been happening and ask anything you want to ask. No forms to fill out first, no commitment at the end of it, and no pressure to sound like you have it together.
If it feels like a fit, the first appointment is a longer assessment so I can understand the whole picture before we start working. After that, sessions are ongoing — usually weekly to start, then spaced out as things steady. Individual therapy is $175 for the initial assessment and $150 per appointment, private pay, with a limited number of sliding-scale spots. The Fees & FAQs page has the full detail, including out-of-network reimbursement if you want to submit to your insurance.
Sessions happen in person at my Kent office — 1640 Franklin Ave, Suite 222 — or online, anywhere in Ohio.
Getting Here
The office is at 1640 Franklin Ave, Suite 222, Kent, Ohio 44240, in downtown Kent. It is a short drive from Ravenna, Streetsboro, Stow, Hudson, Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge and Akron, and about twenty minutes from Kent State University.
If getting to Kent is the thing that has kept this on the list for a while, sessions are also available online, anywhere in Ohio. Same therapist, same work, and no commute — a phone or a laptop in a room where you will not be overheard is enough.
I answer inquiries Monday through Friday, 9am to 6pm. Messages that arrive over the weekend get a reply on the next business day.
Prefer email? coloroutsidethelinescounseling@gmail.com
You Are Not Lazy, Broken, or Failing at Being a Person
You may need a different kind of support—not another lecture about trying harder. We can start by understanding where things get stuck and build from there.
If you would rather read before you book, ADHD Awareness Month: It’s More Than “Just Focus” is a longer piece on what ADHD actually looks like day to day.