Executive functioning refers to the skills involved in starting tasks, planning, organizing, remembering what you meant to do, switching between things, managing time, regulating emotion, and following through.
When those skills are unreliable, ordinary work, school, and household demands can take more effort than they look like they should. That happens often with ADHD. It also happens with anxiety, depression, burnout, grief, sleep problems, or periods when demands exceed available capacity — including when ADHD is not the main issue.
I work with adults and older teens on executive-function difficulties as part of individual psychotherapy.
What this can look like
People describe knowing what they intended to do and not getting started; losing time; leaving things unfinished; having a day, inbox, or workspace that will not stay organized; relying on deadlines to move; avoiding anything that requires too many steps; or feeling ashamed after another stretch of poor follow-through.
Those patterns are worth taking seriously. They are not evidence that you do not care.
How therapy can help
Many productivity systems assume the main problem is knowing what to do. With executive-function difficulties, the harder problem is often doing it consistently.
Therapy looks at what gets in the way: avoidance, emotion, overload, unclear priorities, ADHD, anxiety, depression, or an environment that does not match how you work. We may still use calendars, lists, timers, or simpler routines. The point is to understand the problem those tools are for, not to collect more of them.
I work on executive-function difficulties as part of psychotherapy, not as a separate coaching service.
If ADHD is the main concern
If the larger picture is ADHD, start with the ADHD page. This page is for people whose main complaint is getting things started, organized, and finished, whether or not they think of it as ADHD.
I do not provide psychological assessment or ADHD diagnosis. A diagnosis is not required in order to work on executive-function difficulties in therapy.
Practical information
Adults and older teens, generally age 16 and up. In person in Edmonton and virtually throughout Alberta. 50-minute sessions. $235 per session. Direct billing is available with many extended-health insurance providers depending on your plan.
I do not provide child therapy, couples therapy, or psychological assessments.
