Online ADHD Therapy in Ontario and British Columbia

A compassionate, practical space for overwhelm, procrastination, emotional intensity, shame, and the exhaustion of trying to keep up.

Virtual ADHD therapy for clients in Ontario and British Columbia.

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When Everything Feels Harder Than It Should

The day may begin with good intentions. You know what needs to be done. The email is open, the laundry is waiting, and the appointment has been written down somewhere.

Still, beginning can feel strangely difficult.

You may move between tasks without finishing them, lose track of time, forget something important, or become overwhelmed by a responsibility that seems simple to everyone else. Relationships are strained. By the end of the day, you may be carrying frustration, guilt, and the familiar question of why you could not just make yourself do it.

For many adults with ADHD, the struggle is not a lack of intelligence, effort, or care. It can involve difficulties with executive functioning, attention regulation, working memory, transitions, emotional regulation, and maintaining routines that were not designed with your brain in mind.

ADHD therapy offers a space to understand these patterns with greater compassion, while developing practical approaches that feel realistic and sustainable.

What ADHD Therapy Can Help With

  • Task initiation and chronic procrastination
  • Difficulty organizing responsibilities, schedules, or spaces
  • Time blindness, lateness, and missed appointments
  • Feeling overwhelmed by ordinary daily tasks
  • Emotional intensity, irritability, and rejection sensitivity
  • Shame, low confidence, or feeling chronically behind
  • Burnout from masking or overcompensating
  • Difficulty maintaining routines and habits
  • Relationship conflict around forgetfulness or follow-through
  • Workplace or academic stress
  • Adjusting after a late ADHD diagnosis
  • Exploring whether your experiences may be connected to ADHD

You do not need to have a formal diagnosis to begin talking about what you are experiencing.

How ADHD Can Show Up

ADHD does not always look like visible hyperactivity. In adults, it may appear as exhaustion, perfectionism, disorganization, emotional sensitivity, inconsistent productivity, or a constant feeling of trying to catch up.

Emotionally

Frustration, shame, anxiety, irritability, rejection sensitivity, emotional overwhelm, or feeling disappointed in yourself.

Cognitively

Racing thoughts, forgetfulness, difficulty prioritizing, losing track of information, trouble shifting attention, or becoming intensely focused on one thing while other responsibilities disappear from view.

Relationally

Feeling misunderstood, conflict about responsibilities, interrupting, forgetting conversations, withdrawing after criticism, or fearing that you are letting people down.

In Daily Life

Unfinished tasks, clutter, missed deadlines, inconsistent routines, impulsive decisions, difficulty getting started, or relying on urgency to complete things.

However ADHD is showing up for you, therapy can help you understand the pattern beneath the behaviour and find supports that fit your actual life.

ADHD Therapy Options

ADHD Therapy – 50 Minutes

A steady space to understand how ADHD-related patterns affect your emotions, relationships, work, and daily life.

Helpful if you are navigating procrastination, overwhelm, emotional intensity, shame, inconsistent routines, burnout, or difficulty following through.

Format: Virtual
Length: 50 Minutes
Investment: $180

ADHD Therapy Intensives

A longer, focused space for patterns that feel layered or difficult to fit into a weekly session.
Helpful if you want dedicated time to understand a recurring cycle, work through ADHD-related shame or burnout, develop practical supports, or explore how ADHD affects your relationships and identity.
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Format: Virtual
Length: 2 hour, 3 hour or 2 day formats available
Investment: Starting at $907

FAQ

Do I need an ADHD diagnosis to begin therapy?

No. You may already have a diagnosis, be waiting for an assessment, or simply recognize yourself in common ADHD experiences. Therapy can begin with the difficulties affecting your daily life, whether or not you have a formal diagnosis.

Can therapy diagnose ADHD?

Psychotherapy can help you explore your experiences and understand patterns that may be consistent with ADHD. A formal diagnosis generally requires an appropriate assessment by a qualified healthcare professional. When helpful, we can discuss possible next steps and referral options.

Is ADHD therapy only about productivity?

No. ADHD can affect emotions, relationships, self-esteem, identity, sleep, work, and daily functioning. Therapy may include practical strategies, but it also creates space for the shame, grief, frustration, and exhaustion that can develop after years of feeling misunderstood.

Can therapy help with rejection sensitivity and emotional overwhelm?

Therapy may help you notice emotional patterns, understand what activates them, and develop ways to respond with greater steadiness and self-compassion. Emotional intensity is often an important part of the work, not something separate from ADHD.

What if I have tried planners and organizational systems before?

Many people with ADHD have tried numerous systems and concluded that they are the problem when those systems do not last. Therapy can help identify why a strategy breaks down and develop supports that are simpler, more flexible, and better suited to you.

Do you offer online ADHD therapy in Ontario and British Columbia?

Yes. Heartsprout Therapy offers virtual ADHD support for clients in Ontario and British Columbia, with limited availability in other Canadian provinces depending on clinical fit and regulatory requirements.

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How We Can Work Together

Every experience of ADHD is different. Some people come to therapy after receiving a diagnosis later in life. Others have spent years feeling overwhelmed, inconsistent, or misunderstood without knowing why.

My practice is affirming and inclusive of the many ways ADHD intersects with identity, relationships, trauma, work, parenting, and self-worth. Our work can hold both the practical difficulties of daily life and the emotional weight of having been told, directly or indirectly, that you should simply try harder.

I offer ADHD therapy virtually in Vancouver, Toronto, and across British Columbia and Ontario. We can begin with a brief consultation to explore what you are experiencing and whether working together feels like the right fit.

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