Therapy for ADHD

At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer ADHD therapy in Portland, Oregon for adults, young adults, teens, and neurodivergent clients seeking support with overwhelm, emotional regulation, executive functioning, self-understanding, and relationships.

ADHD can affect attention, motivation, emotion, relationships, time, energy, and self-trust. Many people with ADHD spend years being told to try harder, focus more, manage better, or keep up. Therapy can offer a different kind of support: one that understands ADHD as a real nervous system and executive functioning difference, shaped by environment, identity, relationships, and lived experience.

ADHD can feel like:

  • Starting tasks and struggling to finish

  • Feeling overwhelmed by ordinary responsibilities

  • Time blindness or chronic lateness

  • Emotional intensity or rejection sensitivity

  • Difficulty organizing thoughts, spaces, or plans

  • Masking or working hard to appear “fine”

  • Shame around productivity, follow-through, or consistency

  • Non-Linear thinking

  • Inability to focus 

  • Lack of organization 

  • Distractibility 

  • Excessive load talking 

  • Difficulties organizing tasks 

  • Time management difficulty 

  • Forgetfulness 

  • Negative self-talk

  • Poor social skills

How Therapy Helps

ADHD therapy can help you understand your patterns with more compassion and less self-blame. Together, we may explore the relationship between attention, emotion, environment, expectations, and nervous system regulation.

This work can also support practical strategies that fit your actual life: routines, communication tools, emotional regulation skills, and ways of structuring your world that support your brain.

Our Approach

Our therapists may draw from neurodivergent-affirming care, DBT-informed skills, executive functioning support, learning accommodations, mindfulness, somatic awareness, CBT, and relational therapy. We also understand the overlap between ADHD, anxiety, trauma, depression, sensory sensitivity, and emotional dysregulation.

Care can be especially helpful for clients who are newly diagnosed, self-identified, exploring neurodivergence, or trying to understand themselves through a new lens.

Our therapy office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland. We also offer telehealth across Oregon.

Ready to start your healing journey?Request a consult call.

If ADHD support feels like the right next step, schedule a consult and we’ll help match you with a therapist who understands ADHD and neurodivergence.

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GETTING HERE

Location:

Our office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland at 8083 SE 13th Ave, Suites 2 & 4. Your therapist will specify which suite they are in. Come on upstairs to the second floor, but please keep in mind we are not ADA accessible.

Parking:

There is plenty of free street parking in front of the building as well as in the lot in the back of the building, just behind OnPoint Credit Union (13th and Tacoma St). Park in a spot NOT labeled OnPoint Credit Union and walk up the stairs at the back of the building. Find your Suite: 2 or 4.

Public Transport:

From downtown

  • Take the southbound #40 bus towards Tacoma, get off at SE Tacoma & 13th, or

  • Take the southbound MAX orange line towards Milwaukie, get off at SE Bybee Blvd and transfer to the northbound #40 bus towards Swan Island. Get off at SE Tacoma & 13th.

From Concordia, Grant Park, Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, etc.

  • Take the southbound #70 bus towards Milwaukie, get off at SE 17th & Tacoma. Walk four blocks west to SE 13th & Tacoma.

  • From anywhere else:

  • Google Maps can provide useful routes that include bus schedules.

By Bike:

From anywhere along the Willamette

  • Take the Willamette Greenway Trail along the river to the Sellwood Bridge, cross the bridge and take Tacoma St to SE Tacoma & 13th.

  • Take the Springwater on the Willamette, turn off and take Spokane St to Spokane & 13th.

From anywhere else