Support that fits your season.
Support that fits your season, not just your symptoms. In person and virtual in New York City.
Your Space to Reset
ADHD is not a flaw in your character or a failure of effort. It's a neurodivergent way of experiencing attention, time, motivation, emotion, and the world around you, one that many workplaces, schools, and systems were never designed to support.
Our clinicians help you make sense of your unique experience, not the textbook version of ADHD.
Together, we'll explore what's working, what isn't, and why, without the shame spiral that so many people carry into their first session. This is therapy that takes your whole life seriously, not just the symptoms on a checklist.
Book a Free Consultation →In-person in NYC or virtual across New York State. Same-week appointments available.
Diagnosed, suspecting, or just curious. You don't need a label to deserve support.
From executive function to the emotional weight of a late diagnosis.
This isn't a motivation problem, it's how your brain initiates tasks. Therapy helps you understand what's actually getting in the way and build systems that work with your brain instead of against it.
Time blindness is a real part of how ADHD brains work, not a character flaw. Therapy helps you build awareness and practical structures that account for how you actually experience time.
Emotional intensity is a core part of ADHD for many people, even though it rarely makes it onto the checklist. Therapy helps you understand these reactions and build more capacity to ride them out.
Masking and compensating take real energy, even when no one else can see it. Therapy helps you find more sustainable ways to function, ones that don't run you into the ground.
That message often comes from systems that didn't understand how your brain works, not from anything wrong with you. Therapy helps you untangle that history and build a more accurate sense of yourself.
Forgetfulness and impulsivity can create real friction in relationships. Therapy helps you and the people close to you understand what's happening and find ways to work with it together.
Do you need a formal diagnosis to start ADHD therapy, or can you come in just feeling like something's off?
You don't need a diagnosis to walk through the door. A lot of people come in with a suspicion. They've spent years feeling scattered, overwhelmed by things that seem simple for others, or stuck in cycles of avoidance they can't seem to break no matter how much they want to.
If you've already been diagnosed, therapy can help you move past knowing you have ADHD into understanding what that actually means for your relationships, your work, and your sense of self.
If you haven't been diagnosed, we can work with what you're experiencing right now. You don't have to have a label to deserve support. Either way, you'll leave with more clarity than you came in with.
Book a Free Consultation →What can ADHD therapy actually help with?
Growth is possible, and it tends to look different from what people expected when they started.
A clearer understanding of how your brain works
Less guessing, more accurate self-knowledge.
Less time lost to avoidance and overwhelm
More of your energy going where you actually want it to.
Better relationships at home and work
More understanding from others, and from yourself.
Stronger emotional regulation in daily life
More room between feeling something and reacting to it.
A more grounded sense of who you are outside the diagnosis
ADHD is part of the picture, not the whole picture.
How is our approach to ADHD therapy different?
Therapy for ADHD should actually account for how ADHD works, which means we're not handing you a planner and sending you off with good intentions.
We don't have a one-size program. Some clients want practical tools for executive function. Others are working through the emotional weight of a late diagnosis, or untangling decades of being told they weren't trying hard enough. We follow your lead.
Why we choose not to work with insurance
- You don't need a mental health diagnosis to come to therapy.
- Session notes stay between you and your therapist. Nothing is shared with a third party.
- We decide together how often you come and for how long, based on what's helpful, not what an insurer approves.
- Private pay lets us keep our caseloads smaller, which means more time, attention, and care for each client.
Meet your ADHD therapist
Click through to learn more about Cortney's approach, training, and background.
Cortney Simmons
LMSW- Collaborative, holistic therapy that honors mind-body connection
- Integrates mindfulness, breathwork, yoga, and meditation
- Recognizes how social and systemic contexts shape well-being
- Warm, inclusive style focused on the whole person within their environment
- MSW, NYU Silver School of Social Work
- BA, Sociology, Syracuse University
- Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer in Botswana
- Worked within the NYC school system
- Former career in the tech sector, which informs her focus on work-life balance
- Originally from midcoast Maine
- Avid traveler and certified scuba diver
- Finds mindfulness and joy in the ocean
Questions about ADHD therapy, answered
We know starting therapy brings up questions. Here are the ones we hear most often, and if something isn't covered, we're always happy to talk it through.
Book a Free Consultation →Every session is different. We spend time understanding how ADHD actually shows up for you, where it gets in the way, and what you're hoping to get out of therapy. Over time, sessions become a space to build practical tools, process the emotional weight of years of feeling behind, and figure out what actually works for your brain.
No. A general sense of feeling scattered, behind, or like things should be easier than they are is enough to start. You don't need a diagnosis or a clear problem statement.
It varies. Some people come in to work through a specific challenge and find relief within a few months. Others stay longer as an ongoing space to keep building on what they're learning about themselves. We don't set a fixed endpoint, we work at your pace.
Our therapists draw from approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindfulness-based practices, and practical executive function coaching techniques. ADHD often benefits from a mix of concrete strategy and deeper emotional work, and your therapist will find the balance that fits you.
For most people, yes, though it often looks different than expected. Progress with ADHD tends to be less about eliminating symptoms and more about building a life and a set of tools that actually work with how your brain operates. We offer a free consultation so you can get a feel for whether our approach is right for you.
Take the first step toward feeling like yourself again.
Tell us a little about what's bringing you in and we'll match you with the right therapist. Most clients have their first session within the same week.
Request your free 15-minute call
We'll be in touch within one business day to confirm your time.
NYC Psychotherapy
Virtual across New York state | In Person: 85 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10003