You finally have the diagnosis. So why does everything still feel so hard?
Whether you've just received your ADHD diagnosis or you're starting to wonder if you have it, this is ADHD therapy for women who are done pretending everything is fine.
For most of your life, you probably just thought this was you. The one who tries twice as hard and still feels behind. The one who looks absolutely fine from the outside and is absolutely not fine on the inside.
Maybe the ADHD diagnosis brought some relief. Maybe it brought grief - for all the years you spent thinking it was just a you problem.
Both make sense. So does the exhaustion underneath it all. And you don't have to keep feeling this way.
That's why I'm here.
Therapy for late-diagnosed women with ADHD
I'm Karina, a solution-focused hypnotherapist and ACT-informed therapist, with a background in integrative counselling. I specialise in working with women who've received a late ADHD diagnosis, or who are in the process of exploring one.
My work is built around one central idea: that so much of what you're struggling with right now- the anxiety, the burnout, the feeling that you're always one step behind, makes complete sense. It's the result of a lifetime of masking.
Masking is the invisible work your brain has been doing since childhood. Suppressing how you really feel. Mimicking what looks "normal." Holding yourself together in public and collapsing when you get home. It's exhausting. And it lives deep, not in your habits or your to-do list, but in your nervous system.
That's why I work the way I do.
How I work
My approach combines three powerful modalities, each chosen because they work at the level where masking lives - beneath the surface, in the body and the subconscious.
Solution-focused hypnotherapy Rather than replaying what went wrong, solution-focused hypnotherapy works with how your brain naturally changes. Using a blend of neuroscience, positive psychology and relaxation, it helps your nervous system move out of survival mode, so you can think more clearly, feel less overwhelmed, and start to trust yourself again.
ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) ACT helps you stop fighting your own mind. Instead of trying to eliminate difficult thoughts and feelings, you learn to relate to them differently, making space for them without letting them run the show. For women with ADHD, this can be genuinely life-changing.
IEMT (Integral Eye Movement Therapy) IEMT works with the emotional charge attached to old memories and long-held beliefs, including the ones about who you are and what you're capable of. It's particularly effective for identity-level work, which is at the heart of late diagnosis.
Together, these approaches form what I call The Unmask & Regulate Method - a neurodivergent-affirming way of working at the subconscious level, where the mask was built, to gently uncover the you that's been underneath it all along.
What we work on
This isn't a list of symptoms to fix. It's a list of things you're probably exhausted from living with:
✦ The anxiety that never quite goes away
✦ Emotional overwhelm and rejection sensitivity (RSD)
✦ Burnout that sleep doesn't touch
✦ The constant mental noise and looping thoughts
✦ Feeling like you're performing a version of yourself that isn't really you
✦ Shame about the gap between how capable you are and how you function day-to-day
✦The grief that comes with late diagnosis
Ways to work with me
One-to-one sessions Individual sessions are available in person in Exeter or online.
£85 per session
£300 for a block of 4 sessions
£420 for a block of 6 sessions
Blocks are paid in advance and offer the best value for ongoing work. Most clients start to notice meaningful change within 6 sessions.
The Unmask & Regulate Programme:
12 weeks
For women who are ready to go deeper and commit to real change.
The Unmask & Regulate Programme is three months, twelve sessions, and a space that's entirely yours - to finally understand how your brain works, to stop fighting yourself, and to start feeling like you again.
This is the same combination of solution-focused hypnotherapy, ACT and IEMT - held within a structure that gives your ADHD brain exactly what it needs. Fewer spirals. Less overwhelm. A clearer sense of who you are and how you want to feel. And the support to actually get there.
£950 for the full 12-session programme
Access to Work funding
The Unmask & Regulate Programme is available as an ADHD coaching programme and may be fully funded through the UK Government's Access to Work scheme.
Access to Work is a grant available to people with a health condition or disability - including ADHD, that affects their ability to work. It's separate from benefits, doesn't affect your other entitlements, and is available whether you're employed, self-employed, or about to start a new job.
If you have an ADHD diagnosis and are currently working or about to start work, you may be eligible to apply. The grant can cover the full cost of the programme, meaning you access this support at no cost to you.
This is for you if…
✦ You've received a late ADHD diagnosis and don't know where to start
✦ You suspect you have ADHD but haven't been formally assessed yet
✦ You've tried talking therapies before and felt like something was missing
✦ You're high-functioning on the outside and running on empty on the inside
✦ You're done struggling on your own and ready to actually feel different
Ready to take the first step?
