You showed up here without a word for what you need. That’s fine. Most people do.
People who reach out to me aren’t always sure whether what they’re carrying counts as therapy, assessment, or just a conversation. They’ve been told different things by different people. They’ve Googled at 1am and felt worse. They’ve been holding it for a while.
You don’t have to know what you’re asking for yet. Let’s start with what you came in feeling, and I’ll show you what tends to come next.
Here’s what people usually arrive saying
“I think my child has ADHD.”
This is the one I hear most. Sometimes the school flagged it. Sometimes you saw yourself in something you read. Sometimes another parent gently mentioned it to you.
What that usually maps to: a psychological assessment, with gold-standard tools, a careful clinical interview, and a report afterwards that’s actually useful to you. ADHD has a lot of look-alikes, and a lot of co-travellers. The work is to figure out what’s really going on, and to give you something concrete to work with from there.
“School says my kid needs a report.”
Different reason, same starting point. The school usually wants the report for accommodations, learning support, or eligibility for an intervention. The work is the same: a careful assessment, with the report as the deliverable that goes back to the school.
What I’d add: most of the time, the assessment is also useful for you, separately from the school. Knowing what’s going on with your kid changes how you parent them. That’s worth doing properly, not just to satisfy a school requirement.
“I keep falling apart at work.”
Adults reaching out for themselves often start here. It might be ADHD coming online late. It might be anxiety that’s escalated. It might be the collision of both with a job that’s stopped accommodating you.
What that usually maps to: a first consultation, where we figure out what’s actually going on and what would help. Sometimes the answer is therapy (and what kind). Sometimes it’s an assessment first. Sometimes it’s both. I don’t book everyone into the same path.
“Everyone thinks I’m fine.”
Senior leaders, founders, the kinds of people running things often start here. The gap between how it looks from the outside and how it actually feels has been widening for a while. Sleep that isn’t sleep. Decision fatigue that doesn’t lift on weekends. Sometimes it’s ADHD coming online late, mistaken for years as “just stress.” Sometimes it’s burnout that “take a break” doesn’t fix. What that usually maps to: a first consultation, or the page I wrote for executives. Either route lands in the same place: a careful conversation about what’s actually going on.
“Something is off and I don’t know how to name it yet.”
This one is harder to articulate but very real. A vague sense that things aren’t working. Restless nights. Sentences that trail off. Trouble making decisions you used to make easily.
What that usually maps to: a 15-minute Meet & Greet. Free, low commitment, and the right place to start when you’re not sure what you’re asking for. We’ll talk briefly about what’s bringing you here, and I’ll point you toward whatever makes sense as a next step — even if that next step isn’t me.
“I already have a diagnosis. I just want help with it.”
Either you’ve been assessed before and you know what you’re working with, or you’ve arrived with a long history of trying things. What that usually maps to: therapy, calibrated to where you are now and what’s already been tried. We don’t redo work that’s already been done.
For anxiety and OCD specifically, my training is from the Mayo Clinic Pediatric Anxiety Disorders Clinic, in CBT and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). For younger children with behavioural concerns, I’m certified in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT, ages 2–7).
If none of those quite landed
Send me an email at clinic@lightfull-psychology.com or book a 15-minute Meet & Greet. Telling me what you came in carrying — even badly, even with the wrong words — is the most useful thing you can do. I’ll meet you where you are.
Am I the right person for you?
That’s a different page. Clinical fit is where I answer “is Lightfull the right place for you”: who I see, who I refer out, what I’m best at, what I’m not the right person for. If you’ve arrived at I think I want to reach out, but I’m not sure if you’re who I should reach out to — start there.