Finding Focus and Calm
Support for Living With Anxiety and ADHD
Online Therapy in Pennsylvania
I help individuals who struggle with anxiety and with starting, progressing through, and finishing tasks. My clients are creative thinkers who are successful, but who struggle with feeling calm and sustaining the focus to get things done.
In addition to the smaller, everyday tasks they keep procrastinating on, many of my clients find themselves behind on larger projects that would move them forward professionally or personally. This affects their self-esteem, which contributes to further task avoidance, neglecting self-care, and being less present with loved ones.
What Causes Task Avoidance and Procrastination?
I love helping people to understand this frustrating tendency so many of us have. When you start with understanding something, you can move forward toward changing it.
Issues that can cause task avoidance
- Burnout/Prolonged High Stress/Mental Exhaustion
- High-Functioning Anxiety
- Adult Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder
I offer therapy that addresses any of these issues and I welcome clients who are facing a combination of them!
If you are like my clients, you approach each day anxiously hoping to be productive, armed with a To-Do list and many strengths and skills. You’re quick to help others, and you can do deep dives of research into topics that interest you. Each day ends, however, with that important project, and even small tasks, left by the wayside again, and you’re frustrated with yourself. You know something needs to change, but you’re not sure where to start.
Hi! I’m Jo-Ann
Licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania
I provide online therapy for people who are ready to feel calmer, get free of emotional quicksand, and get important things done.
I specialize in treating adults with high functioning anxiety, ADHD, and burnout.
If you’re like my clients, you wonder why others seem to get things done so easily and never seem to worry about things as much as you do. You wonder if you’d be more productive if you took time to relax, but it’s a Catch-22 because you can’t let yourself relax if you haven’t gotten enough (or any!) items on your To-Do list done.
Your difficulty feeling calm and steadily working on and completing tasks gets in the way of the life you want in many ways. You’re behind where you could be personally and/or professionally. You also feel like you’re not as emotionally present as you’d like to be for your loved ones. Your faith in your ability to function well in any area of your life is tanking.
You download productivity apps but forget to use them. Your To-Do list keeps getting longer and longer. And your stack of self-help books on time management, fighting anxiety, adult ADHD, and habits of success keeps growing. Ditto the saved articles and downloaded audiobooks on mindfulness and radical self-acceptance. Yet more unchecked items on the To-Do list!
You deserve to feel calm and confident, to make progress on that life-enhancing or career-furthering project, and to be more present for yourself and your loved ones.
Feeling calm and getting things done is not out of your reach! Neither is relief from near-constant, debilitating anxiety and self-doubt.
