ADHD Therapy in Greensboro, NC - You're Not Lazy, You're Wired Differently
Licensed therapists helping Triad adults, UNCG and NC A&T students, and professionals with executive dysfunction, emotional dysregulation, and focus challenges - building real skills alongside insight. In-person and telehealth available.
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Skills and Insight - Not Just "Try Harder"
Greensboro's universities, healthcare systems, and manufacturing economy all demand consistent executive function - the exact thing ADHD makes unreliable. And adult ADHD looks nothing like the childhood stereotype: it's the task you can't start and the shame of knowing precisely what to do and being unable to do it.
ADHD therapy at Fresh Breath Therapy is skills plus insight. We work on the practical layer - time, task initiation, organization, follow-through - and the emotional layer underneath it: the rejection sensitivity, the shame, and the years of being told you just weren't trying hard enough.
We work with adults who are newly diagnosed, late-diagnosed (particularly women who masked symptoms for decades), and people who've known for years but never found an approach that accounted for how their brain actually works. We are a therapy practice, not a psychiatric one - we don't prescribe medication, but we work alongside prescribers and can provide referrals.
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ADHD Challenges We Help Greensboro Adults Manage
ADHD affects far more than attention. If any of this sounds like your daily life, therapy has practical answers for it.
Time Blindness & Chronic Lateness
Time feels abstract right up until it's gone. We build external structure so your day stops depending on an internal clock that doesn't run.
Task Initiation & Procrastination
Knowing exactly what to do and being unable to start. This isn't laziness - it's an initiation problem, and it responds to specific strategies.
Disorganization & Working Memory
Lost items, dropped threads, and systems that work for two weeks then collapse - rebuilt as low-maintenance structures that survive a bad week.
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
The disproportionate, physical pain of perceived criticism or rejection. Often the most disabling part of adult ADHD - and highly responsive to DBT and CBT skills.
Emotional Dysregulation
Reactions that feel bigger than the situation, frustration that escalates in seconds, and difficulty self-soothing once you're activated.
Shame & "I'm Broken" Narratives
Decades of missed deadlines and disappointed faces leave a mark. We work on the self-story, not just the symptoms.
Work Underperformance & Imposter Feelings
Performing below your ability, serial job changes, and the fear of being found out - despite working harder than the people around you.
Late-Diagnosis Grief
Mourning the years spent without an explanation, and the version of your life that might have gone differently. It's real grief and it deserves space.
Academic Overwhelm at UNCG & NC A&T
Deadlines, reading loads, and unstructured semesters that expose executive function gaps - plus the shame of an inconsistent transcript.
Evidence-Based Approaches Built for ADHD Brains
ADHD responds to structure plus compassion. We draw on several proven approaches and adapt them to how your attention, motivation, and emotions actually behave.
CBT for ADHD
ADHD-adapted CBT targets the thought patterns that pile shame on top of the symptoms - and builds the planning, follow-through, and self-talk skills that make tasks actually start.
DBT Skills Training
Distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills for the part of ADHD nobody warns you about: rejection sensitivity, frustration that escalates fast, and shame spirals after a slip.
Executive Function Strategies
Practical external systems for time blindness, task initiation, working memory, and prioritizing - designed around ADHD neurology rather than against it.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
Stop waiting to become a different person before you live your life. ACT helps you move toward what matters while the ADHD brain is still an ADHD brain.
ADHD Psychoeducation
Understanding what ADHD actually is - and isn't - reframes decades of "lazy" and "careless" as a neurological difference. For many clients this alone is a turning point.
Habit Building & Behavioral Activation
Small, repeatable routines that hold up on low-dopamine days, built one step at a time instead of the all-or-nothing overhaul that always collapses by Thursday.
Your First Session: What to Expect
Why Greensboro Adults Choose Us for ADHD Support
Skills Plus Insight
Systems alone don't stick if shame and rejection sensitivity are running underneath. We work on both layers at once.
ADHD Experience on Our Triad Team
Holly Gammon, LMFT brings direct experience with ADHD alongside anxiety, depression, and trauma - and Tracey Hagan, LCSWA brings CBT and DBT skills work.
Not Coaching - Clinical Care
Our clinicians are licensed and supervised mental health professionals, which matters when anxiety, depression, or trauma sit alongside the ADHD.
Insurance & Self-Pay
We accept major insurance plans including BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, and United Health. Call us to verify your specific benefits before your first appointment.
No Long Waitlists
We work hard to offer rapid access - often same-week or within a few days of your first inquiry.
Telehealth Statewide
Not near our Greenvalley Rd office? Connect from anywhere in North Carolina via our secure, HIPAA-compliant platform.
Serving Greensboro, High Point, Burlington & Guilford County
Our Greensboro therapy office is located at 600 Greenvalley Rd, Suite 206 - easily accessible from across Greensboro and nearby communities including High Point, Burlington, Kernersville, and Guilford County. Telehealth available statewide.
In Greensboro you'll work with Holly Gammon, LMFT, whose 10+ years of practice spans ADHD, anxiety, depression, and trauma using TF-CBT, CPT, Play Therapy, and ACT; Tracey Hagan, LCSWA, who supports children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety and depression using CBT and DBT; Monica Joyce, LCMHCA, who brings DBT-informed care and couples work; and Olivia Beaupre, LCMHCA, a counselor and school counselor supporting students and young adults with school stress, focus, and confidence.
Each therapist is licensed, supervised, and committed to the highest standards of ethical, compassionate care. Sessions are available Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 7 PM.
Book Your Appointment →Meet the Greensboro Team
Our four licensed clinicians in Greensboro bring clinical expertise, warmth, and genuine investment in helping you work with your brain instead of against it.
Holly Gammon
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 10+ years helping children, individuals, couples, and families through ADHD, anxiety, depression, and trauma using TF-CBT, CPT, Play Therapy, and ACT.
Olivia Beaupre
Counselor and school counselor supporting elementary, high school, and college students through the school-day side of focus, stress, and self-doubt using CBT, DBT skills, and SFBT.
Tracey Hagan
Warm, collaborative approach supporting children, adolescents, and adults with anxiety, depression, and eating disorders using CBT and DBT.
Monica Joyce
Passionate about bipolar disorder treatment and couples therapy using Gottman Method principles, with DBT-informed skills for emotional regulation.
Serving These Needs Across Greensboro & the Triad
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you diagnose ADHD?+
No - we're a therapy practice, not a diagnostic assessment practice. We provide ADHD therapy for adults who are diagnosed, currently being evaluated, or who clearly recognize ADHD patterns in themselves. If you need a formal evaluation, we can refer you to assessment providers, and we can begin skills work in the meantime.
How is ADHD therapy different from reading organizational tips online?+
Tips assume the hard part is knowing what to do. With ADHD the hard part is doing it consistently - which depends on how the system is designed, what happens when it fails, and whether shame derails you afterwards. Therapy builds the system with you and works on the emotional layer that generic advice ignores.
What is Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) and can therapy help?+
RSD is the intense emotional pain triggered by perceived or actual rejection, criticism, or failure - far more severe than the situation would warrant for most people. It's extremely common in ADHD and often the most disabling symptom for relationships and work. DBT skills and CBT both have direct clinical pathways for it, and therapy is highly effective here.
My ADHD is managed with medication - would therapy still help?+
Often, yes. Medication can improve attention and impulse control, but it doesn't teach planning systems, repair years of accumulated shame, or resolve rejection sensitivity. Many clients describe medication and therapy as doing two different jobs, and the combination as what finally made things click.
Do you serve High Point, Burlington, and Kernersville?+
Yes. Our Greensboro office on Greenvalley Rd serves clients from across the Triad, including High Point, Burlington, Kernersville, and Guilford County. Telehealth is also available anywhere in North Carolina.
Do you work with ADHD alongside anxiety or depression?+
Yes, and that combination is extremely common - years of missed deadlines and self-criticism take a toll. Treating them together tends to work better than treating either alone, and our clinicians are trained across all three.
You've Been Trying Hard. Let's Try Differently.
ADHD isn't a willpower problem, and you don't have to keep white-knuckling your way through it. Our Greensboro team will help you build systems that fit your brain. Start with a free 15-minute consultation, no commitment required.