About You Counseling & Coaching, LLC

Our Story

My experience with and dedication to treating ADD/ADHD in both children and adults, as well as other childhood behavioral and emotional issues, isn’t just professional; it’s personal: I have ADHD. Untreated and misdiagnosed until I was 30 and entering graduate school, I found myself struggling with and being treated for symptoms of anxiety and depression. In retrospect I realized that those symptoms seemed to develop as a direct result of my untreated ADHD. Having personally experienced many of these symptoms, as well as the hardships that typically occur with them, enables me to better understand their effects from a variety of perspectives and apply that knowledge to the treatment of my clients.

​My clients feel that because I live with ADHD, have struggled with it, understand the thoughts and emotions associated with it, and continue to find new strategies to manage and cope with it, gives me an advantage in their treatment. Equally important, I seem to have an ability to connect and develop an alliance with tweens and teens, especially those who are defiant, disrespectful, who feel entitled or are resistant to counseling or coaching. Working with these challenging clients and the families affected by them, is my true passion. My clients have described me as an effective, progressive, hard working, caring, passionate, young at heart, empathetic, accommodating, “think outside the box” kind of therapist.

Take care, Michelle