ADHD Therapy & Executive Functioning Support in Brooklyn Heights & New York
Practical, affirming ADHD therapy for children, teens, and adults
ADHD can affect far more than attention. It can make it harder to start tasks, stay organized, manage time, remember details, regulate emotions, and follow through-often leaving children, adults, and families feeling overwhelmed or discouraged. At SageMind Psychology, our neurodiversity-informed team brings specialized expertise in ADHD, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and the concerns that commonly overlap with ADHD. We offer individualized therapy and executive-functioning support that helps clients understand how their brains work and build strategies that fit real life.
Our approach is neurodiversity-affirming, collaborative, and practical. Rather than expecting a client to simply "try harder," therapy focuses on reducing shame, identifying meaningful supports, and creating sustainable systems for school, work, home, and relationships. Across the practice, our clinicians understand the ways ADHD can shape emotional well-being, relationships, school, work, and daily life.
What executive-functioning support can help with
Executive functioning is the set of skills that helps us plan, organize, initiate, shift attention, manage time, and complete tasks. For people with ADHD, these skills can be inconsistent-especially during stressful, busy, or emotionally demanding periods.
Therapy may address:
Organization, planning, and prioritizing
Starting and completing tasks
Time awareness and time management
Creating workable routines and systems
Managing procrastination and avoidance
Attention, distractibility, and working memory challenges
Emotional regulation, frustration, and overwhelm
School, workplace, and life transitions
Self-advocacy and communicating needs
For children and teens, support can also include collaboration with parents and caregivers to create structure, increase follow-through, and reduce conflict around daily routines, schoolwork, and responsibilities.
ADHD therapy that is tailored to the whole person
ADHD often overlaps with anxiety, low mood, autism, sensory differences, relationship stress, or a history of feeling misunderstood. Our work considers the full picture. Treatment is individualized and may incorporate cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), executive-function coaching, and practical self-regulation strategies.
The goal is not perfection or a rigid schedule. It is to help clients feel more capable, supported, and in control of the things that matter to them.
ADHD Therapy at SageMind Psychology
SageMind Psychology's clinicians have deep experience supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families affected by ADHD. Our team is neurodiversity-informed and skilled in addressing the full impact of ADHD-not only attention and organization, but also emotional regulation, anxiety, self-esteem, relationships, school or workplace stress, autism, and daily functioning. We draw on evidence-based approaches including CBT, DBT, executive-functioning support, parent coaching, and family collaboration, tailoring care to the client's developmental stage, needs, and goals.
Featured ADHD & Executive Functioning Therapist: Sigourney Barman, LMSW
Sigourney Barman, LMSW, is a Certified ADHD Clinician at SageMind Psychology. She is a featured therapist for clients seeking ADHD therapy and executive-functioning support, and she provides care for children, adolescents, and adults in Brooklyn Heights and virtually throughout New York and New Jersey. Sigourney works with clients navigating ADHD, autism, anxiety, depression, executive-functioning challenges, emotional regulation, and social-emotional development. Her experience includes individual therapy, trauma-informed care, family collaboration, and outpatient and community-based settings.
Sigourney's style is warm, strengths-based, and collaborative. She helps clients translate insight into concrete next steps, using practical tools and individualized strategies for organization, planning, follow-through, self-regulation, and everyday functioning. Her work is affirming of neurodivergent experiences and responsive to each client's goals, strengths, and environment. She also supports parents and families in creating strategies that feel realistic at home and can be reinforced across settings.
She earned her Master of Social Work from Yeshiva University and provides therapy using CBT, DBT, executive-function coaching, and self-regulation strategies.
In-Person ADHD Therapy in Brooklyn Heights & Virtual Therapy Across New York and New Jersey
Sigourney offers in-person therapy in Brooklyn Heights, including Saturday appointments, as well as virtual therapy for clients throughout New York and New Jersey.
To explore whether ADHD therapy or executive-functioning support may be a fit, request an appointment or contact Sigourney at sigourney@sagemindpsychology.com.
SageMind Psychology provides in-person therapy in Brooklyn Heights and virtual therapy for clients throughout New York and New Jersey.
ADHD Therapy at SageMind: Frequently Asked Questions
Does SageMind work with adults with ADHD?
Yes. Our clinicians work with adults seeking practical support for ADHD, executive functioning, anxiety, self-regulation, and the day-to-day challenges of work, relationships, routines, and life transitions. We help match each client with a therapist whose experience and approach fit their needs.
Does SageMind work with children and teens with ADHD?
Yes. Our team works with children and adolescents with ADHD and related concerns, including emotional regulation, anxiety, autism, social-emotional development, and executive-functioning challenges. When helpful, treatment includes collaboration with parents and caregivers to build strategies that can be used at home, in school, and across daily routines.
What does executive-functioning support look like at SageMind?
Executive-functioning support is tailored to the client. It may include building routines, improving planning and organization, breaking down tasks, developing strategies for follow-through, managing overwhelm, and finding systems that are realistic for the client's life. Our clinicians integrate these practical supports into therapy while also addressing the emotional and relational effects of ADHD.
Does SageMind offer in-person ADHD therapy in Brooklyn Heights and virtual therapy in New York and New Jersey?
Yes. SageMind offers in-person ADHD therapy in Brooklyn Heights and virtual therapy for clients throughout New York and New Jersey. Sigourney has in-person availability in Brooklyn Heights, including on Saturdays, as well as virtual availability in New York and New Jersey.