ADHD Therapy for Women in Mississippi and Tennessee
For the woman who's read every productivity book, tried every app, and is still ending most days convinced the problem is her.
Brittany Cox, LCSW | Online across Mississippi and Tennessee, in person in Corinth, MS
Most of my clients weren't diagnosed as kids. They were called scattered, sensitive, or "so smart, if only she'd apply herself." So they built workarounds instead — masking, over-preparing, over-apologizing — and the workarounds held, for years, until they didn't.
What's underneath that isn't laziness. It's a nervous system that struggles to regulate attention, emotion, and energy on command, especially under the specific load of parenting, working, and running a household at the same time. That looks like a mind that jumps from task to catastrophe without asking permission, a task list where everything feels equally urgent and equally impossible, and a guilt cycle that starts before you've even finished failing at whatever you were trying to do.
Go from mental chaos and burnout to calm , clarity, and feeling in control of your life. With Brittany Cox, LCSW | Booneville, Mississippi
ADHD isn't about effort or intelligence. You have plenty of both and you're exhausted from proving it.
What ADHD creates, especially for women and mothers who were diagnosed late or missed entirely, is a nervous system that struggles to regulate attention, emotion, and energy on demand. That shows up as the mental noise that never fully quiets. The task you've started six times and can't finish. The appointment you remembered at 11pm. The guilt that follows all of it.
Most women with ADHD spent years being told they were scattered, sensitive, too much, or not trying hard enough. Therapy is where we replace that story with an accurate one, and build from there.
What's Actually Happening in Your Brain
The mental noise that doesn't turn off. Not suppressing it — figuring out what's driving it and giving your nervous system what it actually needs to settle, instead of one more app telling you to breathe.
The follow-through gap. The distance between deciding to do something and actually doing it. We work that gap from a neurological angle, not a "just try harder" angle, because willpower was never the missing ingredient.
The burnout cycle specifically. ADHD burnout isn't regular tiredness — it's a specific crash after months of compensating. We find where your energy is actually leaking and rebuild capacity instead of pushing through the same wall again.
Anxiety that showed up because ADHD went unmanaged. For a lot of women, the anxiety is the loudest symptom and ADHD is the quiet cause underneath it. We treat both, because treating only the anxiety usually just delays the next crash.
The shame spiral that follows every missed deadline. Not the missed deadline itself — the three days of self-punishment that come after it, which cost you more than the mistake ever did.
What we actually work on
The change you’ll see
Instead of feeling emotionally regulated maybe one day out of five, most clients start feeling that way most days. Instead of every item on the list feeling equally urgent, you start being able to tell what actually matters today. Instead of the procrastination-shame-procrastination loop running your evenings, you get evenings back. And instead of being present with your kids while also managing the noise in your own head, you get to just be present.
Sessions are self-pay, and I'm in-network with BCBS, Cigna, and Aetna. A superbill is available for HSA/FSA use or out-of-network reimbursement.
Take the First Step Toward Balance & Inner Peace
Reaching out for support can feel like a big step, especially when you’re already overwhelmed, exhausted, and unsure where to start.
You might be thinking:
“What if this doesn’t work for me?”
“I should be able to figure this out on my own”
“I don’t even know where to begin”
That’s completely normal. You don’t need to have everything figured out before you start. You just need a place to begin.
You don’t have to keep pushing through overwhelm, anxiety, and burnout on your own. There is a different way, and it starts here.
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Yes. A formal diagnosis is not required to begin therapy. Many women pursue therapy first and formal evaluation separately, or alongside. If ADHD patterns are significantly impacting your daily life, that is enough to start. We work with what's actually happening for you, not a diagnostic label.
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Yes. I currently accept Cigna and Aetna insurance. I am in the process of panelling with BCBS and United Healthcare as well. I also accept private pay.
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For most clients, yes. Telehealth removes the logistical friction that ADHD brains are particularly sensitive to, no commute, no parking, no transition time that eats into your day. Sessions are conducted via a secure, HIPAA-compliant video platform and available to anyone in Mississippi.
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Most general therapists have limited training in ADHD, particularly in how it presents in women and mothers, where it often looks more like anxiety, emotional dysregulation, and burnout than the hyperactive-kid picture most people associate with the diagnosis. If your previous therapist wasn't working from an ADHD-specific framework, you were likely getting good therapy for the wrong target. The approach here is built around how ADHD actually functions, not generic stress management.
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This is therapy, which means it addresses the emotional, psychological, and neurological dimensions of ADHD, including the anxiety, shame, and burnout that almost always come with it. Coaching focuses on external strategies and accountability. Therapy goes underneath those to change the patterns driving the behavior. For many women with ADHD, therapy needs to come first.
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This is the norm, not the exception. ADHD, anxiety, and depression overlap significantly in women, partly because unmanaged ADHD produces anxiety and depression over time. We treat the full picture, not just one diagnosis in isolation.
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That depends on what you're working on and how long the patterns have been in place. Most clients start noticing real shifts within 6 to 10 sessions. Some continue longer to work on deeper patterns or to sustain and build on early gains. We set clear goals from the start and check in on progress regularly so you always know where we are.