Acceptance Path Counseling
ADHD counseling for adults
When everyday things take so much effort, you deserve a place to talk it through.
Therapy for adults with ADHD, from getting started on tasks to feeling worn out by the end of the day. We match you with a therapist based on your needs and goals.
what’s hard today.
- Select insurance plans accepted
- Self-pay $100–$150 per session
- For adults in Houston-Willowbrook, The Woodlands, and Katy
- Online across Texas
In crisis or thinking about suicide? Call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time.
If someone is in immediate danger, call 911. Counseling here is not an emergency service.
Who you might work with
Licensed counselors, not a waiting list
You are matched with a counselor based on what you need and who is available. These are some of the team.
AJ Huynh
Director · LPC
Works with ACT, CBT and mindfulness-based approaches, with a focus on what matters to you rather than symptoms alone.
Brenda Resendez
Clinical Director · LPC
Blends ACT, CBT and motivational interviewing, adapting the approach to where you are rather than a fixed program.
Ricardo Alvarez
LPC
Draws on mindfulness, IFS and ACT, and offers EMDR at The Woodlands. A gentle, flexible approach that meets you where you are.
Cost and coverage
Know the cost before you begin.
For insured sessions, we verify your benefits and share an estimated out-of-pocket cost before the first session. That estimate is separate from the self-pay rates below.
Self-pay, per session
- Fully licensed clinician
- $150
- Associate clinician
- $100
Tell us if cost is a concern so we can discuss the options available to you.
Plans we currently work with
Coverage, cost, and availability depend on your plan, your eligibility at the time of service, and the clinician you see.
- Aetna
- Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Texas
- UnitedHealthcare
- Cigna
- Oscar
- Oxford
- Horizon BCBS
- BCBS of Massachusetts
- Original Medicare
- UHC Medicare Advantage
- Quest Behavioral Health
- Carelon Behavioral Health
Do not see your plan? Ask our team: consultations are free, and a limited number of sliding-scale openings may be available.
Daily life with ADHD
You’re putting in the effort. It can still feel hard.
Four browser windows and none of them the one you were paid to open. A bill paid late for the third time, not because there was no money.
The reply you drafted in your head so completely that you believed you had sent it. Being told you are so capable, and knowing what it cost to look that way.
None of that is laziness, and a counselor is not going to teach you a planner. The work is on the thing that happens between knowing what to do and doing it, and on the story you tell yourself afterwards.
Small, practical things to work on
- The five minutes beforeWhat starting actually needs (not the whole task, the first physical move) and how to make that move smaller.
- The late feeBills, forms, renewals and returns: the tax of the missed step, and a system you will actually keep, not the one you were told to.
- The blurt and the afterInterrupting, over-committing, saying yes before the sentence is finished, and how to repair it without a week of shame.
- Telling work, or notWhat to disclose, to whom, and what you can ask for without a diagnosis on the table.
You can try an idea between sessions, then talk about what fit and what got in the way.
Understanding ADHD
ADHD doesn’t look the same for everyone
ADHD can affect attention, activity, and impulse control. Clinicians group this into three presentations, which describe how ADHD shows up for you, and that can change over time.
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Mostly inattentive
You may lose track of details, forget tasks, or find it hard to follow a conversation. This is called the predominantly inattentive presentation.
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Mostly hyperactive or impulsive
You may feel restless, interrupt, or act before thinking. This is called the predominantly hyperactive-impulsive presentation.
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A mix of both
The combined presentation includes both inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive traits. Your experience may look different from someone else’s.
Some of the effort is hard to see
- Masking
- Hiding your struggles to meet others’ expectations can take a lot of energy.
- Time blindness
- A common term for trouble sensing how much time has passed or how long a task will take.
- Burnout
- Keeping up with daily demands can leave you drained, especially when you feel you have to hide the effort.
For an adult diagnosis the symptoms must have been there before age 12, even if nobody called them that, and five of the nine in a group is enough, not six. Many adults also carry anxiety or low mood that arrived from years of the effort above; both are worked on here.
How we work
Acceptance and commitment therapy, CBT, and mindfulness
Our counselors draw on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and mindfulness-based approaches. Which one your therapist uses depends on what you bring and what you want to work on, and you can ask about it in the first session.
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Acceptance and commitment therapy
ACT starts with what you want your life to stand for, then works on steps toward it, including on the days when starting, focusing, or finishing is hard. It does not ask you to argue your thoughts down first.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy
CBT looks at the link between a situation, what you think about it, and what you do next. With ADHD that often means the story that follows a missed deadline, and what would make the next attempt easier to begin.
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Mindfulness-based work
Short attention practices you can use in a real moment: noticing that you have drifted, or that frustration is building, early enough to choose what happens next.
Some counselors also work with motivational interviewing or IFS, and two, Ricardo Alvarez and Maria Landa, offer EMDR at The Woodlands and Katy. See the full team by location for each counselor’s approach.
Getting started
A person to talk to. A place to begin.
At Acceptance Path, matching starts with what matters to you. You have a say in your goals and in whether the therapist feels like a fit.
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Tell us what you need
Use the matching form to share what brings you here and whether you prefer an office or online sessions.
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Explore your match
Our team helps you find a therapist based on your needs. Ask about their approach and bring any questions about starting counseling.
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Start with your day
In your first session, talk about what feels hard and what you’d like to work on. You don’t need a polished story.
Before your first session
If it helps, you might jot down:
- One recent moment that felt hard
- What you tried
- What you wish had gone differently
You can also bring questions about how sessions work or how often to meet. These notes are optional.
If getting ready feels like one more task, start with whatever you can share that day.
The Reset Guarantee
If the fit is wrong, tell us and we will match you with a different counselor. Your first session with them is free.
Near you, or online
Choose where you meet
Meet in person at one of our three Houston-area offices, or choose telehealth anywhere in Texas.
Houston-Willowbrook
12807 Haynes Rd, Building C1
Houston, TX 77066
The Woodlands
2219 Sawdust Rd, Suite 1204
The Woodlands, TX 77380
Online across Texas
Prefer to meet from home? Explore telehealth counseling in Texas.
Think about where you could talk with some privacy and fewer interruptions. If that is hard to arrange, ask our team about meeting at an office instead.
A few questions
Before you start
Have a different question? Ask our team when you get matched, or choose an office to call.
Can you diagnose ADHD, or do I need testing first?
A counselor here can assess for ADHD in your first few sessions through a clinical interview, your history back to school age and standard rating scales, and you do not need a diagnosis to start. We do not run computerised or neuropsychological testing, and if a prescriber asks for a formal psychological evaluation we will tell you where to get one.
Do you prescribe stimulants, or can you get me to someone who does?
Our counselors are licensed to diagnose and provide therapy, not to prescribe, and many people take stimulant medication, the first-line medical treatment for adult ADHD, alongside counseling. With your written permission your counselor will share what they see with your prescriber.
I take medication and it helps. What would therapy add?
Medication changes how easily you can focus; it does not build the habits, the systems or the self-talk. Adults still struggling on medication did better with CBT aimed at organisation, planning and avoidance than with relaxation training, and that is the work here.
Is it ADHD, or anxiety, or depression?
Often more than one, because years of missed deadlines produce anxiety and low mood of their own: ADHD is trouble starting and staying, present since childhood; anxiety is worry that gets in the way; depression is the effort itself draining away. Sorting that out is part of assessment, not a gate before it.
I was never hyperactive. Can it still be ADHD?
Yes, the inattentive presentation is the one most often missed, especially in women and in adults who got through school on ability. Being quiet, tidy and exhausted is not evidence against it.
Is this ADHD coaching?
No: we are not a coaching service and do not sell packages, programs or accountability check-ins. This is weekly individual counseling with a licensed therapist, using ACT, CBT and mindfulness, and it works on the shame and the avoidance as much as on the systems.
Can I meet with a counselor online?
Acceptance Path offers telehealth counseling across Texas. Tell our team you prefer online sessions when you fill out the matching form.
What if my therapist is not the right fit?
If the fit is wrong, tell us and we will match you with a different counselor. Your first session with them is free.
You don’t have to sort it all out first.
Tell us what’s been hard. We’ll help you explore a therapist match.
In crisis? Call or text 988 any time.
Counseling here is not an emergency service.
We provide diagnosis, assessment and therapy. Our clinicians are licensed in Texas as professional counselors, clinical social workers or marriage and family therapists, and none of them prescribe medication; if you see a prescriber, counseling runs alongside that.