Grounded, Affirming Support for ADHD or ADD Adults and Big Feeling Kids
You (or your child) are intuitive, driven, and capable. ADHDers tend to manage big goals while caring deeply for the people around them.
As an adult, you want daily ease and focus. As a parent, you want your strong-willed, big feeling child to feel safe, understood, and supported.
You deserve daily ease and understanding.
You deserve care that honors how unique brains actually work.
ADHD Demands and Overstimulation Build Up Quickly
Daily tasks stack up fast. Balancing work, school routines, and household organization takes heavy energy.
For Adults with ADD or ADHD
1. Sensory Overload: Busy days leave your body feeling exhausted.
2. Mental Fatigue: You work hard to keep up with every detail.
3. Perfectionism: You carry invisible pressure to handle everything alone.
For Parents of ADHD Children
1. Big Emotional Waves: Your child experiences intense meltdowns or sudden frustration.
2. School and Homework Struggles: Morning routines and task switching feel like daily battles.
3. Parental Burnout: You feel guilty, drained, and unsure how to soothe your child’s nervous system.
Standard expectations often lead to stress. You both deserve tools tailored to your natural brain wiring.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATIONMEET THE TEAMNeurodiversity-Affirming Care Built Around Your Needs
At Serene Butterfly Counseling, we provide warm, specialized care across Texas. Founded by a neurodivergent therapist, Vanessa Palomera, LMFT-S, our team supports adults and children ages 6 and up. We offer gentle, in-person therapy in Grapevine, Texas, and online therapy statewide.
We honor how your brain works. Our practice integrates somatic tools, EMDR, and play-informed nervous system regulation.
We help adults find focus and help parents create peace at home.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATIONYour 3 Step Path to Peace with ADD & ADHD
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SCHEDULE YOUR FREE CONSULTATION
Reach out to share your goals and make sure your therapist is a good fit.
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CREATE A CUSTOM ROADMAP
Work with your ND-affirming therapist using techniques that fit your unique brain and needs.
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EXPERIENCE DAILY EASE & CONNECTION
Gain practical tools for focus, emotional balance, and confidence.
Imagine The Life of Your (Day?) Dreams…
ADHD Challenges (Before Therapy)
✖ Executive exhaustion and frequent burnout
✖ Unmanaged sensory overstimulation
✖ Household tension, emotional dysregulation and meltdowns
Life With Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
➔ Daily focus aligned with natural attention patterns
➔ A calm, regulated nervous system for you and your child
➔ Gentle communication, clear boundaries, and strong relationships.
What are the Treatments for ADD and ADHD?
Finding effective care for ADD and ADHD starts with honoring how your brain processes information, sensory input, and emotional energy. At Serene Butterfly Counseling, we combine modern body-based therapies with practical lifestyle tools to support lasting focus and calm. Below are some of the treatments we offer.
1. Somatic Therapy and Nervous System Regulation
ADHD often brings sensory overload and hyper-arousal. Somatic tools help you notice physical cues of stress before feeling overwhelmed. Gentle body-based exercises ground your nervous system, allowing you to regulate emotions and return to a steady state of calm.
2. EMDR Therapy for Processing Overwhelm
Many adults and children with unique brain wiring carry internal pressure or memories of past academic and social stress. We utilize Attachment-Focused EMDR to release deep seated tension and negative self-beliefs. This approach helps rebuild core confidence and quiet chronic anxiety.
3. Play-Informed Care for Big Feeling Kids
Children process their internal worlds through movement and creative expression. Our play-informed approaches meet young minds at their natural development level. We teach children practical emotional regulation tools while guiding parents on how to co-regulate and create a peaceful home environment.
4. Executive Functioning Strategies
We help you design daily routines that align with your natural attention patterns. Instead of forcing rigid systems, we focus on gentle structure, compassionate boundaries, and sustainable focus techniques tailored to your lifestyle.
We would love to discuss these options with you and explain how we can help your ADD and ADHD brain. We offer a free 20-minute consultation so people can feel assured they’re making the right choice.
BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION
Contact us
We offer in person ADD/ADHD therapy out of our Grapevine office address below or offer virtual sessions across Texas. If you have other questions, please check out our FAQs.
Get in touch
Address:
1705 W Northwest Hwy Suite 175 Grapevine, TX 76051
Phone:
972-277-1534
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