I have experience and a special interest in adults with ADD, artists, and people with food/body image issues.

Some people self-diagnose after hearing or reading about ADD or after their child has been diagnosed. Talking with someone can help you appreciate and maximize the positive qualities of ADD and limit its troublesome effects. (Yes, the positive aspects!) Talking about it can be helpful in a deeper way than medication because the condition itself, when undiagnosed for a period of years, often causes feelings of low self-worth, anxiety, depression, or of not fitting in with the people around you.

The person who identifies as an artist, either primarily or as a split identity, as in artist slash day job, can often feel he or she can barely live an authentic life in our world. Talking with someone who can appreciate the split self our society foists upon artists (and even upon the creative process itself) can significantly improve the sense of fragmentation that results from trying to be two people at once.

The third is the person who focuses a lot of emotional energy on food, eating and body image but may not pay much attention to the emotional life itself. The opportunity to talk with someone non-judgmental as well as knowledgeable is crucial in treatment of eating disorders. There is always a very good reason that the eating issue developed, but often the person has forgotten or never recognized it.