You Know What to Do. Doing It Is the Problem
Procrastination. Overwhelm. A to-do list you have rewritten three times and still have not started. If you have spent years being told to just try harder, get more organized, or use more willpower, and none of it has actually stuck, the problem was never your effort. It was that the strategies you were handed were built for a brain that does not work the way yours does. Sara Aguilar works with adults and young adults, including working professionals and college students, who are ready to understand how their ADHD brain actually operates and build tools that hold up in real life, not just in a planner that gets abandoned by week three.
How I Help
ADHD-Focused Therapy & Executive Functioning: I completed specialized training focused on ADHD, executive functioning, and strength-based support, and I bring that lens into every session. Together, we work on the mechanics of daily functioning: getting started on tasks, following through, managing time you cannot quite feel passing, and building systems that fit your actual brain instead of someone else's idea of what organized is supposed to look like.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): ADHD rarely travels alone. Years of missed deadlines, forgotten commitments, and being told to just focus tend to leave behind real anxiety, shame, and a harsh inner critic. I use CBT to work directly with those thought patterns, helping you separate what actually happened from the story you have been telling yourself about what it means about you.
A Clinical Foundation Beyond ADHD: My background also includes training in grief-focused therapy and CBT for Insomnia (CBTi), which means I understand how ADHD intersects with sleep, loss, and the emotional weight that can come with either. I bring that fuller clinical picture into our work together rather than treating executive functioning as separate from the rest of your life.