Michael Andrew Said

In my late twenties, I struggled with anxiety, low mood, and no real direction or sense of purpose. I was misdiagnosed, changed psychiatrists and therapists three times, and felt like nothing was working. I was holding down a job that looked right from the outside and felt wrong from the inside, and I could not figure out why.

What I did not know then was that I have ADHD. The diagnosis came later, and it changed the way I understood almost everything that had happened before it: the jobs left unfinished, the relationships strained by things I could not quite name, the sense of working twice as hard as everyone else for half the result.

Eventually, after finding the right therapist for me (who is still my therapist now, six years on), things began to shift. Not because I fixed myself, but because I finally had an accurate map. What I learned about myself in that process is what I bring into every session.

I now specialise in ADHD: individual and group therapy for adults who are navigating diagnosis, living with long unidentified ADHD, or trying to untangle the years of shame that tend to sit underneath it. I also work with couples, expats, disordered eating, anxiety, sports mental health, and workplace concerns.