Farada Mental Health Counseling PLLC

ADHD & Trauma Therapy for Adults in New York City

You've spent years trying harder. It's time to feel understood.

You may look like you have it all together, but behind the scenes, you're navigating overwhelm, self-doubt, emotional exhaustion, or patterns you can't quite explain.

At Farada Mental Health Counseling PLLC, we provide culturally responsive, trauma-informed therapy for adults navigating ADHD, late diagnosis, childhood trauma, and relationship challenges.

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Culturally Responsive Care

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Trauma-Informed

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Neurodiversity-Affirming

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Grounded in Evidence

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Rooted in Connection

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Healing Without Judgement

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Culturally Responsive Care ✳ Trauma-Informed ✳ Neurodiversity-Affirming ✳ Grounded in Evidence ✳ Rooted in Connection ✳ Healing Without Judgement ✳

WHEN LIFE FEELS HARDER THAN IT SHOULD

Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

Sometimes the struggles we carry aren't obvious to the people around us.

Always playing catch-up.

You have so much to do, yet keeping up feels impossible.

The everyday feels exhausting.

Routines, organization, and follow-through take more effort than you'd like.

You're hard on yourself.

You wonder why you can't just get it together.

Emotions feel intense.

Criticism, conflict, or small setbacks can stay with you for hours.

The past still shows up.

Old experiences continue to affect your sense of safety and connection.

You're tired of masking.

Everyone sees you functioning, but few see how much it costs.

You don't have to keep figuring it all out alone.

Trauma-Informed Therapy Approaches

  • Psychodynamic Therapy

    This therapy goes deep into your past to understand how childhood experiences, early relationships, and unconscious patterns affect your current life. Psychodynamic therapy helps uncover and process unresolved conflicts, traumas, or negative beliefs you might not even be aware of.

  • Somatic Experiencing:

    A body-focused therapy designed to help you release and heal from trauma that’s stored in your body. When we go through difficult or overwhelming experiences, our nervous system can get "stuck," holding onto physical sensations of stress, fear, or tension. Somatic Experiencing helps you tune into these sensations—like tightness in your chest, muscle tension, or racing heart—and gently release them. It’s a great way to process trauma or anxiety when words alone don’t feel like enough.

  • IFS (Internal Family Systems)

    A therapy that helps you understand and work with the different "parts" of yourself. Imagine that inside you are various voices or perspectives—like your inner critic, your vulnerable side, or your protector. IFS helps you get to know these parts, heal the wounded ones, and integrate them into a more balanced, compassionate you.

  • ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)

    ACT is about learning how to accept uncomfortable feelings—like anxiety or sadness—without letting them control your life. Instead of fighting your emotions, ACT helps you make space for them while you focus on what really matters to you—your values. It’s not about “fixing” your emotions but finding a way to live a meaningful life even when those emotions show up. This approach can be especially empowering for young professionals balancing life’s pressures and personal values.

  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

    CBT focuses on how your thoughts influence your emotions and behaviors. It teaches you to challenge and reframe negative or unhelpful thoughts so that you can change how you feel and act. For example, if you have a tendency to think, "I'm going to fail," CBT helps you recognize that thought, question its truth, and replace it with something more realistic. It’s practical and goal-oriented, making it a great fit for those looking for immediate ways to manage stress, anxiety, or depression.

  • Attachment-Focused Therapy

    This type of therapy is all about understanding how your early relationships (like with your caregivers or significant people in your life) shape the way you relate to others today—especially in romantic relationships, friendships, and work dynamics. Attachment theory identifies different attachment styles—like secure, anxious, avoidant, or disorganized—which influence how you seek comfort, handle stress, and navigate conflict. Attachment-Focused Therapy helps you become aware of these patterns, heal past wounds, and build healthier, more fulfilling connections in the present. For millenials, it can also help with understanding dynamics in the workplace, including how you approach authority, teamwork, and boundaries. This therapy is especially helpful if you’re looking to strengthen relationships, work through trust issues, or break free from toxic relational patterns.

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More About Farada Mental Health Counseling in NY & NJ

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Hey!

I'm Taiwo Majekodunmi, LMHC, LPC, NCC — a licensed trauma therapist in New York and New Jersey and the founder of Farada Mental Health Counseling PLLC. I work with high-achieving millennials: the ones who did everything right, hit the milestones roughly on schedule, and still feel like they're running on fumes. You've built the career, met the expectations, and been the dependable one so long that slowing down feels like a risk you can't take. Therapy here is where you finally get to set that down. Together we work through trauma, anxiety, burnout, and the pressure to always persevere — so success stops costing you so much to maintain.

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Farada is the Yoruba, one of the many languages spoken in Nigeria, word for persevere, meaning, to endure. It's a word used to express perseverance, resilience. This word has become part of my own story as someone who has had to keep going despite the odds.

When it comes to therapy and healing, many times we don’t just need coping skills for short-term solutions. Lasting change happens through persevering, learning to confront your pain, rather than disowning it. Farada Mental Health centers on the ability to endure and keep going, despite the circumstances, trials, or tribulations that life will inevitably present to you.

What People Are Saying About Farada Mental Health

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Farada Mental Health offers virtual therapy for adults located in New York and New Jersey, with in-person availability in Brooklyn, NY.

  • Farada Mental Health works with high-achieving adults, BIPOC professionals, first-generation adults, immigrants, and professionals navigating trauma, anxiety, burnout, identity stress, and generational pressure.

  • Yes. Farada Mental Health offers EMDR therapy for trauma, childhood wounds, anxiety, and distressing experiences that continue to affect your present life.

  • No. Therapy can support people who are functioning well externally but feel overwhelmed, disconnected, exhausted, anxious, or stuck internally.

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