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Specializing in: ADHD in women • Anxiety & OCD • High-achieving women • Late-diagnosed ADHD • Motherhood & mental load • Emotional overwhelm & burnout

ADHD and Anxiety Therapy for High-Achieving Women and Moms in California

You’re capable, driven, and the one everyone depends on—but underneath, you may feel overwhelmed, anxious, burned out, or like you're working twice as hard just to keep up. Therapy for women who look like they have it all together on the outside while quietly struggling underneath.

Kaitlin Soule, owner of Bay Area Modern Therapy

My approach to therapy is evidence-based, modern, and deeply human…

I specialize in working with women navigating ADHD, anxiety, OCD, motherhood, and the invisible mental load that often comes with trying to hold everything together. My approach blends highly trained, evidence-based treatments—including CBT, ACT, and exposure-based strategies—with a warm, relatable style that helps you feel like you're talking to a real person, not sitting across from someone silently taking notes and nodding.

I believe therapy should be practical, collaborative, and tailored to your real life—not just what happens during a 50-minute session. Together, we work to understand your brain, uncover the stories and patterns that may be keeping you stuck, reduce shame, and create sustainable change that actually fits your life.

Because healing and growth don't only happen in the therapy room, I also offer text and email support between sessions for additional connection and guidance when appropriate.

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“Kaitlin and her team have been invaluable in helping my family.”

Kaitlin is warm, approachable, authentic and incredibly knowledgeable. There isn’t a judgmental bone in her body, and that’s always very comforting when going through hard times. Highly recommend!”

My APPROACH

I am not a “blank slate”- I believe in being the kind of therapists that I’d want for myself or my loved one… and that means showing up as a human AND a highly-skilled therapist.

  • I come up alongside our clients, not above. Meaning, while we're highly trained and know our "stuff" we're also humans who understand what it feels like to struggle in different seasons of life.

  • While I tailor the work towards each individual we use the lens of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Family Systems, and Exposure Therapy to help clients make meaningful and lasting change.

  • I meet you where you are and use real language in session. I want you to show up as yourself- comfy clothes, babies, and snacks are welcome!

  • I offer virtual, in-person, and walk-and-talk therapy because I want therapy to be accessible and feel good!

  • My offices is modern and comfy because if you're doing the work to show up, I want you to feel good being there (we've been haunted by the dark, dingy, therapy spaces of the past too).

  • Virtual Therapy for Moms and Parents

    Therapy for Parents

    Therapy for modern parents and moms struggling to navigate parenting neurodiverse or anxious children

  • Anxiety Therapy for Women in California

    Anxiety Therapy

    Therapy for young adults, women, and mom wanting to learn to cope better with Anxiety, OCD, Political Anxiety, or the everyday worries that come with living in an uncertain world.

  • Modern approach to helping women with ADHD

    ADHD Therapy/Consults

    Whether you were diagnosed later in life (like me), think you might have it, or have had it your whole life, you deserve to heal from a lifetime of feeling like you’re too much and not enough. Learn to love your ADHD brain through my modern and evidence-based approach to therapy for ADHD.

Bay Area Modern Therapy Group Therapy Space
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Therapy Groups

  • Divorce/Separation Support Group for Moms

  • Teen Parenting Group

  • Anxiety Group for Teens

  • Anxiety Group for Tweens

FOUNDER OF BAY AREA MODERN THERAPY

Meet founder and owner of Bay Area Modern Therapy, Kaitlin Soule

Meet Kaitlin Soule, LMFT

Kaitlin Soule is a California therapist, author, and media expert dedicated to reshaping the conversation around women’s mental health—especially ADHD in women, which is too often overlooked and misdiagnosed. Through her work, she helps modern women navigate anxiety, ADHD, and the messy realities of parenthood with honesty and practical insight.

She is the author of A Little Less of a Hot Mess: The Modern Mom’s Guide to Growth and Evolution and a sought-after speaker on topics like rewriting the parenthood narrative for better mental health and empowering women to understand their neurodivergence beyond outdated stereotypes. Kaitlin has been featured on many major news outlets including NBC News, Fox/KTVU, Forbes, The Washington Post, Mother.ly, Scary Mommy and more.

Beyond the therapy room, Kaitlin enjoys writing a weekly (ish) newsletter on Substack and sharing expert-backed insights on ADHD, Mental Health, and motherhood in a way that is both deeply personal and widely relatable. You can also connect with her on instagram, where she’s growing a community of millennial women and parents who are interested in mental health, wellness, and progressive politics (because the personal is political)!

Kylie Hempy, AMFT

Kylie Hempy, AMFT

Moms | Adults | Teens

Sheena Simpson, AMFT
Agata Baker, AMFT

Sheena Simpson, AMFT

Couples | Children | Adults

Agata Baker, AMFT

Couples | Children | Adults

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