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About Cynthia Djengue, LCSW, LISW | ADHD, Relationships & Relational Repair

ADHD, relationship, trauma, and attachment-informed therapy for adults and couples seeking clarity, steadiness, and repair.

About

You may be here because something in your inner world or your relationships feels chronically unsettled.

Many of the adults and couples I work with are navigating the impact of ADHD on relationships, self-esteem, emotional regulation, organization, communication, and daily life. ADHD often affects far more than attention. It can influence connection, conflict, overwhelm, motivation, and the way people understand themselves. My work helps clients move beyond self-blame and toward practical understanding and lasting change.

How I Work

I practice therapy through an attachment informed, relational, and nervous system aware lens. This means we pay attention not only to thoughts and behaviors, but to emotional safety, regulation, and the deeper meanings that have shaped your responses.

Clients often come in feeling confused about how they “should” feel, torn between anger and guilt, longing and withdrawal, self protection and fear of abandonment. Rather than pushing for quick solutions or rigid boundaries, we work toward clarity, understanding what is happening, why it makes sense, and what genuinely supports repair and growth.

Therapy with me is collaborative, paced, and grounded. I value mindfulness, emotional honesty, and compassion, especially for those who appear strong or capable but carry significant internal pressure.

In our work together, we focus on:

  • Emotional regulation and nervous system awareness

  • Attachment patterns and relational safety

  • Clear communication based on your values

  • Compassionate accountability and repair

I frequently integrate ADHD-informed interventions with attachment and relational work, helping clients understand how executive functioning challenges, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitivity, and relationship patterns interact.

Couples and Relational Repair

Couples often arrive feeling stuck in cycles of frustration, withdrawal/shutdown, or emotional over-responsibility.

I work extensively with couples and relational systems experiencing stress, disconnection, or chronic imbalance. This often includes couples where one or both partners have ADHD, and where patterns of over functioning, resentment, or emotional fatigue have taken hold.

A central focus of my work is helping partners move out of parent child or manager dependent dynamics and back into adult to adult relating. This includes:

  • Reducing the burden of feeling responsible for another adult

  • Developing fair, realistic approaches to tasks, time, and shared responsibility

  • Strengthening communication without blame or emotional escalation

  • Rebuilding companionship, reciprocity, and joy

Relational repair is not limited to romantic partnerships. I also work with parent & adult child relationships and other meaningful bonds where attachment, boundaries, and emotional safety are central.

About Cynthia Djengue, LCSW, LISW

I am a licensed clinical social worker with over 30 years of experience in social work and psychotherapy. I earned my Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with an emphasis in severe and persistent mental illness and mental health policy. I have served as an adjunct faculty member in behavioral health and social work and currently supervise LMSWs in Arizona.

I have been a certified coach since 2012, with additional coaching certification completed in 2026. My experience includes life coaching, health coaching, executive functioning support, and ADHD coaching for adults navigating work, relationships, leadership roles, and life transitions.

Today, much of my practice focuses on adults with ADHD and couples impacted by ADHD. I help clients better understand executive functioning challenges, emotional regulation, relationship dynamics, communication patterns, and the ways ADHD can affect self-esteem, productivity, and connection with others.

Who This Work Is For (and often helps most)

This work may be a good fit if you:

  • Experience chronic anxiety, overwhelm, or difficulty finding steadiness in relationships or daily life

  • Struggle with self-doubt, shame, rejection sensitivity, or fear of disappointing others

  • Find yourself caught in patterns of overthinking, people-pleasing, emotional reactivity, or withdrawal

  • Feel overwhelmed by relational responsibility, emotional labor, or caregiving roles

  • Are navigating the impact of ADHD on self-esteem, relationships, work, organization, or emotional regulation

  • Have experienced difficult life events, attachment wounds, or relational trauma that continue to affect how you respond today

  • Want clarity rooted in your values rather than fear, guilt, or self-criticism

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