You're not failing. You're adapting.
Someone who actually gets it is here.
Tether is for the parent who's read every book, tried every chart, and still found themselves sitting on a bathroom floor at midnight wondering what they missed. You didn't miss anything. This is just hard in a particular way — and we were built for that particular way.
No intake fee · No locked content · Real timelines
Your Week, Reflected
We know what Tuesday feels like.
Before we tell you anything about ourselves, we want to show you that we already know something about you. This is what caregiving inside ADHD often looks like — minute by minute, hour by hour.
The morning routine collapsed again. You said the same thing eleven times. You heard yourself and didn't like the sound.
You're in a meeting. Your phone shows a text from the school. You read it twice. You keep your face still.
Grocery store. Your child is on the floor. People are watching. You know what this is. They don't.
You're Googling "ADHD meltdown vs tantrum" again. You've been here before. The results haven't changed.
You love this child more than anything. You're also exhausted in a way sleep doesn't fix. Both are true.
“I see how hard this is.”
That's where Tether starts. Not with a framework. With that sentence.
The Methodology
Nothing is hidden here.
Here is exactly what happens inside Tether, session by session, with real names for every framework and honest timelines. If something doesn't resonate, you'll know before you ever book a session.
Transparency is the trust mechanism. No vague promises. No locked content.
The Spiral Map
Session 1–2 · 90 min eachWe don't start with strategies. We start by mapping your specific spiral — the sequence of events that reliably ends in exhaustion or conflict. Every family's spiral has a shape. We find yours.
You'll leave with a visual diagram of your spiral, annotated with the moments where intervention is actually possible.
The Window Work
Sessions 3–6 · 60 min eachNamed after the "window of tolerance" from trauma-informed practice, this phase is about expanding your nervous system's capacity — not just your child's. Caregivers dysregulate too. That's not weakness. It's biology.
Includes the Regulation Inventory worksheet and the Threshold Tracking log, both taken home.
The Repair Practice
Sessions 7–10 · 60 min eachRupture and repair is the actual unit of attachment — not perfection. This phase builds your repair vocabulary: what to say after the hard moment, how to reconnect without re-litigating, and why "I'm sorry" lands differently depending on when you say it.
Families typically report a measurable shift in post-conflict recovery time within 3 weeks of this phase.
The Long Game
Ongoing · Monthly check-insADHD caregiving doesn't end. The Long Game is a maintenance structure — a monthly 45-minute session plus an async channel where you can send voice notes between sessions. Your practitioner responds within 48 hours.
Available as a standalone subscription after completing the core arc.
Total arc: 10–12 sessions over 3–4 months. Most families notice a qualitative shift in household climate around week 6. Not fixed — shifted. There's a difference.
The Practitioners
We've been in the driveway too.
Every practitioner at Tether is a trained clinician and a person who has lived some version of this. These bios are written in first person because that's the only honest way to introduce someone.
Marisol Vega
Lead Practitioner · Parent CoachMA, Child & Family Therapy · ADHD-CCSP
“My son was diagnosed at six. I was forty-one and had been a family therapist for twelve years. I thought I knew things. I did not know those things. What I know now, I learned in the grocery store aisle, at the IEP table, and in the car on the way home from school when he'd finally fall asleep and I'd sit in the driveway and just breathe. I built Tether because the support I needed didn't exist in the format I needed it.”
Darius Okafor
Practitioner · Fathers' Support SpecialistMSW · Trauma-Informed Practice Certificate
“I grew up being told patience meant silence. That you absorbed things and kept going. My daughter showed me that patience has a different shape — it looks like curiosity, like asking what's happening instead of reacting to what's visible. I work specifically with fathers and male-identifying caregivers because we are often the last people to ask for this kind of help, and the first to blame ourselves when things are hard.”
Cynthia Lam
Practitioner · Grandparent & Extended Family SupportPhD, Developmental Psychology · 22 years clinical practice
“I raised my grandchildren starting when they were three and five. I was sixty. The world of ADHD support was not built for grandparents — the language assumed you were young, tech-comfortable, and had recently been to a pediatrician. I wasn't, I wasn't, and I hadn't. I specialize in grandparents and extended family caregivers because that gap is enormous and almost no one is standing in it.”
Pricing
Plain language. No surprises.
These are the actual numbers. There is no discovery call to get the pricing. There is no “contact us for enterprise plans.” If this doesn't fit your situation, we'd rather you know now.
We offer a sliding scale for grandparent caregivers and foster families. Email us directly.
The Arc
10 sessions · ~$1,850 total
The complete Tether methodology from Spiral Map through Repair Practice. Structured, sequenced, and time-bounded.
- —Initial 30-min orientation call (free)
- —10 sessions across 3–4 months
- —The Spiral Map diagram (yours to keep)
- —Regulation Inventory + Threshold Tracking worksheets
- —Email follow-up within 48 hours of each session
The Arc + Long Game
10 sessions + 6 months ongoing · ~$2,470 total
Everything in The Arc, plus six months of monthly check-ins and async voice-note access between sessions.
- —Everything in The Arc
- —6 monthly 45-min maintenance sessions
- —Async channel: voice notes, responses within 48 hours
- —School year support structure (August–June cycle available)
Most families choose this. The ongoing structure matters as much as the initial work.
Start With OrientationThe Long Game
Standalone · No minimum commitment
For families who've already done the foundational work and need a consistent, low-intensity maintenance structure.
- —One 45-min session per month
- —Async voice-note channel
- —Cancel anytime — no penalty
Available to Tether alumni or by practitioner referral.
Apply for Long GameAll sessions are 1:1 with your practitioner. No group sessions, no automated workflows, no AI chat. A person, in a room, with you.
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The First 7 Days: A Caregiver Reset Guide
Not a productivity hack. Not a morning routine checklist. Seven days of small, honest resets for caregivers who are running on low — with one concrete thing to try each day and space to write what happened.
Email only. No list, no sequence, no drip.
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This isn't a sales form. It's a starting place. We read every submission and respond within 24 hours with a practitioner match and a free 30-minute orientation call.