Our Story

Meet our Founder & CEO, Justin Gillespie, LMSW-Clinical, ADHD-CCSP (@adhdtherapist_jay).

Hi! I'm Justin! I am a licensed clinical social worker, therapist for ADHD, business coach for private practice therapists and people with ADHD (BONUS if you are a therapist with ADHD), (soon-to-be) published a,uthor (coming October, 2024), and content creator. Outside of my work I am a HUGE WWE and pro wrestling fan, husband, dog dad, and interpersonal researcher. By "interpersonal researcher" I mean my hyperfocus gets ahead of me and I do deep dives on my special interests.

Growing Up ADHD

I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 6. My family didn't like that diagnosis all too much and did everything in their power to keep it away from me. I managed to excel in school with the help of very flexible teachers that did not need an IEP and parents that were on me 24/7. I succeeded, but I was internally struggling and often staying up until midnight just to get assignments done.

By the time high school came around and more Independence was granted toward me I was struggling more often turning an assignments 1 hour before they were due but still managed to keep things together between then and college. I even graduated student of the year of my undergraduate program!

This is my friend Angie whom I met in graduate school! She has become a close colleague of mine and is a big part of my journey during my educational years.

One Little Question...

It took me until I was 23 to accept that I had ADHD. It also took me until 25 to realize it wasn't just making me quirky and forgetful, and that there was actually something significant going on that caused a lot of challenges for me.

During this period, I had a conversation with a colleague named Christine who also had ADHD. We worked for a Telehealth Center that focused on opiate and alcohol recovery. I was discussing with her how I thought it was very cool that there were specialty centers like this; in 2019 it was a lot more rare to see any sort of Specialty Center aside from your typical Inpatient Rehab for mental health or drug addiction as well as maybe for anxiety or depression.

I had asked her " why don't we ever see places like this for ADHD?" which set off a four-year hyperfocus conversation in which I business plan my practice three times to do nothing with it (until 2022).

The Eruption of 2022

A lot happened in 2022! I got married to my beautiful wife Heather (seen here, we were babies) who happens to be a social worker as well and YES she is a therapist with us, YES she also has ADHD, and YES she is our child specialist therapist! I also got fired from a job that I thought was going to be my forever job (not what you would probably expect on a business website to be admitting this but one of my values is transparency).

I realized in 2022 I had to enter Private Practice to provide my services for the ADHD community. I will certainly never thought I was the best therapist in the world, but I knew I was damn good at what I did (and am proud to say i am even better now). I knew that I could not waste any more time going into agencies wasting my talents and expertise four organizations that just saw me as a licensing number. I had something special for the ADHD community of Michigan and Beyond!

Who We Are (Today)

In 2023 I decided to go from a full-time contractor at a group practice and working my practice part-time to finally going fully into Superior Center. On June 19th 2023 we opened the doors to our ADHD practice after an open house event the weekend prior. I started off with 25 of my own clients. Within one month we scaled it to 50 clients for me and another month later 75 active clients. I realized very quickly that I was going to have to bring on team members sooner than I ever thought.

Today we are practice of multiple therapists that have multiple specialties co-occurring and surrounding ADHD! We are the fastest growing psychotherapy practice for ADHD in Metro Detroit, we are a leading provider when it comes to women's mental health with ADHD (over 66% of our adult populations identify as female), we are leading provider of psychotherapy for adults with ADHD (over 50% of our active clients are 18 or over, which is not traditional when you think of ADHD), AND over 90% of our individuals are seen by Telehealth; a common misconception regarding ADHD is that we cannot focus or be productive in therapy without in-person sessions, and as you can see by that statistic we have proven that is nothing more than a myth.