Hi, I’m Jesse Elan

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 16, but I didn’t want to accept it. My brain never felt wrong. It just didn’t seem to fit the world around me.

Before becoming a therapist, I worked as a filmmaker, drawn to raw, unfiltered human stories. At one point, during what I can only describe as an existential spiral, I turned the camera on myself to try and make sense of things. Watching it back, something clicked. I started to notice patterns. Some things were helping. Others were just keeping me stuck. Without realizing it, I had stumbled onto the early shape of what would later become my self-filming work.

In 2012, I started apprenticing in Narrative Therapy with my mother, a certified therapist who had been helping people reshape their stories for years. It gave me language for something I was already starting to feel: that the way we see ourselves shapes how we experience everything. I became certified in Video Therapy in 2018 and Narrative Therapy in 2021, and eventually focused my work on ADHD.

That process changed how I saw ADHD. Not as something broken, but as a brain that works best when it can follow its own rules. Today, I help others figure out how to work with their minds instead of against them. I try to be the kind of guide I wish I had back when I was first trying to make sense of it all.