Meet The Team
Jennifer Walsh
LPC-Associate
Children, adolescents, and adults
Who I am: I am a late-diagnosed ADHDer and love working with clients in a collaborative, neuro-affirming, and strengths-based approach. I especially love working with women, children, young adults, and anyone diagnosed later in life!
About me:
Creativity is my love language, and one of my own favorite ways to manage ADHD
I’m drawn to anything colorful, shiny, and artsy. Paints, disco balls, yarn, glitter, you name it!
I blend practical, everyday strategies with a real understanding of how ADHD shows up to help you navigate real change in your life.
About LPC-Associates: In Texas, an LPC-Associate is a fully licensed counselor completing their hours toward independent licensure under the supervision of an LPC-Supervisor. Sessions are clinically supervised and the lower fee reflects this stage of licensure — not a difference in the quality of care you receive.
James Ochoa
LPC-S, Director
Adults Only
Who I am: I was diagnosed with ADHD in 1996, after years of feeling like the odd one out. After getting my M.Ed. in Counseling & Guidance at Texas State University, I’ve not spent 35+ years treating and navigating ADHD.
About me:
Grew up in a big, loving Texas family of 8 kids
Worked mostly with kids in my early career, because ADHD was thought of as something you outgrew
I believe everyone with ADHD can live powerfully by learning how to navigate the inevitable ADHD emotional storms
Frank Ramirez
Office Manager
Hello! I'm Frank, the virtual office manager for James Ochoa's practice. I handle appointments, billing, and general inquiries to ensure everything runs smoothly for both James and his clients.
When I'm not managing the practice, I'm a musician performing throughout Austin, across Texas, and beyond. My greatest role began in November 2018 when my daughter was born, opening an amazing new chapter in my life. As she grows, I continue to appreciate the balance between my work supporting the ADHD community and my personal journey as a father and musician.
Jules Ochoa
Operations Director
I am a user experience researcher by career, behavior analyst and biologist by trade, and a perfectionist at heart. I have worked with James (who just so happens to be my dad) since the beginning of 2017. Along with helping develop his websites, I’ve also written and produced two podcasts for James: The Complex(co-written with Robin Chotzinoff) and Shiny Shorts, and function as the practices operations director
My few leisure hours are spent playing trumpet, swimming laps, training my two cats and basset hound, or playing Dungeons and Dragons.
Robin Chotzinoff
Writer/Editor
Before working with James Ochoa, I spent three decades as a working writer, producing three non-fiction books, countless magazine articles, many original songs and a steady stream of unpublished fiction. It now seems obvious that I had ADHD as far back as I can remember. Helping James get his ideas out of his head and onto the page has been one of the most rewarding jobs of my career--and not just because when it comes to ADHD, he gets it. His work continues to affect me profoundly. I used to think of my ADHD as a semi-shameful trait that I couldn’t seem to control, corral or conceal. After internalizing James’s key concepts, I now see my ADHD as the engine that drives my creativity and imagination.
After the publication of Focused Forward James suggested I collaborate with his son Jules on an educational podcast about ADHD. Instead, Jules and I wrote two seasons of The Complex podcast, a genre-bending drama featuring an apartment building full of imaginary adults with ADHD—all of them in therapy with the very real James Ochoa, who plays himself.
Like most ADHD-ers, I have too many hobbies and interests. I enjoy telling stories, with music, on Austin stages, vegetable gardening, amateur architecture and upholstery, my three dogs, my three ducks, and cycling the world (someday) with my journalist husband, Eric Dexheimer.