Adult ADHD
Are you having difficulty reaching your full potential despite your best efforts? With personalized counseling, you’ll gain insights into how ADHD impacts various aspects of your life, from personal relationships to professional settings, and learn how to work with your strengths. Together, we’ll create a structured, supportive environment that empowers you to achieve balance, fulfill your potential, and thrive despite the challenges of Adult ADHD.
ADHD Services Menu
Assessment
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Find out more about the root of your problems with a comprehensive history and assessment of the challenges you are facing. Includes screening and treatment recommendations.
Individual Counselling
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Navigate the challenges of ADHD with compassionate, evidence-informed counselling. ADHD counselling helps build focus, organization, emotional regulation, and self-confidence while reducing overwhelm and stress. It can be integrated with treatment for anxiety, depression, trauma, learning differences, and burnout.
Couple/Family Counselling
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Strengthen relationships impacted by ADHD with supportive family and couples counselling. ADHD-informed therapy helps improve communication, reduce conflict, and build understanding around attention differences, emotional regulation, and daily life challenges. This approach can be used alongside individual therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, and ADHD.
Groups
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Find support, structure, and understanding in ADHD group counselling. These groups use evidence-based approaches such as CBT for ADHD, mindfulness practices, and psychoeducation to help improve attention, emotional regulation, and self-awareness. ADHD groups can be used alongside individual or family therapy for ADHD, anxiety, and mood concerns.
Custom Solutions
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Access personalized support for ADHD through custom counselling solutions. Individualized approaches may include skills-based strategies, CBT for ADHD, mindfulness, psychoeducation, and practical tools tailored to your unique needs, goals, and daily challenges. Custom ADHD support can be used alongside therapy for anxiety, depression, trauma, and burnout.
Our Approach
✓ Comprehensive
✓ Practical
✓ Focus on Strengths
✓ Holistic
✓ Supportive & Collaborative
✓ Personalized to Your Needs
✓ Evidence-informed
✓ Current & Up to date
Video: Adult ADHD a 2-minute Snapshot
Adult ADHD Counselling
Navigating life with Adult ADHD can be challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. I offer specialized support to help you understand and manage the complexities of ADHD in adulthood. Our work together focuses on practical strategies for organization, time management, and prioritizing tasks—tailored specifically to how ADHD affects you. Beyond these strategies, we’ll explore coping mechanisms for maintaining focus, managing impulsivity, and enhancing self-esteem.
comprehensive ADHD care
In addressing ADHD, it’s important to consider the interconnected nature of related challenges like stress, depression, anxiety, relationship issues, self-compassion, weight, eating concerns, and sleep disturbances. My approach incorporates a variety of evidence-based treatments tailored to meet your unique needs, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness practices.
CBT is a highly effective treatment for ADHD and its related issues, focusing on modifying negative thought patterns and behaviors. It offers practical tools for managing time, improving organizational skills, and reducing procrastination. CBT can also address the underlying thought processes that contribute to stress, depression, and anxiety, helping to develop healthier ways of coping with these challenges.
Mindfulness practices complement CBT by promoting increased awareness of the present moment, helping to reduce the impulsivity and distractibility often associated with ADHD. Through mindfulness, you can learn to observe your thoughts and feelings without judgment, leading to improved emotional regulation, reduced stress, and enhanced self-compassion. Mindfulness techniques can also improve your relationships by fostering a greater capacity for empathy and connection.
Additionally, we explore specific strategies for addressing weight and eating issues by identifying and changing patterns of emotional eating and impulsivity related to ADHD. For sleep problems, a combination of behavioral strategies and mindfulness can improve sleep hygiene and the quality of your rest.
Together, these approaches offer a comprehensive framework for managing ADHD and its related challenges, supporting you in achieving a more balanced, fulfilling life.
medication guidance
In addition to addressing ADHD and its related challenges through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, and other therapeutic strategies, I also offer support with medication management. Understanding that medication can be a crucial component of treatment for many individuals with ADHD, I work closely with you and your healthcare provider to ensure that any prescribed medications are effectively integrated into your overall treatment plan. Medication guidance does not include prescribing medication.
Medication guidance involves evaluating the benefits and side effects of your medication, ensuring the dosage is optimal, and addressing any concerns you may have about taking medication. It’s about finding the right balance that enhances your ability to manage the symptoms of ADHD while also considering the impact on related issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, and sleep problems.
I provide guidance on how to navigate the complexities of medication in a way that complements the therapeutic work we do together, empowering you to make informed decisions about your health and well-being. By incorporating medication guidance into your treatment, we can create a more holistic approach to managing ADHD, supporting your journey toward greater balance and fulfillment.
“ADHD is not about knowing what to do but about doing what one knows.“
Dr. Russell Barkley
Myths and Facts about ADHD
Myth: ADHD is “trendy” and not a real condition.
Fact: There are many descriptions of ADHD symptoms in historical literature over the past 200 years. ADHD is a neurobiological condition.
Myth: Adult ADHD is overdiagnosed.
Fact: ADHD is underdiagnosed in adults, especially women. There has been a recent shift towards better education and awareness, more screenings by healthcare providers, decreased stigma about ADHD, and better treatment options.
Myth: Poor parenting causes ADHD.
Fact: ADHD is primarily biological and genetic in its origins. Environmental factors, however, can minimize or intensify the difficulties experienced by an individual with ADHD.
Myth: People with ADHD are lazy and lack willpower.
Fact: Many people with ADHD have some activities where they can focus very well. As a result, it is often very difficult to understand their inability to focus In other areas.
Myth: People with ADHD never pay attention or complete their work.
Fact: Sometimes, and under some circumstances, individuals with ADHD can focus and concentrate, while at other times, they experience extreme difficulty. Inconsistency is common.
Myth: It’s better to figure out ADHD on your own.
Fact: When not treated, individuals with ADHD have a significantly higher risk for many health problems, including a shorter life span.
Myth: Everyone is a little ADHD.
Fact: The symptoms of ADHD can occur in everyone, but only occasionally (e.g. forgetting). People with ADHD have significantly more of these symptoms that occur frequently and create difficulties in many areas of their lives.
Myth: Medication alone can manage ADHD.
Fact: ADHD medications usually have positive effects on symptoms of inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. However, a combination approach that also includes cognitive behaviour therapy and counselling to meet the distinct needs of the person with ADHD is typically beneficial.
Myth: Food allergies, refined sugar, food additives and poor diet cause ADHD.
Fact: The actual correlation between ADHD and diet has not been established. However, individual sensitivities may be present. Good nutrition and general health are always important. Poor diet and poor health can influence attention and functioning.
Myth: ADHD is more common in boys and men.
Fact: Males are much more likely to be diagnosed; however, ADHD occurs in women and girls at the same rate. Females are more prone to inattentive type ADHD, which often includes disorganized and unfocused behaviour rather than disruptive, impulsive behaviour. Women with ADHD tend to have higher rates of overall distress, anxiety and depression.
Myth: You can tell if someone has ADHD because they will be hyperactive.
Fact: Some people with ADHD, predominately those with an inattentive presentation, may appear to lack energy and seem quiet and reserved.
Myth: People with ADHD lack willpower and just need to try harder.
Fact: The problems experienced by individuals with ADHD are not a matter of willpower or a lack of trying. In fact, those with ADHD are probably trying harder than others.
