ADHD

(Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder)

I Offer Counselling for

ADUlts with ADHD,

with a special focus on

LATE-Discovered NEURODIVERGENCE

I take a skill building, neurodiversity affirming and identity work integration approach to working with adults of all age ranges (17 yrs +) with formally diagnosed or suspected ADHD. If you are late diagnosed or discovered neurodivergent, this is the place for you - I am well versed in the identity integration, grief and skill complexity that comes with a later in life/adult realization of ADHD :)

I work from a lived and clinical experience basis of support and approach as I also have ADHD.

My counselling framework for ADHD is underscored by the firm belief that neurodiversity is not a disordered form of human experiencing. While I understand it can certainly make functioning optimally in a neurotypical prioritizing world not without it’s challenges and deep frustrations. But connected self leadership, need prioritization/navigation that integrates with external demands is possible with the right space to regroup, deepening your self-understanding and gain skills for the emotional and cognitive processing impacts of having a more complex attention organizational system.

I will hold space for you to get know your experience from a strengths affirming lens and am well versed in practical treatment options for executive functioning and emotional regulation skill building. I employ self leadership organizational tools + habit build strategies from DBT, CBT and IFS.

I offer informal assessment and psycho-education for treatment planning purposes on the three core domains of ADHD dysfunction - Executive Functioning, Emotional Regulation & Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria.

If you’d like to read a bit more about my ADHD philosophy/and approach considerations:

I work from the understanding that the ADHD brain struggles to prioritize, organize and regulate, not because there is something wrong with it, but because it is capable of a greater range internal awareness that makes focusing attention on one thing at a time, one thing for long periods of time, or something not of intrinsic interest, sometimes almost impossible! It isn’t that you can’t focus - it’s that your focusing system is more complex, and needs to be understood so the right focusing approaches can be integrated into your natural capacity for complex attentional awareness.

I’m here to help ground you in the trust and guidance that we can work with your neurodiversity, and even embrace the strengths it offers - it doesn’t have to be an against you experience :) And know that there is still as way to be fully and complexly us within our experience. This is why I take an insight & acceptance + tangible habit/skill building approach to ADHD work. Because you are not the problem, but sometimes attentional and emotional dyregulation can certainty feel like a problem/make life more difficult & learning new skills can help for ADHD regulation challenges (there’s nothing wrong with you for wanting to have more tailored strategies for you individual needs).

I believe it is important to work with your level of neuro-acceptance, and know it isn’t always a given that our neurodiversity will feel like a gift to hone rather than a burden that’s creating internal and external demand friction. I am familiar with the lost time, energy and missed potential grief work that late diagnosed ADHD often brings and benefits from having acknowledged and processed. I thus offer more structured and unstructured/exploratory approaches depending on how you are experiencing your ADHD and how important it is to you to learn regulation/habit processes that are more neuro-conforming.

We can discuss the ins and outs of this further in a consult :)