Specialized ADHD Counseling for Adults, Teens & Executive Functioning Support
ADHD doesn’t always look like hyperactivity. Many people experience inattention, which can be harder to recognize because it looks quite different. Students who sit quietly in class or don’t cause disruptions are often overlooked, even if their grades don’t reflect their true ability.
Through ADHD counseling, we help teens, college students, and adults understand their individual learning style and how it might not fit the typical educational system. Many people do better with hands-on tasks instead of text memorization. This does not make anyone less than, it is a different ability not a disability! Our neurodivergent-affirming therapists celebrate these differences.
How ADHD Counseling Helps
WITH ADHD THERAPY, YOU'LL LEARN TO:
Improve communication and connection with others
Identify accommodations at school or work, and build advocacy skills.
Strengthen planning, organization, time management, focus, and task follow-through.
Reduce procrastination and address anxiety and depression cycles.
Explore and improve the quality of your relationships.
Enhance parenting skills, whether you have ADHD yourself or are parenting a child with ADHD.
Improve the way you talk to yourself.
Change your mindset from seeing limits to focusing on potential, celebrating success, and experiencing satisfaction.
Develop strategies to manage learning differences at school or work.
Build confidence in your learning style, including in college.
can adults be diagnosed with ADHD?
While ADHD is often associated with children, many adults live with undiagnosed ADHD. Symptoms can show up differently in adults and may be mistaken for stress, anxiety, or lack of motivation.
We also recognize that women and members of the BIPOC community are often underdiagnosed until much later in life. Social expectations, cultural factors, and outdated diagnostic practices all contribute to this gap, and it’s something we aim to change by providing affirming, comprehensive evaluations and support for neurodivergent adults.
Is ADHD Counseling Right For Me if I Don’t Have a Diagnosis Yet?
If you think you might meet the criteria for a diagnosis, let’s talk! We will gather information, explore your background for symptoms, how it impacts your functioning and provide assessments to potentially identify a diagnosis. We can also help you find appropriate supports or make other connections to gain more thorough assessments to tease out other potential reasons for the symptoms you are experiencing.
RECOGNIZING ADHD STRENGTHS WITH THERAPY
If you already have a diagnosis, counseling can help you explore what ADHD means for you and help you gain a better understanding of your internal self.
We want you to know: You are not lazy! Many clients carry years of negative self-talk because of grades, teacher feedback, or criticism from others. We understand that many people with ADHD experience rejection differently than others and our therapists will help you work through it.
ADHD has many strengths: Your problem-solving skills, your ability to “super” focus, or jump into action when others might freeze. Therapy is about helping you recognize these strengths and building on them.
How Can Counseling Help With Learning Challenges?
Learning differences can affect us in various ways depending on the severity and social implications. By addressing your self-worth and acceptance of these positive differences the counseling process will impact your success. The things that make us different reveal our strengths!
Many of our clients experience shame or embarrassment around their learning challenges. Sometimes good intentions of those around us keep us in a holding pattern. We become stagnate and desire the opportunity to grow but are uncertain of how to make that shift. In counseling we move can away from helplessness and develop a growth mindset.
Think of it like a potted plant. After awhile a plant becomes root bound and needs to be given a larger container to live in. There, the roots expand and grow, allowing the plant to flourish. We want to help you flourish!
How Does ADHD Affect Executive Functioning?
Executive functioning is the set of skills that helps you plan, prioritize, focus, organize, and manage time. It’s the assistant who helps you get where you need to be, when you need to be there, with what you need in hand. These skills help us all manage life effectively.
For many people with ADHD, these areas can feel like constant hurdles, affecting daily routines, self-worth, relationships, confidence, mood, and motivation.
Through executive functioning counseling, we’ll look at how ADHD influences these skills and work with you to build practical strategies. Strengthening executive functioning often reduces the stress, anxiety, or depression that can accompany ADHD, helping you feel more capable and in control.
For more structured practice, see our executive functioning coaching.
Do You Work With Neurodivergent People?
We have a passion for supporting neurodivergent clients! Neurodiversity is a positive way of viewing learning and thinking differences, as natural variations rather than disabilities. This perspective empowers individuals and helps reduce stigma around topics such as learning differences, ADHD, and autism.
When you consider the many ways we take in information and the complex ways our brains store and retrieve it, differences are not only expected, they are natural!
Each person brings unique strengths, challenges, and ways of engaging with life. By focusing on empowerment and acceptance, counseling creates space to understand those differences and use them as a foundation for growth.
Supporting neurodivergent clients, including those with ADHD, is central to our work.