THRIVE with ADHD
We offer three types of services geared towards helping with ADHD based challenges. ADHD Psychotherapy, ADHD Couples Therapy and Goal Oriented Coaching. Aspects of each are often integrated within treatment, but therapy is targeted and structured towards your specific goals in order to maximize gains in a brief period of time.
ADHD Focused Psychotherapy helps clients both developing new skills help you fully harness your strengths and better manage your challenges and. It also targets conscious and unconscious pathogenic thought patterns that often form due to the emotional and social aspects of moving through the world with ADHD. Both diagnosed and undiagnosed ADHD can result in a skewed sense of ones capabilities and inconsistent levels of self esteem leading to a disparate sense of self. ADHD Focused Psychotherapy starts with a thorough assessment to identify specific factors contributing to the challenges. The subsequent interventions vary based on each individual but typically involves developing concrete approaches to help with day-to-day difficulties, shifting ways of processing through mindfulness based interventions, assessing/defining long term goals, exploring ways ADD/ADHD has impacted one's sense of self, and shifting to a more positive, accurate narrative around these issues. ADHD Focused Couples Therapy is a targeted approach to helping couples better understand how ADHD based challenges may impact the relationship, understand underlying elements that exasperate the frustrations and develop strategies to optimally manage the specific challenges they've struggled with. Goal Oriented Coaching is a helpful and effective option for anyone struggling with a goal, with or without ADHD. It provides the accountability and structure we all often need to move challenging things forward. It's short term, targeted and focused on the specific concrete goal that you are struggling with. Some examples include:
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More about ADHD...
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is a neuropsychiatric disorder where difficulties are evident in "executive functioning" (planning, sustaining attention and inhibiting certain impulses).
It's important to note, a number of other mental health issues can have an impact on attention including anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A critical part of the assessment process involves ruling out any other potential causes so treatment can be targeted to the specific cause of disruption.
Often difficulties are recognized or resurface when there's a change in ones routine and demands; entering grade school, transitioning to college, starting a new job. And another big one - cohabitation. Typically people can get by with a life structure of that works for them, but adding a new roommate/spouse/partner in the mix can often present new challenges.
What's important to remember when thinking about ADHD is that these issues exist on a spectrum, and the degree of impairment may shift across periods of ones life and specific contexts (jobs, relationships, life management). A diagnosis of ADHD does not speak to the specific abilities, challenges or even an appropriate course of treatment for that individual. While a diagnosis can be a helpful and orienting construct, there is no one size fits all approach in the treatment of ADHD.
Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is a neuropsychiatric disorder where difficulties are evident in "executive functioning" (planning, sustaining attention and inhibiting certain impulses).
It's important to note, a number of other mental health issues can have an impact on attention including anxiety, depression and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A critical part of the assessment process involves ruling out any other potential causes so treatment can be targeted to the specific cause of disruption.
Often difficulties are recognized or resurface when there's a change in ones routine and demands; entering grade school, transitioning to college, starting a new job. And another big one - cohabitation. Typically people can get by with a life structure of that works for them, but adding a new roommate/spouse/partner in the mix can often present new challenges.
What's important to remember when thinking about ADHD is that these issues exist on a spectrum, and the degree of impairment may shift across periods of ones life and specific contexts (jobs, relationships, life management). A diagnosis of ADHD does not speak to the specific abilities, challenges or even an appropriate course of treatment for that individual. While a diagnosis can be a helpful and orienting construct, there is no one size fits all approach in the treatment of ADHD.