Depending upon your assessment and goals for therapy, CBT will often focus on:

• Modifying Thinking: Changing unhelpful thinking patterns, that can be difficult to break free from on your own.

• Emotional Regulation: For many people with ADHD, managing emotion is one of the hardest symptoms to control. Small setbacks can result in a dramatic expression of emotion, leading to feelings of guilt or shame and impacting our relationships, family dynamics and career. CBT for ADHD can help individuals to identify triggers and learn emotional regulation techniques to reduce the frequency of emotional dysregulation and the consequences that can result.

• Treating Low Self-Esteem and Rejection Sensitivity: Low Self-Esteem and rejection sensitivity is very often present alongside ADHD. This can lead to constant anxiety about being judged, poor self-worth, and a lack of confidence in social situations. Unless changed, this can result in failure to achieve our potential in many areas of life.

• Reducing Problematic Behaviours: These behaviours commonly impact the areas of life that we care most deeply about, such as our significant relationships or the way we are viewed at work etc.

• Managing Impulsivity: Developing the ability to pause, assess the situation and identify the most helpful course of action, rather than simply responding from emotion or the first idea that comes into your head.

• Adapting ‘Self-Sabotaging’ Tendencies: Recognising where these are present and changing any behaviours or thinking patterns that cause difficulties.

• Treating Other Mental Health Conditions: It is not unusual to be experiencing other problems alongside your ADHD that are impacting your life. Some of the common mental health conditions that may have been diagnosed alongside your ADHD include Anxiety, Depression, OCD and Insomnia. CBT has been shown to be effective at treating these conditions.

• Effective Coping Strategies: I will help you to gain a toolkit of practical coping strategies to help you navigate common challenges such as organisation, planning, and managing impulsivity. I am used to modifying CBT techniques to help equip individuals and couples with the interventions that work best in their particular situations.

• ADHD Parent Support and Support for Partners: Parents living with children displaying the traits of ADHD and adults with a partner diagnosed with ADHD can often feel alone and at times overwhelmed. ADHD can be exhausting for any family member and can lead to a sense despair, often combined with guilt amongst other emotions. As an experienced ADHD Therapist, I can support you to work through these feelings, which can help you to retain a positive relationship with your child or partner, whilst looking after yourself in the process. I can also provide parenting support and coaching, teaching Conscious Parenting strategies, which are particularly effective for children and teenagers with ADHD or who experience difficulty regulating their emotions.

ADHD Therapy can be delivered Face to Face in my purpose built counselling studio or Online. I also provide therapy outdoors, offering ‘Walk and Talk’ Counselling, which many people with ADHD find helpful as it removes the need to remain in one place during the session.

CBT for ADHD can be combined with any relevant ADHD Coaching and Support strategies, as outlined below.