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ADHD Therapy | ADHD Support and Symptom Management | CBT for ADHD
What is ADHD Therapy and how could it help you?
Living with ADHD can be exhausting! If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed and struggling to keep up with the demands of daily life, therapy with someone who understands the unique challenges faced by individuals, couples and parents living with ADHD can help you and your relationships to thrive.
I am highly experienced at providing personalised ADHD support, tailored to your specific needs. I can help you or your family member to develop the tools, strategies, and confidence to manage ADHD more effectively and regain a sense of control over day to day life. This support can take the form of Therapy for ADHD also known as CBT for ADHD, and ADHD Coaching Support (see below for more information).
I have completed a significant level of training in supporting families and individuals with ADHD, qualifiying as a Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider.
How will you know what support I need and what can help me the most?
Although the symptoms of ADHD are often stereotyped on social media, every individual with ADHD is different. For support to be genuinely effective, these differences must be taken into account, because a ‘one size fits all’ approach never really works.
I offer bespoke ADHD support, focussed on your specific needs, which are identified through a detailed, thorough assessment process at the start of our work together. The assessment gives me a clear understanding of your particular circumstances and symptoms, enabling us to select the best strategies to manage your unique presentation of ADHD.
Various approaches can be used to support you, depending on your needs. I am able to provide professionally trained Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for ADHD, which is described below. Alternatively, I can support you through Health and Wellbeing Coaching - personalised ADHD Coaching support, focussed on helping you to develop the key strategies to manage daily life with ADHD.
CBT for ADHD
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.
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.
ADHD Coaching and Support
ADHD Coaching provides a solution-focussed approach to improving the day to day issues associated with your ADHD symptoms. These could include:
Improving Focus and Productivity: Learn to reduce distractions and increase enhanced concentration. Learn effective techniques to improve your focus, manage time efficiently, and stay on top of tasks.
Stronger Relationships: Building better connections with your loved ones as you gain a deeper understanding of how and why ADHD impacts your day to day interactions and wider relationships. Develop effective communication skills, reduce destructive conflict, and start to develop a calmer family life.
ADHD Parent Support: Helping parents living with children diagnosed with or exhibiting the traits of ADHD. This can be emotionally exhausting for any parent and can lead to regular and painful feelings of hopelessness and despair, often combined with guilt and a plethora of other emotions. Support from an experienced therapist or coach can help you to work through these feelings and retain (or regain) a positive relationship with your child, whilst looking after yourself.
Enhanced Self-Confidence to Achieve Goals: Overcome self-critical thinking patterns, Low Self-Esteem and the feelings and frustrations associated with ADHD that are experienced by so many people. Through the calm and supportive environment that I offer, you will soon start to experience a greater feeling of empowerment, a more balanced self-esteem, and an increased sense of being able to fulfil your potential.
Effective Coping Strategies: 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 research based techniques to help equip individuals and couples with the interventions that work best for their unique situations.
ADHD Coaching can take place In-person at my purpose built counselling studio, Online or Outside using ‘Walk and Talk’ Counselling. This is often a popular choice as, as it enables movement throughout the session.
With the comprehensive support offered by a therapist with lived experience of ADHD, I am well qualified to help individuals and couples experience change.
If you feel held back by the symptoms of ADHD, I am happy to chat through the personalised ADHD support services that I can offer you.
Get in touch by emailing: simon@avoncbt.com Calling: 07553 533425
or request a free of charge Initial Consultation by clicking the button below.
Fees:
One to One Weekday Daytime Therapy or Coaching: £90 per session (reduced fees available if a package of 10 sessions is purchased).
Couples Therapy or Coaching: £100 per appointment (reduced fees available if a package of 10 sessions is purchased).
12 Session ADHD Management Programme - An evidence based programme of ADHD management strategies, with resources and workbook included: £1200 for 12 sessions.
Avon CBT & Psychotherapy is happy to provide CBT for ADHD and ADHD Coaching to individuals funded through DWP Access to Work Grants.
Client Testimonial:
“I am much more confident in my ability as a parent and I’m enjoying spending time - much more than previously - with my child; my relationship with my husband has improved - both as a result of the depression and anxiety going but also because therapy has helped me explore where the issues with these relationships really lay and helped me find ways to manage difficulties.” LI (former client)