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Individual Counseling for ADHD
Individual counseling for ADHD offers structured, supportive, and personalized guidance to help you better understand how ADHD impacts your life and how to manage it effectively. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have been navigating ADHD for years, therapy provides tools and strategies to support meaningful, lasting change. While ADHD affects people of all ages, the counseling process is tailored to fit the developmental needs, environments, and challenges of each age group.
Initial Assessment and Understanding ADHD
Your first sessions are a chance to get to know one another and build a clear picture of how ADHD affects your daily life — at home, at work or school, and in your relationships. Together, you and your therapist will talk about your history, current challenges, strengths, and hopes for the future. This helps shape a supportive plan that meets you where you are.
Education and Goal Setting
Understanding ADHD is an important part of the process. Your therapist will provide education about how ADHD can affect attention, organization, time management, emotional regulation, and impulse control. Together, you’ll identify specific, meaningful goals — such as improving focus, reducing procrastination, or managing emotional outbursts — and work toward practical strategies that support daily life.
Building Practical Skills
Counseling sessions focus on developing practical tools that truly work for you. These may include time management and planning techniques, organization and task initiation strategies, emotional regulation skills, mindfulness or relaxation practices, and healthy coping tools for managing overwhelm and frustration.
Identifying and Changing Patterns
You’ll have the opportunity to explore thoughts and behaviors that may be reinforcing ADHD-related challenges, such as negative self-talk, avoidance, or burnout. Through counseling, you’ll work on shifting these patterns and developing healthier, more supportive habits.
Ongoing Support and Adjustment
Therapy evolves with you. As you build skills and confidence, sessions may shift to refining strategies, exploring new challenges, and maintaining the progress you’ve worked hard to achieve.
Transition or Maintenance
When your goals are met or your symptoms become more manageable, therapy may transition to occasional “check-in” sessions to help you stay on track, celebrate progress, and navigate any setbacks that arise.
This process provides both structure and flexibility, empowering individuals with ADHD to thrive with increased self-awareness, confidence, and a greater sense of control.
ADHD Counseling Across the Lifespan
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
ADHD presents differently across age groups and effective counseling adapts to each developmental stage. From preschoolers to adults, therapy focuses on practical strategies, emotional support, and tailored goals that meet individuals where they are.
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
At this age, therapy is highly interactive, play-based, and focused on helping children build emotional and behavioral regulation in a way that feels natural and engaging. Formal diagnosis may still be evolving, so therapy often focuses on early intervention.
Counseling may include:
- Teaching kids fun ways to spot their feelings and calm down when big emotions show up
- Using games, activities, and movement to build focus and keep attention on track
- Helping little ones practice hitting the “pause” button and smoothly switch between activities
- Teaming up with parents and caregivers to keep things consistent, positive, and encouraging at home and school
Children (Ages 6-8)
Young Children (Ages 4-5)
Children (Ages 9-12)
Elementary-aged children begin to experience ADHD more clearly in school and social settings. Counseling becomes more skill-focused while still using creative, engaging approaches to teach and reinforce self-regulation.
Counseling may include:
- Creating simple, kid-friendly routines to make school and home life feel easier and more predictable
- Helping kids manage big feelings through stories, visuals, games, and role-play
- Building friendship skills, teamwork, and growing self-confidence in social settings
- Partnering with parents — and sometimes teachers — to keep support consistent and positive across home and school
Children (Ages 9-12)
Children (Ages 9-12)
Children (Ages 9-12)
As children grow, academic, social, and emotional demands increase — often highlighting ADHD challenges like disorganization, emotional reactivity, or peer difficulties.
Counseling may include:
- Increasing self-awareness about how ADHD affects their emotions, focus, and relationships
- Developing executive functioning skills like organization, time management, and task completion
- Teaching problem-solving and emotion regulation tools for school and home situations
- Addressing self-esteem concerns as children may begin comparing themselves to peers
- Partnering with parents — and sometimes teachers — to keep support consistent and positive across home and school
Teens (Ages 13-18)
Children (Ages 9-12)
Teens (Ages 13-18)
Adolescents face increasing demands for independence, focus, and self-direction. Counseling helps teens understand their ADHD, advocate for themselves, and navigate school, relationships, and identity development.
Counseling may include:
- Helping teens manage academic pressure, deadlines, and staying organized
- Supporting teens in handling impulsivity, mood swings, and motivation ups and downs
- Building emotional resilience, self-esteem, and a strong sense of identity
- Guiding teens and parents in balancing independence with healthy family connection
Adults (Age 18+)
Children (Ages 9-12)
Teens (Ages 13-18)
Adults with ADHD often deal with challenges related to work performance, relationships, time management, or late diagnosis. Therapy is both practical and reflective, offering tools for day-to-day functioning and deeper emotional support.
Counseling may include:
- Creating practical systems for organization, planning, and follow-through
- Addressing anxiety, perfectionism, and signs of burnout before they take over
- Strengthening communication skills for healthier friendships, family dynamics, and future workplace relationships
- Exploring and processing the emotional ups and downs of living with ADHD at every stage of life