Work with Your Brain’s Differences

Therapy can help with adult ADHD challenges, including those unique to parenting. You can build necessary skills to quiet the chaos while improving your home’s organization, family’s connection, and self-compassion.

With ADHD there is a common psychological aftermath of depression and anxiety from repeatedly feeling like you dropped the ball and let yourself and others down. Therapy can help you let go of self-limiting thoughts—such as being a failure—so you can move forward with a plan to thrive.

Adopting a reality-based perspective about your brain’s differences, combined with learning evidence-based workarounds, can bring relief from depression and anxiety and turn down the volume on some of ADHD’s most debilitating symptoms.

Parenting with ADHD

When you struggle with planning, memory, task initiation and motivation, it’s easy to be extra hard on yourself and come up with stories lies about being a bad parent. The black and white thinking common in ADHD can lead you to strive for perfection in parenting, which puts you at risk for anxiety and depression when you don’t measure up to this impossible standard.

When your brain (baby or child) won’t cooperate, it’s hard to follow the rigid routines parenting blogs tell you equals good parenting. Therapy can help you understand what children need to develop optimally (parental rigidity isn’t it).

Parenting with ADHD has many strengths like creativity and playfulness, but it can also exasperate issues like exhaustion and burnout.

Therapy for adult ADHD can help you process and regulate your emotions with compassion and perspective so you are no longer a prisoner to your feelings. It can guide you towards practical changes in your environment, which can improve focus and allow you to take better care of yourself.

Working with a therapist can help you feel grounded as a parent with ADHD. You can develop the ability to handle normal stressors without being reactive or frozen. Small but significant changes can deepen your connection to your children.

Professional help is available:

• Evaluation, diagnosis and treatment

• Increase cognitive flexibility

• Strengthen psychological resilience

• Reduce parenting brain fog

• Deepen relationships with your children

• Stop avoiding things that are boring, painful or hard

• Plan and execute your goals

• Live a life aligned with your values and model this for your children

Therapy can help you move forward despite your brain’s challenges