SupportForADHD

Our Services

1. Coaching and Consulting for Families and Adults

We begin with creating a sacred space where you are able to be 100% heard, understood and empowered to take micro-steps forward. You set the pace according to where you're at and learnings, insights, actions and goals emerge, combining to give you reassurance and hope.

I work with the family unit, either parents with the child or one on one. For younger clients, parents will be present and with a teen or young adult who has already formed their own independence both options are possible. Expect a fluid and dynamic process, bespoke to the unique requirements of your family or you.

Kids and teens with ADHD always need someone who has their back, especially when managing school and social relationships – and so, alongside the coaching, parents, you will learn how to be your child's most effective advocate, getting underneath what's really going on, and importantly, gaining a more profound compassion.

For your child, teen or young adult he will gain an understanding and identify with just how ADHD manifests itself in his life. With this knowledge and exploration, bespoke strategies and tools will become part of setting intentions, strengthening executive function gaps and more aptly aligning your child with who he is and crucially, taking him a lot closer to his best self.

People with ADHD often have a special feel for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way methodically." Dr Edward M Hallowell
You're not imagining things, ADHD really is linked to more powerful, sudden, and unruly emotions. Learn to understand your feelings and get them under control." Dr Thomas Brown


2. Education and Parent Training

a. ADHD Presentations

ADHD Education is vital to debunk the unhelpful myths and get clarifying the real facts around this all too often misunderstood neurodevelopmental condition.

I am available as a speaker for parents, teachers or anyone interested in learning the latest in the neuroscience of ADHD, the unique brain wiring of what is ADHD.

Is it lazy vs I just can't get started; spontaneous vs impulsive; distracted or insufficient interest; angry or just unable to emotionally regulate; talking disrespectfully in class or simply an inability to focus and therefore pay attention to what the teacher is delivering? When will I outgrow this? Isn't this just a way for drug companies to make money? You will discover the black, white and grey areas, the nuances, the traits, the struggles and the gifts.

b. Parent Education and Training

You're exhausted, possibly feeling a tad desperate. You've read every parenting book, attended enough parent courses for a few lifetimes, consulted with your friends in the hope of discovering new methods and…of course your love for your child means you'd do whatever it takes to give her a good life but despite all these grand efforts you're stuck and even overwhelmed.

What is working? What is good? What doesn’t' work? What works better? It really depends on the individual, situation, environment and other factors and it's also a whole lot harder parenting kids with ADHD, that's what empirical research says, definitively.

This parent training course is for parents of kids who are both neuro-atypical and typical, the course departs from some of the traditional parenting mindsets and replaces them with a more fitting approach to the brain-wiring of kids who might do things differently and lag in areas of executive function. At the heart of this training, is healthy mental well-being for your kids and teens:

This four-part interactive and experiential course is delivered online or in person – course takeaways: heightened reassurance with boosted new perspectives, tools and strategies, coupled with a deeper compassion for your kids as you edge yet closer to learning your child's real way, in terms of his traits, preferences, strengths and challenges.

"Educate a child according to his way: even when he grows old he will not depart from it." Mishelei 22:6


3. Help! What now?

You've received an ADHD diagnosis for your child or yourself possibly with a couple of other co-existing conditions and you could be feeling a touch bewildered and wondering now what? What type of help might I need? Where do I start? Right here.

I help you make sense of what this means. I support you by signposting you to potential services and different therapies. How do I speak to the school? What can I expect from school? What other information or education do I need? I'll stand beside you, help you understand and navigate your next steps.

"Who are we, the people who have ADHD? We are the problem kid who drives his parents crazy by being totally disorganized, unable to follow through on anything, incapable of cleaning up a room, or washing dishes, or performing just about any assigned task; the one who is forever interrupting, making excuses for work not done, and generally functioning far below potential in most areas. We are also sometimes the talented executive who keeps falling short due to missed deadlines, forgotten obligations." Drs Edward M Hallowell, John J Ratey