Many therapists receive little formal training in adult ADHD despite working with ADHD clients every day. Resources for treating adults can be difficult to find without investing significant time, money, and energy. As a coach, educator, LPC, & adult with ADHD, I’d like to help with that.

ADHD clients may present with:

• Anxiety

• Depression

• Intense discomfort avoidance

• Emotional dysregulation

• People pleasing

• All-or-nothing thinking

• Perfectionism

• Shame

• Procrastination

• Low goal-directed persistence

• Food, money, or substance concerns

• Relationship conflict

When ADHD is missed, these concerns are often treated as separate problems rather than understood as potentially connected expressions of executive dysfunction and self-regulation challenges. As a result, treatment can become frustrating for both the therapist and the client.

On top of this, many ADHD adults genuinely enjoy discussing, planning, processing, and thinking about change. They often have significant insight into what they "should" be doing. However, executive dysfunction means they frequently struggle to consistently execute action over time (i.e. outside the therapy office), which can leave therapists and clients wondering why insight isn't translating into meaningful change.

My Approach

I specialize in working with ADHD adults through the lens of executive functioning, self-regulation, problem solving, and discomfort tolerance. My goal is to help turn a deep understanding of ADHD cognition into practical interventions, accommodations, and language that can create meaningful changes in behavior, habits, and self-concept.

My work is heavily informed by:

• Russell Barkley

• Cognitive Ergonomics / Jeff Copper

• ADHD-CCSP training through leading ADHD clinicians and researchers

• CBT & ACT interventions addressing shame, emotional regulation, avoidance, and self-concept

I am particularly interested in helping clinicians bridge the gap between understanding ADHD and knowing what to actually do with ADHD clients in session.

Whether you're looking for a referral source, consultation on a difficult ADHD case, trainings or workshops for you or your practice, or simply another clinician to talk ADHD with, I'd love to connect. Reach out to me at amanda@adhdoutloud.org.

A Note About Coaching, Therapy, and Consultation

I work with ADHD adults and clinicians in several different capacities, including psychotherapy, ADHD coaching, clinician consultation, and educational trainings.

While these areas are connected by a shared focus on adult ADHD, they are distinct services with different goals, expectations, and professional boundaries. Coaching is not psychotherapy and does not involve diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions. Consultation and educational services for clinicians are also separate from psychotherapy services. To maintain clear ethical boundaries, I never provide both coaching and psychotherapy services to the same individual.