What Type of Therapy Works Best for Adults with ADHD?

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder. This means ADHD impacts the brain structure and function in areas related to executive function, attention, and impulse control. These are the specific things that are impacted: The prefrontal cortex — the region governing planning, focus, and impulse control — tends to develop more slowly and shows different […]

When Optimism Backfires: Understanding ADHD, Over-Optimistic Thinking, and Time Blindness

When clients come to therapy, we often work on addressing negative thought patterns. We work on noticing negative thought patterns and changing them. We do this by using cognitive reframing or challenging. For example, a thought could be, “I am going to fail my test tomorrow,” we may look at re-framing it to something like, […]

How to Stop Doom Scrolling When You Have ADHD or Anxiety: An ACT Grounding Tool

How many times a day do you set out to finish or work on something, find your mind wandering, get sidetracked on a less important task, or scroll through social media for hours? For many of us, this is our daily unintentional routine. One that is rooted in anxiety, overwhelm, boredom, avoidance, and or low […]