Thriving with ADHD: Your Path To Empowerment Starts Here.
ADHD Diagnostic Assessments
- We offer Virtual Appointments so you can attend from anywhere in Canada via your computer
- One of our Nurse Practitioners will go over your questionnaires and assessment forms in conjunction with reviewing your medical, psychological, social, educational, and developmental history in order to provide you with a thorough assessment and treatment plan.
- Co-occurring conditions will be explored and you will be given a comprehensive report, which will include a possible diagnosis with suggestions for various treatment options. This may include medication recommendations, ADHD group coaching, ADHD therapy, and Behaviour therapy.
- Follow Up Care: Follow up with your nurse practitioner for medication, management, to adjust or titrate medication, and to refill your prescriptions.
Follow Up Care
For patients who are assessed at our clinic:
- Medication management
- Monitoring and adjusting your medication
- Prescription refills
Counselling and Therapy for ADHD
Our clinician’s use a variety of evidenced based modalities in order to create an approach that will work for you and give you the best results.
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) : CBT is an Evidenced Based approach that challenges negative core beliefs, and looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are connected. It has been shown to be effective at reducing ADHD symptoms, improving executive functions and self-esteem, and reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression.
- Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT) : DBT is evidenced Based therapy that has shown to be effective in managing symptoms of ADHD. Helps you learn and develop skills related to emotion regulation, mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) : Values based therapy aimed at supporting you to connect to your values in order to facilitate motivation and change.
- Gottman Couples Therapy : Gottman Couples Therapy offers a ray of hope for individuals and couples navigating the unique challenges of ADHD in their relationships. Living with ADHD can present hurdles in communication, emotional connection, and conflict resolution, but this evidence-based therapy approach, developed by Drs. John and Julie Gottman, provides practical tools and strategies to foster understanding and empathy. By emphasizing communication skills, emotional intelligence, and the "Sound Relationship House" principles, Gottman Couples Therapy equips couples with the insights and skills they need to forge deeper connections and enhance their relationships, even in the face of ADHD-related obstacles.
- EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) can offer valuable support to individuals with ADHD by addressing specific emotional and cognitive challenges associated with the condition. While EMDR is not a direct treatment for ADHD, it can help individuals manage and mitigate the emotional distress, anxiety, and self-esteem issues often co-occurring with ADHD. By working through past traumatic experiences or emotional triggers, EMDR can improve emotional regulation and increase focus, which can be particularly beneficial for those with ADHD. The therapy's ability to reduce emotional obstacles can empower individuals to better harness their cognitive potential and manage their ADHD symptoms more effectively.
Coaching for ADHD
- ADHD coaching involves supporting you in overcoming challenges and achieving goals in a way that is ADHD friendly. ADHD coaches have specialized training in how the ADHD brain works. Your ADHD coach will provide an assessment of your executive functions to uncover your strengths, weakness to build to a plan for treatment.
- Together, we will build a plan for success in the areas of work, education, relationships, home life, and self-management. Through one to one sessions and group work, coaches support you in developing an action plan, creating goals, while helping you strengthen skills such as time management, organization, planning/prioritizing, task initiation and completing, working memory, stress tolerance, and emotion regulation. Learning about your unique brain, understanding your executive functions and how to strengthen them is the cornerstone of ADHD coaching.
- Many people with ADHD often have difficulty with staying on task and maintaining focus, motivation and organization. A coach can help with procrastination, overwhelm, and self-regulation. A coach can teach strategies, skills, and offer a safe space for processing feelings and experiences, while offering accountability to support you in gaining forward momentum to improve quality of life, to help you reach your goals, and to unlock your true potential
Group Sessions for ADHD
8 week Program “Creating an ADHD Friendly Lifestyle”
- Offered in small groups as well as Individually
- Topics include: Managing procrastination and perfectionism, Time Management, Your ADHD Brain, Emotion Regulation, Organization and Planning, Motivation, Accommodations for work-school-home, Self Care, Executive Functions, and more!
- Extended Health Plans may cover treatment costs. Please check with your provider to confirm coverage.