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ADHD

ADHD can create difficulties in our day to day lives. We can find ourselves running late, forgetting important events or just everyday items and tasks, struggling to start or complete projects at home, in education or at work, or keeping things tidy and organised. We might find that we fidget and struggle to concentrate when we need to, interrupt others, or talk a lot. If we, or others, focus on what we find hardest this can lead to us losing confidence in ourselves and our abilities. We may try and mask what we have learned people perceive as our deficits. Masking relies on us constantly worrying about what others are thinking about what we are doing and the anxiety this creates is exhausting. We can find ourselves becoming withdrawn and depressed or angry and confused. But it doesn't have to be this way. I can support you to recognise your strengths and use these to ensure your needs are met and help you live your best life

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Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria

Rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD) is the name given to intense emotional responses which many ADHDers have to perceived criticism, invalidation or rejection. This almost instant and hugely distressing shift in emotions is often considered one of the worst things about ADHD. We can find ourselves saying and doing things which we would not want to. We may shout at or even hurt others. We might become suicidal or self-harm. This can be frightening for us and those around. When we act like this it is driven by our threat mechanism, often referred to as our fight/flight system. I can help you understand what triggers RSD for you and how to better manage this really difficult part of ADHD.

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Trauma &
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Trauma is something all people experience in their lives, but ADHDers tend to experience more than many people. It is very common for people with ADHD to have been exposed to a lot of scary, invalidating or morally aversive, traumatic events. For some people this can develop into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and may be associated with one or several incidents. As humans we are designed to respond by trying to avoid things that are unpleasant, like traumatic flashbacks or memories. We often try to block them out of our minds by not thinking about them or by avoiding places which remind us of them. Sometimes we might even start relying on drugs and alcohol to numb ourselves. With PTSD we often find ourselves becoming irritable and we may struggle even more to sleep or concentrate. Untreated PTSD can all have a devastating impact on relationships, work,/education and day to day life. Working together we can take a compassionate approach to processing distressing traumas and help you to live your best life.

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Anxiety

Anxiety is a normal, and helpful, response for us in threatening situations, but as ADHDers we can find we feel anxious a lot fo the time because we are trying to "mask" our true selves and exist in a world not designed for us. Our brains tend to think a lot, and we might find ourselves worrying about big things like climate change and politics, or smaller everyday things like what people think of us, whether we are making the "right" decisions, being "too much" or "not enough". ADHDers have usually experienced a huge amount of criticism and rejection from others. Whilst we may also have made decisions or found ourselves acting in ways that have caused ourselves or others harm in the past and this might lead us to worry about the same things happening again, which can make us even more anxious.

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Depression

Life for ADHDers can be tough. It can feel exhausting constantly trying to "fit in" and "get things right". We frequently "fail" and are criticised and rejected by people around us. We often become very self-critical to try and protect ourselves from making mistakes. This can take a real toll on how we feel about ourselves (our sense of self and our self-esteem) and our mood. We may find ourselves withdrawing form people and struggling to go to work/school/college/uni. We might turn to TV, video games, drugs or alcohol just to quieten our self-criticism. We may even self-harm or become suicidal as our mood drops and it feels more and more difficult to reengage with a life that reflects what is genuinely important to us.

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Individual Therapy

I offer bespoke therapy to support adult ADHDers, those close to them. Working together using a combined coaching/therapy approach we can find ways to find long term solutions for challenges relating to managing ADHD, support with pre-assessment understanding of yourself, or post-assessment processing whether you receive a diagnosis of ADHD or not. Where needed, we can work together to support your mental health needs too. We can look at ways to better manage intense and rapidly changing emotions and mood swings such as rejection sensitive dysphoria. We can find ways to work with your ADHD brain to sustain you and minimise symptoms of depression and low self-esteem, anxiety (social anxiety, generalised anxiety, phobias, OCD, health anxiety, body dysmorphic disorder), trauma (including PTSD) - see below for more about these conditions.

I also work with non-ADHDers to manage their mental health using CBT based therapies to help them live their best lives.

All therapy is with a fully BABCP accredited therapist who specialises in working with ADHDers and is themselves diagnosed ADHD.

All treatments are specifically tailored to your needs and goals with techniques drawn from evidence based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). All of these therapies are collaborative and focused on meeting your aims/goals.

Therapy sessions are via video call using Goole Meet.

All payments must be made before the session starts.

Free 15 minute initial consultation via video call to discuss your needs
50 minute assessment session to get a more detailed understanding of your difficulties and goals for therapy
weekly* 50 minute sessions - with frequent progress reviews and discussion around required number of sessions

*consistent, weekly attendance is required to support effective treatment

Fees

£95 per 50 minute session

Cancellations

More than 48 hours notice are free of charge

More than 24 hours notice are charged at 50% rate

Less than 24 hours notice are charged at 100% rate

All cancellations should be made via email:

admin@cbtforadhd.com

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Other services

CPD

I offer online and face to face training around understanding and working with ADHD/neurodiversity, and adapting CBT for ADHD/neurodivergents. Suitable for therapists, trainers, commissioners, supervisors and teachers.

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Supervision

I offer both regular and ad hoc, specialist, supervision around ADHD/neurodivergence for CBT therapists and supervisors

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Employer Support

I offer online and face to face training, and support, for employers around ADHD/neurodiversity. Would your team, or managers, benefit from improving their understanding ADHD/neurodiversity and the impact feeling supported at work can have on ADHDers and your business? I am happy to have open, honest discussions around my lived experience including what I have found helpful and what I have not, I am happy to answer any questions and support staff to consider how they perceive ADHD/neurodiversity and the impact this may have on their ADHD/neurodivergent colleagues. Together we can explore ways to work with ADHDers/neurodivergents and build environments where everyone can thrive.

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Other sevices

Other services:

ADHD assessment
CBT for ADHD does not currently offer assessment for ADHD. If you think you have ADHD and are wanting an assessment your GP is often a good place to start. Alternatively, see below for private ADHD assessment options.

It is important to help your GP or assessor by giving them a clear understanding of how you believe ADHD is impacting you day to day, how it showed up for you as a child and the impact it has had and continues to have on your education, work and/or social relationships. In most areas GPs are able to refer you to NHS services for assessment, however waiting times and service provision varies depending on location.

For information about NHS services:

Information about NHS ADHD diagnosis

NHS Right to Choose

Private services:

ADHD assessment - Baskind Health