Our Services
Our Approach
Experts at ADHD New England use “directive” or “non-directive” multisensory approaches - which are fancy terms for leading or following. Our therapists work in partnership with their clients to develop a personalized treatment plan to guide their sessions. We believe that making counseling sessions clear, concrete and thought provoking makes the most impact on the client’s life and ultimately leads to change. You leave our sessions feeling empowered with tools and confidence that you can use them.
We understand that sometimes you need to sit down and vent or just need a listening and empathetic ear, while other times you are looking for guidance and a “play book”.
Introducing tasks while providing specific and effective strategies is a crucial part of that guidance.
We utilize our clinical insight and expertise to guide our work with you, your partner and/or your child and determine the best type of therapy that aligns with your personal needs.
Conditions We Treat
Living with ADHD symptoms can impact daily functioning, relationships, careers, academic performance, general well-being, and many other life areas. When undiagnosed and untreated, every day can feel like a challenge and leave you wondering if it will always be this hard. As a result, you feel hopeless and sad, as your mood wanes and your anxiety about the future waxes.
Our coaches will help you learn about protective factors that can support your ability to manage daily life with ADHD and enhance your ability to stay focused and organized. Having insight into ADHD will empower you to understand that having and using the right “tool box” will result in a better day!
There are a number of diagnoses that can accompany ADHD
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When two or more conditions coexist, we can help treat these conditions, and assess if ADHD is the underlying condition or if perhaps it is another unsolved problem.
Depressive disorders and ADHD comorbidity may be related to a chronic history of deficits stemming from undiagnosed ADHD. Anxiety may be related to ongoing impairment in focus and irritability. When we treat AD/HD, other symptoms of anxiety and depression often subside or vanish completely. We have clinicians trained to diagnose as well as provide behavioral, educational, and family therapies that may reduce symptoms and support development and learning.
The best way to determine the etiology of your symptoms is to set up a consultation visit with one of our specialists and discuss!
Areas of Clinical Expertise
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood disorders
Executive Functioning Disorders
Adult Relationship Issues
Adjustment Disorders
Separation and Divorce
Learning Differences
Trauma
Treatment Options
Individual Therapy
Our therapists know ADHD and work one on one to help you live a more fulfilling life. Individual therapy may encompass many different treatment styles including psychotherapy, which involves delving into a patient's thoughts and past experiences to seek out unconscious thoughts, feelings, and memories that may influence present day behavior. The insight gained from therapy can help resolve present day conflicts. Psychotherapy is not used to treat ADHD itself, but it can help treat depression, anxiety, interpersonal problems and other symptoms often associated with ADHD.
Couples Therapy
Untreated symptoms of ADHD in a partner can often lead to unhealthy patterns of communication and leave both partners feeling unsupported, misunderstood, overwhelmed, frustrated and lonely. We help couples understand where these unhealthy patterns come from and how to be compassionate with each other. If you have a partner with ADHD, through our work, you will come to understand why during conversations they space out or miss important details or lose their keys or forget they committed to a task to only not follow through. The knowledge will empower you and your partner to learn new patterns of communication, acceptance and collaboration.
Family Therapy
Having a loved one who is struggling with ADHD or a variety of other challenges can impact the family unit. We work with families to nurture change and development to increase positive interaction between family members. Especially when working with children, we believe that involving families in discussions that lead to solutions often benefits the identified client - your child. This involvement of families is commonly accomplished by their direct participation in the therapy session. Our counselors can navigate the conversations in a way that catalyes the strengths, wisdom, and support of the wider system.
Interventions
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an intervention that focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes that are getting in the way of optimal functioning.
Our clinicians help you reframe maladaptive thoughts and redirect behaviors while supporting you with the development of personal coping strategies that initiate behavioral change. It is typical for the patient and therapist to collaborate to design “homework” to complete in-between sessions. By improving emotional regulation, cognitive-behavioral therapy is used to treat a number of symptoms, including those of ADHD.
Dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a type of cognitive-behavioral therapy that combines strategies like mindfulness, acceptance, and emotion regulation. We help clients learn how to regulate intense emotions and improve interpersonal relationships through validation, acceptance and behavior change. Our therapist will often ask you to track your emotions and actions, and look for patterns and triggers in your life. We then use this information to decide together what you will work on in each session. We help you increase your distress tolerance and emotional regulation. Your ability to concentrate and persevere increases, your capacity to handle your irritability is perfected, and your hope for true wellness is actualized.
Narrative Therapy
Narrative therapy is a form of psychotherapy that helps you put together a narrative, a story, that allows you to use your own voice and empowers you to take every day in accordance to what is possible. Having grown up with ADHD, you have often felt misunderstood, mid-labeled and undercut.
Our clinicians help you re-create the narrative that empowers you and at the same time considers the larger scope of diagnostic etiology so that you are able to separate what was internalized and what you can believe now. Our hope is that increased self-awareness and personal responsibility will help you live a fulfilling life.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)
SFBT is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, which help clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems. We use SFBT in a hope-friendly, positive emotion-eliciting, future-oriented way as a vehicle for formulating, motivating, achieving, and sustaining desired behavioral change. Living with ADHD and other diagnoses, you often focus on what is not working. Instead, we discuss how the client’s life will be different when the problems that brought them to treatment are no longer present or their management of the symptoms is improved to a satisfactory degree. We often start our sessions by asking “what is working” or “what has been better today?” Solution Focused Therapy enables our clinicians to set goals, scale progress and move the client forward.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS)
IFS aims to heal wounded parts and restore mental balance back to you.
Like members of a family, your inner parts can take on extreme roles or subpersonalities. Each part has its own perspective, interests, memories, and viewpoint.
Our clinicians help you recognize that your every part has a positive intent, even if its actions are counterproductive and/or cause dysfunction. Living with ADHD can often leave you hurt, bewildered and feeling incompetent. Our experts help clients to disengage from their parts and connect with their true awesome self. Our hope is that by restoring your wounded parts, from years of being undervalued and misunderstood, you can establish a trusted, healthy, harmonious relationship with your true self.
Support
ADHD Coaching
ADHD New England coaches are in a unique position to understand clients’ cognitive and emotional difficulties and how they can create daily challenges. ADHD and executive function coaching can help improve attention, concentration, procrastination, decision making, increase motivation by learning to break down tasks, help with task initiation and completion, sharpen your focus and provide you with tools for better organization. The coach will provide encouragement, recommendations, feedback, and other techniques (e.g. reminders, questions, calendar monitoring, continued goals definition, etc.) over the course of treatment, while understanding the delicate nature of the brain and how emotionality plays a role in many executive functions.
Parent Support
We understand that having a child with ADHD or other emotional and behavioral challenges can leave you needing and wanting more support. We keep a strength based perspective while being aware of the stress parenting can propose. You will be more mindful of how you communicate with your child and how your own inner self deeply affects your child’s emotionality. Our specialists will work to help create positive and peaceful parenting techniques that you can implement right away, including use of clear communication, salient rewards, setting ground rules, and a planned warning system so that you have a calmer household and a better relationship with your child. ADHD New England therapists will provide you with the guidance you need to start taking care of yourself so that you can take care of your children.
Collaboration with Schools and Universities
We know that very intelligent children, adolescents and young adults with ADHD often struggle in academic settings. Our experts work with parents and young adults to help inform about the proper channels in academic settings that can help with necessary accommodations that are part of a 504/IEP Plan. The evaluation process at a school or a university can help a rising high school senior or a university freshmen receive extra time on tests, extended time for assignments, frequent breaks, or the use of standing desks and planners. Our experts collaborate with a variety of school systems to help your child receive enhanced services.
