ADHD Therapy and Coaching in Westchester, New York
ADHD Therapy and Coaching in Westchester, NY
Have you or someone you love recently been diagnosed with ADHD and aren’t sure where to start when it comes to services and help? ADHD can be so overwhelming and the “getting started” part is often where many people stay stuck.
ADHD or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by an inability to focus or concentrate, difficulty staying organized, being forgetful about completing tasks and sometimes difficulty sitting still. These are called executive functioning skills.
The part that can easily get overlooked is the challenge that comes with regulating one's emotions. If you think about how challenging it must be to have to work even harder than someone who does not have ADHD to tap into those executive functioning skills, you can imagine the feelings of being overwhelmed, stressed, sad and anxious that can potentially come along with it. ADHD therapy can help to manage these emotions, and even help them to feel way less intense.
There are so many positive characteristics that come along with ADHD including creativity, the ability to think outside of the box, being bold and speaking your mind…just to name a few. ADHD coaching in Westchester, NY can help you embrace what works for you, and help you to be the best version of yourself.
Our Approach To ADHD Therapy
Therapy for an individual with ADHD is two-fold. One part is addressing the executive functioning skills. This includes looking at schedules, methods of organization, and study/work habits. We can delve further into those areas and decide what is working and what isn’t, and offer suggestions to improve. This can be hugely helpful in creating a structure that works, and is based off of the individual.
For children and adolescents, we will also discuss school based accommodations. Your therapist can be in contact with the child’s school in order to help assist in getting appropriate interventions in place.
For adults, this area might also include helping to find a work-life balance. This can be so challenging for people with ADHD, and more often than not that can come from an over-achiever mindset. Your therapist can help with finding the happy, healthy balance you are looking for.
The second part is addressing the emotional component of ADHD. One of the often overlooked symptoms of ADHD is emotion dysregulation. Utilizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to understand one’s beliefs about themselves can be a useful tool. This can set up the framework for coming up with a toolbox of coping skills to use when our emotions become too intense.
We can also equip you with some DBT, or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills. DBT covers four topic areas including mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. Utilizing this set of skills in addition to other types of coping skills can help to combat the emotion dysregulation that comes with ADHD.
Our Approach To ADHD Coaching
ADHD Coaching is most commonly used for parents or loved ones of someone that has ADHD. ADHD Coaching can help to provide the framework for a better understanding of the individual with ADHD. Your ADHD Coach can give you an in-depth look into executive functioning skills, emotions, thoughts and behaviors.
Sometimes living with someone with ADHD can cause conflict and stress and occasionally we might recommend more intensive therapy to our coaching clients. This is something we will discuss with you throughout our work together.
Another way we can utilize coaching is for those individuals who have done the therapeutic work they need to do, are utilizing their Cognitive Behavioral Therapy knowledge, using their DBT skills as needed but still might need some assistance with staying on course with their goals. We can set you up with a coaching plan to manage your ADHD and work with you to keep you accountable and on track with your personal goals.
FAQs About ADHD Therapy and Coaching
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Pediatricians, medical doctors, psychologists and psychiatrists, as well as other healthcare professionals can all evaluate and diagnose ADHD. They use the guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics or the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). With children and adolescents, there is often some involvement with the school, as it is common for teachers to be one of the first ones to notice symptoms.
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This is something we can discuss with you during a free 15 minute consultation call. We are here to help, so if we start out with therapy and later realize coaching is the better fit, or vice versa, we will switch you over.
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Group therapy might be the best fit for you. Group therapy allows for a therapeutic relationship not only with the therapist who will be leading the group, but also with peers who are in the same boat as you. This can be extremely helpful and can be an opportunity to exchange ideas and offer support to one another.
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All of our clinicians can work with someone who has ADHD. We are all trained in cognitive behavioral therapy and can help a client build a vast toolbox of coping skills. However, Kate Cucurullo is the only ADHD therapist who does parent coaching at this time. She is specialized in ADHD and has received the ADHD CCSP which is the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Certified Clinical Services Provider. This area of expertise allows her to delve deeper into coaching and the psychoeducation component of ADHD.
Are you ready to gain the tools you need to manage your ADHD or your child’s ADHD?
We are happy to work with you and your family to help you gain a better understanding of ADHD, all the positive attributes that come with it, and how to work with the areas that might be a little bit more challenging. Please let us know if you would like to set up a free 15-minute consultation with one of our ADHD clinicians today.