Executive Function and ADHD Management
Calling all the high performers who believe that, despite their successes and abilities, the struggle is still real. Let’s better-manage our lives!
Dr. Kathleen uses practical, evidence-based, and relatable approaches to target the core impairments of ADHD (which often include executive-function deficits), while building on clients’ strengths. By using a solution-oriented approach, we can learn to organize the components of our lives, and learn strategies to experience success in school/career, at home, and in relationships. EF & ADHD Management is ideal for those diagnosed with ADHD, as well as those who experience executive-function deficits that can wreak havoc on otherwise rockin’ lives.
Let’s get accountable, with support. Let’s do this.
Target Areas Include:
- Planning, Prioritizing, and Organization
- Time management
- Self-efficacy, Self-awareness, and Self-advocacy
- Relationships
- Motivation and Clarity
- Emotional Regulation
- Goal Setting
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Task Initiation and Procrastination
- Understanding ADHD and/or LD
- Overwhelm
- Life transitions
- Accountability
ADHD Whisperer : Very few people understand ADHD from as many angles as Dr. Kathleen does. She treats it (clinically), parents it (at home), and lives it (personally) every single day. She gets what it’s like to go undiagnosed until later on in life. She gets what it’s like to have one child officially diagnosed, and two others just on the cusp, and all of the parenting stuff that comes along with it. She gets how to support virtually anyone (ages 5+) wondering if they have ADHD, and how to help them manage it in their lives tactically (adults, youth, children, families, couples, and schools). Formal assessment and evidence-based treatment, at its finest.
Safe and Sound Protocol: Polyvagal Theory
The SSP, which is based on Porges’ Polyvagal Theory (PVT), uses music, with a customized titration of frequencies (attuned to the frequency of safety), in order to rewire our autonomic nervous system (ANS). This training allows us to more readily access our state of safety, and to respond appropriately to information from the environment. Check out Dr. Kathleen’s article in the Blog section of this site!
The SSP has been shown to help with the following:
- Anxiety
- Inattention and Focus
- Auditory sensitivities
- Behavioral Regulation and Resilience
- Coordination and Balance
- Reading and Auditory Processing
- Sleep
- Speech and Language
- Social and emotional difficulties
- Trauma and PTSD
- Stressors that impact social engagement
Prolonged Exposure for PTSD
Prolonged Exposure is a tough, though very effective, intervention for those stuck in a trauma loop. Through imaginal and/or in-vivo exposure, clients learn how to put those intrusive memories back in their place. Clients gain improved insight, functioning, and empowerment.
Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) for OCD
ERP is the way to beat OCD. In a nutshell: Exposure is becoming aware and confronting the thoughts, situations, images, and objects that cause debilitating anxiety – and meeting them head-on. Response prevention is refusing to engage in compulsive behaviour when confronted with the thoughts and situations that cause the anxiety. Effectively, you become the one in charge of your obsessions and compulsions – often the point of no longer needing them. Easier said than done, but Dr. Kathleen will skillfully guide you!
Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT)
Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT) is a Habit-Reversal Training (HRT) for Tourette’s Syndrome and Tic Disorders. CBIT includes a focus on self-awareness, trigger management, competing responses, and relaxation training. Relapse prevention and troubleshooting for future potential tics are also explored and practiced. Skills for tics, skills for life!
Deluxe Services
You’ve Mastered Success. Now Master Yourself.
Dr. Kathleen offers premium services for ultra-high performers who refuse to settle for remaining stuck. These clients can recite every coping skill and worksheet outcome by the book – that is not the prescription for this type of client. Clients targeted for these premium services include those who already excel, though identify with the following:
(2) Navigating burnout from over functioning
(3) Hailing from trauma masked by achievement
(4) Struggling with relationship and intimacy concerns
(5) Experiencing loss of meaning and/or an identity crisis
These clients are not falling apart, but they are certainly done living driven by anxiety, trauma, and fear. They want to operate from a state of grounded confidence and genuine freedom.
Dr. Kathleen understands firsthand the demands, isolation, and complexities of elite performance. If you are ready to invest in this hard and liberating work, reach out to Dr. Kathleen directly for a Discovery Call for an Assessment of Fit – [email protected]
