ADHD Therapy helps you to understand you, ADHD Coaching helps you to live with it.

Adhd therapy after an ADHD diagnosis can seem like the most obvious next step to help you understand your mind, your habits and your emotions. Emotions can be so mixed after years of having felt ‘different’ and often having wondered ‘ whats’s wrong with me’ or indeed being asked repeatedly ‘what’s wrong with you ?’

ADHD therapy can give you clarity and help you to start to see that your challenges are symptoms of how your brain is wired. This understanding can be life changing for many people. Adhd therapy can help you process the self criticism and sense of frustration that can build up with in you overtime. This can help you to understand why you forget things, why you procrastinate and why at times you feel overwhelmed.  Combining ADHD therapy with ADHD coaching enables you to work out what you can do about it.

ADHD coaching is forward focused and action orientated. In therapy speak this is known as solution focused therapy! During the coaching phase, we at Chester ADHD therapy help you to identify realistic goals, try new routines and ways of doing things. Helping you to create the goals that really matter to you.

Adhd therapy with us explores the emotions and history of your lived experience. Our coaching is focused on implementation of solutions that fit with you. Through coaching people can learn to turn insights into action, to take control, to manage disruptive negative thoughts. To lower the base level of anxiety and to regulate emotions more effectively. Coaching is helpful in making small steady changes that are effective and long lasting. Changes that fit with a persons sense of self, with their brain, with their life. Changes that enable people to feel that they really are in charge of themselves.  Instead of feeling like a puppet to past experiences.

Why ADHD Therapy & ADHD Coaching Both Matter

ADHD therapy provides emotional insights and tools for managing troubling and disruptive symptoms. CBT is an excellent choice for core ADHD symptoms such as inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity as well as emotional symptoms such as anxiety and depression. CBT can help with time management , organisation and problem solving. Being empowered with these skills many people find this can lead to a significant boost to feelings of confidence and self esteem. The skills learned in CBT for ADHD can lead to lasting changes in thought patterns and offers longer term benefits beyond the course of treatment. At Chester ADHD therapy therapists combine CBT with mindfulness based cognitive therapy ( MBCT). Mindfulness is especially helpful for managing ADHD by strengthening attention span and emotional regulation.  MBCT helps people recognise negative or distracting thought patterns, especially episodes of negative rumination, and teaches skills on how to gently redirect attention back to the here and now. Scientific studies show that mindfulness can enhance attention control, working memory and other executive function that are often impaired in people with ADHD. MBCT can help with enabling a person to better manage emotions, especially feelings of distress, irritation and anger. This often leads to a reduction in troubling emotional symptoms, with many people reporting feeling calmer and more able to relax, this in turn leads to a reduction in problematic symptoms and better overall functioning.  Therapy can provide a safe place to understand and deal with past experiences and to safely process the  emotional hurt that may have built up after years of being misunderstood.

ADHD coaching will focus on developing  emotional resilience and skills, building self esteem and confidence, often using a behavioural approach to set goals, improve organisation, time management and productivity. Coaching provides a supportive but direct form of accountability to help clients stay on track, promoting self awareness and creating new patterns of behaviour. Helping clients to move from ” I know what I should do” to actually doing it.

ADHD therapy and coaching work best together, and in the hands of a skilled and knowledgable practitioner can be life transforming. Therapy helps you heal from the past,  building the foundation for self acceptance, whilst coaching helps build a better brighter future.

Living well with ADHD

Living with ADHD isn’t about fixing yourself , it’s about learning how to work with your brain instead of against it. Therapy helps you understand who you are. Coaching can help  you to live the life as the person you are, with confidence, intentionally, with awareness and self acceptance.

If you are ready to explore how ADHD  therapy and ADHD coaching in Chester can help you to thrive we are here to support you.

Contact ADHD therapy today to find out more about how we can help you to move from understanding your brain, to action, to start building a life that truly works for you. To start thriving, to become who you really are.

Written by Fiona Burman Hopkins, founder and lead clinician of Chester ADHD therapy. Fiona is a qualified therapist and ADHD coach based in Chester, specialising in supporting adults and teenagers, with ADHD. With a compassionate, practical approach, and over 30 years of clinical expereince, she helps clients buidl emotional understanding and real world coping strategies to manage focus, and navigate successfully daily life challenges.

Ready to take the next step ? Whether you are seeking ADHD therapy or coaching or  a blend of both Chester ADHD offers professional personalised support to help you move from understanding to action.

We offer a free 30 minute consultation to discuss you situation and how we might help improve your life. Together we can start to make changes that will make a difference.