Inside the ADHD & AuDHD Experience
What Every Therapist Needs to Know
Editor's Note
Livia KentClinicians who work with ADHD and AuDHD clients present practical insights into offering tailored support and more nuanced understanding. Read more
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Table of Contents
The AuDHD Paradox
Untangling a Complicated and Misunderstood NeurotypeHow do therapists help clients whose nervous systems are caught between two contradictory sets of needs? Read more
Countering Fears about the ADHD "Label"
How the Right Language Can Undo Harmful Self-NarrativesThe stories children make up about why they’re different are the real risk of leaving ADHD unlabeled, despite what many parents believe. Read more
ADHD and the Science of Stress
A Conversation with Gabor MatéA physician and bestselling author shares the science behind his perspective on how stress and environment affect ADHD. Read more
Helping Parents with Neurodivergent Kids
What Are Well-Meaning Therapists Getting Wrong?Parents of neurodivergent children are struggling—and far too often, we’re making it worse. Read more
Rejection Sensitivity in ADHD
Healing RSD in Group TherapyIn clients with ADHD, rejection sensitivity is what a nervous system learns after years of correction and misattunement. Healing requires relational... Read more
Neurodivergence Behind the Mood Disorder Mask
Confronting Psychiatric MisdiagnosisA psychiatric nurse practitioner, once misdiagnosed and overmedicated herself, shares why millions of autistic adults are being treated for the wrong... Read more
The Case for Autistic Self-Diagnosis
A Tool to Take You Beyond the DSM When Considering Neurodivergent TraitsAutism and ADHD are much more than a subset of behaviors; they’re a different body-mind. Here’s a practical tool that breaks it down for clinicians and... Read more
ADHD from Girlhood to Perimenopause
What Are the Signs We Keep Missing?For many girls and women, ADHD hides behind depression, anxiety, and hormonal changes we should all be more aware of. Read more
How Assessments Fail High-Masking Adults
The Case for Narrative DiagnosisA narrative approach to autism assessment may be the only real path to an accurate diagnosis for high-masking people. Read more
ADHD in Families
Undoing the Inheritance of ShameUnrecognized ADHD can travel through families as a legacy of failure, until an accurate diagnosis rewrites the story. Read more
A Critical Accommodation for ADHD Clinicians
When Notes Turn into a Dopamine CliffThe same brain that helps ADHD therapists excel in the therapy room can make documentation feel impossible. Read more
Trauma and AuDHD in Women
Exploring a Neurotype at War with ItselfAuDHD is a neurotype clinicians routinely miss, misdiagnose, and misunderstand. Read more
Autistic Wiring and the Truths We Avoid
The Beauty of Missing a Filter in Therapeutic WorkAutistic clinicians can offer clients the benefit of high pattern recognition and a “missing filter.” Read more
Extra Feature
When Couples Get Stuck
How Negative Cycles Block ConnectionFor couples who keep having the same fight, the problem is rarely how much they love each other. Read more
