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Inside the ADHD & AuDHD Experience

What Every Therapist Needs to Know

Editor's Note

Livia Kent

Clinicians 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 Neurotype

How 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-Narratives

The 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 Maté

A 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 Therapy

In 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 Misdiagnosis

A 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 Traits

Autism 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 Diagnosis

A 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 Shame

Unrecognized 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 Cliff

The 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 Itself

AuDHD 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 Work

Autistic 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 Connection

For couples who keep having the same fight, the problem is rarely how much they love each other. Read more

Departments

Does the Body Really Keep Score?

One of Trauma's Most Contentious Debates Has Returned

Tapping into Trauma

Energy Psychology Goes Mainstream

The Client in Chronic Pain

Two Takes on Trust, the Body, and Cultural Trauma

Is Your Job Hijacking Your Life?

What Therapists Get Wrong About Burnout

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