ADHD Therapy for Young People

Therapy offers a space where you can talk through what’s troubling you. It might be that you notice yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or angry often and you don’t know why or what to do with it. Together we can help you to make sense of yourself and what you're going though. With this, we can help you get what you need to feel better within yourself, in a way that works for you.

This is different to seeking advice or practical help. I won’t try to ‘fix’ you, teach you, or tell you what to do. Instead, I aim to offer you a space where you can feel deeply listened to, and be unapologetically you. This way, you’ll be supported to find your own answers within yourself, and develop confidence along the way.

What we talk about and what we do when we meet depends on what feels right to you. If you’d like, as well as talking we can draw and create things from craft materials. Sometimes this can do the ‘talking’ for you. No creative skills are needed, and you’d be guided through this.

Your sessions will typically last 45 minutes, and be on the same day, and at the same time each week.

We can talk about anything that’s troubling you and is important to you. Perhaps you’re dealing with difficulties in some of these areas:

Anxiety, Anger, Abuse, Bullying, Depression (or feeling sad a lot), Drugs and Alcohol, Eating Issues, Focusing Issues, Friendships and Relationships, Self-esteem, Home and Family Issues, Identity (including gender and sexuality), Loss or Bereavement, Obsessive and Compulsive Tendencies, School Issues, Self-harm, Sex, Stress and Overwhelm, Suicidal Thoughts, Traumatic or Painful Experiences

Whatever’s troubling you, you don’t have to face it alone. You might want to speak about something but feel unsure about whether it’s OK to. It can take time to feel comfortable enough to speak openly, and that’s OK. When you're ready, you'll be supported to talk about what might feel difficult at first. We can take things at your pace.

You can talk about whatever’s on your mind, and whatever’s important to you. What we talk about stays between us. The only exception is if you shared something that made me concerned for your immediate safety. If this happened it would be important to share this information with others who could help you keep safe. Even in this case, where possible we’d talk about it first to find a way through it together.

Most of us can relate to bottling up our emotions and worries. Sometimes they can fade away, although often this is temporary. Keeping our emotions and worries to ourselves often means they mount up and become too much to manage, making it even more difficult to seek support. Therapy can offer the chance to get the help you need earlier on. Together, we can discover your way forward so you come away from therapy feeling happier in yourself, and more at ease in your everyday life.

If you’d like to take the first step to see if speaking with me could be helpful to you, we can meet for an initial session.

We’ll usually meet just the two of us, although the first time we meet it can be helpful for at least one of your parents, or another adult who knows you well, to join for the first 10 minutes or so. This is completely optional, and you'll be asked whether or not you'd like to do this when we first meet.

I’ll ask you a bit about what’s troubling you, and we can start to get to know each other. By the end of the session I’ll check how you found our time together, and how you’d feel about returning to see me more regularly. If you’d like to, we can figure out when to next meet.