Understanding ADHD
ADHD-focused therapy explores and aims to help understand what ADHD is, and it’s impact on daily life.
Inattention & Focus
Therapy centered around attention challenges, forgetfulness, and the frustration that can result.
Hyperactivity & Impulsivity
Support for restlessness and impulsivity, and the social challenges that can come with them.
Executive Function & Organization
Therapeutic support for building awareness and practical skills around time management, and getting things done.
ADHD & Co-occurring Conditions
Therapy that aims to address the anxiety, depression, and other challenges that can accompany ADHD.
Understanding ADHD
ADHD is often used as an umbrella term, and how it manifests varies differently from person to person. Many experience it as challenges with focus, attention and executive function. Others experience ADHD hyperactively, and struggle with impulsivity. Often, it can be a combination.
ADHD-focused therapy begins with exploring your unique experience. It can help with awareness, and support you in building new skills for moving through the world.
Inattention & Focus
With ADHD, struggling to sustain attention isn’t a matter of effort or willpower. Whether you deal with forgetfulness, difficulty completing tasks, or often catch your mind drifting, therapy can help. Evidence-based approaches, like CBT, can offer real strategies for working with inattention, rather than against it.
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Hyperactivity & Impulsivity
Restlessness, difficulty staying still, and finding yourself acting before you even realize it can present unique challenges for relationships, careers, and self-esteem.
Therapy is a non-judgemental exploration of what’s behind these behaviours. It aims to increase personal awareness with things like self-regulation strategies, social skills development, and more.
Executive Function & Organization
Executive function is one of the areas most consistently affected by ADHD, and its impact reaches into nearly every area of daily life. Whether it’s about managing time, breaking down tasks, reducing distractions, or following through, the role of therapy is about learning the practical, personalized systems that can work for you, as well as the systems and patterns that don’t.
ADHD & Co-Ocurring Conditions
ADHD doesn’t always present itself alone. Anxiety, depression, and other conditions frequently co-occur. When they do, it can make the experience of ADHD, and the path to managing it, feel even more challenging. Therapy aims to help account for the full picture of you, rather than treating each concern separately.
ADHD Therapy FAQ
Explore some of the most frequently asked questions about ADHD therapy.
Yes. While medication can play an important role in treating ADHD, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and skills-based approaches, can offer meaningful, complementary support for managing it.
The core approaches are similar, but the focus areas often differ. Adults tend to prioritize executive function, workplace challenges, and long-standing patterns, while therapy with adolescents often involves more work around school, social development, and building early self-regulation skills.
ADHD is categorized as predominantly inattentive, predominantly hyperactive-impulsive, or combined presentation. How these manifest from person to person can vary widely. The key is in finding support that is tailored to your specific presentation, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all method.
Absolutely. ADHD often comes with frustration, shame, low self-esteem, and anxiety. This can be particularly true for people who spent years not understanding why certain things felt so hard. Therapy creates space to work through those experiences, and the often deep impact they can leave.
Co-occurring conditions are common with ADHD. Anxiety, depression, learning differences, and trauma frequently show up alongside it. At Compass Rose Therapy, the approach aims to bring the whole picture into focus, helping you understand how these pieces interact and shape your daily experience. Rather than working with ADHD in isolation, we look at how everything connects, so support is tailored to you.