Counselling for ADHD
ADHD Counselling in Leeds
What Is ADHD Counselling and How Can It Help?
Living with ADHD can be both challenging and rewarding. For some people, having a diagnosis brings a sense of clarity and relief. For others, labels can feel limiting or even confusing. My perspective is that if a label is important to you, then it’s important to me.
ADHD is part of who you are, but it’s not all of you. My role as a therapist is to meet you where you are – whether you want to focus on managing practical challenges, or explore your wider identity, relationships, and goals in life.
Working With ADHD in Counselling
In many ways, working with ADHD is no different from working with anyone else. You are a person with unique experiences, needs, and hopes. But at the same time, ADHD can bring specific challenges that may show up in therapy:
Difficulties with focus, time, or organisation
Emotional intensity and sensitivity
Challenges in relationships or work
Self-criticism or frustration
How we work together depends on what feels most useful for you.
A Flexible Approach: Skills and Strategies
Some clients with ADHD prefer a focused, skills-based approach. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) tools can be particularly effective for managing emotions, building resilience, and developing practical strategies for everyday life. These techniques can help you:
Build routines that actually work for you
Improve focus and reduce overwhelm
Manage intense emotions more effectively
Strengthen relationships through communication skills
This approach can be especially helpful if you want concrete strategies to apply in daily life.
How can we explore your ADHD?
ADHD therapy is not about forcing you into a single way of thinking or living. For some people, an ADHD diagnosis feels empowering, offering clarity and a framework for understanding past experiences. For others, labels can feel restrictive or unhelpful.
Therapy for ADHD is ultimately about helping you as a whole person, not just addressing a set of symptoms. Whether that means developing practical skills to manage focus, time, and emotions, or exploring your identity, relationships, and goals beyond ADHD, our sessions are shaped around what feels most useful for you.
Online & In-Person Sessions Available
Sessions are available in-person in Leeds or online, whichever suits you best. Some people prefer the privacy and ease of remote sessions; others want the routine and grounding of face-to-face work.
Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place weekly. We can discuss short-term or open-ended work depending on your needs.
