ADD/ADHD Counseling for Children
Does your child need help with any of the following?
- Impulse Control (taking turns, interrupting others, running off)
- Cognitive Flexibility (adapting to new situations, transitions, handling frustrations)
- Initiation (starting homework, chores, and major projects)
- Working Memory (following directions, note-taking, reading and retaining info)
- Planning & Organizing (completing and turning in homework, juggling schedules)
- Self-monitoring (making careless errors, staying on topic, getting into trouble but not understanding why)
- Peer relationships (making friends, maintaining friendships)
Children with ADD/ADHD often have difficulty with simple social interactions and struggle with low self-esteem. This impacts their peer relationships as well as their school performance.
I help children:
- Learn strategies to promote school success such as managing distractions, increasing organization and time management, using memory cues, etc.
- Gain greater awareness and regulation of their “internal and external” motor speed
- Make new friends and maintain friendships
- Develop greater emotional control
- Learn to identify and interpret social cues, which are communicated by facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language
- Learn social skills and social problem solving
I help parents:
- Understand the challenges and the gifts that come with ADD/ADHD
- Create family lifestyles that reduce ADD/ADHD symptoms
- Resolve disagreements and not get into power struggles
- Regain a sense of order and calmness within their family
- Learn positive discipline strategies that work
- Find new ways to connect with their children
- Support their children academically both at home and within the school system
- Feel empowered and equipped to meet the new phases of development their children are experiencing