( HS Caldwell 150482 2025) When Tools Arent Enough: Bridging the ADHD Identity Gap in Therapeutic Practice

Course overview

What if treating ADHD as a problem to solve is keeping your clients stuck? Your clients dont need another productivity hack. They need to rewrite the story about their ADHD, not despite it. Too often, ADHD therapy focuses on taming symptoms while ignoring the silent crisis beneath a fractured identity. Clients may cobble together systems like planners and bedtime routines, yet still choke back tears, asking Why do I feel like a fraud? This isnt about better coping strategies. Its about helping clients rebuild their relationship with their neurotype to stop white knuckling through life and start owning how their ADHD brain thrives. In this insightful session, Marcy Caldwell, Psy.D. a nationally recognized ADHD specialist will unpack her groundbreaking ADHD Identify Development Model, merging clinical research with client narratives. Youll understand Why clients with ADHD often reject tools that should work How to pinpoint where they are in their identity journey denial, exploration, acceptance, or integration What to do next to help them reclaim their narrative Youll walk away from this training with The ADHD Identify Stage Assessment Tool: A downloadable guide to quickly identify a clients developmental stage during intake. Stage Specific Interventions Scripts for reframing shame in the exploration phase, exercises to celebrate neurodivergent strengths in immersion, and more. Neurodiversity-Affirming Strategies Replace generic coping skills with approaches that honor ADHD strengths and fit each clients stage of development. This isnt another rigid-protocol its a paradigm shift.The ADHD Identify Model gives you a flexible framework to adapt to your therapeutic style. Blend it with CBT, mindfulness, or coaching all while honoring and facilitating your clients ADHD identify. By the end of this session, youll Confidently differentiate between resistance and developmental stage mismatch. Have a roadmap to help clients shift from Im just lazy and a failure to My brain, like everyones brain, has strengths and difficulties lets see how we can help each other. Leave energized to reconceptualize your work to align with your clients stage