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ADHD · counselling & coaching
ADHD Support for kids and teens.
For the bright child who cannot steer their attention, and the family living alongside it. Counselling, coaching, and parent work, built for how they are wired.
What does ADHD look like, beyond the stereotype?
Not always the boy bouncing off the walls. Often it is the bright child whose homework never quite makes it home, the teen who can focus for six hours on one thing and six minutes on everything else, the daughter who daydreams her way through class and is called lazy for it. Underneath sit attention that will not be steered, impulses that arrive before the thought, and executive function that lags behind a sharp mind.
When should we seek help?
When the gap between what your child can do and what they manage to do keeps costing them: at school, in friendships, at home, or in how they feel about themselves. And whenever the ADHD has picked up passengers, as it often does: anxiety, low self-esteem, explosive frustration, or a growing conviction that they are the problem. You do not need a diagnosis to start.
How does Sandra work with ADHD?
On three fronts. Counselling for the young person, because the emotional weight of ADHD, the shame and the anxiety and the sense of always being told off, is usually the heaviest part. Executive function coaching for the practical machinery: starting, planning, finishing. And parent work, because an ADHD household runs differently and parents deserve strategies built for their actual child. Sometimes the work is what reveals the ADHD: in Lukas's story, exploring why a twelve-year-old kept clashing with the world led his family to a diagnosis and the right support at school.
Sandra is a parent of two neurodivergent teens, alongside more than a decade of counselling neurodivergent children. None of this is theoretical.
"We now understand where his anxiety is coming from and how we can support him. He has even started to sleep by himself. What a relief!"
Lukas's parents, after his ADHD diagnosis
Sessions run in person in North Vancouver and online across the UK, Canada, and worldwide. Times and logistics live on those pages; every fee is on the fees page.
Related pages
See also neurodivergent support, autism support, motivation, and big emotions.
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Yes. Counselling and coaching work on the emotional and practical sides of ADHD regardless of whether a child takes medication. Decisions about medication sit with your family and your doctor; Sandra’s work runs alongside, not instead.
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Often both, and they feed each other: anxiety wrecks focus, and years of ADHD struggles breed anxiety. Sessions work with the child in front of her rather than the label, and where a formal assessment would help, Sandra will say so.