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  • Give those with “later in life” diagnoses the support and skills they need to succeed
  • Help your clients have more fulfilling romantic relationships and improve parenting
  • Reduce social anxiety, rejection sensitivity, and improve confidence
  • Have informed discussions with clients about medication options and practical neuroscience
  • Break cycles of shame and perfection that keep your clients suffering
  • Help clients manage time, improve executive function, and focus at work

And, you'll learn advanced treatment strategies for women based on the latest research.

PLUS, you get an incredible bonus package including 4 trainings on how to keep clients on time and on-task in therapy, treating ADHD and addiction, ADHD and Eating Disorders, and making mindfulness stick with clients!

Walk away equipped to help your clients find the happiness, fulfillment, and health they've longed for…

Earn your certificate to advance your career, work with the clients you want to see most, and get targeted education to truly changes lives… Become an Adult ADHD Specialist now!

Adult ADHD Specialist Certificate Course
Proven Techniques to Help Clients with Work, Relationships, Parenting, Perfectionism & More
Valued at $1,069.89 — Now Just  $199.99!
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Earn up to 20.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Praise for this course from professionals like you…
Five Stars
"Excellent course."
— Ludmilla R, Social Worker
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"This was a phenomenal and in-depth course. I am so grateful that I learned so much."
— Sammi M, Psychotherapist
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"Loved it...will keep as a resource for future!!!"
— Ronda H.
Five Stars
"I enjoyed Dr. Tuckman's use of examples... many brought a smile to my face and kept the course interesting and engaging."
— Virginia R, Counselor, Community Mental Health
Five Stars
"SO relevant and helpful!!!!"
— Douglas F, Psychologist
Certificate Course Curriculum
Everything you need to know to treat adult clients with ADHD is broken up into easy-to-follow modules below. Once you register, you can follow the organization of the modules below, or start with any module that meets your immediate clinical needs.
ADHD Assessment for Adults
Featuring Harvard Faculty Roberto Olivardia, PhD

Refine and tune your assessment and history-taking skills specifically for adults in this foundational module. Heighten your clinical acumen in discerning comorbidities such as learning disabilities, autism, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, substance abuse, and more.

Diagnosing ADHD Properly
  • Review of the DSM-5® Criteria
  • Problems and Limitations of the DSM-5® Criteria
  • Common ADHD surveys
  • Problems and Limitations with ADHD Surveys
  • Neuropsychological Testing Measures and Indices for ADHD
  • Problems and Limitations from Neuropsychological Testing
  • Understanding the ADHD Brain

Components of a Clinical Evaluation
  • Going beyond the criteria
  • Ask more detail about symptoms that people endorse or deny (questions to ask)
  • Understanding the importance of context
  • Screening for psychiatric disorders and possible comorbid disorders for differential diagnosis
ADHD and Co-Morbid Disorders: The rule rather than the exception
Each section reviews traits/symptoms of the co-morbid disorder, how having ADHD can be a risk factor and/or is commonly associated, how to differentiate it from ADHD, as well as treatment/interventions when people have both ADHD and the comorbid disorder
  • Learning disabilities
    • Dyslexia
    • Dyscalculia
    • Dysgraphia
    • Non-Verbal Learning Disability (NVLD)
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorders
    • Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
    • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
    • Social Anxiety Disorder
    • Anxiety secondary to ADHD and executive function issues
  • Mood Disorders
    • Depression
    • Dysthymia
    • Bipolar Disorder and Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
    • Suicide
  • Substance Abuse and other Addictions
    • Cannabis
    • Alcohol
    • Other Addictive Behaviors
  • Eating Disorders and Body Image Problems
    • Binge Eating Disorder
    • Bulimia Nervosa
    • Anorexia Nervosa
    • Body Dysmorphic Disorder
    • Men and Eating Disorders
Adult ADHD Medication Options, Risks, and Benefits
Featuring nurse practitioner with 20 years of clinical experience, Kelly Pickens, APNP, FNP-BC, ADC-C

It's rare that ADHD treatment is discussed without the topic of medication coming up in therapy. This module gives you exactly what you need to know to have informed discussions with your clients about their options, easy-to-explain neuroscience, and simple things like stimulant versus non-stimulant medication. Know when to refer clients so you can meet their needs!

Neuroanatomy and pathophysiology
  • The cortex, limbic system, and brain stem structures and functions
  • Genetics of ADHD and brain structures involved
  • Dopamine pathway
  • Norepinephrine pathway
  • Brain wave patterns — regulating alertness

Executive Function (EF)
  • Disorder of doing what you know
  • Elements of EF
  • Evolution of an innate development of EF
  • Deficits result in Impairments = Executive Dysfunction
  • Executive Dysfunction is situationally dependent
  • Heterogeneity of impairments/symptoms

Assessment
  • DSM-V
  • A clinician's duty
  • Diagnosis rates, average ages, and impacts of late diagnosis
  • Differential diagnosis and Diagnostic process
    • Rating scales
    • Getting input from collaterals
    • Tips for differentiating diagnosis
Treatment
  • Guiding principles of treatment
  • Stimulants deep dive
    • Amphetamine
    • Methylphenidate
  • Non-stimulants deep dive
    • Alpha agonists
    • Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
    • Off-label medications
  • Benefits are addictive, combinations limited by side effects
    • A handy prescribing reference chart to use in practice
  • Micronutrients
  • Lifestyle and therapeutic interventions
    • Guiding principles and evidence-based recommendations
  • Comorbidities
    • MDD and treatment options
    • GAD and treatment options
    • ASD and treatment options
Strategies to Manage ADHD at Work
Featuring expert Ari Tuckman, PhD who has been celebrated on CNN, New York Times, The Washington Post, and other international outlets

So many adult clients suffer in the workplace because they've simply never had clinical strategies to support them. In this module, you'll learn specific strategies to support your adult clients at the workplace. Help them know how and when to disclose to employees and colleagues. Give them support in taking feedback, improving weaknesses, and playing up their innate strengths.

How to Help Your Clients Succeed at Work
  • Is the problem awareness or motivation?
  • Fill the productivity tank so clients can bring their best
  • Set up the productivity tools that work— dump the ones that don't
  • Teach clients to clarify priorities, resolve conflicts & create a good work environment
  • Break free of the distractions of the moment—teach clients to feel the future to build motivation
  • Balance strengths & weaknesses to increase self-esteem
  • Help your clients take feedback with ease
When and How to Disclose ADHD
  • Inform clients' thinking on when, how, and to whom to disclose ADHD
  • Is ADHD an excuse or an explanation?
  • A "sometimes better" option than full disclosure
  • The most productive way to disclose
  • Avoid the potential landmines of disclosure
Treating the Intersection of ADHD, Shame & Perfectionism
Featuring international speaker, blogger, and neuropsychologist David Nowell, PhD

Many adult clients are stuck in cycles of perfectionism that keep them stuck. They need therapists like you to help them see these destructive and self-defeating patterns. In this module, you'll learn how to do exactly that. And, you'll even get clinical skills to help clients improve their self-esteem and reduce shame associated with an ADHD diagnosis.

Clinical Strategies for the Intersection of ADHD, Shame & Perfectionism
  • Living in “The Gap” between ability and performance: addressing grief and loss in the ADHD client. The impact of shame on the ADHD assessment process
  • Cooperating with our clients to "catch it early" — recognizing indicators of shame- or grief-related resistance to treatment
  • The self-esteem abacus, tonglen practice, and self-compassion exercises: practical strategies for working with shame and perfectionism in our ADHD clients.
  • Review of the risks and limitations associated with techniques reviewed in our session.
Treating the Intersection of ADHD, Social Anxiety & Rejection Sensitivity Dilemmas
Featuring award-winning author and master clinician Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP

ADHD rarely travels alone! In module five you'll gain clinical strategies to support your clients who are also struggling with anxiety and heightened sensitivities. Learn how to help your clients improve connection, communication, and confidence. Plus, you'll explore "sensitivity dysphoria" which can help you free your clients from isolation.

Clinical Strategies for the Intersection of Social Anxiety & Rejection Sensitivity
  • Nervousness, worry, and general anxiety in the brain and the body.
  • Elements of social anxiety and rejection sensitivity dysphoria and their relationship to ADHD.
  • Efficacy of clinical interventions and modalities for working with ADHD and social anxiety
  • Strategies and tools for improving connections, communication, and confidence.
Advanced Treatment Considerations for Women with ADHD
Featuring advocate, author and celebrated psychologist Michelle Frank, PsyD

It's no secret that many women have spent years of their lives with undiagnosed ADHD. In this module, you'll learn new research updates that can help you identify these clients. You'll be able to provide grief support for those going through later-in-life diagnoses and help those with kids manage the demands of parenting.

Advanced ADHD Treatment Strategies for Women
  • Expanding Your Knowledge Base: Key Research Updates
  • ADHD Deep Dives: Understand and target common therapeutic themes
  • ADHD Work is Grief Work: Addressing themes of loss and grief — especially for later-in-life diagnosis
  • Rethinking Treatment Planning for the ADHD Adult
  • Taking ADHD Seriously: Risk Management
Clinical Skills to Support Couples & Relationships
Featuring Ari Tuckman, PhD, celebrated podcast host and international presenter

ADHD can be a whirlwind in relationships. Many couples don't know how to support each other even though they both want the same thing — a happy, healthy relationship. In this module, you'll learn how to help support both partners, giving them lifelong strategies to manage any challenges that arise.

An individual condition. . . with relationship dynamics
  • The easy slide into the classic dynamic of the under-/over-functioner
  • A new diagnosis of ADHD can be a total game-changer if the therapist knows how to work with it

Actively Manage ADHD—By Both Partners
  • Help both partners actively manage ADHD—and also expectations
  • Get partners out of defensiveness and personalizing ADHD symptoms
Re-balance the relationship
  • Get the partner with ADHD to step up—and also the partner without ADHD to step down
  • How to negotiate different desires and get things done
  • Can I trust you? How to increase honesty and follow through
  • Help partners work with each other, rather than for each other
Adult ADHD Specialist Certificate Course
Proven Techniques to Help Clients with Work, Relationships, Parenting, Perfectionism & More
Valued at $1,069.89 — Now Just  $199.99!
REGISTER HERE
Earn up to 20.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
BONUS!
Over $279 VALUE, FOUR Free Trainings!
Keep ADHD Clients On-Time & On-Task
Keep ADHD Clients On-Time & On-Task: Step-by-Step Guide to Building Accountability Relationships
with Eric Tivers, LCSW

Let's face it, getting any client to engage in therapy can be a challenge. But, clients with ADHD (through no fault of their own or yours) may struggle even more. This FREE BONUS CE training will teach you how to keep these clients on track with their goals and intentions.
  • What Makes Teams Thrive and What Makes Them Dysfunctional
  • Accountability Strategies to Support Executive Functioning Challenges including stopping, starting, transitioning, inhibition, focus, self-care, and more
  • Powerful Questions to Create Shame-free Accountability
  • Accountability in Action
Don't miss out on this training that will keep your clients accountable from the first session to the last!
Treating the Intersection of ADHD & Addiction
Treating the Intersection of ADHD & Addiction
with Jeremy Didier, LMSW, LMAC

The stigma around stimulant treatment options for clients with ADHD is prevalent... but for those clients with dual diagnoses, it can be even trickier. In this training, you'll learn a comprehensive approach to managing both ADHD and addiction — including strategies you can use right away!
Is it ADHD, Addiction, or Both
  • Assessment & Diagnosis
  • Trauma-Informed ADHD
  • Childhood v Adult-onset

Meds, Mindfulness, and Management
  • Treatment Options
  • Relapse prevention/Risk reduction/Symptom Management
  • CBT & EF Skill Development
Communicating, Connecting, and Championing
  • Psychoeducation — acceptance, prevention, identification
  • Integrated Healthcare & Community management
  • Recovery speed bumps & roadblocks
  • Stigma or Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria
Walk away with a refreshed outlook and perspective on these challenging cases!
Disentangling ADHD and Eating Disorders
Disentangling ADHD and Eating Disorders
with Dena Cabrera, PsyD, CEDS

The prevalence of eating disorders among individuals with ADHD continues to be a growing area of diagnosis. This bonus teaches you how to begin addressing this complex treatment area.

You'll learn how to use:
  • An ADHD lens for eating disorders treatment
  • Body-based interventions for body image concerns
  • Polyagal Theory-infomred interventions for nervous system regulation
  • Sensory strategies for sensitivities, picky eating, and cravings
  • Techniques for managing client's strong emotions as well as releasing them
  • Nutrition rehabilitation to keep clients medically and emotionally safe

Make a significant positive impact on your clients' journeys toward recovery of both conditions and improved overall well-being!
ADHD and the Mindful Path
ADHD and the Mindful Path
with Merriam Sarcia Saunders, LMFT, ADHD-CCSP
Utilizing the practice of mindfulness and specific exercises based in neuroscience can help you break through your roadblocks and help clients regain their focus. This bonus gives you an in-depth look at how to have greater success using mindfulness strategies with clients.
The Neuroscience of ADHD and Mindfulness Explained
  • The Mindful ADHD Clinician
  • Why the brain does what it does
  • What we need it to do
  • Why Mindfulness works for ADHD

Differentiate fact from fiction
  • Common myths about ADHD
  • Assessing for co-occurring disorders and other causes
  • Client misconceptions regarding mindfulness for ADHD
The Mindful Treatment of ADHD
  • Are you treating ADHD or its emotional impact?
  • Medication Options
  • Evidence-based treatment for ADHD
  • Evidence-based efficacy of alternative approaches

Mindfulness-based Tools for the Clinician
  • Exercises to:
    • Increase attention and impulse control
    • Calm the mind, body, and emotions
    • Increase organization, memory, and planning
    • Manage Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
    • Increase self-compassion
    • Reduce ADHD-related anxiety
Meet the Course Experts

Roberto Olivardia
Roberto Olivardia, PhD, venerated Harvard faculty member and clinical associate at McLean Hospital, specializes in ADHD treatment especially executive functioning issues, learning differences, and co-occurring conditions related to anxiety, body image and eating disorders in boys and men.

Click here for information about Roberto Olivardia

Ari Tuckman
Ari Tuckman, PsyD, MBA, is a psychologist, international presenter, author, and ADHD expert. He is the author of four books on adult ADHD and has given more than 650 presentations, podcasts, interviews and more. He has appeared on CNN, National Public Radio, and XM Radio and has been quoted in The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, USnews.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Men's Health, and many other media outlets.

Click here for information about Ari Tuckman

Kelly A. Pickens
Kelly A. Pickens, APNP, FNP-BC, ADC-C, is a family nurse practitioner with over 20 years of experience in a variety of clinical settings. With lived experience having an ADHD diagnosis, Kelly is deeply passionate about spreading awareness about and encouraging empathy for those who live with neurodivergence.

Click here for information about Kelly Pickens

David Nowell
David Nowell, PhD, is a clinical neuropsychologist in private practice and adjunct faculty in neuropsychology. Nowell writes a popular blog at Psychology Today on motivation and time management and speaks internationally to clinicians on such topics as executive functioning, non-medication management of ADHD, and applying findings from Positive Psychology.

Click here for information about David Nowell

Michelle Frank
Dr. Michelle Frank, PsyD, specializes in diagnosing and treating ADHD, particularly in women. She is co-author, along with Sari Solden, MS, of the book A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers.

Click here for information about Michelle Frank

Sharon Saline
Sharon Saline, PsyD, ADHD-CCSP, clinical psychologist and author of the award-winning book, What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life and The ADHD Solution Card Deck, specializes in working with neurodiverse children, teens, adults and families living with ADHD, learning disabilities, high-functioning autism, twice exceptionality and mental health issues.

Click here for information about Sharon Saline

Eric Tivers
Eric Tivers, LCSW, is the host of ADHD Rewired, the #1 rated ADHD podcast on Apple Podcasts. He's a leader in providing intensive online, video-based coaching and accountability groups for adults with ADHD.

Click here for information about Eric Tivers

Jeremy W. Didier
Jeremy W. Didier, LMSW, LMAC, specializes in assessing and therapeutically treating adults who have ADHD, especially in treating the overlap between ADHD and Substance Use Disorders. She is a nationally recognized speaker, a frequent contributor to respected online media outlets, and is a passionate mentor for justice-involved individuals as they prepare to return to traditional society.

Click here for information about Jeremy W. Didier

Dena Cabrera
Dena Cabrera, PsyD, CEDS, focuses on ADHD and eating disorder treatment with 24 years of treating individuals, families, and groups. Her specialized training includes assessment, DBT, CBT, EMDR, ACT, and Polyvagal theory. She is the author of Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty and Life After Pregnancy and has appeared on nationally televised shows such as Anderson Cooper and The Early Show.

Click here for information about Dena Cabrera

Merriam Sarcia Saunders
Merriam Sarcia Saunders, LMFT, ADHD-CCSP, has over 15 years of diverse experience in counseling children and adults across private practice, school settings, and case management. Dedicated to promoting resilience and healing, she is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and a Certified Mindfulness Clinical Practitioner.

Click here for information about Merriam Sarcia Saunders
Frequently Asked Questions

This course is an incredible resource for therapists (who through no fault of their own!) didn't receive adequate training in assessing, diagnosing, and treating ADHD in the adult population. Adult ADHD has often been overlooked, undiagnosed, or misdiagnosed. Luckily for you and your clients, that has all been changing — in part thanks to incredible clinicians and researchers like those featured in this course! You'll explore every facet of life that is impacted by ADHD and how you can target the most crucial areas to help adults have success with challenges unique to their age, life stage, responsibilities and more. You'll enhance your practice by improving your ability to spot ADHD in adults, tailoring treatment interventions to unique needs, and being able to have heightened awareness and up-to-date strategies for parenting, the working world and much.

Great question! A certificate is a document issued upon completion of a training program. It signifies that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have acquired advanced or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.

Certification on the other hand often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.

This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained more extensively in this area with experts… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart in the eyes of clients, colleagues, and potential employees. Don't hesitate to add this certificate to your resume, personal website, therapist profile, or anywhere else!

Sure does! Whether you work with kids, adults, or clients across the lifespan this course fulfills the requirements of 20 clock hours of ADHD-focused continuing education to renew your ADHD-CCSP for an entire TWO years!

Take your certification further with specialization and renewal!

Immediately when you register you'll have unlimited access to all training materials including on-demand videos, slides, and any printable handouts or PDFs. PLUS, you also get immediate access to bonus materials!
Adult ADHD Specialist Certificate Course
Proven Techniques to Help Clients with Work, Relationships, Parenting, Perfectionism & More
Valued at $1,069.89 — Now Just  $199.99!
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Earn up to 20.0 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
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