32 min
23: Adult ADHD: Understanding Your Brain and Breaking Through The Shame The Counseling Podcast
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- Self-Improvement
ADHD is an amazing gift, but we often are carrying frustration and shame about the ways it has made our lives so difficult. ADHD has a strong impact on executive function and emotional baggage, especially if not diagnosed until adulthood. This week's episode dives into how ADHD affects all aspects of a person's life and how it manifests in adults. Dr. Jaclyn and Dr. Stokes invite on guest therapist Erika Barrington LPC, BC-DMT to share their perspective on how affirming therapy can help break through those mental barriers that stem from ADHD.
With 9 years of experience in practice, Erika works to bring a body-based, creative, playful, trauma-informed, and trans-affirming approach within the Internal Family Systems model to their sessions. Three essential fuels for the ADHD mind/body are: movement, creativity, and connection. Erika's training in dance/movement therapy helps their clients integrate movement and creativity in the therapy process to center the healing energy of connection. Erika is invested in an anti-oppressive framework for therapy and seeks to embrace antidotes to the white supremacy culture that we are steeped in every day.
What you will learn:
ADHD is described by some experts as an interest based nervous system
ADHD and hyperactivity, sensory issues, rejection, and social interactions
Impulsivity presents verbally in adults
The shame that can build in a person with ADHD
How ADHD affects the LGBTQ+ community
Resources:
www.erikajunetherapy.com
Keep an eye out for Erika's upcoming support group
https://www.additudemag.com
http://chadd.org
https://neuroqueer.org/
https://blackgirllostkeys.com/
https://add.org/
https://hallowelltodaro.com/
ADHD is an amazing gift, but we often are carrying frustration and shame about the ways it has made our lives so difficult. ADHD has a strong impact on executive function and emotional baggage, especially if not diagnosed until adulthood. This week's episode dives into how ADHD affects all aspects of a person's life and how it manifests in adults. Dr. Jaclyn and Dr. Stokes invite on guest therapist Erika Barrington LPC, BC-DMT to share their perspective on how affirming therapy can help break through those mental barriers that stem from ADHD.
With 9 years of experience in practice, Erika works to bring a body-based, creative, playful, trauma-informed, and trans-affirming approach within the Internal Family Systems model to their sessions. Three essential fuels for the ADHD mind/body are: movement, creativity, and connection. Erika's training in dance/movement therapy helps their clients integrate movement and creativity in the therapy process to center the healing energy of connection. Erika is invested in an anti-oppressive framework for therapy and seeks to embrace antidotes to the white supremacy culture that we are steeped in every day.
What you will learn:
ADHD is described by some experts as an interest based nervous system
ADHD and hyperactivity, sensory issues, rejection, and social interactions
Impulsivity presents verbally in adults
The shame that can build in a person with ADHD
How ADHD affects the LGBTQ+ community
Resources:
www.erikajunetherapy.com
Keep an eye out for Erika's upcoming support group
https://www.additudemag.com
http://chadd.org
https://neuroqueer.org/
https://blackgirllostkeys.com/
https://add.org/
https://hallowelltodaro.com/
32 min