ADHD Services
If you or your child has ADHD, you might notice:
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Constant procrastination or unfinished tasks
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Emotional overwhelm or frustration
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Trouble staying organized
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Falling behind in school despite being capable
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Low confidence from repeated struggles
It can feel exhausting—for both the child and the parent.
While medication may help to improve focus, individuals with ADHD often benefit from talk therapy to address issues related to the condition. This can include depression, anxiety, weak executive function skills, low self esteem, relationship difficulties, and coming to terms with both the strengths and challenges of neurodivergence.
At Mission City Mental Health and Wellness, we offer services to help our clients process their thoughts and feelings and build the skills necessary to be successful. We also offer family sessions to assist parents in creating an environment that is supportive and can help children feel confident in their ability to tackle difficult situations at school and at home.
Executive Functioning Skills
Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes that help individuals plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and manage multiple tasks successfully, among other things. These skills are essential for goal-directed behavior, organizing thoughts, solving problems, and making decisions. Individuals with ADHD frequently struggle with executive functioning skills, but the good news is that these skills can be improved through conscious decision-making and appropriate accommodations.
Mission City Mental Health and Wellness offers individual and group therapy options for executive skill building, as well as a summer Back to School workshop to set the scene for academic success.
Emotional Regulation
Therapy can help young people with ADHD build emotional regulation by teaching them to recognize the connection between their thoughts, feelings, and reactions. Strategies include identifying emotional triggers, such as frustration or rejection, and introducing strategies like deep breathing, cognitive reframing, and using “coping thoughts” to manage intense emotions in the moment. This approach helps young people with ADHD gain greater control over their emotions, improve relationships, and feel more confident in handling challenging situations.
Family Counseling
Family counseling for parents of children with ADHD focuses on helping caregivers better understand their child’s behavior while building effective strategies to support them at home. In sessions, parents learn practical tools such as creating consistent routines, using clear and simple instructions, and applying positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors.
Counseling also addresses parent stress, offering coping strategies and communication skills to reduce conflict and improve the overall family dynamic. By strengthening the parent-child relationship and promoting a more structured, supportive environment, family counseling helps children with ADHD feel understood and better equipped to succeed, while parents gain confidence in managing daily challenges.
Depression
Therapy for individuals experiencing both ADHD and depression often focuses on addressing how these conditions interact and reinforce one another. The use of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients recognize patterns such as negative self-talk, low motivation, and overwhelm that can stem from ongoing struggles with attention and organization.
By building practical skills—like structuring daily routines, setting achievable goals, and breaking tasks into manageable steps—therapy helps reduce the sense of failure that can fuel depressive symptoms. At the same time, clients learn to challenge hopeless or self-critical thoughts and replace them with more balanced perspectives.
This combined approach supports both improved functioning with ADHD and relief from depressive symptoms, helping individuals feel more capable, motivated, and in control of their lives.
Anxiety
Therapy for individuals with both ADHD and anxiety focuses on managing the overlap between difficulties with attention, organization, and heightened worry or fear. Our therapists use cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help clients understand how anxious thoughts can worsen ADHD symptoms, such as avoidance, procrastination, or trouble concentrating.
Clients learn to identify and challenge anxious thinking patterns while building practical skills like time management, task prioritization, and structured routines to reduce overwhelm. Relaxation techniques—such as deep breathing, mindfulness, and gradual exposure to feared situations—are also introduced to help regulate physical and emotional responses to anxiety.
By addressing both conditions together, therapy helps individuals feel more in control of their thoughts and behaviors, improving focus, reducing stress, and increasing confidence in daily life.
Self-Esteem and Self-Efficacy
Therapy can play a key role in helping children with ADHD build self-esteem and self-efficacy by addressing the negative beliefs that often develop from repeated struggles at school or in relationships. Our therapists create a supportive environment where children can experience success, learn from mistakes without shame, and begin to see their strengths alongside their challenges.
Using approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), therapists help children identify and reframe self-critical thoughts into more balanced, encouraging ones. They also teach practical skills—such as goal setting, problem-solving, and task completion—so children can experience a sense of accomplishment in their daily lives.
As children practice these skills and achieve small, meaningful successes, they begin to feel more capable and confident in their abilities, strengthening both their self-esteem and their belief that they can handle challenges effectively.