Free training for mental health professionals

Regulation is the piece most ADHD treatment misses

A free training for therapists, counsellors, psychologists, doctors, coaches, occupational therapists and social workers who work with ADHD clients.

Monday, September 21 at 12:00 PM Mountain Time

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Most clinicians are taught to identify ADHD. Almost none are taught what to do about the dysregulation underneath it.

A client gets a diagnosis, then gets sent off with advice that was never built for the ADHD brain: find a system that works for you, get better at time management, try harder to stick with it.

Organization strategies, routines and tools will never override a nervous system that's in fight or flight. At best it's like handing an umbrella to someone in a hurricane.

This training shows you how to work on the nervous system dysregulation that is making everything so hard. This will make the tools, strategies and routines useful again.

In this training

1

Why regulation, not strategies and tools, is what will move ADHD symptoms

What changes outcomes for ADHD clients, and why the usual advice keeps falling flat.

2

The nervous system pattern behind why intentions don't turn into action

The piece that's missing from most ADHD treatment plans, and why it matters more than another organizational system.

3

How to start seeing your ADHD clients through a regulation lens

A different way to read what's happening for a client, instead of working from a symptom checklist.

4

First steps you can use in your very next session

Concrete starting points, not just a new way of thinking about ADHD.

What happens when clients get this

Once I got the diagnosis, my therapist helped me understand what behaviors were ADHD related, but she didn't really have tools to give me to help with my dysregulation apart from the typical "find a method that works for you to get organized." This method has specific, tangible ways to change your behaviors, which has been so helpful in working towards being more regulated in my daily life.

Federica

Every therapist or coach working with people with ADHD should learn this. A lot of advice I'd received in the past wasn't effective for people with ADHD, and it made me feel like even more of a failure. ADHD-related dysregulation can interfere with turning intentions into actions, and how we perceive things. What Jenna teaches really helps people ease some of that difficulty and reduce overwhelm, and it's different from other "regulation" strategies out there that often rely on complex breathing exercises, or basic "easier said than done" advice like telling people to get more exercise.

Jessica

I believe therapists should learn these skills. It would be incredibly helpful if my therapist would be able to identify whether I am dysregulated and remind me how to get regulated, even give me homework to guide me and keep me on track. As a classic ADHDer I take on all the advice I'm offered, overload myself, get overwhelmed and don't follow through with any of it. If my therapist knew these skills, it would help keep me focused on one strategy.

Valerie

I'm dying for this to be taught more widely. I've been coaching for over 10 years and 3 years in the ADHD space. Understanding how dysregulation shows up in my own life has been pivotal in helping my clients understand theirs.

Megs, ADHD coach

Before this, I did ADHD coaching that was mostly bandaid solutions. Little tricks or systems I could try to fix issues, and I'd get excited thinking it would solve things, only to fall back into my normal habits a week later. Even after my first session or two, I started to feel a huge difference. I probably don't remember absolutely everything, but my way of thinking has changed so much, and I can feel myself applying the concepts in everyday life.

Jacinta

About Jenna Free

Certified Canadian Counsellor, author, creator of the ADHD Regulation Method

Jenna Free is a Certified Canadian Counsellor and the creator of the ADHD Regulation Method. She's the author of The Simple Guide to ADHD Regulation, and has worked with over 1,000 ADHD clients on turning regulation into something concrete, not just a mindset.

Early in her career, she pursued additional ADHD-focused training and ran into the same gap her clients kept hitting: plenty of tools and tips, but nothing that tied them together into an actual approach. She built the ADHD Regulation Method to close that gap, and now teaches it to the mental health professionals who see ADHD clients every week.

The ADHD Regulation Method: Free Clinician Training