Teen Group: Managing Big Emotions
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
Hosted by Animating Principle's Workshop
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Glendale, CA 91208
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
ADHD Skills Workshop
This is a 10-week workshop to help adults with ADHD master their symptoms. Each session focuses on common difficulties (e.g. organization, tackling difficult tasks, improving time management, emotion regulation) and covers specific strategies to make life easier. An official diagnosis ...
This is a 10-week workshop to help adults with ADHD master their symptoms. Each session focuses on common difficulties (e.g. organization, tackling difficult tasks, improving time management, emotion regulation) and covers specific strategies to make life easier. An official diagnosis ...
Neurospicy Community Support Group
An affirming group for neurodivergent (autistic or ADHD) adults to find support and build community among like-minded peers. This group includes aspects of a traditional process group, with added emphasis on creating and sustaining relationships and finding support. Additionally, this ...
Hosted by Amaya Tueller ADHD and Autism Therapist
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92102
An affirming group for neurodivergent (autistic or ADHD) adults to find support and build community among like-minded peers. This group includes aspects of a traditional process group, with added emphasis on creating and sustaining relationships and finding support. Additionally, this ...
Skills Application
Skills application is a group which helps those who have knowledge of CBT/DBT skills learn to incorporate and apply the CBT and DBT skills in day to day life and circumstances. The group does provide refreshers on the skills and ...
Hosted by Re-discovering You
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Los Angeles, CA 90025
Skills application is a group which helps those who have knowledge of CBT/DBT skills learn to incorporate and apply the CBT and DBT skills in day to day life and circumstances. The group does provide refreshers on the skills and ...
ADHD Executive Skills Groups for 3rd-12th Grades
Organizing, sequencing, multi-tasking, sustaining attention, long-range planning, inhibiting impulsive responses, self-checking, initiating tasks without procrastinating. These are the Executive Skills, essential to overcoming the limitations of ADHD. This interactive group affords adolescents the opportunity to learn and practice the Executive ...
Organizing, sequencing, multi-tasking, sustaining attention, long-range planning, inhibiting impulsive responses, self-checking, initiating tasks without procrastinating. These are the Executive Skills, essential to overcoming the limitations of ADHD. This interactive group affords adolescents the opportunity to learn and practice the Executive ...
Fusion Care Group
Our hope is to provide a place to help our clients achieve their life goals, explore life-circumstances, move through difficult life transitions, repair injured relationships, develop a better understanding of themselves or a family member, decrease destructive behaviors, and move ...
Our hope is to provide a place to help our clients achieve their life goals, explore life-circumstances, move through difficult life transitions, repair injured relationships, develop a better understanding of themselves or a family member, decrease destructive behaviors, and move ...
Adult ADHD skills and lifestyle group
Join us for an insightful exploration at the ADHD Skills, Lifestyle, and Culture Workshop, where we delve into practical strategies tailored to your unique experiences with ADHD. Gain valuable insights into the biological and social factors influencing your daily challenges, ...
Join us for an insightful exploration at the ADHD Skills, Lifestyle, and Culture Workshop, where we delve into practical strategies tailored to your unique experiences with ADHD. Gain valuable insights into the biological and social factors influencing your daily challenges, ...
ADHD Skills Group (Currently Remote)
In our 10 week ADHD support group, we will discuss building skills to manage ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Our therapists will provide education as well as skills to help you identify where ADHD and RSD are holding you back. ...
Hosted by Karla Schlags
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94104
In our 10 week ADHD support group, we will discuss building skills to manage ADHD and Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. Our therapists will provide education as well as skills to help you identify where ADHD and RSD are holding you back. ...
ADHD
Designed for males between the ages of 6-10, who have been diagnosed or believed to be ADHD per their physician or educational professionals.
Hosted by Adriene Moore Robinson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MS, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Riverside, CA 92507
Designed for males between the ages of 6-10, who have been diagnosed or believed to be ADHD per their physician or educational professionals.
Social Skills for kids
Fun and engaging, our popular social skills groups teach emotional regulation, flexibility, and assertiveness. Kids learn to try new behaviors and to manage their reactions in the moment, leading to the potential for big changes.
Hosted by Equip - Therapy for Boys and Men
Treatment Center
Verified Verified
Group meets in Pasadena, CA 91101
Fun and engaging, our popular social skills groups teach emotional regulation, flexibility, and assertiveness. Kids learn to try new behaviors and to manage their reactions in the moment, leading to the potential for big changes.
Parenting Groups
Parenting Groups: parents can share experiences, gain insights, and learn effective strategies, fostering improved communication, enhanced parenting skills, and the development of healthier family dynamics. Parenting groups for children with special needs create a compassionate and inclusive environment where parents ...
Hosted by Debbie B. Dery
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Encino, CA 91436
Parenting Groups: parents can share experiences, gain insights, and learn effective strategies, fostering improved communication, enhanced parenting skills, and the development of healthier family dynamics. Parenting groups for children with special needs create a compassionate and inclusive environment where parents ...
Virtual ADHD Support Group for Moms and Kids (CA)
Join our weekly virtual weekend 1 hour drop in support group. Moms are always wearing different hats, shifting gears, multi-tasking. For moms with ADHD and/or moms parenting kids with ADHD, we don’t need to figure it out all by ourselves. ...
Join our weekly virtual weekend 1 hour drop in support group. Moms are always wearing different hats, shifting gears, multi-tasking. For moms with ADHD and/or moms parenting kids with ADHD, we don’t need to figure it out all by ourselves. ...
Teen Group: Managing Big Emotions
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
Hosted by Lindsay Snaer
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Glendale, CA 91208
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
Equine Assisted Therapy
Hosted by Nicolas Silva
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Huntington Beach, CA 92648
Adult ADHD Group
The virtual group will work on: Psycho-education of ADHD; Self-acceptance; Coping skills and self-care; Communication skills; Relationship behaviors; Learning about ADHD and Sex
Hosted by Sara Hoadley
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Newport Beach, CA 92660
The virtual group will work on: Psycho-education of ADHD; Self-acceptance; Coping skills and self-care; Communication skills; Relationship behaviors; Learning about ADHD and Sex
San Diego Therapy Center & Neurofeedback
Our center provides counseling and Neurofeedback services. Trauma impacts the brain’s ability to regulate effectively. Neurofeedback helps your nervous system to shift to appropriate states, stabilize uncomfortable and dysregulated physiological symptoms, and strengthen appropriate brain performances. Thereby reducing anxiety and ...
Hosted by San Diego Therapy Center & Neurofeedback
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
Our center provides counseling and Neurofeedback services. Trauma impacts the brain’s ability to regulate effectively. Neurofeedback helps your nervous system to shift to appropriate states, stabilize uncomfortable and dysregulated physiological symptoms, and strengthen appropriate brain performances. Thereby reducing anxiety and ...
Adult ADHD Coping Skills
Adults with ADHD have a variety of challenges to productivity and interpersonal relationships. Past failures may have lead to low self esteem and shame. In this group you will learn more about ADHD, learn to accept your neurodiverse brain and ...
Hosted by Paula A Jones
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Monica, CA 90403
Adults with ADHD have a variety of challenges to productivity and interpersonal relationships. Past failures may have lead to low self esteem and shame. In this group you will learn more about ADHD, learn to accept your neurodiverse brain and ...
Tween Social Skills Group
Parent-assisted intervention focusing on teens having difficulty making/keeping friends. 90 minutes each week for 16-weeks. Focuses on skills like having conversations, choosing appropriate friends, handling teasing/bullying and other forms of social rejection, handling arguments and get-togethers. Homework assignments required each ...
Hosted by Social Skills Development Center
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, LPCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Newport Beach, CA 92660
Parent-assisted intervention focusing on teens having difficulty making/keeping friends. 90 minutes each week for 16-weeks. Focuses on skills like having conversations, choosing appropriate friends, handling teasing/bullying and other forms of social rejection, handling arguments and get-togethers. Homework assignments required each ...
Zen Kids-A Emotional Regulation Group For Children
Kids will learn to increase emotional awareness, identify trigger moments, self-monitor feelings, and create a tool box of coping strategies to manage life's challenges.
Hosted by Melissa Pinn
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92111
Kids will learn to increase emotional awareness, identify trigger moments, self-monitor feelings, and create a tool box of coping strategies to manage life's challenges.
Nu Leaf Mental Health Group
Top Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in Southern California. Offering in-person and telemedicine visits.
Hosted by Katie Han
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP, BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Irvine, CA 92612
Top Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic in Southern California. Offering in-person and telemedicine visits.
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ADHD Support Groups
When should I seek treatment for ADHD?
You should seek treatment for ADHD if you consistently have difficulty with attention, hyperactivity, or impulsivity that interferes with your daily life. Symptoms of ADHD include the inability to sustain attention during tasks, difficulty organizing tasks and activities, being easily distracted, frequent fidgeting or squirming, and talking or interrupting excessively. If these symptoms interfere with your career, academics, or relationships—for example, consistently failing to complete professional projects on time—you should seek an evaluation for ADHD.
How does treatment for ADHD work?
Effective treatment for ADHD often consists of medication, behavioral therapy, and lifestyle changes. Stimulant medications such as Adderall and Ritalin work by altering levels of neurotransmitters in the brain; higher levels of dopamine and norepinephrine are known to improve attention and focus. Therapy works by helping people with ADHD understand the condition, discuss their areas of difficulty, and develop behavioral strategies to manage their symptoms. In some cases, modifying one’s diet and exercise can also help improve symptoms.
Are there specific medications for ADHD?
Medications to treat ADHD are generally stimulants, the most common are Adderall and Ritalin. There are two categories of stimulants: Amphetamines include Adderall, Dyanavel, Vyvanse, and Dexedrine, and methylphenidates include Ritalin, Concerta, Daytrana, Focalin, Quillichew, Quillivant, and Metadate. Non-stimulants and antidepressants may be used as an alternative if stimulants aren’t effective or viable for a particular patient.
How long does treatment for ADHD take?
It’s tough to give an exact time frame because everyone varies. In terms of medications, stimulants begin to work very soon after you take them, generally within the hour. It may take time to identify the right medication and dosage, but the medication itself is fast-acting. In terms of therapy, it takes time to develop skills and put them into practice, but you will likely see improvements within a few weeks or months.