ADHD

The brain systems involved in ADHD handle executive function: starting tasks, sustaining effort, holding information in mind while using it, switching between activities, and inhibiting an impulse long enough to consider it. When those systems run inconsistently, the result looks like carelessness or not trying — from the outside.

From the inside it is usually the opposite: enormous effort producing unreliable results. This gap is why so many people with ADHD arrive in therapy carrying years of accumulated shame, having been told since childhood that they simply need to apply themselves.

In children, ADHD is often most visible as physical restlessness, interrupting, difficulty waiting, and trouble following multi-step instructions. Because it disrupts the classroom, it tends to get identified early — particularly in boys.

In teenagers the hyperactivity often turns inward, becoming mental restlessness rather than physical. Demands rise sharply just as the structure of earlier grades falls away, so many teens who coped adequately start struggling around this point. In adults, it usually presents as chronic disorganization, difficulty with deadlines and follow-through, emotional reactivity, and a long history of underperforming relative to ability. Many adults — especially women, whose inattentive presentation is quieter and more easily missed — are not identified until their own child is assessed.

Several of our providers specialize in ADHD. Work usually combines practical executive-function strategies built around how your brain actually operates — rather than the systems that work for everyone else — with therapy addressing the self-esteem damage that years of falling short tends to leave behind.

We also offer ILF and Micro Current neurofeedback, which trains the brain toward steadier regulation over time and is frequently used alongside therapy here. We do not diagnose ADHD or prescribe stimulant medication, but we work alongside the prescribing providers who do. Support is available in person in Bountiful and by telehealth across Utah and Idaho.