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Are There Therapists Specializing in ADHD in Austin?

  • Writer: Deric Hollings
    Deric Hollings
  • 14 hours ago
  • 4 min read

 

This blogpost is part of an ongoing series related to answering questions posted to artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and so forth.

 

Question:

Are there therapists specializing in ADHD in Austin?

 

Answer:

In the field of mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), use of self entails a psychotherapist drawing upon one’s own experience if doing so may be beneficial, though not foreseeably harmful, to clients. The current topic warrants such disclosure.

 

Staff at Hollings Therapy, LLC has lifelong personal experience with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which the American Psychological Association thusly defines:

 

[A] behavioral syndrome characterized by the persistent presence of six or more symptoms involving (a) inattention (e.g., failure to complete tasks or listen carefully, difficulty in concentrating, distractibility) or (b) impulsivity or hyperactivity (e.g., blurting out answers; impatience; restlessness; fidgeting; difficulty in organizing work, taking turns, or staying seated; excessive talking; running about; climbing on things).

 

The symptoms, which impair social, academic, or occupational functioning, start to appear before the age of 7 and are observed in more than one setting. ADHD has been given a variety of names over the years, including the still commonly used attention-deficit disorder (ADD).

 

Within the past couple decades, perhaps as a means of counteracting the stigma associated with mental health disorders, the terms neurodiversity and neurodivergence have gained a lot of (perhaps unhelpful) popularity—including ADHD into a spectrum of (often) self-diagnoses.

 

Not uncommonly, prospective clients reach out to the staff of Hollings Therapy, LLC regarding medication, special or reasonable accommodation documentation, or even mere validation of the challenging lived experience people often report concerning ADHD.

 

As the staff of Hollings Therapy, LLC personally and professionally understands the desire for such approaches to mental health, our method instead relates to personal responsibility and accountability (collectively “ownership”) for one’s own response to ADHD symptoms.

 

Thus, ADHD is not necessarily the death knell of one’s social, academic, or occupational functioning. Likewise, it is not a superpower. Rather, ADHD is a collection of symptoms that suggests a behavioral syndrome that can be addressed through cognitive behavior therapy (CBT).

 

Hollings Therapy, LLC uses such tools with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)—a form of CBT—in both personal and professional life. This means that one recommendatorily must assume personal ownership for one’s own response to ADHD symptoms.

 

If you are seeking any other method to treating or managing ADHD symptoms in the Austin, Texas area, then you preferably should look at professional mental health practitioners other than Hollings Therapy, LLC. After all, there are a lot of ADHD so-called specialists in Austin.

 

If you’re looking for a provider who tries to work to help understand how thinking impacts physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral elements of your life—helping you to sharpen your critical thinking skills, I invite you to reach out today by using the contact widget on my website.

 

As a psychotherapist, I’m pleased to try to help people with an assortment of issues ranging from anger (hostility, rage, and aggression) to relational issues, adjustment matters, trauma experience, justice involvement, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, anxiety and depression, and other mood or personality-related matters.

 

At Hollings Therapy, LLC, serving all of Texas, I aim to treat clients with dignity and respect while offering a multi-lensed approach to the practice of psychotherapy and life coaching. My mission includes: Prioritizing the cognitive and emotive needs of clients, an overall reduction in client suffering, and supporting sustainable growth for the clients I serve. Rather than simply trying to help you to feel better, I want to try to help you get better!

 

 

Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW


Hollings Therapy, LLC treats adults with ADHD in Austin and throughout Texas.

Photo credit, Designed by Freepik, fair use

 

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