ADHD Specialization
Professional Certification in Psychoanalysis
This completion-based professional certification trains you to understand and work with ADHD presentations — attention, focus, and impulsivity across children, teens, and adults — and equips you with practical session strategies you can use from the first appointment. On finishing you earn a Therapist University certificate, a professional register entry, and a practitioner ID badge. It also turns inward: if your own mind feels restless and scattered, you will learn to recognize the pattern and build systems that finally hold.
For your practice
Specialize in attention, focus, and impulsivity presentations across ages, with practical session strategies.
For your own life
Understand your own distracted, restless mind and build systems that actually work for it.
What you'll learn
- 1How Attention Actually Works. The executive-function model behind ADHD — working memory, inhibition, task initiation, and time blindness. You learn to describe what is happening to a client without pathologizing or claiming a diagnosis, separating the presentation from the person.
- 2Presentations Across the Lifespan. How inattentive, hyperactive, and combined patterns look in a fidgeting six-year-old, a shut-down teenager, and a burned-out adult masking at work. Recognize masking, gender differences, and why ADHD is so often missed in girls and women.
- 3The First Three Sessions. A concrete intake protocol for an ADHD-presenting client: history-taking that respects shame, mapping where attention breaks down in their real day, and setting goals you can actually track week to week.
- 4Practical Session Strategies. Externalizing systems — body-doubling, time-boxing, visual capture, friction reduction, and reward scaffolding. You leave each module with techniques you can hand a client and rehearse in the room, not just talk about.
- 5Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitivity. Working with the emotional side of ADHD: impulsive reactions, rejection-sensitive dysphoria, and the self-criticism that builds over years of being called lazy. Approaches to rebuild self-trust and reduce shame.
- 6Scope, Referral, and Working Alongside Medical Care. Where your certified scope ends: you support and coach, you do not diagnose or prescribe. How to recognize when a medical or psychological evaluation is warranted and refer responsibly while staying in your lane.
Who this is for
- Practitioners and coaches who keep meeting attention, focus, and impulsivity struggles in their work and want a structured, ADHD-specific way to support clients across ages
- Parents, teachers, and partners trying to understand a restless or distractible loved one and respond with patience instead of friction
- Adults who suspect their own mind works this way — chronic overwhelm, missed deadlines, half-finished projects — and want concrete systems that stick
- Helping professionals adding a focused ADHD specialization to an existing practice in anxiety, addictions, or family work
What you'll be able to do
- Run a structured ADHD-informed intake and translate a chaotic week into a clear, trackable focus on three to five working goals
- Apply concrete attention-support techniques — body-doubling, time-boxing, externalized capture, and friction reduction — and coach a client to use them between sessions
- Recognize inattentive, hyperactive, and masked presentations across ages and identify when to refer for medical or psychological evaluation
- Build and maintain your own personal system for time, tasks, and follow-through that survives a restless mind
What's included
Globally valid certificate
An official certificate of completion you can show and verify.
Professional register entry
Your name in the Therapist University professional register.
Practitioner ID & badge
Your official, verifiable practitioner ID and digital badge.
This is a completion-based professional certification in working with ADHD presentations — not a state license, an academic degree, or authority to diagnose or prescribe.
Questions
Does this certification let me diagnose ADHD?
No. This is a completion-based professional certification, not a state license, an academic degree, or a medical credential. You are trained to understand, support, and coach people with ADHD presentations — not to diagnose, prescribe, or replace a physician or psychologist. A core module is dedicated to recognizing when to refer for formal evaluation.
I think I have ADHD myself — is this course also for me personally?
Yes. Many people enroll partly to make sense of their own restless, scattered mind. You will learn the same executive-function framework and practical systems you would teach a client, applied to your own time, tasks, and follow-through. It is education and self-understanding, not personal medical advice.
What do I actually receive when I finish?
A Therapist University certificate of completion, an entry in our professional register, and a practitioner ID badge. These document that you completed this ADHD specialization. They are not accreditation from CHEA or the USDE, and they do not confer transfer credit or a license to practice medicine.
Is the ADHD specialization valid in my country?
It is a globally valid certificate of completion, used by graduates across 130+ countries. It certifies that you trained and qualified through Therapist University — it is not a government-issued license. See our Recognition & Validity page for the honest specifics.
What exactly do I receive?
The certificate of completion, an entry in our professional register, and your official practitioner ID badge — all publicly verifiable.
Become a certified ADHD specialist
$297 · certificate, professional register entry, and practitioner ID included.