Living with ADHD can feel like your brain is running twenty tabs at once and someone keeps opening more. The mental clutter, the emotional overwhelm, the frustration of knowing exactly what you need to do but struggling to just… do it. The exhaustion of masking. The guilt of the things left undone. The feeling that everyone else seems to find it so much easier.
I understand this not just professionally but personally. I live with ADHD myself. And it’s that lived experience, combined with my training as a solution-focused hypnotherapist and EMDR therapist that shapes the way I work with ADHD clients.
What Makes ADHD Support with Hypnotherapy Different?
Traditional approaches to ADHD tend to focus heavily on managing symptoms so medication, strategies, systems and while these all have their place, they don’t always address the emotional and psychological impact of living with a brain that works differently. Hypnotherapy takes a different approach. Rather than focusing on what’s going wrong, solution-focused hypnotherapy asks a different question – what would things look like if they were better? And then it works with the brain’s own natural processes to start building toward that. Remember you don’t need fixing. It’s about helping you work with your brain rather than constantly fighting against it.
How Can Hypnotherapy Help With ADHD?
Through a combination of solution-focused hypnotherapy, EMDR therapy and coaching, I support ADHD clients in a number of ways:
- Clearing mental clutter. Hypnotherapy replicates the brain’s natural REM process, helping to process and declutter the mental noise that makes focus and clarity so difficult. Many clients notice a calmer, clearer head after just a few sessions.
- Improving sleep. Sleep challenges are incredibly common with ADHD. The mind that won’t switch off at night, the restlessness, the exhaustion that never quite lifts. Hypnotherapy helps quiet that mental activity and supports deeper, more restorative sleep.
- Emotional regulation. Emotional dysregulation is one of the most difficult and least talked about aspects of ADHD. Through specialist techniques we work together to strengthen emotional control, helping you respond more thoughtfully rather than reactively.
- Building practical strategies. Alongside the therapy, I offer coaching support to address executive function challenges like time management, planning, organisation and the gap between intention and action. Always tailored to you and how your brain actually works.
- Rebuilding self-belief. So many adults with ADHD carry years of being told they’re lazy, disorganised or not trying hard enough. That leaves a mark so part of our work together is gently unpicking those stories and replacing them with something more accurate and more kind.
What Are Sessions Like?
Sessions are warm, non-judgmental and entirely focused on you and your experience. We work at your pace. There is no pressure, no agenda and no one-size-fits-all programme. I work with both adults and young people with ADHD and I understand the particular challenges that come with each stage of life from navigating school and exams to managing careers, relationships and parenthood.
A Note on Diagnosis
You don’t need a formal diagnosis to work with me. If you recognise yourself in what I’ve described and you’re looking for support, that’s enough of a starting point.
Ready to Take the First Step?
If you’d like to explore how hypnotherapy could support your ADHD journey, I’d love to hear from you.
Sessions are available in Bath, Paulton and Midsomer Norton and online via Zoom.
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