High-Functioning Adult ADHD: Effective Strategies for Clinical Practice – Ari Tuckman, PsyD

Clients with high-functioning adult ADHD don’t always present like you expect—which is why their struggles are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed. This course will help you spot what others miss and give you the tools to make treatment more effective.

High-functioning adult ADHD is more common in therapy rooms than many clinicians realize. Clients may appear successful or organized on the outside, yet privately struggle with chronic disorganization, procrastination, inconsistent motivation, and strained relationships. Without identifying ADHD as the root cause of these challenges, therapists risk missing crucial opportunities for meaningful, lasting change.

This engaging, strategy-rich webinar with renowned ADHD expert Ari Tuckman, PsyD, helps mental health professionals recognize and respond more effectively to high-functioning adult ADHD in clinical practice. You’ll learn how ADHD impacts self-concept, emotional regulation, productivity, and relationship dynamics—even when clients are highly intelligent, driven, or accomplished.

Recognizing ADHD in “High-Functioning” Clients

Clients with high-functioning adult ADHD often mask their difficulties well—until their coping mechanisms collapse. This course will help you better identify ADHD-related patterns in individual and couples therapy and understand how these patterns influence client goals, therapy progress, and engagement.

Treating High-Functioning Adult ADHD as a Core Issue

You’ll explore evidence-based ways to talk with clients about ADHD—what it is, what it’s not, and how it affects their daily lives. Topics include how to normalize the diagnosis, discuss medication without stigma, and help clients make informed choices about treatment options. You’ll also learn how to support clients in challenging the negative narratives they’ve internalized over years of struggling in silence.

Improving Daily Life and Relationships

Therapists will come away with practical strategies to help clients improve executive functioning at home and work, enhance self-awareness, and navigate interpersonal dynamics more skillfully.

✔ Highlights include how to:

• Recognize the signs of high-functioning adult ADHD in therapy
• Address common misconceptions around diagnosis and treatment
• Equip clients with tools to boost productivity and emotional regulation
• Improve relationships through ADHD-informed communication strategies

With Ari Tuckman’s trademark clarity and clinical depth, this two-part webinar provides a coherent, integrated roadmap for treating high-functioning adult ADHD with greater confidence and compassion.

1. Identify clients with ADHD who seek individual or couples therapy.
2. Discuss medication options with clients to inform their decision-making.
3. Explain the influence of undiagnosed ADHD on clients’ self-concept and self-efficacy.
4. Identify how clients with ADHD inadvertently undermine their performance and success.
5. Explain why ADHD-friendly environments, tools, and systems can improve clients’ productivity.
6. Explain how to help clients overcome mental barriers to productivity.
7. Assist clients in determining what to disclose about their ADHD and to whom to disclose it.
8. Assist clients in creating more mutually satisfying relationship dynamics.

This training offers 12 hours of direct contact (not counting breaks or lunch). It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards/regulatory body to verify CE requirements for their license to practice.

Attendees of the original live broadcast receive instructions on how to obtain their Certificate of Participation at the end of the course and in the “recording ready” email, which is sent 1-2 days after the live course has ended.

Attendees watching the previously recorded/on-demand version must complete a Post-Webinar Quiz with a passing grade of at least 80% to verify their attendance and receive their Certificate of Participation.

Note: The course recording is available only after the live broadcast has ended.

The Certificate of Participation includes:

• Name of participant.
• Title of training.
• Name of presenter plus their credentials.
• Number of hours of training.
• Date of training.
• Confirmation of 100% attendance at the original live broadcast OR a passing grade of at least 80% on the recorded on-demand version post-course quiz.

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Please check with your regulatory body/organization to ensure that this certificate is sufficient proof for you to claim CE credits.