Specialist ADHD Therapist and ADHD Coach in Bristol, Somerset & Online
Avon CBT : Calm and compassionate counselling in times of challenge, change or crisis
Avon CBT & Psychotherapy provides CBT for ADHD | ADHD Coaching & Support | ADHD Couples Counselling | Parenting Coaching | face to face in Bristol and Online.
What is ADHD Therapy and How It Can Help?
Living with ADHD can be exhausting! If you are tired of feeling overwhelmed and struggling to keep up with the demands of daily life, working with an ADHD Therapist who understands the unique challenges faced by individuals, couples and parents living with ADHD can help you and your relationships to thrive.
I am highly experienced at providing personalised ADHD Therapy and Support that is tailored to your specific needs. I can help you or your family members to develop the tools, strategies, and confidence to manage ADHD more effectively and regain a sense of control over day to day life. This support can take the form of ADHD Therapy (also known as CBT for ADHD), ADHD Couples Therapy and ADHD Coaching or Parent Coaching Support (see below for more information).
I have completed a significant level of training in supporting families and individuals with ADHD, qualifying as a Certified ADHD Clinical Services Provider. For more information about my credentials and training, click here: Credentials
Access to Work Funding:
I am able to work with individuals funded through Access to Work grants, providing ADHD Workplace Strategy Coaching and CBT for ADHD.
Personalised Support for ADHD Challenges
My approach to working with ADHD is shaped not only by professional training, but also by lived experience. I understand first-hand how ADHD can affect daily functioning, emotional regulation, relationships, and self-esteem. This insight allows me to connect with others in a way that is compassionate, informed, and deeply respectful of the challenges they may be facing.
Whether I’m supporting individuals overwhelmed by executive function struggles, couples navigating miscommunication and emotional disconnect, or parents managing the emotional highs and lows of raising a neurodivergent child, I tailor support that recognises both the difficulties and the strengths of living with ADHD. My aim is to provide practical tools while creating a therapeutic space where clients feel deeply understood without any sense of judgment.
Tailored ADHD Therapy Approaches
Although the symptoms of ADHD are often stereotyped on social media, every individual and couple with ADHD is different. For support to be genuinely effective, these differences must be taken into account by an ADHD Therapist, because a ‘one size fits all’ approach never really works.
I offer bespoke ADHD therapy and support, focussed on your specific needs, which are identified through a detailed, thorough assessment at the start of our work together. The assessment gives me a clear understanding of your particular circumstances and symptoms, enabling us to choose the best strategies to manage your (or your family member’s) unique presentation of ADHD.
Various approaches can be used to support you. Depending on your needs. I am able to provide professionally trained:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for ADHD - which is described below
ADHD Couples Counselling - to help manage the impact of ADHD on relationships, commonly experienced by many couples
Parent Coaching - to support parents with children diagnosed with or exhibiting the traits of ADHD
Alternatively, I can deliver Health and Wellbeing or personalised ADHD Coaching support - focussed on helping you to develop the key strategies to manage daily life with ADHD.
Depending upon your assessment and goals, ADHD Therapy will often focus on:
Modifying Thinking: Changing unhelpful thinking patterns, that can be difficult to break free from on your own.
Emotional Regulation: For many people with ADHD, managing emotion is one of the hardest symptoms to control. Small setbacks can result in a dramatic expression of emotion, leading to feelings of guilt or shame and impacting our relationships, family dynamics and career. ADHD focussed CBT can help individuals to identify triggers and learn regulation techniques to reduce the frequency of emotional dysregulation and the consequences that can result.
Treating Low Self-Esteem and Rejection Sensitivity: Low Self-Esteem and rejection sensitivity is very often present alongside ADHD. This can lead to constant anxiety about being judged, poor self-worth, and a lack of confidence in social situations. Unless changed, this can result in failure to achieve our potential in many areas of life.
Reducing Problematic Behaviours: These behaviours commonly impact the areas of life that we care most deeply about, such as our significant relationships or the way we are viewed at work etc.
Managing Impulsivity: Developing the ability to pause, assess the situation and identify the most helpful course of action, rather than simply reacting from emotion or the first idea that comes into your head.
Adapting ‘Self-Sabotaging’ Tendencies: Recognising where these are present and changing any behaviours or thinking patterns that cause difficulties.
Treating Other Mental Health Conditions: It is not unusual for people to experience other symptoms alongside their ADHD. Some of the common mental health conditions that may have been diagnosed with your ADHD include Anxiety, Depression, OCD and Insomnia. CBT has been shown to be effective at treating these.
Effective Coping Strategies: I will help you to gain a toolkit of practical coping strategies to help you navigate common challenges such as organisation, planning, and managing impulsivity. I am used to modifying CBT techniques to equip individuals and couples with the interventions that work best in their particular situations.
ADHD Therapy can be delivered either Face to Face in my purpose built counselling studio in Bristol or Online. I also provide therapy outdoors, offering ‘Walk and Talk’ Counselling, which many people with ADHD find helpful as it removes the need to remain in one place during the session.
CBT for ADHD can be combined with any of the relevant ADHD Coaching and Support strategies, outlined below. To learn more about CBT, click here: CBT Explained
Client Testimonial
“Simon has a warm and non-judgmental approach to CBT and always demonstrates patience and compassion throughout the journey. I have been amazed by how far I have come with his support.”
CD (former client)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for ADHD
Specialised ADHD Coaching and Practical Support
ADHD Coaching provides a solution-focussed approach to improving the day to day issues associated with your ADHD symptoms. This could include:
Improving Focus and Productivity:
Learn to reduce distractions and increase enhanced concentration. Develop effective techniques to improve your focus, manage time efficiently, and stay on top of tasks.
Enhanced Self-Confidence and Goal Achievement:
Overcome self-critical thinking patterns, Low Self-Esteem and the feelings and frustrations associated with ADHD that are experienced by so many people. Through the calm and supportive environment I provide, my aim is to help you experience a greater feeling of empowerment, more balanced self-esteem, and an increased sense of being able to fulfil your potential.
Effective Coping Strategies:
Gain a toolkit of practical coping strategies to help you navigate common challenges such as organisation, planning, and managing impulsivity. I am used to modifying research based techniques to help equip individuals and couples with the interventions that work best for their unique situations.
ADHD Coaching can take place In-person at my purpose built counselling studio, Online or Outside through ‘Walk and Talk’ Counselling. This is often a popular choice as, as it enables movement throughout the appointment.
With the comprehensive support offered by an ADHD Therapist with lived experience of ADHD, I am well qualified to help individuals and couples experience change.
If your life is being impacted by the symptoms of ADHD, please get in touch to discuss the personalised ADHD therapy, ADHD coaching and ADHD support services that I am able to offer you and your family members.
Get in touch by emailing: simon@avoncbt.com Calling: 07553 533425
or request a free of charge Initial Consultation by clicking the button below.
Access to Work Funding for ADHD Strategy Coaching
If you have a diagnosis of ADHD and it impacts your ability to carry out tasks at work, you may be eligible for funding through the UK Government’s Access to Work scheme. This support can cover the cost of ADHD coaching, assistive technology, or other workplace adjustments designed to help you perform your role more effectively.
I am experienced in working with clients funded through Access to Work and can advise on the process and documentation required for your application.
Client Testimonial
“I used Simon for ADHD Strategy coaching, and it was a great experience. His approach is very flexible, and when I needed it the sessions were more like therapy. I learnt a lot about tools I could use to develop my positive core beliefs and stop being critical of myself, as this wasn't working in my best interests. Simon is very empathic and good at listening and understanding.” JC (former client)
ADHD Relationship and Family Support
ADHD can have a significant impact on relationships and family life. Differences in communication styles, emotional regulation, varying attention levels, and planning daily routines can often lead to misunderstandings, frustration, and emotional disconnect. These challenges can be particularly difficult when they are misinterpreted as a lack of care, effort, or respect.
Specialised ADHD support helps couples and families understand the effects of ADHD, develop practical strategies, and rebuild connection with increased empathy and clarity.
ADHD Couples Counselling and Therapy
When one or both partners have ADHD, relationships often face unique challenges that traditional couples therapy may not fully address. Common difficulties include poor time management, forgetfulness, emotional impulsivity, uneven workload distribution, and difficulties with attention and listening. These patterns can eventually lead to resentment, repeated arguments, and feelings of disconnection, especially if a partner’s ADHD traits are misunderstood as laziness, carelessness, or a lack of commitment.
ADHD couples counselling offers a structured, calm and understanding space where both partners can explore how ADHD affects their relationship dynamic, developing deeper insight and increased collaboration through this process. ADHD informed couples counselling will help couples to better understand the ADHD related behaviours they are experiencing. This understanding is often the first step towards restoring empathy and trust.
Practical strategies are a key part of the counselling work. Sessions might focus on developing clearer communication techniques, building consistent routines, setting shared goals, maintaining physical intimacy or learning how to manage emotional overwhelm. Importantly, the non-ADHD partner also receives support, recognising the exhaustion and frustration that often comes from feeling unsupported, unheard, or feeling responsible for managing an unfair proportion of the parenting role.
With the right therapeutic support, couples can move from repeated conflict to shared understanding. After being given effective tools to use, couples often find they can reframe their persepective of ADHD - from a problem into a shared reality which can be navigated together with awareness, respect, and mutual care.
For more information about couples counselling, click here: Couples Counselling
ADHD Parent Coaching and Support
Parents living with children displaying the traits of ADHD can sometimes feel judged, isolated and overwhelmed, often combined with a sense despair and guilt.
As an experienced ADHD Therapist and Coach, I can support you to work through these feelings. This can help you to retain a positive relationship with your child, whilst looking after yourself in the process.
I am trained in Conscious Parenting strategies, which are particularly effective for children and teenagers with ADHD or who experience difficulty regulating their emotions. Conscious Parenting Coaching will often cover the following topics:
Improving Emotional Regulation: Conscious Parenting Coaching helps parents to respond rather than react. This enables parents to respond with calmer, more consistent responses to ADHD related behaviours.
Connection Over Control: Conscious parenting focuses on understanding your child’s experience, helping you to connect with them, even during times of challenging behaviour. This results in a strengthening of trust and a sense of emotional safety for your child, which are both essential foundations for behaviour change.
Reducing Power Struggles: By shifting from punishment to empathy and guidance, coaching helps parents to avoid repeated conflict and instead build cooperation with their child using structured boundaries, combined with empathy.
Building Insight into Emotional Activators or ‘Triggers’: Parents will learn to recognise what overstimulates or emotionally dysregulates their child, allowing for a more thoughtful and supportive response with fewer escalations.
Supporting the Parent’s Wellbeing: Coaching recognises the emotional toll of parenting a neurodivergent child, offering you practical strategies and an empathetic validation of your situation, which I understand can be very difficult to cope with at times.
Client Testimonial
“I am much more confident in my ability as a parent and I’m enjoying spending time
(much more than previously) with my child. My relationship with my husband has improved - both as a result of the depression and anxiety going but also because therapy has helped me explore where the issues with these relationships really lay - and helped me find ways to manage them.” LI (former client)
ADHD Therapy and Coaching Fees
12 Session ADHD Management Programme - An evidence based programme of ADHD management strategies, with resources and workbook included: £1200 for 12x 50 min sessions.
6 Session Parent Coaching and Support Programme - Evidence based programme of strategies to help with emotional regulation and increasing connection with your children: £1050 for 6x 90 min sessions.
One to One Therapy or Coaching: £90 per session (Saturday appointments: £110).
Couples Therapy or Coaching: £100 per appointment (Saturday appointments: £110).
Access to Work Funding:
Avon CBT & Psychotherapy is happy to provide CBT for ADHD and ADHD Coaching to individuals funded through DWP Access to Work Grants. Please contact me for more information.
ADHD Resources:
ADHD Support in Bristol:
- The Bristol Adult ADHD Support Group meets monthly in Central Bristol to provide peer support for adults impacted by ADHD : Bristol Adult ADHD Support Group
National ADHD Charities:
- The ADHD Foundation provides information about ADHD for adults, young people and parents : The ADHD Foundation
- ADHD Aware provides online support and discussion groups : ADHD Aware
- The UK Adult ADHD Network provides resources and training for adults and mental health professionals on ADHD : UKAAN
Avon CBT offers specialist ADHD informed therapy and coaching in Bristol, North Somerset and online. Contact me here to book a free 15 minute consultation.