90 minutes. Useful information. Actionable change

Beat the Summer Slide by tuning in to focus on 3 topics that make huge quality of life changes for parents and kids. Sign up for one seminar or all 3.

Making Easier Days: June 30, 2026

Summers with kids are busy, and hot, and full of stimulation. When you have an ADHD brain, that’s a recipe for big emotions, feeling out of sorts, and struggling with transitions. Some ADHD kids* seem to backtrack on progress made during the more structured school year while others thrive in the chaos that is summer time. Either way, we can work through some tools that truly make life easier for ADHD kids (and ADHD parents, too). This 1.5 hour workshop style seminar focuses on reducing tense negotiations, demand avoidance, and emotional overwhelm by simple adjustments in communication style, making small changes to the flow of your day, and a few adjustments to the environment (or how your child interacts with the environment). We’ll start with a quick presentation of concepts and then use worksheets to apply and adapt the ideas discussed to your life.

Managing Meltdowns: July 21, 2026

Everyone has meltdowns, even (maybe especially?) grownups. They are not fun for anyone and a sign that your kid is genuinely struggling with something. While it may seem that an ADHD kid’s meltdowns are unpredictable or out of control, meltdowns make a ton of sense if we stop and think about them. ADHD-ers take in much more sensory information and tend to value autonomy and respect a whole lot more than other kids, meaning their buttons can and do get pushed more often, activating big feelings. You and your child have the potential to be a strong team in preventing and defusing meltdowns, so let’s make it happen! This 1.5 hour workshop style seminar will provide an overview of common underlying themes to ADHD dysregulation. We’ll talk action steps to collaborate with your child to create change: the kinds of questions, conversations, and simple preparations that can be made to help your time together feel more harmonious and cooperative.

Getting Good Sleep: August 25, 2026

Good sleep (for the whole family) is the ultimate ADHD parenting goal. Improving sleep the recommended first line of treatment for ADHD, even before medication. With 50-80%‍ ‍of ADHD-ers impacted by a co-occurring sleep disorder (doi: 10.5664/jcsm.10662,), this is a central quality of life issue for ADHD families. Whether your child (or you!) are having a hard time falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up, or are dealing with bedtime resistance or a body clock that powers up instead of down after sunset, this 1.5 hour workshop-style seminar provides an overview of common sleep troubles experienced by ADHD-ers and behavioral and environmental tools to create change. We’ll look at resources and discuss how to adapt them to your specific situation, to best support your family and your child. Get ahead of sleep before the first night before school!

Make the seminar format work for you.

These one-off events are framed to focus on the folks who participate. You’ll complete a quick survey on topics you want to have covered, and what you already know about, before we meet. Spaces are limited in the group, so we can make sure your needs are addressed. Added bonus: you’ll learn a lot from the other parents attending the seminar. ADHD brains come up with some wonderful (and unexpected) solutions to challenges, so get ready to be delighted by open-minded, creative responses to challenges you may not have realized you were facing.

Worried that you’ll be distracted by the seminar format? The seminar offers limited in-person spots as well as online participation, so you can choose the format that works best for your life and learning style. We’ll keep the info dump succinct and spend most of the meeting working through ideas together.

Each seminar costs $100. Folks participating must be located in PA or CA and will agree to privacy practices and practice policies set by Oak Grove Counseling LLC.

Small changes, big wins, with time to practice before school starts

I’m thinking about timing, so you don’t have to! Plant the seeds of new behaviors this summer so that the start of the school year goes well… and keeps going well, through winter and spring time. Learn new info, consider new ideas, imagine new tools to build a new, empowering relationship with ADHD.

You’d like more sessions? Check out information on my ADHD Parenting Group, which meets for 8 sessions this spring.

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*Note: I use identity first language because ADHD shapes how people (including myself) with ADHD experience and engage with the world, it is not something that stops influencing our lives, even when we take medication. If you prefer to use person-first language (‘a person has ADHD’ = person first, ‘ADHD person’ = identity first), you’re welcome here, too!