Differences Between HoloADHD Support and Talk Therapy

Talk therapy

  • Talk therapy includes looking at the past to help people understand what shapes them and why.

  • It helps you process trauma and is meant for mental health disorders and moments in life that feel too heavy for moving forward alone.

HoloADHD 

  • HoloADHD’s coaching and support is collaborative, personalized, and shaped by you, to what you want and need (education, skills, coaching).

  • For someone who is ready to move again - not because things are perfect or even good, but because they are steady enough to look ahead and make improvements.

  • Coaching specifically involves helping people get clarity, direction, knowledge, and small steps forward toward the life they want.

  • *Coaching or nervous system regulation work is not a substitute for treating mental health disorders, for crisis support, or for diagnosing. If at any point there are signs you need clinical care, I will recommend a relevant licensed provider in your state or country.*

Both

  • Are safe spaces that can shift your life, but they are needed at different points in your journey:

The Primary Purpose / Focus

HoloADHD:
• Growth across business, home-life, health, parenting, and relationships.
• Present and future goals, performance, progress and regulation

Talk Therapy:
• Healing and treating mental health conditions that can co-occur with ADHD (e.g., anxiety, depression, PTSD)

Typical Client Concerns

HoloADHD:
Stress or burnout
Business goals
Work or life transitions
Health
Habits
Productivity
ADHD parenting skills Relationships skills
Regulation skills
Executive Function Skills
Systemization

  • Talk Therapy:
    Depression
    Anxiety
    PTSD
    Suicidal thoughts
    Complex relational patterns
    Mental Health Conditions

The Depth of What We Explore

HoloADHD:
• Teasing out your own inner wisdom
• Strategies, systems, accountability, education
• Bottom-up and top-down regulation practices

Talk Therapy:
• Emphasizes deep emotional processing including past trauma
• Top-down regulation

Clinical Scope

HoloADHD:
• Works with generally stable clients on goals and ADHD challenges
• Provide trauma-sensitive and sequenced nervous system self-regulation skills and support.
• I refer out any work with mental illness or risk.

Talk Therapy:
• Assesses and treats mental health disorders and high‑distress situations
• Treat any anxiety and depression related to ADHD
• Some psychologists are licensed to diagnose ADHD

Session Goals

HoloADHD:
• Specific, often measurable outcomes (e.g., business growth, ADHD parenting, health, life systems skills).

Talk Therapy:
• Reduction of mental health symptoms
• improved coping
• trauma integration
• healthier relationships.

Duration & Structure

HoloADHD:
• Can often be shorter‑term - structured around particular goals or programs. 3-6+ months.

Talk Therapy:
• Can be short‑ or long‑term, often more open‑ended and exploratory. 6-18+ months.

Methods

HoloADHD:

• Motivational interviewing
• Leverage strengths
• Align decisions with core values
• Nervous system regulation practices
• Tests / quizzes for self discovery
• Action planning
• Skills-building
• Systemizing
• Education
• Goal‑setting
• Accountability
• Executive function tools
• Nutrition and hormone support

Talk Therapy:

Psychotherapies to ‘fix’ (e.g., CBT, psychodynamic, EMDR, trauma‑focused work)

Some therapists like some licensed psychologists can also carry out ADHD diagnosis assessments

How It Helps

HoloADHD:
Helps clients -
• Understand ADHD / AuDHD nervous system and how to better regulate themselves
• Improve executive functioning (like planning, organizing, prioritizing, working-memory)
• Get clear on the future they’re working towards and how to get there
• Ditch overwhelm or burnout
• Embody strengths, values, purpose and creating vision
• Understand and address unmet needs
• Get started and perform
• Finish and follow through
• Increase self trust and self belief
• See new perspectives / reduce limiting beliefs

Talk Therapy:
Helps clients -
• Heal
• Reduce distress
• Reduce trauma
• Improve mental health conditions
• Increase stability
• ADHD diagnosis assessments (some licensed psychologists)