Adult ADHD Evaluation & Treatment

Is ADHD making daily life harder?

Get a thoughtful adult ADHD evaluation focused on your symptoms, history, health, and everyday functioning.

Because anxiety, depression, trauma, poor sleep, and some medical conditions can look similar, we take time to understand the full picture.

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More Than Just Distraction

ADHD can affect planning, memory, motivation, and finishing what you start — not just focus.

Adults Can Be Missed

Many adults find ways to cope for years — until work, parenting, or new demands make it harder to keep up.

Evaluation Comes First

Anxiety, trauma, depression, poor sleep, and some medical conditions can look a lot like ADHD.

Understanding Adult ADHD

It may also affect time management, organization, memory, emotional control, and your ability to finish what you start.

ADHD looks different from person to person. A careful evaluation helps us understand what you are experiencing and whether ADHD—or something else—may be contributing.

How ADHD May Show Up

These patterns can overlap, and the symptoms that stand out most may change over time.

Inattentive

Focus and organization

You may lose track of time, forget details, misplace things, become distracted, or struggle to finish tasks.

Hyperactive-Impulsive

Restlessness and quick reactions

You may feel internally restless, talk quickly, interrupt, become impatient, or act before thinking things through.

Combined

A mix of both patterns

You may notice meaningful problems with focus and organization, along with restlessness or impulsive behavior.

Common Signs

ADHD symptoms are usually ongoing, affect more than one part of life, and cause real difficulty—not just occasional distraction.

Attention & Follow-Through

Tasks feel harder to manage

  • Getting distracted easily
  • Starting tasks but not finishing them
  • Forgetting appointments or deadlines
  • Losing important items
  • Struggling with time and organization

Energy & Impulse Control

Slowing down can feel difficult

  • Feeling restless or “wound up”
  • Interrupting or speaking before others finish
  • Difficulty waiting
  • Making quick decisions
  • Feeling mentally or physically “on the go”

Having some of these signs does not automatically mean you have ADHD. Anxiety, depression, trauma, sleep problems, medications, substance use, and medical conditions can cause similar concerns.

Why Evaluation Matters

ADHD is not diagnosed from one questionnaire or one computer test. Your history, health, symptoms, and daily functioning all matter.

Your history

Childhood, school, work, relationships, and earlier symptoms.

Sleep and health

Sleep, medical concerns, medications, caffeine, and substance use.

Other explanations

Anxiety, depression, trauma, thyroid concerns, and other conditions.

Daily functioning

How symptoms affect home, work, school, relationships, and safety.

Risk Factors

ADHD does not have one single cause. Research suggests that genetics, brain development, and certain prenatal or early-life exposures may influence risk.

Family History & Genetics

ADHD can run in families

Having a parent, sibling, or other close relative with ADHD may increase the likelihood of developing it.

Brain Development

Brain-based differences may play a role

Researchers continue to study differences in brain development, activity, and information processing associated with ADHD.

Prenatal Exposures

Pregnancy-related factors may influence risk

Researchers have studied prenatal exposure to alcohol, tobacco, and other substances as possible contributors.

Early Birth Factors

Premature birth may be associated with higher risk

Being born prematurely or having certain complications around birth has been associated with a greater likelihood of ADHD.

Brain Injury

Certain injuries may affect attention and control

Brain injuries can cause attention, memory, or impulse-control problems and are among the factors researchers evaluate.

Additional Factors Studied

Environmental and early-life influences

  • Exposure to environmental toxins such as lead
  • Early neurological or developmental concerns
  • Serious illness or injury during early development
  • Sleep problems that can worsen attention and behavior

How We Can Help

Your plan may include one or more of the following, depending on what we find during your evaluation.

Comprehensive Evaluation

A careful review of symptoms, childhood history, health, sleep, medications, and daily life.

Objective Testing

When appropriate, computer-based testing may provide additional information about attention and activity.

Medication Review

A discussion of possible benefits, risks, alternatives, safety, and follow-up—not an automatic prescription.

Practical Support

Strategies for planning, time management, organization, sleep, and breaking larger goals into manageable steps.

What to Expect

1

We listen

You share what has been happening and how it affects your life.

2

We review

We look at your history, symptoms, health, sleep, and functioning.

3

We clarify

We discuss whether ADHD or another concern better explains the symptoms.

4

We plan together

We review options and build a plan based on your needs and goals.

Do These Patterns Feel Familiar?

An evaluation can help you understand what may be contributing and what next steps make sense.

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An evaluation does not guarantee an ADHD diagnosis or prescription. Recommendations are based on your history, symptoms, health, safety, and daily functioning.