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Latest Episodes
Creating A Collaborative Relationship With Your Child’s Teachers
As a parent advocating for your ADHD/neurodivergent child at their school, have you found it difficult to jump through all the hoops required by our school systems in order to…
Tree of Life with Michelle Raz
Visualize a tree, with roots, trunk and branches all visible. This is your Tree, your life past and present, ready to grow more branches, the ideas and plans and things…
The Murderers of Motivation with Tamara Rosier, PhD
“Just can’t get started“. “I did a bunch of things on my To-Do list…not the important ones but I got a lot done”. “I’m exhausted, can’t do another thing! (5pm)”. Does…
Cognitive Disengagement Syndrome with Dr. Joseph Fredrick
Daydreaming. Spacing out. Moving slowly, takes a long time to do anything. Always tired, even if they got a good night’s sleep. They can focus, get chores and homework…
Finish homework on time and stress-free? For real? Use studyzen™
Which assignment do I work on now? Which is more important? When is that one due? These are questions every High School and college student has to answer every day.…
The “lived experience” of ADHD as motivation to help others deal with it with Pippa Simou
If anyone had doubts about whether my guest or I have ADHD, in this episode of ADHD Focus we provided decisive proof that indeed we do. In a wide-ranging discussion we touched…
Brent Newton of myOwl
Do you: flounder in the maze of school apps and programs simply to find your child’s assignments, or where to turn them in, or how they are doing in the…
Micromoments of Shame with Linda Roggli
Micromoments of shame* – stepping over the box you were going to take upstairs as you go upstairs, passing by the unfolded laundry, discovering the clothes in the washer from…
Menopause and ADHD with Linda Roggli
Menopause and the hormonal swings leading up to it, perimenopause, often causes mood swings, brain fog, and always hot flashes. ADHD added to the mix compounds everything! Join Linda Roggli…
Inattentive ADHD, the Stealth Diagnosis with Cynthia Hammer
Inattentive ADHD, the Stealth Diagnosis. People with Inattentive ADHD tend to fly under the radar for years, decades even, women and girls more often (inadvertently) than men and boys. They…
Women with Undiagnosed ADHD with Deborah Brooks
Women with undiagnosed ADHD of either Type “pay” more for it than do men, this is the Female ADHD Tax. Women and men who have undiagnosed ADHD struggle with life;…
Girls on the Autism Spectrum — “the something else” with Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Do you feel that the treatments for your child’s ADHD and co-occurring Anxiety and/or Learning Disorders and/or Depression are not working for …something else but you don’t know what? That…
A Fresh Perspective on Executive Functions with Jeff Copper
Why do we ADHDers (which includes myself) toss one task aside and choose to do another? Why are some of us usually arriving late to meetings, dates, dinner at home?…
What is Asperger’s Syndrome Anyway? with Thomas Brown
What is Asperger’s Syndrome anyway? Is it like autism? Can someone have ADHD and Asperger’s? How is that determined? In this show Thomas Brown PhD and I discuss the answers…
Academic Coaching with Michelle Raz
“My 9th grader needs help, she can’t get organized, her grades are failing, she is depressed, and I don’t know how to help her.” “Why does it take you so…
Know Your ADHD Related Strengths with Kristin Swanson
Welcome to the inaugural Video production of ADHD Focus, available on YouTube at ADHD Focus Kristin Swanson 32323. And coming soon to Roku and Firestick! The audio podcast of course remains…
Boundaries with Dr Tamara Rosier
Why do people with ADHD need boundaries? Why do we typically have poor boundaries? Tamara Rosier joins us for a second time for an enlightening discussion about boundaries. Tamara Rosier, Phd…
Master ADHD Now with Nic McLoughlin
“I can’t be late for work again! Where are my keys?” “Mom, where are my baseball shoes?” “It’s past midnight again, and I have that 7am meeting”. Do any of…
Email and Inbox Mastery with Alan Brown
Email, the Great Time Sink! As in your precious time goes down the drain…. It is almost impossible to resist jumping right into email first thing and pretty soon you…
Complex Kids Part Two with Elaine Talyor Klaus
In this part II of the discussion begun last week with Elaine Taylor-Klaus, author of Essential Guide to Raising Complex Kids, we move on to parent coaching, helping your child learn…
Complex Kids With Elaine Taylor Klaus
Have you been asking yourself these questions: “The treatments we have been doing help but it’s still a struggle every day, is it this hard for all parents?” “We think…
How Are You Sabotaging Yourself In Dealing With ADHD? Part 2 with Jeff Copper
This is Dr. David Pomeroy, your host of ADHD Focus, the podcast with the goal of exploding the myth-information about ADHD out there. Welcome back to round 2 of my discussion with Jeff Copper, ADHD Coach and creator…
How Are You Self-Sabotaging Yourself In Dealing With ADHD
How are you sabotaging yourself in dealing with ADHD? And you are, all of us with ADHD are doing it. Maybe you are working on organization, time management, getting things…
ADHD And Future Financial Planning
What can you be doing now to enable you to live into the vision you have for your future? Yeah, I know. “Future? I have a tough time keeping me…
How Emotions Sabotage Motivation
“I am just not motivated. Maybe my meds need to be adjusted.” “I do many things every day but not the ones I know I need to do”. “Why can’t…
Skin-Picking And ADHD
Why do people pick at their skin, pull out their hair, pop zits for fun? Is it part of ADHD? Can it become a part of someone’s ADHD? Can it…
Aron’s ADHD Journey: Life Before & After Diagnosis And Treatment
Join Dr. David Pomeroy for the second show about life before and life after the diagnosis of ADHD and starting treatment, the stories of 2 people whose lives turned around…
Alyxx’s ADHD Journey: Life Before & After Diagnosis and Treatment
What is it like going from struggling but not knowing why to discovering why so much of your life didn’t go well to success in so many ways? If you…
Parenting Roles Part II
This is the final installment of my series with Elaine Taylor-Klaus on raising complex kids (aren’t they all? Yes) especially those with ADHD, Anxiety and More (and sometimes both of…
ADHD Parenting Roles
Would you like to change how life happens in your home, reduce frustrations, change the emotional tone of family interactions? Parenting is difficult and the path to making constructive changes…
ADHD and Self-Care with Kate Moryoussef
My guest today is Kate Moryoussef, a well-being/ADHD coach who lives in the UK and thanks totechnology for online meetings has clients around the world. She outlined her “8 Rules…
Elaine Taylor-Klaus — IMPACT PARENTING Part II
Rejoin Elaine Taylor-Klaus and I as we continue our discussion of the IMPACT model of collaborative parenting, a powerful way to reach a primary goal of parenting, guiding your child…
IMPACT Parents with Elaine Taylor-Klaus
What frustrates you most as a parent? Are your challenges different at different ages or with one child and not with another? Is there a clear path through the wilderness…
Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria in ADHD with Bill Dodson
Welcome back to Part 2 of my discussion with Dr. Bill Dodson on Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria in ADHD. We are continuing our discussion of last week on…
Emotional Dysregulation in ADHD
Today Dr. David Pomeroy speaks with Dr. Bill Dodson about Emotional Dysregulation in ADHD. Emotional Dysregulation and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria are important aspects of ADHD which have been left out of the…
Depression and ADHD with Dr. Bill Dodson — Part 2
This episode continues the discussion about depression and ADHD, moving into bipolar disorder and ADHD. Some people have both, sorting that out is important as the bipolar disorder needs to…
Depression and ADHD
Have you ever been told diagnosed with depression, either before or after your ADHD diagnosis? Depression commonly travels along with ADHD and sometimes can be confused with it. They each…
Slow Processing Speed — What to do?
What can you do about it and how can you help your child? Ellen Braaten, PhD of Harvard Medical School and Executive Director of LEAP (Learning and Educational Assessment Program)…
Slow Processing Speed — What to do?
Second installment on processing speed – What can you do about it and how can you help your child? Ellen Braaten, PhD of Harvard Medical School and Executive Director of…
Cannabis and ADHD
Cannabis/weed/marijuana – it’s everywhere. It is legal for adult use with no restrictions in 11 states, for “medicinal” (sic) use in 34 states. And it affects brain development in teens…
Raising Complex Kids with Elaine Taylor-Klaus
Today Dr. Pomeroy talks to Elaine Taylor-Klaus, one of the innovators of ADHD Coaching specifically in the area of coaching parents. Elaine has done group classes for parents since 2011…
Transition Awareness Breathing with Eartha Powell
If there were a way to change your child’s self-perception and self-talk from negative to positive would you want to know about it? (Hint, yours will change as well.) How…
Brenda Mahan and the Wall of Awful
Here you go….Brendan Mahan and the Wall of Awful “Yup, I failed again, messed it up”. “I’ve disappointed Mom again, she probably wishes Iwasn’t her kid.” “I’ll be up until…
Stop the Battles with Penny Williams
Have you ever felt like dealing with your ADHD child is a never-ending series of battles? Homework, chores, screen time … only a few of the possible sticking points. There…
Coping with Covid, Summer (and Fall) with Dr Sharon Saline
Everyone is asking, how do we cope with the summer of COVID? Usual activities are gone, everyone in the family is on edge, we can’t see friends or other family…HELP! …
A World without ADHD with Kirsten Mililiken, PhD
Would you want to live in a world without ADHD? I certainly wouldn’t. How dull it would be! Artists, inventors, explorers, statesmen, actors, musicians – many have ADHD and many…
Managing time as a team with Dr. Sharon Saline
Do you and your ADHD child understand how to work together to solve the time management, task management, emotional management issues that show up daily? These happen in every household…
Dr Brian Friedlander Assistive Technology for ADHD/LD
Have you ever tried to sort through programs and apps to find which one might help your child with ADHD and/or LD do better in school? Which ones are included…
Girls and ADHD
ADHD often shows up differently in girls than it does in boys. Usually. How? What factors indicate higher risk outcomes for girls? Consequences of undiagnosed ADHD in girls are much…
Dr David Anderson – ADHD Brain Differences
“He disrupts the class, he argues with me, he breaks the rules at home and at school”. “I have to ask 3 times and she still forgets to do it”.…
Dr. Joel Nigg – Sleep And The ADHD Brain
Sleep is the most important of all life rhythms. Your brain is not turned off and resting during sleep, it is putting information into long-term memory so that learning becomes…
How to motivate your ADHD child (without using screen time!) with Dr Jerome Schultz
“It’s too hard!” “Why do I have to do this stupid book report? It’s dumb!” “I finished it in school”…which you find out later is not the truth. Have you…
Career Choices and ADHD
What if I don’t like what I chose in college? Where can I get some practical experience and discover my true interests? I have many interests, do I have to…
Beyond High School with Patricia Quinn MD
Here are more answers to the FAQs on the “High School to ‘after’ transition” for students and families dealing with ADHD – a parent’s role is coach, not player; what…
ADHD in Relationships with Don Baker
Does your spouse/partner/you have ADHD? Do any of these sound familiar? “You never listen, you don’t care about me.”“I’ve told you so many times…(pick any of 15 things)”“I’ve had it.…
ADHD Focus: College Prep with Dr Theresa Maitland
Do you worry about how your ADHD child will do when she/he goes off to college? Do you wonder how you can give him/her the best preparation for demands of…
ADHD Focus – Internet Addiction With Hilarie Cash PhD
Someone who spends hours on Internet, social media, YouTube, or playing video games to the exclusion of interactions with family and friends, isolating and at times violently opposing any request…
ADHD Focus – Medications for ADHD
There are so many sources of information and myth – information about medications for ADHD it is hard to get reliable information. Dr. Ted Mandelkorn began working with children with…
ADHD Focus – Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Roberto Olivardia, PhD
Roberto Olivardia, PhD – Body Dysmorphic Disorder Do you know anyone who absolutely hates some aspect about his/her body? Enough to obsessively try to change it? Some do with cosmetic…
ADHD Focus – Parent the Child You Have with Cindy Goldrich
Do you struggle to parent your ADHD child? Does your ADHD child resist, dismiss, rebel against your requests, advice, guidance, and rules? This is a podcast you will not want…
ADHD Focus – Social Learning for ADHD Kids with Anna Vagin, PhD
How can kids learn to identify their feelings, and to read social cues to identify how others are feeling? Feelings are facts to the one doing the feeling, and many…
ADHD Focus – Women with ADHD with Kathleen Nadeau
Are you a woman with ADHD? Do you know one? You need to listen to this show with Kathleen Nadeau, a psychologist and pioneer in the field of ADHD in…
ADHD Focus – Denise Allan on Organization
Organization – a word that brings a shudder of shame and guilt to all with ADHD. We know we don’t do it well, even though we may have read all…