Frequently Asked Questions
Will I have assignments between sessions?
You will be invited to practice selected skills between meetings. The purpose is not to create another source of pressure or judgment. Practice helps you discover which strategies are usable, which need modification, and where additional support is needed.
A Neuroscience-Informed Virtual Therapy Group for Adults With ADHD and Executive Functioning Challenges
You can be intelligent, capable, motivated, and genuinely committed to getting something done, and still watch a ten-minute task spread across six days.
That gap between knowing and doing can become one of the most frustrating parts of adult ADHD. You understand the plan. You may have bought the planner. You may even have three planners. Yet task initiation, time awareness, organization, follow-through, emotional overwhelm, or a sudden loss of momentum can keep disrupting the life you are trying to build.
The Adult ADHD Skills & Brain Partnership Group at Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates is an eight-week virtual therapy group designed to help adults understand their ADHD patterns and develop practical systems that work with their brain rather than repeatedly fighting against it.
This is a structured, skills-based therapy group. Participants learn about executive functioning, attention, emotion regulation, procrastination, organization, self-compassion, sensory needs, and burnout prevention. Each week combines education, guided reflection, practical tools, group support, and a skill to practice in daily life. Schedule a free 30-minute consultation to explore whether the group is a good clinical fit.
Group Details
- Format: Eight-week structured therapy group
- Session length: 60 minutes
- Location: Secure virtual sessions throughout California
- Group size: Four to six adults
- Materials: Participant workbook for in-session learning and continued practice
Because this is a psychotherapy group delivered by telehealth, participants must be physically located in California at the time of each session.
You Know What You Need to Do. Accessing It Consistently Is the Hard Part.
Adult ADHD does not always look like an inability to pay attention.
It can look like focusing deeply on the wrong thing while the important thing remains untouched. It can look like underestimating how long a task will take, agreeing to too much, losing track of paperwork, forgetting a conversation, becoming overwhelmed by competing priorities, or needing urgency before the brain finally engages.
It can also look like carrying a tremendous amount of shame.
You may have spent years being told that you were careless, inconsistent, disorganized, overly emotional, unmotivated, or simply not trying hard enough. Many adults with ADHD have developed sophisticated ways of compensating. Those strategies can work for a while, especially when life is predictable. They often become harder to sustain when work, relationships, caregiving, health concerns, or stress place greater demands on the brain.
The goal of this group is not to make you better at criticizing yourself into action. It is to help you understand the processes behind the struggle and develop systems that are more realistic, repeatable, and responsive to your actual life.
ADHD Is More Than Distractibility
Adults with ADHD may experience primarily inattentive symptoms, primarily hyperactive and impulsive symptoms, or a combination of both.
The effects can reach far beyond concentration. ADHD can influence how a person begins a task, organizes information, estimates time, sustains effort, shifts attention, holds information in working memory, regulates frustration, and monitors behavior.
One useful executive functioning framework organizes these challenges into six areas:
- Activation: Organizing, prioritizing, and getting started
- Focus: Focusing, sustaining attention, and shifting attention
- Effort: Regulating alertness, maintaining effort, and managing processing demands
- Emotion: Navigating frustration and regulating emotional responses
- Memory: Using working memory and accessing recall
- Action: Monitoring and regulating behavior
These areas do not operate independently. A stressful interaction can disrupt concentration. Fatigue can make task initiation harder. Overwhelm can increase procrastination. Shame can consume cognitive resources that were already stretched thin.
Research also indicates that emotion regulation difficulties are common and functionally significant for many adults with ADHD (Brown, 2006; Soler-Gutiérrez et al., 2023).
This group uses neuroscience as a practical map. It helps participants notice what their brain and nervous system are doing so they can choose a more useful response. The group may be appropriate for adults with a formal ADHD diagnosis as well as adults experiencing significant ADHD-related or executive functioning concerns. Participation is based on clinical fit rather than a website checklist.
Ready to learn more? Call (626) 524-5525 or send us an email at info@drtruitt.com to schedule a free 30-minute phone consultation today!
This Group May Be Helpful If You Struggle With:
- Chronic procrastination
- Difficulty starting tasks
- Time blindness or frequent lateness
- Underestimating how long tasks will take
- Prioritizing when everything feels equally important
- Following through after the first burst of motivation fades
- Unfinished projects or accumulating responsibilities
- Disorganization at home, at work, or in digital spaces
- Working memory difficulties
- Losing track of appointments, belongings, or conversations
- Emotional intensity, frustration, or shutdown
- Perfectionism that blocks progress
- Harsh self-criticism related to ADHD
- Burnout from relying on urgency and overwork
- Sensory overload or difficulty identifying sensory needs
- Knowing many strategies but struggling to use them consistently
What you will work on:
Understanding Your ADHD Patterns
You will develop a clearer map of how ADHD appears in your daily life, including the situations, demands, emotional states, and environmental factors that make executive functioning easier or harder to access.
Executive Functioning Skills
You will practice strategies for planning, prioritizing, task initiation, time awareness, working memory support, follow-through, and recovering after a plan falls apart.
Nervous System & Emotion Regulation
You will learn how stress and emotional activation interact with attention and executive functioning. The group includes brief regulation practices that can help create more room for reflection, choice, and intentional action.
Thought Awareness & Self-Compassion
You will identify thought patterns that intensify shame, hopelessness, or avoidance and practice responding with greater accuracy, flexibility, and self-compassion.
Organization That Fits Your Life
You will explore how physical and digital environments can either support or overburden executive functioning. The goal is not to create a magazine-perfect system. The goal is to build a usable one.
Procrastination & Productivity
Rather than treating procrastination as laziness, you will examine the factors that may be maintaining it, including overwhelm, fatigue, frustration, uncertainty, perfectionism, low interest, and difficulty identifying the first actionable step.
Sensory Care & Burnout Prevention
You will examine how sensory needs, energy use, movement, rest, and different areas of wellness influence your capacity to function. You will also begin developing a personalized sensory care kit.
Integration & Ongoing Skills Practice for Real Life
The group concludes with a personalized plan for continuing the skills, anticipating barriers, and adapting strategies as your circumstances change.
Why a Small Therapy Group?
ADHD can become isolating, particularly when other people appear to complete ordinary tasks without needing the same level of effort, urgency, or recovery.
A small group allows participants to learn alongside other adults who recognize the gap between capacity and consistent access. It creates opportunities to hear how other people adapt a skill, learn from experiments that did not work, and replace private shame with a more accurate understanding of ADHD.
The group is intentionally limited to four to six participants so there is time for discussion, individual reflection, guided practice, and meaningful clinical support. Call (626) 524-5525 or send us an email at info@drtruitt.com to schedule a free 30-minute phone consultation to learn more about how this group can help you build the skills to live your excellence.
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