Our Clinic

ADHD / ADD Diagnosis – Our Vision

ADHD Consultancy aims to provide a bespoke, high quality yet affordable  ADHD/ADD diagnosis and treatment service.

Unfortunately, the NHS is overstretched and under-resourced.  Many people face waits of many months, or even years, to be seen by their local service, assuming that such a local service exists.

Doctors and psychiatrists generally receive little, if any, training in adult ADHD/ADD. As a result, there are many misunderstandings about the different ways that ADHD can present itself in adults and children, especially in terms of high functioning presentations. People with lifelong difficulties can be refused the diagnosis and treatment they need, even by specialist NHS ADHD teams.

What we offer

Report

Diagnosis

Treatment

Strategies

Reasonable Adjustments

Understanding

Support

A way forward

Our comprehensive report will cover the ways in which your ADHD/ADD has affected you across your life. The report also covers comorbid mental health and other neurodevelopmental issues, which are so often found alongside ADHD/ADD. In addition, it offers a concise formulation that will help you understand your difficulties including psychodynamic insights where appropriate. Our aim is to help you understand yourself and move forward with your life

If appropriate, we will prescribe stimulant medication. We also work with you and your GP to get you shared care NHS prescribing. Almost all of our patients have been successful in getting their medication from their GPs to date. The report will detail reasonable adjustments suitable for school, college, university or workplace.

We also offer a wide range of psychoeducation, coaching style advice, and a wealth of psychoeducational and cognitively based material tailored to your needs.

This will all be available after your appointment via email.. We also offer a free email aftercare service – once seen you can email our doctors at any time with queries or concerns.

Many private practices are prohibitively expensive, so we aim to offer an affordable, yet bespoke high-quality service. While ADHD Consultancy’s main focus is ADHD/ADD diagnosis and treatment, our comprehensive assessment also looks at other associated or comorbid conditions.

Our multiaxial assessment will highlight these, and their impact on your functioning and well-being. Dr Read is also a trained psychotherapist, specialising in Cognitive Analytic Therapy, and her psychodynamic and cognitive understanding and strategies really help in the journey of self-understanding, and formulating a treatment plan. Dr Read also has ADHD herself and has a deep personal understanding of how ADHD impacts lives and which treatments actually work.

An affordable, high-quality service

Dr Read has a special interest in rejection sensitivity

Despite not (yet) being part of the diagnostic criteria, people with ADHD/ADD so often struggle with rejection sensitive dysphoria and other emotional issues as part of these conditions.  Our treatment plans for this condition are highly effective

ADHD can affect girls and women differently

ADHD Consultancy is currently closed to new bookings

ADHD Consultancy is currently closed to new bookings. We are so grateful to all our lovely friends and clients for choosing and recommending us, but we are now booked for the next year and so will be closing the doors for a few months. We are still open to our existing clients of course, and anyone already booked for an assessment.
 
There are so many good clinics out there that we are not recommending anyone specific…..As always, Psychiatry UK is the budget friendly option, check out their Right to Choose option.
 
We don’t operate a waiting list, but do check back in in a couple of months, we’ll keep you updated here
 
Thanks and good luck on your ADHD journeys,
 
Dr Helen Read and team