Professional ADHD Treatment Services
Individual Therapy
At Northwest ADHD Treatment center, we strive to create positive, constructive relationships between patient and provider. As a center for excellence in all matters, we have developed a team of mental health care professionals who will work to develop a treatment plan that works best for you. Our providers have a range of qualifications and specialties to meet the needs of the Portland community.
Group Therapy
Our staff is proud to offer several therapy groups for interested patients. These group sessions are led by experienced professions and cover a wide range of attention-related topics. From traditional topics such as Home Management to innovative new approaches involving tools like Dungeons and Dragons, these groups create a welcoming environment in which people can freely express themselves and find community with other patients.
Medication Management
Our board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners complete a thorough psychiatric assessment and will make recommendations about the best medication and non-medication options to effectively manage your symptoms.
Individual Therapy
Personalized Treatment Plans
Collaborative Care
Adaptive Strategies
Group Therapy Offerings
Current Offerings
ADHD and Autism Group
Psychoeducation and support group for people with ADHD and Autistic traits. The weekly virtual group focuses on different presentations on specific topics relating to Autism and ADHD. Once every 6 weeks, an additional in-person group session will be facilitated as a more discussion-oriented and open process-oriented space.
Audience: 18+ with ADHD diagnosis and also have experiences aligned with Autism
Schedule: Tuesdays, 5:00pm – 6:00pm (virtual), and Wednesdays 6:00pm – 7:00pm (in-person, once every 6 weeks)
Location: Virtual, with an additional optional in-person group session at our Downtown location every 6 weeks
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment / Please specify if you are interested in the weekly virtual, every 6-weeks in-person, or both
Insurances Accepted: OHP and cash pay
ADHD Body Doubling Group
Body doubling space for adults with ADHD to work on intended tasks (e.g., chores, paperwork, homework, emails, etc.) Folks share their goal, quietly work, and check in at the end.
Audience: 18+ with ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Mondays, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
ADHD Friendly Mindfulness
Learn ADHD friendly mindfulness and meditation practices, as well as get support to develop a consistent mindfulness practice. If you would like to try mindfulness or meditation and it hasn’t worked for you, this is your group. We also focus on self-compassion and kindness in this group as part of a complete meditation practice. Group starts with a review of the guidelines, personal check ins, discussion/problem solving issues with meditation or mindfulness practice, and ends with mindfulness practice and brief discussion of the practice.
Audience: Adults 22+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Current session began on Tuesday, August 8th! Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm / Next session begins October 20th
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 8-week cycle; open to new members every 8 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
ADHD Home Management
Learn skills and strategies to improve home management, including chores, decluttering, organization, etc. Gain support and reduce shame.
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Wednesdays, 3:00pm. – 4:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Building and Maintaining Routines
Is there a specific routine that you’ve been struggling to get started or keep up with? What about that long list of projects you’ve been trying and failing to get to? Building and Maintaining Routines can help you get there. The goal of the Building and Maintaining Routines group is to support patients in practically improving specific areas of their lives. Each group member is asked to create a specific goal for a routine they want to improve, a project they want to complete, or a skill they want to develop. Each week the provider will offer skills training and support for group members in problem solving individual barriers to completing tasks and maintaining routines. Group members can expect support and validation from others with similar challenges, and will have the opportunity to provide their own support to others. This group meets every other week to provide group members the opportunity to practice and improve skills between appointments. We have four different times available!
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Every other Monday, 11:00am – 12:00pm AND 4:00pm – 5:00pm / Every other Tuesday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm / Every other Wednesday, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Executive Functioning & Flexible Thinking
Using Unstuck and On-Target Curriculum, group members will learn skills such as flexible thinking, emotional regulation, problem-solving, compromise, planning, and goal setting. This is a great group for children with ADHD/autism. This is an in-person group.
Audience: Elementary aged (ideally 7+)
Schedule: Beginning September 14th, Mondays 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: In-person at our Downtown office
Type: Open and ongoing enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Friendship Skills Group
This is a social skills group for middle and high school aged clients who are interested in learning and practicing friendship skills. Topics include reading social cues, sharing conversation, entering/exiting conversations, hosting/attending get-togethers, managing peer conflict, social media, and self-advocacy. There is some flexibility to add in more topics if needed, depending on overall group needs (e.g., identity exploration, hygiene). The program is based on the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) with tweaks/updates. Groups will include didactic lessons, video modeling, role playing, and active work outside of sessions (e.g., starting a conversation with a potential friend, hosting a get together).
Audience: Teens aged 12-17; any preteen/teen interested in making new friends
Schedule: Beginning September 17th, Thursdays, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Group runs in 16 week cycles; open to new members each quarter
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Parenting for Connection: Supporting Self-Regulation & Positive Behaviors
This is a supportive space to explore the challenges and joy of parenting kids with behavioral challenges. It includes a mixture of teaching behavioral principles of reinforcement, collaborative problem solving, and tips on teaching developmental skills to improve behaviors.
Audience: NW ADHD patients who are parents of children with behavioral challenges
Schedule: Beginning September 15th, Tuesdays, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Group runs in 12 week cycles; open to new members each quarter
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurances as credentialing allows
Structured ADHD Coping Skills
Structured ADHD Coping skills is a 10-week skills training group focused on developing practical and usable skills to manage ADHD symptoms and improve functioning in daily life. The group format is more similar to a classroom setting than a typical counseling group, where the facilitator will introduce a topic, teach new skills, support patients in practicing those skills, and provide weekly at home practice to follow up on the next week. Topics covered include building awareness of ADHD symptoms, developing new routines, prioritizing and to do lists, time management, scheduling, planning and completing large projects, and managing the impact of mood on ADHD symptoms.
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: New session beginning August 13th, Thursdays, 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 10-week cycle; open to new members every 10 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Teen Executive Function Lab
Each session includes guided weekly planning, breaking down assignments into manageable steps, time estimation practice, and structured body doubling work periods to support task initiation. Participatns will identify personal goals, troubleshoot barriers to completion, and build accountability through peer support. This is not a lecture-style skills group, but rather the group emphasizes live application of strategies, repetition, and real time problem solving to increase independence, reduce avoidance, and strengthen self-efficacy.
Audience: High school teens (aged ~14-18) with any diagnosis
Schedule: Beginning September 9th , Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 8-week cycle; open to new members every 8 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Teen Executive Function Lab
Each session includes guided weekly planning, breaking down assignments into manageable steps, time estimation practice, and structured body doubling work periods to support task initiation. Participatns will identify personal goals, troubleshoot barriers to completion, and build accountability through peer support. This is not a lecture-style skills group, but rather the group emphasizes live application of strategies, repetition, and real time problem solving to increase independence, reduce avoidance, and strengthen self-efficacy.
Audience: High school teens (aged ~14-18) with any diagnosis
Schedule: Beginning September 9th , Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 8-week cycle; open to new members every 8 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Current Offerings
ADHD and Autism Group
Psychoeducation and support group for people with ADHD and Autistic traits. The weekly virtual group focuses on different presentations on specific topics relating to Autism and ADHD. Once every 6 weeks, an additional in-person group session will be facilitated as a more discussion-oriented and open process-oriented space.
Audience: 18+ with ADHD diagnosis and also have experiences aligned with Autism
Schedule: Tuesdays, 5:00pm – 6:00pm (virtual), and Wednesdays 6:00pm – 7:00pm (in-person, once every 6 weeks)
Location: Virtual, with an additional optional in-person group session at our Downtown location every 6 weeks
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment / Please specify if you are interested in the weekly virtual, every 6-weeks in-person, or both
Insurances Accepted: OHP and cash pay
ADHD Body Doubling Group
Body doubling space for adults with ADHD to work on intended tasks (e.g., chores, paperwork, homework, emails, etc.) Folks share their goal, quietly work, and check in at the end.
Audience: 18+ with ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Mondays, 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
ADHD Friendly Mindfulness
Learn ADHD friendly mindfulness and meditation practices, as well as get support to develop a consistent mindfulness practice. If you would like to try mindfulness or meditation and it hasn’t worked for you, this is your group. We also focus on self-compassion and kindness in this group as part of a complete meditation practice. Group starts with a review of the guidelines, personal check ins, discussion/problem solving issues with meditation or mindfulness practice, and ends with mindfulness practice and brief discussion of the practice.
Audience: Adults 22+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Current session began on Tuesday, August 8th! Tuesdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm / Next session begins October 20th
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 8-week cycle; open to new members every 8 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
ADHD Home Management
Learn skills and strategies to improve home management, including chores, decluttering, organization, etc. Gain support and reduce shame.
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Wednesdays, 3:00pm. – 4:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Building and Maintaining Routines
Is there a specific routine that you’ve been struggling to get started or keep up with? What about that long list of projects you’ve been trying and failing to get to? Building and Maintaining Routines can help you get there. The goal of the Building and Maintaining Routines group is to support patients in practically improving specific areas of their lives. Each group member is asked to create a specific goal for a routine they want to improve, a project they want to complete, or a skill they want to develop. Each week the provider will offer skills training and support for group members in problem solving individual barriers to completing tasks and maintaining routines. Group members can expect support and validation from others with similar challenges, and will have the opportunity to provide their own support to others. This group meets every other week to provide group members the opportunity to practice and improve skills between appointments. We have four different times available!
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Every other Monday, 11:00am – 12:00pm AND 4:00pm – 5:00pm / Every other Tuesday, 3:00pm – 4:00pm / Every other Wednesday, 11:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Executive Functioning & Flexible Thinking
Using Unstuck and On-Target Curriculum, group members will learn skills such as flexible thinking, emotional regulation, problem-solving, compromise, planning, and goal setting. This is a great group for children with ADHD/autism. This is an in-person group.
Audience: Elementary aged (ideally 7+)
Schedule: Beginning September 14th, Mondays 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: In-person at our Downtown office
Type: Open and ongoing enrollment
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Friendship Skills Group
This is a social skills group for middle and high school aged clients who are interested in learning and practicing friendship skills. Topics include reading social cues, sharing conversation, entering/exiting conversations, hosting/attending get-togethers, managing peer conflict, social media, and self-advocacy. There is some flexibility to add in more topics if needed, depending on overall group needs (e.g., identity exploration, hygiene). The program is based on the Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS) with tweaks/updates. Groups will include didactic lessons, video modeling, role playing, and active work outside of sessions (e.g., starting a conversation with a potential friend, hosting a get together).
Audience: Teens aged 12-17; any preteen/teen interested in making new friends
Schedule: Beginning September 17th, Thursdays, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Group runs in 16 week cycles; open to new members each quarter
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Parenting for Connection: Supporting Self-Regulation & Positive Behaviors
This is a supportive space to explore the challenges and joy of parenting kids with behavioral challenges. It includes a mixture of teaching behavioral principles of reinforcement, collaborative problem solving, and tips on teaching developmental skills to improve behaviors.
Audience: NW ADHD patients who are parents of children with behavioral challenges
Schedule: Beginning September 15th, Tuesdays, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Group runs in 12 week cycles; open to new members each quarter
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurances as credentialing allows
Structured ADHD Coping Skills
Structured ADHD Coping skills is a 10-week skills training group focused on developing practical and usable skills to manage ADHD symptoms and improve functioning in daily life. The group format is more similar to a classroom setting than a typical counseling group, where the facilitator will introduce a topic, teach new skills, support patients in practicing those skills, and provide weekly at home practice to follow up on the next week. Topics covered include building awareness of ADHD symptoms, developing new routines, prioritizing and to do lists, time management, scheduling, planning and completing large projects, and managing the impact of mood on ADHD symptoms.
Audience: Adults 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Thursdays, 11:00am – 12:00pm beginning Thursday, January 23rd; schedule may change in the future depending on need
Location: Virtual
Type: Open enrollment with new group starting every 10 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Teen Executive Function Lab
Each session includes guided weekly planning, breaking down assignments into manageable steps, time estimation practice, and structured body doubling work periods to support task initiation. Participatns will identify personal goals, troubleshoot barriers to completion, and build accountability through peer support. This is not a lecture-style skills group, but rather the group emphasizes live application of strategies, repetition, and real time problem solving to increase independence, reduce avoidance, and strengthen self-efficacy.
Audience: High school teens (aged ~14-18) with any diagnosis
Schedule: Beginning September 9th , Wednesdays, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Must commit to 8-week cycle; open to new members every 8 weeks
Insurances Accepted: OHP, cash pay, and private insurance as credentialing allows
Women’s ADHD Process Support Group
A space for adult women (inclusive of all) with ADHD to gain support and validation, problem solve current struggles, and learn coping skills for ADHD.
Audience: Women (inclusive of all) 18+ with an ADHD diagnosis
Schedule: Wednesdays, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Virtual
Type: Ongoing with open enrollment as spots are available
Insurances Accepted: OHP, private insurances as credentialing allows, cash pay
Group Guidelines
No discussion of specific trauma content, self-harm, suicidal ideation, or eating disordered behavior in group sessions.
Future Groups
DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) Skills Group: An open enrollment group focusing on DBT core pillars.
Insurance And Payment
Groups are open to OHP and cash pay, with some accepting insurance. Specifics vary by group.
Medication Management
Appointments
Please be prepared 15 minutes prior to your appointment time as there may be forms to complete. If you are late, there may not be enough time to be seen and you will be charged a late cancellation fee. You must be physically present in the state of Oregon for telemedicine visits. Unless your provider is licensed in the state you are physically in.
If you cannot make it to your appointment, we require 48 hour advance notice for cancellation. Appointments not canceled with at least 48 hours notice will be charged a $75 late cancellation fee. This fee is not covered by your insurance.
A $75 fee similarly applies to no-shows. Consult your provider with any concerns.
If you have multiple late cancellations or no-shows, your care may be terminated.
Treatment Philosophy
Prescriptions
Please make an appointment for follow up at least one week before you will run out of medication.
For non-controlled medications, such as antidepressants, you can call your pharmacy directly and they will submit an electronic request for refills. Please allow one week for refills.
Mutual Respect Policy
