Name
Helping Individuals and Couples with ADHD Create/Maintain Healthy Boundaries
Description
More than half of adults in relationships impacted by ADHD are in maladjusted relationships, with an imbalance of status between partners, communication issues, emotional dysregulation, and conflict over responsibilities a critical issues. Clinical experience shows that the vast majority of ADHD-impacted couples who seek counseling struggle with co-dependent interactions, most notably co-dependent interactions sometimes labeled Parent-Child Dynamics. This lack of boundaries contributes to their struggles as a couple, yet confusion about what good boundaries look like, plus a lack of research about helping ADHD-impacted couples improve their boundaries, leaves professionals with little direction about how to help these couples move forward. This presentation will address this conundrum. It provides an effective model developed over years of clinical experience helping ADHD-impacted couples build better boundaries. The presentation will also: provide specific information about how boundaries work is impacted by ADHD and responses to ADHD; address common issues each partner faces as they do this work; provide constructive boundary communication strategies; and provide realistic benchmarks to help measure success.
Melissa Orlov Rachel Ban
Track
Therapists
Date & Time
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 8:15 AM - 10:15 AM