Late-Diagnosed ADHD: Understanding, Support and Real-Life Insight

ADHD emotional regulation often feels like a character flaw, when it is more accurately a skills gap. DBT (Dialectical Behaviour Therapy) offers a structured, practical framework for understanding and regulating big emotions – the ‘manual’ many adults never knew existed.

If you’re looking for support, but unsure whether therapy or ADHD Coaching is the next step, the difference isn’t as simple as past vs present. Both aim to build awareness and insight. The distinction lies in orientation. Therapy works to process and integrate insight. ADHD Coaching focuses on the ‘now what?’. It turns awareness into practical action and sustainable change in daily life.

Wondering if you might have ADHD as an adult? Symptom checklists can be useful, but many people first recognise ADHD through moments of familiarity rather than criteria. In adulthood, it often presents as an internal, subjective experience that doesn’t always show up clearly on behaviour-based lists. Recognition comes first. Diagnosis comes later.