The problem is rarely that your child isn't trying.
By the time most families reach us, their child has been told to focus, sit still and try harder for years. What usually has not happened is a serious look at the demands themselves — how long the tasks are, how instructions are given, what the classroom expects between the instruction and the work.
We do not diagnose ADHD, and we do not prescribe or manage medication. Both belong with independent clinicians. Where medication is part of your child's care, we work alongside it and report what we see.
Where this sits in the five stages
You may recognise some of this.
None of these is a diagnosis and none of them means something is wrong. They are the patterns that tend to be described on the first call.
- Work that gets started and never finished, across every subject
- A gap between what your child clearly knows and what appears on paper
- Homework taking three times as long as the school thinks it should
- Behaviour that spikes at unstructured times — transitions, breaks, the end of the day
- A school that has run out of strategies and is now describing the problem as motivation
ADHD, through the five stages.
The pathway is the same for every child. What changes is what each stage contains.
Understand
A functional needs assessment across home and school.
Plan
The Independence Plan, in plain English.
Build
Intervention and parent coaching.
Step Back
Support reduces on purpose.
What we do
- Look at the task and the environment before looking at the child's effort
- Break goals down to something reviewable weekly, not termly
- Give the class teacher a small number of changes they can actually sustain
- Coach you on the home routines where most of the friction lives
- Measure whether support hours are coming down, and report it either way
What we don't do
- Diagnose, prescribe, or advise on medication
- Recommend a full-time assistant where a change of task design would do
- Confuse compliance with learning
- Bill for hours nobody can point to a goal for
If any of these is what you are looking for, we are the wrong provider and we would rather say so now than three months in.
Straight answers.
Can you diagnose ADHD?
No, and that is deliberate. Diagnosis stays with independent clinicians we neither own nor pay, so the people deciding what your child needs are never the people who profit from the answer. We will name clinicians and you go to them directly.
My child is on medication. Does that change what you do?
It changes what we watch. We record what we observe across the day and share it with you and, with your consent, with the prescribing clinician. We do not advise on doses and we never suggest changing medication.
Does my child need a diagnosis before you can help?
No. Our assessment is functional — it looks at what your child does and what gets in the way, which does not require a label. If a formal diagnosis would open doors at school or with insurance, we will say so.
Other profiles we support.
Autism
Support built around how your child already communicates, not around making them appear typical.
Who we supportLearning differences and dyslexia
Structured teaching for the specific skill that is missing, and a plan to stop.
Who we supportSpeech and language delay
Communication that works in real life, with whatever method gets your child there fastest.
Tell us what you've noticed.
Twenty minutes on the phone with someone who does this every day. No assessment, no cost, and no obligation to become a client at the end of it.
If we're not the right people, we'll tell you who is. That includes naming providers we don't own, and it costs you nothing either way.