Recognizing Adult ADHD in Therapy Clients: What Gets Missed and Why – 2/26/27
Date/Time
Time: 11:45 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $99.99
Credits: 5 CE Credits
Registration ends 30 minutes before the webinar opens.
Presenter(s)
CEU Creations presents:
Recognizing Adult ADHD in Therapy Clients: What Gets Missed and Why – 2/26/27
FEATURING:
- Strategies to recognize adult ADHD hidden by masking, diagnostic bias, and overlapping mental health symptoms
- Practical screening tools and interventions to support executive functioning, build habits, and guide appropriate referrals
EVENT INFO:
11:45 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Eastern
Registration ends 30 minutes before the webinar opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Note: To earn a certificate, you must log in on time and remain on for the entire training. There is no automatic grace period for late arrivals. Login and logout times are recorded and documented in Zoom.
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 5 Clinical CE credits
Psychologists:
APA – 5 CE credits
Counselors:
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – This course is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – This course is not eligible for California Board of Registered Nursing Contact hours.
Case Managers:
CCMC – This course is not eligible for CCMC CE Contact hours.
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, and counselors
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Counseling Skill Group:
N/A
OVERVIEW:
This 5-hour continuing education training prepares therapists to recognize ADHD in the adult clients they already see — including the many whose ADHD is hidden behind hard work and coping, mistaken for anxiety or depression, or overlooked because their presentation does not match the childhood-hyperactivity stereotype many clinicians were trained on. The cost of missing adult ADHD is substantial: untreated ADHD is associated with poorer academic, occupational, financial, relational and health outcomes, and it frequently co-occurs with the anxiety, mood, and eating disorders that bring clients into therapy in the first place.
The training moves through six modules: foundations and the cost of missing it; why adult ADHD gets missed (including masking and compensatory effort, presentation in women, racial and cultural diagnostic bias, and clinician-side barriers); what ADHD looks like in the therapy room and how to assess it; differentiating ADHD from common comorbid and look-alike conditions; treatment, referrals and practical interventions; and application through case vignettes, ethics and scope of practice. Three composite case vignettes anchor the material in realistic therapy presentations. Throughout, participants apply the material directly to their own caseloads: revising intake questions, recognizing in-session clues, separating ADHD from look-alike diagnoses, and selecting practical, client-ready supports such as executive-function strategies, environmental modifications and habit-building techniques.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Describe the DSM-5-TR criteria for ADHD as they apply to adults, including how adult presentation can differ from childhood-onset, hyperactive-impulsive profiles.
2. Identify at least five common reasons adult ADHD goes unrecognized in therapy settings, including masking and compensatory effort, presentation differences in women, diagnostic bias, and overlapping comorbidities.
3. Recognize in-session behaviors and life patterns that suggest ADHD in adult therapy clients.
4. Explain the personal and clinical impact of masking and compensatory effort, including how they can obscure impairment and delay accurate diagnosis and referral.
5. Differentiate adult ADHD from anxiety disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, and trauma-related presentations.
6. Apply a validated adult ADHD screening tool and identify when referral for formal assessment or medication evaluation is indicated.
7. Apply at least three practical, client-ready interventions — such as executive-function supports, environmental modifications, and habit-building strategies — within the therapist's scope of practice.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
12:00 – 12:20 Objectives, poll, reflection
12:20 – 1:10 Criteria, the ADHD brain, untreated outcomes
1:10 – 2:00 Masking, women, bias, clinician barriers
2:00 – 2:10 Break
2:10 – 3:00 Clues, questions, tools, nuances
3:00 – 3:40 Midway Reset
3:40 – 4:25 Bipolar, anxiety, depression, autism, trauma, more
4:25 – 5:20 Medication, therapy, coaching, practical tools
5:20 – 5:30 Break
5:30 – 6:00 Vignettes
PRESENTER BIO:
Megan D'Angelo, MA, LMHC, is a licensed counselor with over 13 years of experience working with children and adults in a variety of settings including private practice, group practice, and community agencies. Megan currently runs a solo private practice where she primarily serves neurodiverse individuals, new mothers, people struggling with bipolar disorder, and those loving a family member struggling with addiction.
Surrounded by ADHD in both her professional and personal life, Megan also practices ADHD Coaching for executive functioning challenges. In coaching, she combines her passion for helping people with a forward-focused, creative, and empowering way to understand, accept, and manage ADHD symptoms.
Megan holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Psychology from Augustana College. She earned her master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling from Webster University. Megan is licensed to practice therapy in both Washington and Wisconsin.
Currently, Megan lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, son, two Siamese cats, and senior dog (her first baby). When she's not in the office you can find her reading, hiking, eating spicy food, and laughing with family and friends.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
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This live webinar is fully interactive; a computer is required. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. Zoom account is not required.
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POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at help@ceucreationsinc.com with any questions.
BOARD INFORMATION
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 5 Clinical CE credits.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 5 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 5 Contact hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0199. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This event is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
NURSES: This event is not eligible for Nurses Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
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Event Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy: In the event that CEU Creations cancels or reschedules an event, registered participants will be given the option to receive a full refund, a credit toward a different event of the same value, or to transfer their registration to the rescheduled date.