- Live Webinar
November 6, 2026
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Introduction
Women with ADHD have historically been overlooked, misdiagnosed, and undertreated, not because they don’t struggle, but because the field developed its diagnostic lens around young men. Girls and women are far more likely to present with inattentive symptoms, emotional dysregulation, and sophisticated masking strategies that make their ADHD invisible to teachers, clinicians, and often themselves. The result is decades of misdiagnoses and shame-filled self-narratives, while the underlying neurological difference goes unaddressed.
This course equips therapists with the clinical knowledge and practical tools to recognize ADHD in women across the lifespan, understand how hormonal shifts at puberty, in the peripartum period, and through perimenopause amplify and reshape symptoms. Course participants will learn ready-to-use, trauma-informed interventions for helping clients build a compassionate understanding of their own minds, develop executive functioning strategies that work with their neurology, and step into a more empowered relationship with their health and care.
This is a 3-CE online seminar delivered virtually in real-time via an industry-standard webinar platform.
Attendance and Location Details
Friday, November 6, 2026
10:00am – 1:00pm (ET)
7:00am – 10:00am (PT)
Live Webinar Attendees: Zoom link and course materials will be made available to you 24-48 hours prior to event date.
Agenda:
Introduction & Course Objectives
- Welcome, housekeeping, speaker introduction, and learning objectives
- Why this course, why now; the gap between female ADHD prevalence and clinical recognition
- Opening reflection: What assumptions do we bring about who “looks like” ADHD?
Diagnosis, Presentation, & Masking
- Review of diagnostic criteria and neurological differences of ADHD
- Discussion of how DSM criteria were built on male presentations (hyperactivity, externalizing behavior, classroom disruption)
- Female ADHD common presentations: Inattentive subtype, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitive dysphoria (RSD), hyperfocus, internal hyperactivity
- Masking and compensation: How girls learn to camouflage symptoms through social performance, perfectionism, and people-pleasing
- Misdiagnosis pathways: Anxiety, depression, bipolar II, and borderline personality disorder; overlapping features and how to differentiate
- Case vignette discussion: Late-diagnosed adult woman, tracing the diagnostic journey
Hormones Across the Lifespan
- Estrogen, dopamine, and the ADHD brain: Why hormonal fluctuations are not just “mood swings”
- Puberty: Symptom onset or symptom unmasking? Navigating the teen years and early missed diagnoses
- Peripartum period: Pregnancy “calm,” postpartum crash, and intersections with postpartum depression and anxiety
- Perimenopause and menopause: Cognitive symptoms, and why women are often newly diagnosed in their 40s and 50s
- Medication and cycle tracking: Collaborating with prescribers, advocating for symptom-informed adjustments
Trauma-Informed Interventions
- Trauma-informed framing: ADHD as a neurological difference, not a character flaw, addressing the shame and grief of late diagnosis
- Psychoeducation as intervention: Helping clients build a coherent narrative of their history
- Body-based and somatic approaches: Working with dysregulation, emotional flooding, and interoceptive awareness
- Executive functioning coaching within therapy: Externalized systems, environmental design, and working with (not against) ADHD brains
- Values-based and strengths-focused work: Reframing creativity, sensitivity, and hyperfocus as assets
- Case vignette and discussion
- Q&A, resource list, and closing
Objectives:
This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:
After completing this training, participants will be able to identify the diagnostic and presentation differences that contribute to underdiagnosis of ADHD in girls and misdiagnosis in women, including the role of masking and common misattributed diagnoses.
After completing this training, participants will be able to explain how hormone fluctuations across puberty, the peripartum period, and perimenopause affect ADHD symptom severity and treatment response.
After completing this training, participants will be able to apply at least three trauma-informed, strengths-based clinical interventions to support women with ADHD in building self-awareness, reducing shame, and improving executive functioning.
Target Audience:
Mental Health Clinicians & Therapists, Social Workers, Psychologists, Marriage & Family Therapists, Counselors, School Personnel, and Healthcare Workers.
Instructional Level: Intermediate
Instructor(s): Amanda Good, LICSW
Material Author(s): Amanda Good, LICSW
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Course Materials & Delivery Method:
- Course Materials – (including the link to view the scheduled live webinar) are made available to all registered attendees 24-48 hours before the event start time
- This training is interactive and provides opportunities to ask direct questions to the trainer as well as request immediate help from staff if needed. The attendee will view the presentation in real-time from their connected device via an industry-standard internet webinar platform.
CE Approvals:
National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Online CE Credits has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6795. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Online CE Credits is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, 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: July 23, 2025 – July 23, 2028. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.
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