Thoughtful, specialist led care for ADHD and anxiety that helps you understand your unique profile and move forward with clarity.
Why This Program Is Different
The Alvord Baker ADHD & Anxiety Center provides a stepped-up approach when ADHD is complex or overlaps with other concerns.
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Beyond Symptoms: We look at what’s truly driving challenges—attention, executive functioning, anxiety, and emotion dysregulation, which frequently co-occur with ADHD.
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Expert Clinicians: Our clinical team specializes in the intersection of ADHD and anxiety and understands how these challenges can intensify each other. We’re here to help you navigate the complexities of this overlap with expertise and care.
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Accountability Systems: Great plans fail without execution. Our providers arrange specific accountability and follow-up systems to ensure you reach you goals and continue effective strategies.
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Unified Team: Our expertly trained specialists work together so medication, therapy, and family support align around the same objectives.
Integrated Expertise
Specialist care for ADHD and co-occurring conditions including anxiety.
Multiple Levels of Care
Choose one service or combine them for a complete, coordinated plan.
Parent & Family Support
Strategies to strengthen outcomes and reduce conflict at home.
Evidence-Based Foundations
Therapy and skill development rooted in CBT and resilience training.
Built-in Accountability
Systems for follow-up ensure your goals translate into real-world results.
Who it's for
Children & Teens
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Attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, and social/peer challenges
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Academic stress, motivation, organization, and follow-through
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Parent-child conflict, routines, and behavior management
Adults
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Focus, procrastination, time management, organization, and burnout
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Work performance, relationships, and emotional regulation
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ADHD with anxiety, depression, and/or sleep difficulties.
Program Overview
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Start with a Brief Consult
Meet with our clinical intake coordinator to tell us about your ADHD and any co-occurring anxiety or mood challenges and how they impact you or your child’s life.
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Choose Your Entry Point
With guidance from our clinical intake coordinator, select a starting point. Support may take many forms, including a neuropsychological evaluation, psychiatric therapy, parenting guidance, psychiatric evaluation, medication management or skills groups.
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Meet with a Provider
Meet with an expert provider for an intake assessment/evaluation to begin your journey.
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Build Your Plan
Together with your provider, you’ll develop a plan that meets your unique needs, with flexible levels of care to ensure you have support at every step. You’ll develop clear goals and a follow-up system for accountability.
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Collaborative Care
Your providers coordinate so your support plan adapts as you progress.
Choose Your Pathway
Evidence-Based Individual Therapy
Practical strategies you can use immediately.
We provide evidence-based therapy for children, teens, and adults—supporting emotional concerns, relationships, executive functioning, motivation, and self-understanding. Our primary approach is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for ADHD, complemented by other evidence-based practices tailored to best support each individual and family.
The first step in therapy is an intake meeting, where your concerns are heard, your needs are assessed, and personalized goals are set to guide your care. Each session is focused on building skills towards meeting your goals while allowing for time to process and problem solve challenges.
Examples Topics in CBT-focused ADHD Therapy
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Planning, prioritizing, and follow-through
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Procrastination and avoidance
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Emotional regulation (frustration tolerance, overwhelm)
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Systems for routines, organization, and consistency
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Identity, confidence, and resilience
Psychiatric Evaluation
& Medication Management
Thoughtful, whole-person psychiatric care—when medication is part of the plan.
Medication can be helpful, and it works best when it’s personalized, monitored, and integrated with the rest of your care. When ADHD and anxiety occur together, medication decisions aren’t always straightforward. Working with a provider who specializes in this overlap ensures thoughtful adjustments, close monitoring, and care that considers the whole person.
Psychiatric services begin with comprehensive assessment that includes consideration of whether medications may play a role within an overall treatment plan. We provide ongoing medication management, often in collaboration with therapy—inside or outside the practice.
What “whole-person” means here:
We emphasize lifestyle factors like sleep, movement, nutrition, and social connection--so treatment supports long-term well-being, not just short-term changes.
Parent Support
The weight of parenting is real—and you shouldn’t have to shoulder it by yourself.
Parent offerings provide tools and strategies to support children and strengthen family functioning. We use evidence-based best practices including Parent Management Training (PMT) and Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) to best support your family's progress. PMT is a structured approach for behavior and routines and includes an organized system of positive reinforcement. SPACE is a parent-based treatment approach where parents learn how to calmly validate their child’s distress, set supportive boundaries, and reduce power struggles and emotional outbursts that often occur when an anxious or ADHD child feels overwhelmed. Our experienced therapists customize approaches like SPACE and PMT to fit your family’s specific challenges, providing guidance and strategies that are practical, supportive, and tailored to your child.
Parent support is offered in both individual and group formats to best suit your needs. All parent support services are delivered by our experienced and highly trained clinicians, never by a parent coach. Treatment will begin with an intake assessment to determine the best path for you and your family.
Skills-focused Group Therapy for Youth (Grades K-12)
Resilience Builder Program ® (RBP)
The Resilience Builder Program® is a skills-based group therapy program that uses cognitive-behavioral strategies and structured practice to strengthen emotional regulation, resilience, and social competence. Groups run by semester (Fall, Spring, Summer), and are kept small for individualized attention.
Why it matters for ADHD and Anxiety:
Many kids with ADHD benefit from explicit, repeated coaching in self-regulation, flexibility, social problem-solving, and real-world practice—particularly when challenges show up at school or with peers. Real-time learning is especially crucial for kids whose ADHD is compounded by social anxiety or emotional lability. In our groups, children develop emotional awareness and regulation skills while building social competence in a safe, supportive environment that fosters confidence and connection.
Psychoeducational and Neuropsychological Evaluations
Get clarity and a roadmap.
In cases where a child’s learning is impacted, or ADHD is suspected or needs to be re-assessed, comprehensive psychoeducational or neuropsychological testing may be recommended. This testing is conducted by a licensed clinical psychologist and can be particularly helpful in understanding the strengths and challenges that can be associated with neurodevelopmental conditions such as ADHD and autism.
Individuals are often referred for testing following a consultation with another provider, a discussion with their physician or pediatrician, or recommendations from school personnel. Our evaluations help provide clarity about your child’s learning, attention, and emotional needs. Psychoeducational and neuropsychological assessments create a complete picture of strengths and challenges, offering a clear roadmap with personalized recommendations to support success at home, school, and beyond.
What you can expect:
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An initial information-gathering session to best understand developmental history, current functioning and areas of concern
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Standardized testing including direct assessment and clinical observation, as well as gathering of input from caregivers and teachers
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A feedback session and a detailed written report with tailored recommendations
FAQ
Do we have to do everything?
No. You can start with one service and add others as needed.
Why the focus on anxiety?
ADHD rarely exists in a vacuum. By treating ADHD and anxiety together, we address the "paralysis" and emotion dysregulation that medication alone may not solve.
How does accountability work?
Providers help you set milestones and use specific tools to ensure the skills you learn in the office are used at home or work.
Why would I do more than one thing at once?
ADHD care works best when everyone is pulling in the same direction. If you choose multiple services, your providers coordinate recommendations and progress—so medication decisions, skills work, and home strategies reinforce one another.
Collaborative Care
Your providers coordinate so your support plan adapts as you progress.