ADHD changes how you think, feel, plan, rest, and connect with others. Our ADHD courses for Adults help you understand those patterns and build tools that match your nervous system. Clear explanations, real-life examples, and actionable supports take you step b
🧭 ADHD Basics Course
Understand the core concepts.
🪞 Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive
Understand your patterns and challenges.
🛠️ ADHD Coping Skills & Tools
Practical tools for and everyday support.
🔬 ADHD Science & Research
Insights into ADHD and the brain.
🤝 Supporting Someone With ADHD
Guidance for partners, parents and friends.
You can start with a free ADHD Basics course and, when you are ready, move into deeper paid courses like Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive, ADHD Coping Strategies, ADHD Science & Research, and Supporting Someone With ADHD.
🧠 How These ADHD Courses Are Different
These courses are built for ADHD and other neurodivergent brains first. That shapes everything about how they are written and structured.
🧠 Explanations focus on brain and systems, not character
🌱 Tone is warm, calm, and validating, without drama or doom
📚 Concepts are broken into short, stand-alone articles
💬 Reflection questions help you recognise your own patterns
🧩 Worksheets are simple and concrete, not perfectionistic
🔗 Gentle cross-links to related topics like anxiety, self-care, and burnout
Important! These courses are educational and skills-based. They do not replace diagnosis, therapy, medication, or crisis support.
🧭 ADHD Basics
If you are new to ADHD or still figuring out where you fit, ADHD Basics is your starting point. It is a gentle, free introduction that gives you language, context, and a first look at your own ADHD pattern.
What ADHD Basics Covers
🧠 Understanding ADHD: what it really means
🌱 Exploring your own ADHD traits and patterns
📋 First practical strategies for everyday life
🤝 How to start building an ADHD support system
The course is structured into four lessons. Together they cover around fifteen key ADHD topics. Each lesson includes at least one simple worksheet you can print or fill in digitally.
Who ADHD Basics Is For
🧠 Adults and older teens who suspect or know they have ADHD
🌱 People late to diagnosis who want a validating overview
🤝 Partners, parents, or friends who want a calm introduction
At the end of ADHD Basics you will know whether you want to go deeper into Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive or move straight into tools with ADHD Coping Strategies or ADHD Planning & Productivity.
🪞 Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive
Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive is your main long-form ADHD course. It is designed as a ten-lesson exploration of how ADHD works in general and how it shows up in your specific life.
What You Explore In This Course
🧠 Expanded definitions of ADHD, the ADHD brain, and evolutionary perspectives
🌱 ADHD symptoms and traits in thoughts, emotions, and sensory processing
📋 Assessment, diagnosis, and late discovery of ADHD
🧩 Patterns like all-or-nothing motivation, bursts and crashes, and constant contradiction
💬 Emotional life with ADHD, self-esteem, self-care, and shame
🏫 ADHD at school, work, and at home
🧭 Integrating your ADHD story and building an ongoing plan
Each lesson starts with a clear overview. Then you move through several stand-alone topic articles. Reflection questions and worksheets help you map your personal patterns instead of just reading about other people’s experiences.
How Deep Dive Connects To Other Courses
🧠 Points towards ADHD Coping Strategies when you are ready for more tools
💬 Connects with Self-Care and Anxiety Basics content when emotions feel heavy
A simple reflection to consider after reading about this course:
🧠 “If I had a safe place to really map out my life with ADHD, what would I most want to understand first?”
🛠️ ADHD Coping Skills & Tools
ADHD Coping Strategies is all about daily life. It can follow the deep dive course, or it can stand on its own if you already understand ADHD and mainly want tools.
What This Course Helps With
🧠 Identifying your top ADHD challenges in daily life
🌱 Calming an overloaded body through somatic and sensory tools
📋 Thinking tools and language that reduce shame and panic
🧩 Daily behaviours that support or worsen ADHD symptoms
🚪 Starting and finishing tasks when paralysis is strong
💬 Emotional regulation strategies tailored to ADHD
🏠 Coping in real-life settings like work, study, home, and social spaces
🤝 Understanding when professional help might be useful
Each of the ten lessons includes three to five practical topics, plus at least one exercise or worksheet. The final lesson talks openly and calmly about therapy and medication as possible supports, and how to approach professionals.
This course often points you toward other ADHD Courses for Adults, Anxiety Coping Strategies, and Self-Care Basics when it makes sense to go further.
ADHD Science & Research
If you are curious about the “why” behind ADHD, ADHD Science & Research offers an accessible, non-jargony overview of current models and findings.
What You Learn
🧠 How ADHD has been understood over time
🌱 Brain networks involved in attention, executive function, and motivation
📋 The role of dopamine, noradrenaline, and working memory
🧩 Genetics, heritability, and why ADHD tends to run in families
📚 How to read research summaries and spot red flags in popular media
Each topic ends with a short “What this means for you” section so you are not left with abstract theory. There is also space to list studies and authors you might want to look up, if that fits your energy.
This course stays clearly educational. It does not give medical advice, treatment plans, or specific medication recommendations.
Supporting Someone With ADHD
Supporting Someone With ADHD is for partners, parents, friends, siblings, and colleagues. It explains ADHD from the outside in a calm, structured way, and helps supporters care for both the ADHD person and themselves.
What Supporters Explore
🧠 What ADHD often feels like from the inside
🌱 How support looks different for partners, children, siblings, and friends
💬 Communication patterns that build trust instead of shame
📋 Practical support that actually helps with tasks and emotions
🧩 Boundaries, compassion fatigue, and looking after your own needs
This course frequently links to ADHD Basics, Self-Care Basics, and Burnout Prevention & Recovery so supporters do not try to carry everything alone.
A simple reflection for supporters visiting this page:
🌱 “What would change if I understood this person’s brain as different rather than difficult?”
Which ADHD Courses for Adults Should I Take?
If you are unsure where to begin, these simple paths can help.
🧠 You are new to ADHD or still unsure. Start with ADHD Basics.
🌱 You already know you have ADHD and want to understand your story. Start with Your ADHD: A Personal Deep Dive.
📋 You want tools right now for everyday life. Start with ADHD Coping Strategies.
📚 You are a nerd for science or a professional who wants a clearer overview. Choose ADHD Science & Research.
🤝 You are here for someone you love. Start with Supporting Someone With ADHD and explore ADHD Basics alongside it.
It is completely fine to move slowly, repeat lessons, or change direction. The courses are built to be revisited as your life shifts.
What You Can Expect From Every ADHD Course
No matter which ADHD course you choose, some things stay consistent.
🧠 Short, focused lessons you can complete even on a low-energy day
🌱 Language that respects neurodivergent experience
📋 Worksheets and exercises that are simple, not overwhelming
🧩 Reflection questions to help you notice your patterns instead of judging yourself
🔗 Gentle suggestions to explore related courses like Self-Care, Anxiety Basics, and Burnout content
You remain in control. You can pause, come back later, and choose how deep you want to go.
Important Notes and Support ADHD Courses for Adults
These courses are:
🧠 Educational and skills-focused
🌱 Designed to sit alongside therapy, coaching, or medical care if you have it
📋 Not a substitute for professional assessment, diagnosis, or crisis support
If you are in immediate crisis or feel at risk of harming yourself, please contact local emergency services or a crisis helpline in your country. Course content can wait until you are safe.
ADHD Courses for Adults
🔬 Scientific References | ADHD Courses for Adults
🧬 Core Overviews, Prevalence & Lifespan | ADHD Courses for Adults
Faraone, S. V., et al. (2021).
The World Federation of ADHD International Consensus Statement: 208 evidence‑based conclusions about the disorder
Large consensus paper summarising what is firmly known about ADHD: nature, course, causes, brain findings and treatment.
Thomas, R., Sanders, S., Doust, J., Beller, E., & Glasziou, P. (2015).
Prevalence of attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review and meta‑analysis
Global meta‑analysis estimating ADHD prevalence at around 7.2 percent in children and adolescents.
Willcutt, E. G. (2012).
The prevalence of DSM‑IV attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: a meta‑analytic review
Classic meta‑analysis summarising ADHD prevalence across many studies and methods.
Mahone, E. M., & Denckla, M. B. (2017).
Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Historical Neuropsychological Perspective
Reviews how our understanding of ADHD has evolved, including executive function, delay aversion and brain imaging work.
🔬 Genetics, Brain Development & Neurobiology | ADHD Courses for Adults
Faraone, S. V., & Larsson, H. (2019).
Genetics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Explains ADHD’s high heritability and what large genetic studies reveal about risk variants.
Demontis, D., et al. (2019).
Discovery of the first genome‑wide significant risk loci for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Landmark GWAS identifying the first robust ADHD risk loci and genes.
Demontis, D., et al. (2023).
Genome‑wide analyses of ADHD identify 27 risk loci, refine the genetic architecture and implicate several cognitive domains
Updated mega‑analysis expanding ADHD risk loci and connecting them to brain development and cognition.
Shaw, P., et al. (2007).
Attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder is characterized by a delay in cortical maturation
Imaging study showing that cortical maturation, especially in attention‑related regions, is delayed in children with ADHD.
🧠 Executive Function, Motivation & Timing | ADHD Courses for Adults
Nigg, J. T. (2005).
Neuropsychologic theory and findings in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: the state of the field and salient challenges for the coming decade
Major review tying ADHD symptoms to executive functions, motivation, state regulation and timing.
Toplak, M. E., Jain, U., & Tannock, R. (2005).
Executive and motivational processes in adolescents with Attention‑Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Examines how executive function and motivation jointly contribute to difficulties in teens with ADHD.
Hart, H., Radua, J., Nakao, T., Mataix‑Cols, D., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Meta‑analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of inhibition and attention in ADHD
fMRI meta‑analysis showing consistent fronto‑striatal and fronto‑parietal differences during inhibition tasks.
Noreika, V., Falter, C. M., & Rubia, K. (2013).
Timing deficits in attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): evidence from neurocognitive and neuroimaging studies
Reviews evidence that many people with ADHD have difficulties with timing, time estimation and temporal foresight.
Jurek, L., et al. (2025).
Sensory Processing in Individuals With Attention‑Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Compares sensory profiles of people with ADHD to typical controls, showing increased sensitivity, avoidance and sensory seeking.
🌊 Emotional Processing, Temperament & Dysregulation | ADHD Courses for Adults
Shaw, P., Stringaris, A., Nigg, J., & Leibenluft, E. (2014).
Emotion dysregulation in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Review proposing models of how ADHD and emotion dysregulation interact at neural and behavioural levels.
Martel, M. M. (2009).
Research review: a new perspective on attention‑deficit/hyperactivity disorder: emotion dysregulation and trait models
Argues that ADHD can be understood partly as extreme temperament and trait patterns, especially negative emotionality and low control.
See full references in ADHD Hub.