ADHD Therapy & Ongoing Support

You have the diagnosis, or you’ve known about your ADHD for years, but the day-to-day is still hard. Organisation falls apart. Deadlines slip. Emotions spike. You know what you should do, but doing it consistently feels like pushing through wet concrete.

ADHD therapy that only holds up when the brain is already cooperating is not very useful.

Most people leave an ADHD assessment with a report and a medication recommendation, but no plan for how to actually manage the condition. That’s the gap therapy fills. I provide structured, evidence-based psychological support that helps you build systems that work with your brain, not against it.

If you haven’t been assessed yet, I offer comprehensive ADHD assessments for children, adolescents, and adults.

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What ADHD therapy covers.

What I use	What it does
CBT for ADHD	Targeting the specific cognitive patterns that maintain impairment: procrastination, avoidance, self-criticism, all-or-nothing thinking about productivity.
Executive function coaching	Practical strategies for organisation, time management, task initiation, and planning that survive contact with real life.
Emotional regulation	ADHD involves significant emotional dysregulation that is often overlooked. I address frustration tolerance, rejection sensitivity, and emotional impulsivity directly.
Parent training for childhood ADHD	Equipping parents with specific behavioural strategies, homework routines, and communication approaches that reduce conflict and build the child’s independence.
School and workplace support	Recommendations for accommodations, coordination with teachers or employers, and strategies for managing ADHD in structured environments.

Who this is for.

I work with children, adolescents, and adults. Some clients come straight from an ADHD assessment; others have known about their diagnosis for years but are still struggling. Common reasons people start therapy:

• Recently diagnosed and wondering “now what?”
• Medication helps but isn’t enough on its own
• Chronic underachievement despite knowing you’re capable
• Relationship difficulties linked to ADHD patterns
• A child or teenager who needs support beyond what school provides
• Executive burnout, the exhaustion of compensating for ADHD without the right systems in place

If you already see a psychiatrist, or you’ve just moved to Singapore

Two situations come up often enough that they deserve a direct answer.

You already have a psychiatrist who handles your medication. Good. Keep them. Medication and therapy do different jobs, and they work best running together. I’m a clinical psychologist, not a prescriber, so your prescription stays exactly where it is. What I add is the part medication can’t do on its own: the executive-function systems, the emotional regulation, the day-to-day strategy that turns a diagnosis into a workable life. With your permission, I’ll coordinate with your psychiatrist so we’re pulling in the same direction instead of running two plans that never meet.

You’ve just moved to Singapore. Relocating often means rebuilding a support team you spent years putting together somewhere else. If you arrived with an ADHD diagnosis already in hand, or you’ve found a psychiatrist here and now want the therapy side, you don’t have to start from zero. Bring your history. We’ll carry on from there.

If either of these is you, the easiest first step is a free 15-minute Meet & Greet. We’ll work out whether I’m the right fit before you commit to anything.

A note from Dr. Ong.

I navigated a PhD, a Mayo Clinic fellowship, a research career, and the founding of a private practice with a brain that doesn’t run on the standard template. I know what it’s like from the inside, and that shapes how I think about treatment: no generic advice, no shame-based frameworks, just strategies that survive contact with real life.

What to expect.

Step	What happens
1. Free Meet & Greet 15 minutes, no charge	A short call to ask questions and see whether we fit, before committing to anything. Most people start here. Book your Meet & Greet.
2. First consultation typically SGD 700, usually up to two hours	Most clients arrive either with a recent ADHD diagnosis or with years of struggling despite knowing about their ADHD. Either way, therapy is practical and forward-looking. I assess where you are now, what’s getting in the way, and what systems we need to build or fix.
3. Ongoing sessions 60–90 minutes, pro-rated at SGD 350 per hour, typically weekly to start	Sessions focus on executive functioning strategies, routines, emotional regulation, and the self-awareness that makes those strategies stick. For children and teens, I involve parents and coordinate with schools as needed. Sessions are 60–90 minutes, typically weekly to start.

For the full picture, including how payment works and reduced-fee options, see the Fees page.

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Common questions

Is ADHD therapy different from ADHD coaching?

Yes, though they overlap. A good coach helps you build habits and systems, and that matters. A clinical psychologist does that too, and can also treat what tends to travel with ADHD: the anxiety, the low mood, the rejection sensitivity, the self-criticism that years of missed deadlines leave behind. If your difficulties are mostly practical, coaching may be enough. If there is emotional weight attached to them, therapy works on both at once.

Medication already helps. What would therapy add?

Medication improves attention and impulse control while it is active, and for many people it matters a great deal. What it cannot do is build your systems, repair your relationship with deadlines, or unlearn the story you have told yourself about why things keep slipping. That is the work of therapy. For adults, adding structured therapy to medication has repeatedly shown benefits that medication alone does not deliver.

How long does ADHD therapy take?

A focused first block is usually measured in months, not years. We build the systems, watch them hold on hard weeks rather than good ones, then space sessions out. Many people come back for short top-ups at transitions: a new job, a new school year, a new baby. ADHD is lifelong; weekly therapy does not have to be.

My child was just diagnosed. Do you work with the child or with the parents?

Both, and for younger children, mostly the parents. Parent-led behavioural approaches have the strongest evidence for childhood ADHD, so I coach parents directly on routines, homework, and de-escalation, and I bring the child into the room as their age and the goals call for it. Coordinating with the school is part of the work when it helps.

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A few free screeners

Self-completed, instantly scored, no email required. They are a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis.

• ASRS-v1.1 (full 18-item), adult ADHD self-screen.
• SDQ, child and adolescent behaviour and attention, completed by a parent.

See the full screening-tools index →

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Next steps

ADHD makes starting the hardest part. So the first step here is deliberately small: fifteen minutes, free, on video or phone.

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