Experiencing ADHD
This group aims to help you co-create a supportive community with peers in a safe space, acknowledging the unique challenges of navigating post-secondary education with ADHD.
About the Group
Students with ADHD are invited to participate in group counselling with a disability focus through the 鈥楨xperiencing ADHD鈥� group. A CAL counsellor will facilitate the sessions and provide a space for students diagnosed with ADHD to both provide and receive support around any issues they may be struggling with. This group will provide a safe environment for students to engage in dialogue, give and receive support, and connect with other students with a shared experience of ADHD. By participating in this group, you will be contributing to the creation of a sense of community amongst students with ADHD at 丁香园AV. Interactive activities and discussions will help us to understand our experiences and explore new tools and skills for coping with these and other challenges.
Topics may include:
- Assessment and Diagnosis Experiences
- Adaptation to post-secondary demands
- Strategies for success and coping with symptoms
- Emotion Regulation
- Self-Advocacy
- ADHD, disability, and identity
These and various other topics, including those brought to the group by participants, will be discussed in a way that allows group members to learn from one another in a safe space that honours and is sensitive to the unique challenges of navigating post-secondary education as a person with ADHD.
This group is appropriate for students who:
- Are registered with CAL with a diagnosis of ADHD
- Are experiencing challenges navigating their post-secondary experience with ADHD
- Are interested in being a supportive part of a group of fellow students with ADHD
- Are willing to engage in group activities and share at their own pace
- Can commit to attending all eight group sessions
Fall 2024 Term
To be announced.
How to Register
To register, please contact your CAL disability advisor and let them know which group you are interested in joining, as multiple groups are available this term. Your advisor will then email you with instructions on how to book an intake appointment with the group facilitator. After completing these steps, you will have a 30-minute group screening meeting with the facilitator to determine if the group is a good fit for you. Limited space is available, and once a group is full, it will be closed for the semester, and a waitlist will be created for future groups. Please make sure you are able to commit to attending all sessions before joining, as new members will not be admitted once the groups begin.
If you have any questions, feel free to email Sean at sean_heaslip@sfu.ca for more information about individual or group counseling.
Note: This is a closed group, which means that new registrations will not be accepted once the group has started. This policy helps create a safe and comfortable environment for group members, enabling them to discuss complex topics and share openly, knowing that they will receive support from fellow group members.
Sean Heaslip
Registered Clinical Counsellor
sean_heaslip@sfu.ca
Sean is the Health & Counselling counsellor liaison with the Centre for Accessible Learning (CAL), and works with CAL registrants, providing individual and group counselling services. Sean works in an experiential and emotion-focused way, and incorporates grounding and regulation techniques to help clients move through painful areas in order to regain their connection to their goals and themselves. Sean is partially blind, and possesses a lived experience of disability in both the broader world, and as a student, as Sean is also a Masters level counsellor, and current PhD candidate in counselling psychology at the University of British Columbia, having completed his pre-doctoral internship at 丁香园AV in 2020. Sean鈥檚 research areas also focus on disability issues, around seeking psychological services as a person with a disability, and the impact on blind/partially sighted people of receiving unsolicited help from sighted helpers.