Adult ADHD · Brisbane CBD & Online

When focus and consistency feel like a constant battle.

Evidence-based support for professionals navigating ADHD.

Registered psychologist providing adult ADHD support in Brisbane CBD.

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ADHD in professional life

Many adults with ADHD have developed sophisticated strategies for managing — and reached significant levels of professional success despite the challenges. ADHD comes with genuine strengths: creativity and lateral thinking, hyperfocus on problems that genuinely engage, high energy, entrepreneurial instinct, pattern recognition, and the ability to thrive under pressure. These aren’t consolation prizes — they’re real and often what makes ADHD professionals so effective at what they do.

High-pressure environments, increased complexity, and the demands of senior roles can push those strategies to their limits. Adult ADHD in professionals often shows up not as hyperactivity but as difficulty sustaining focus on demanding tasks, inconsistent performance, disorganisation that creates stress, and the exhaustion of constantly compensating for a brain that works differently.

If any of this resonates — whether you have a formal diagnosis, strongly suspect ADHD, or are simply noticing persistent patterns that don’t respond to the usual solutions — Uplift Psychology is here to help.

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Assessment and Diagnosis

I don’t currently offer formal ADHD assessments or provide diagnostic reports as part of my practice. Our work is focused around learning more helpful strategies to manage ADHD. What I can offer is psychological screening to explore whether ADHD traits may be contributing to your challenges — and use those findings to shape the work we do together. If formal diagnosis is something you’d like to pursue, I can help you understand the process and find the right pathway. A formal diagnosis isn’t required to work together.

How ADHD tends to show up for professionals

Focus and attention

Difficulty sustaining concentration on tasks that don’t provide immediate stimulation or reward — even when those tasks are important. Attention that drifts, jumps between things, or locks on to something interesting while everything else piles up.

Inconsistent performance

The gap between what you’re capable of at your best and what you can reliably produce day to day. Brilliant one week, difficulties following through the next without any obvious reasons why. The inconsistency that others misread as lack of effort or commitment.

Organisation

Difficulty maintaining systems that actually stick or rigid over-organisation. Both are common in adults with ADHD. The disorganisation that creates stress, and hyper-organisation that looks fine from the outside but costs far more than it should.

Emotion regulation

Frustration that arrives quickly and intensely. Sensitivity to criticism or perceived failure that feels disproportionate. The emotional experience of ADHD is often underacknowledged — it’s not just about focus and productivity.

Exhaustion and fatigue

The sustained effort of working harder to stay on top of things or constantly over exerting themselves. Many high-functioning adults with ADHD describe a chronic tiredness and feeling constantly behind despite their best efforts to keep up with everything.

Hyperfocus

The flip side of distractibility — an ability to lock in completely on something engaging, sometimes to the exclusion of everything else. Hyperfocus can be a genuine asset, helping people to power thought work. It can cause problems when it’s not well-managed.

Many adults with ADHD have spent years developing strategies that make their difficulties largely invisible from the outside. The internal experience — the effort, the inconsistency, the exhaustion — is often something they’ve never had space to name, or have simply taken for granted as how life is.

You might also be looking for

ADHD often connects to other challenges. If any of these feels more relevant to what you’re experiencing, there’s more specific information available.

Focus & Procrastination

If focus, getting started and follow-through difficulties are your primary concern and you’d like more specific information about the psychological patterns that drive them.

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Anxiety & Stress

If anxiety is showing up alongside ADHD — as a driver of avoidance, a response to sustained pressure, or something that’s been present independently for a long time.

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Burnout

If the exhaustion of managing ADHD in a demanding professional environment has lead to burnout, impacting your performance — and the strategies that used to work have stopped working.

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What we work on together

  1. Understand how ADHD shows up for you
    We can use psychological screening to explore the specific ways your ADHD traits are affecting your work and life — building a clear picture of what’s driving your specific challenges.
  2. Build strategies that work for your brain
    We develop approaches tailored to how your mind actually works — tools for managing attention, organising work, regulating emotion, and building momentum that works for you.
  3. Address the internal load
    The self-criticism, exhaustion, and internalised beliefs about your own capability that accumulate over time. Mindfulness approaches help manage the cognitive and emotional load.
  4. Build on your genuine strengths
    ADHD comes with real strengths — creativity, hyperfocus, pattern recognition. This isn’t about ignoring the challenges, it’s about capitalising on your individual strengths.
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Working with a psychologist who understands professional life.

I’m Adam Sadd, a registered psychologist and the founder of Uplift Psychology. With 17 years of combined experience across psychology, coaching, HR, and leadership, I have a practical understanding of how workplace pressure affects how we think, feel, and perform.

I work with professionals navigating anxiety, burnout, self-doubt, and career challenges — people who take their work seriously and want practical support that’s grounded in psychology. My approach is warm, inclusive, and focused on how you think and work.

Registered
Psychologist (AHPRA)

17+ years
combined experience

Board approved
Supervisor

Background in
Psychology, HR & Leadership

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Tailored to How You Think and Work

My approach is practical, forward-focused, and skills-based rather than primarily insight-oriented. Here’s what you can expect from our sessions.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

A mindfulness-based framework that supports you to manage difficult thoughts and feelings, build psychological flexibility, and take action guided by your values.

Positive Psychology

Rather than focusing only on what’s not working, we build on your strengths, supporting resilience, motivation, and long-term wellbeing.

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Coaching Psychology

A forward-focused, goal-oriented approach that combines psychological insight with practical strategies. Helping you understand what’s getting in the way and move toward meaningful change.

Rates and Rebates

Session Type

Fee

After Medicare Rebate**

Initial session (50 min)*

$320

$218.45

Subsequent sessions (50 min)

$275

$173.45

*Initial session includes onboarding, psychological assessment, and developing a customised plan

**Medicare rebate available with a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP. Private health insurance rebates may also apply depending on your level of cover — I can process most funds at time of payment.

How You Can Get Started

Step 1
Book a 15-Minute Intake Call

I’ll call you for a relaxed 15-minute conversation. Ask questions, share what you’re looking for, and decide whether Uplift Psychology feels like the right fit for you. There’s no pressure, and no obligation to commit.

Step 2
Begin With a Clear Plan

In your first session, we’ll clarify your goals, explore what’s happening for you, and introduce evidence-informed approaches. Whether short-term or ongoing, your plan will be tailored to how you think and work.

Step 3
Practical, focused sessions

Focused on what’s important to you. Each session is practical, psychology-backed and solutions-oriented. You’ll leave with insight, strategies, and a clear sense of where to direct your energy.

Initial session $320  ·  Subsequent sessions $275  ·  Medicare & Private Health Rebates Available

A 15-minute conversation. No obligation.

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You’re capable. getting support when you need it doesn’t change that.

A free 15-minute intake call is all it takes to get started. There’s no pressure, and no obligation to commit.

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FAQs

No — many of the professionals I work with are undiagnosed or in the process of exploring whether ADHD is relevant to their experience. You don’t need a formal diagnosis to start sessions. What matters is that the challenges you’re experiencing are real and affecting your work and wellbeing. That said, a formal diagnosis can be useful for some people — I can help you understand that pathway if it’s relevant.

No — I don’t provide formal ADHD assessments or diagnostic reports as part of my practice. What I can offer is psychological screening to explore whether ADHD traits may be contributing to your challenges, and use those findings to inform our work together. If formal diagnosis is something you’d like to pursue, I can help you understand the process and find the right pathway — typically starting with your GP.

Psychological screening uses validated tools to identify whether certain traits or patterns are present and to what degree. It’s less comprehensive than a formal diagnostic assessment and doesn’t produce a diagnostic report, but it can provide meaningful insight into whether ADHD traits may be relevant to your experience. We use the information from them to guide the strategies and approaches we use in sessions, and to help you decide whether to proceed with a formal diagnosis.

No referral is needed to book an intake call or start sessions. If you’d like to access the Medicare rebate, you will need a Mental Health Treatment Plan from your GP — but you can book and start without one. Many clients arrange the MHTP after their first session once they’ve decided to continue.

That varies depending on what you’re working on. Some people come with a specific challenge and find meaningful progress in a handful of sessions. Others benefit from ongoing support — particularly for managing ADHD in a demanding professional environment over the longer term. In your first session, we’ll develop a plan that fits your situation and goals.

Yes. ADHD coaching focuses primarily on practical strategies, habits, and accountability — useful if the issue is mainly organisational. What I offer works on the psychological patterns alongside the practical strategies: the anxiety, self-criticism, emotional regulation difficulties, and internalised beliefs that often accompany ADHD and that coaching alone doesn’t address. For many people, the practical strategies don’t stick until the underlying patterns are addressed.

This is very common. Many adults with ADHD develop sophisticated compensatory strategies that work well until demands increase significantly — a promotion, a career change, starting a business, having children, or simply the accumulation of stressors over time. The strategies that got you here may have reached their limits. That’s not a failure — it’s a signal that a different approach might be needed.