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ADHD Parent Support Group

ADHD Parent Support Group

A 4-week therapist-led support group empowering parents of children with ADHD to navigate challenges, build effective strategies, and foster stronger family connections.

Starts 24th November, 2026

4 Zoom sessions | Every Tuesday at 8:00 PM IST | 75 minutes

Small Group | 3-5 participants

Group Type: Support Group

Includes 3 Free Peer Calls*

Led by Therapist

Rs. 3,000.00
Rs. 3,000.00
Platform fee

Note: This is a highly specialized support group, the start date is approximate and may shift by 1–3 weeks while we bring together a small, meaningful cohort.

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Who is the Group for?

  • Parents of Children with ADHD

    If your child (aged 6–16) has been diagnosed with ADHD and you want to better understand and support their needs.

  • Those Feeling Overwhelmed

    If you often feel exhausted, second-guess yourself, or struggle to balance love, frustration, and worry in daily life.

  • Those Seeking Practical Tools

    If you want concrete, research-backed strategies to manage behavior, routines, and school communication.

  • Those Looking for Understanding & Community

    If you crave a space where you can speak openly, feel validated, and learn from others on similar journeys.

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Goals of the group

• Shared Understanding – Create a safe space for parents to share experiences and feel less alone in the journey.
• Practical Tools – Learn evidence-based strategies to support your child at home and school.
• Emotional Regulation – Develop ways to manage parental stress, guilt, and overwhelm.
• Stronger Connections – Build empathy, communication, and balance within the family.
• Community & Support – Connect with other parents who truly get what ADHD parenting feels like.

Glimpse of the regime

Session 1: Understanding ADHD Better

Focus on building foundational understanding through a strengths- and brain-based lens.

● Warm introductions & group norms
● What ADHD is and isn’t: neurodevelopmental vs behavioral
● Psychoeducation with metaphors (e.g., ‘traffic controller brain’)
● Developmental delays and asynchronous development

Reflection prompt: ‘What has been the most confusing or frustrating part of parenting so far?’
Take-home: Notice your child’s communication beneath behavior"

Session 2: Strategies for Home & School

Focus: Offering practical, adaptable tools that make daily life with ADHD more manageable.

What doesn’t work (and why):
● Repeated instructions, punishment cycles, unstructured transitions
● Why these approaches fail: working memory, impulse control, and motivation differences

What helps (and how to implement it):
● Anchor routines – Creating visual and predictable morning/evening routines to reduce stress
● Externalization – Using timers, charts, sticky notes, and color coding to support executive
function
● Positive reinforcement – Teaching parents how to give specific, meaningful praise and use
rewards systems that actually work for ADHD brains
● Meltdown planning – Mapping out triggers, early signs, and recovery strategies
● Collaborating with schools:
● Scripts for communicating with teachers
● Accommodations that support regulation and focus (e.g., movement breaks, seating flexibility)

Session 3: Managing Stress as a Parent

Focus: Supporting caregivers in noticing, naming, and navigating their own emotions.

● Guided emotional check-in – Helping parents tune in to where they are before responding to
their child
● Naming the load:
● Exploring common experiences: parental guilt, grief, overstimulation, and feeling judged
● Holding space for conflicting emotions like love and resentment, pride and helplessness
Tools & strategies:
● Window of Tolerance – Teaching parents to identify their own zone of regulation
● STOP skill – A four-step practice to pause, observe, and respond rather than react
● Boundary mapping – Helping parents define what’s okay and what’s not okay for them
● Body-based regulation – Quick strategies to ground and recharge (e.g., stretching, breathing,
tactile anchors)

Reflection prompt: 'What’s one small way I can be kinder to myself this week?'

Session 4: Finding Support & Moving Forward

Focus: Reflecting, integrating key insights, and building a support system beyond the group.

Reflection round: 'What’s something I’m taking with me from this space?'
● Recap of key tools & ideas – Shifting the lens from reactive to responsive parenting
● Creating your ADHD parenting survival kit:
● Go-to tools, mindset reminders, emotional anchors
● Strategies for advocating in school and family systems
● Letter to Future Self or Child: A gentle prompt to consolidate growth and hold on to clarity
● Support pathways post-group:
● Peer spaces, professional help, school collaborations
● Encouragement to check in with their own needs going forward

Meet your Facilitator

Dr Rachel Jayaseelan

● Years of Experience: 14 years
● Groups Facilitated at SoulUp: 7
● Relevant Expertise: ADHD (Child & Parent Support), Behavioural & Emotional Difficulties, Executive Functioning, Parenting Strategies, Emotional Regulation, Learning & Development Concerns

Dr. Rachel Jayaseelan is a Bangalore-based Clinical Psychologist with extensive academic and clinical experience. She spent seven years at Christ University teaching psychological assessment and supervising clinical work across clinical, counselling, and educational psychology programs. Trained in NLP, Cognitive Analytic Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Career Counselling, and Master Level Hypnosis, she also holds certifications as a Sleep Consultant and Emotional Intelligence Specialist. Her work is highly assessment-driven and tailored to individual needs.

Her clinical experience includes over 2,500 assessments at Reach Clinic, covering ADHD, learning difficulties, behavioural and emotional concerns, and developmental challenges. She has also conducted 200+ workshops for leading organisations such as IBM, LinkedIn, Royal Enfield, and Harvard Publishing. In the ADHD Parent Support Group, Dr. Rachel focuses on helping parents understand their child’s unique neurodevelopmental profile, build effective parenting strategies, and support emotional and executive functioning needs—while also creating a space for parents to feel supported, informed, and less alone in their journey.

  • 5 stars: 43 (73%)
  • 4 stars: 13 (22%)
  • 3 stars: 3 (5%)
  • 2 stars: 0 (0%)
  • 1 star: 0 (0%)
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Dhanesh
Finally stopped shouting during morning prep

Getting my ten-year-old ready for school was a battle every single day. The visual anchor charts and external timers from Session 2 changed our mornings completely. No more screaming matches over socks and toothbrushes.

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Indu
The traffic controller metaphor made it click

Explaining ADHD as an overloaded brain traffic controller instead of stubbornness helped my spouse and in-laws understand our son. The blame shifted away from our child to how we set up his environment.

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Bireswar
Learned to manage my own anger first

Session 3 was eye opening. I realized my daughter was matching my dysregulation. The STOP practice and grounding breaths helped me calm down before handling homework meltdowns.

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Tarini
Great practical tools, wished for five weeks

The school advocacy scripts worked brilliantly with our class teacher. Four sessions felt a bit compressed given how much ground there is to cover with ADHD behaviors.

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Purnendu
Relieved of parent shame

I constantly blamed myself, wondering if too much screen time or bad parenting caused his diagnosis. Hearing parents from across India share the exact same guilt lifted a huge weight.

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Satyabhama
Compassionate and patient therapist

She handled our overwhelm with so much gentleness. Never made us feel like incompetent parents, just gave us brain-based perspectives that worked in real homes.

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Anonymous
Decent content, our child is much older

The routines were useful, but my son is already 15 and preparing for board exams. Most of the examples were geared toward younger children under 10.

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Udit
Teacher meetings are no longer a nightmare

We used the exact communication scripts from Session 2 during our parent teacher conference. Instead of complaints about inattention, the teacher agreed to small movement breaks and front desk seating.

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Haimi
The survival kit is pinned on our fridge

The personal survival kit we assembled in our final call gave us daily sanity reminders. Remembering asynchronous development keeps me patient when my nine-year-old acts like a five-year-old.

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Kshitish
Helpful cohort, minor timing rush

Loved the meltdown planning exercise. With seven parents sharing complex family situations, the 75 minutes felt slightly tight during the second module.

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Bhuban
No more useless punishment cycles

Taking away devices or shouting never worked anyway. Understanding the working memory deficit behind unfinished chores saved us from endless evening fights.

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Padmalata
Safe space to admit burnout

Admitting that parenting an ADHD child can feel exhausting and lonely without people judging you was pure relief. You do not have to pretend to be a superhero here.

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Raman
The meltdown mapping works in practice

Recognizing early fidgeting signs before a full-blown sensory explosion gave us our weekends back. We now step outside before the meltdown takes over.

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Gyanendra
Solid strategies, slight internet glitch once

The externalization tools with colored post-its worked like a charm. We had a brief audio lag during our third meeting, but the therapist handled it smoothly.

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Mridula
Dismantled unwanted advice from relatives

Relatives love to say the child just needs stricter discipline. The scientific explanations we learned helped us draw polite, firm boundaries with our extended family.

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Anonymous
Neutral, wanted more diet discussion

The behavior management tools were good, but I was hoping for more detailed sessions on sensory diets and nutrition changes for focus.

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Vidyanand
Authentic peer connection across cities

Hearing other mothers in Bangalore and Delhi talk about lost stationery, homework tears, and playground troubles made me feel so normal. Invaluable community.

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Satya
Empathetic moderation throughout

The psychologist was exceptional at validating both parental frustration and the child's silent struggle. She kept our discussions constructive without dismissing our pain.

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Abhiman
Good workshop, wished for ongoing alumni group

Four weeks gave us a great roadmap. A monthly check-in call for parents would help us maintain these routines through exam seasons.

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Lalita
From reactive yelling to responsive parenting

I went from screaming over spilled milk and forgotten notebooks to staying grounded. The change in my daughter's anxiety levels has been noticeable.

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Kamalnath
Seeing the communication beneath the behavior

I stopped taking his defiance personally. When he refuses to write, I now check if his sensory tank is empty or if instructions were too vague.

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Nirupama
Broke the cycle of homework dread

Study time was two hours of daily tears. Breaking tasks into five-minute chunks with visual timers transformed our evenings.

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Trilochan
Thoughtful format, wanted more time for Q and A

The slides and exercises were packed with insights. An extra fifteen minutes at the end of each session for specific parenting queries would have been great.

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Yaduvir
Clear neurodiversity affirmative lens

No shame, no attempts to force neurotypical standards onto neurodivergent kids. Just practical scaffolding that honors how their brains actually operate.

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Gita
Letter to my child made me cry tears of relief

Writing down my hopes and recognizing his wonderful creativity reminded me why I love my boy so fiercely. It shifted our whole relationship.

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Bhadra
A sanctuary of clarity for tired caregivers

I came in feeling utterly defeated by school complaints and behavioral notes. I left with practical tools, calm boundaries, and real peace of mind.

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Anonymous
Decent, but reflections take energy

Session 3 brought up a lot of unaddressed parental guilt. It was very healing, but expect to feel emotionally tired after the calls.

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Charan
Specific praise changed his motivation

Generic good boy praise never worked. Using immediate, specific feedback as taught in Session 2 turned his cooperation around dramatically.

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Devanand
Safe space to discuss sibling rivalry

Balancing attention between my ADHD son and his younger neurotypical sister was tearing our home apart. The boundary mapping gave us practical harmony.

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Manorama
Constructive takeaways, pace felt fast

We covered executive dysfunction, school coordination, parental burnout, and coping kits in four weeks. A five-week structure would allow deeper practice.

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vishesh
A safe space and support group

First of all kudos to all the participants. It takes guts to come forward and to be vulnerable in front of strangers or a therapists. Rachel did an amazing job to make everyone feel comfortable and to be vulnerable. One has a mental fog when it comes to looking at self. But with help of Rachel and the participants, I could see what am I doing wrong and got a toolkit to make things better.

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Prabhat
Found relief in community solidarity

Knowing there are other homes where shoes are lost daily and bags packed at midnight made me laugh instead of cry. Priceless camaraderie.

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Tarak
Empowering and tender environment

The psychologist held the space with extraordinary care. Nobody felt judged for losing their temper; our daily struggles were met with genuine respect.

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Online therapy groups or support groups are structured, therapist-led sessions where participants gather virtually to discuss and work on specific mental health or personal growth topics.

These groups offer a supportive environment and help members learn coping strategies and relevant techniques from the therapist. Participants offer each other encouragement, share advice, and provide emotional support, helping one another feel less isolated.

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Participants in online therapy groups often experience improved mental health, a greater sense of connection, and enhanced coping skills. Group therapy provides structured guidance from a therapist, which can lead to valuable insights and personal growth.

3. How does online group therapy compare to one-on-one therapy?

One-on-one therapy is personalized, focusing solely on your needs, which can be ideal for in-depth, private work with a therapist.

Online group therapy, however, offers a sense of community and shared experience. In addition to learning from the therapist, members get to connect with others facing similar challenges. Group settings provide diverse perspectives and reduce isolation, which participants find valuable.

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The therapist leading the group is trained to manage challenging emotions. They provide tools and strategies for coping, helping participants process feelings safely.

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