Reparenting the Overlooked Mind

 Earn 3 CE Contact Hours

This training will teach you how to understand ADHD through an attachment-based and developmental lens, moving beyond symptom management to explore the deeper relational impacts of chronic misattunement, shame, and identity formation. You’ll learn to recognize how individuals with ADHD internalize negative messages, how these shape both inner child dynamics and adult self-concept, and how the process impacts mental health. Through practical guidance, you’ll gain integrative interventions that draw on narrative, attachment-based, and experiential therapies to help clients reparent themselves with compassion, structure, and attunement.

The training also covers how to apply these approaches systemically, equipping you to guide parents of neurodivergent children in breaking intergenerational cycles of misattunement. By the end, you’ll have actionable tools for fostering self-compassion and more attuned relationships in ADHD-impacted families.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Participants will be able to conceptualize ADHD through an attachment-based and developmental lens, identifying how chronic misattunement, shame, and relational disruptions shape identity formation and mental health in ADHD-impacted individuals.
• Participants will recognize how individuals with ADHD internalize negative messages and how these messages influence inner child dynamics and adult self-concept.
• Participants will apply integrative interventions drawing on narrative, attachment-based, and experiential therapies to support clients in reparenting themselves with compassion, structure, and attunement.
• 4. Participants will demonstrate skills for working systemically with parents of neurodivergent children to interrupt intergenerational cycles of misattunement and foster more attuned family relationships.

Who Should Attend:

Mental health professionals, therapists, social workers, counselors, psychologists, and educators who work with neurodivergent children, adults, and families. This workshop is especially valuable for clinicians interested in attachment-based, trauma-informed, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches to supporting individuals with ADHD.

Meet Dr. Francis:

Lastenia Francis, PhD, LMFT, is a therapist, supervisor, and faculty member specializing in trauma, couples therapy, military families, and intersectional family dynamics. She developed the Bidirectional Intersectional Supervision (BIS) model and researches power in Black female breadwinner couples.