– AUDHD – The return of the Attention Doctor
I’m Don Kerson, the attention doctor, and I’m hoping I’m familiar to you. If your here you are likely a former patient of mine, or someone who once considered working with me. I’m writing now because I am looking to take a small number of individuals and families into my neurodiversity coaching practice
Since my retirement, I have become especially interested in AuDHD (a non-medical popular term for the overlap of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder). Only recently have we recognized very high levels of overlap in these brain types, and how complicated, confounding, and confusing the clinical picture can be. Highly intelligent, multiply neuro-diverse individuals have unique sets of strengths and challenges; we lead our society in every field, we fill our rehab centers and mental health clinics yet very little informed or enlightened treatment has been available to us.
I am looking for adults and adolescents who identify as AuDHD for either family therapy or individual coaching. We address executive functioning and emotional dysregulation: procrastination, disorganization, cross-temporal planning, anxiety, anger, and depression.
My fees are sliding scales, and work is done in person, by phone, or by Zoom, at your convenience. I am especially interested in reconnecting with anyone who has worked with me before. If interested: Please contact me using the contact form
Our Archive
A collection of work from the last 30 years explaining my techniques & methods – included are videos, audio pieces and a collection of writings.
Latest Blog Posts
Stirring in Attentionland: Dr. Don Goes Video
Howdy one and all; long time no blog! Once again, against my better judgment, I am going to subject myself to the harsh glare of the camera, this time to create a record of the work I am doing (and doing and doing and doing). As the environment for stimulant...
The Doctor is ‘In’! Psychiatric Stand-Up Jan. 29
As ever, mental health threads itself through the media landscape in one form or another. A few weeks ago New York Mayor DiBlasio announced a new mental health focus at Riker's Island prison, which is much needed as everyone knows we closed our asylums and moved these...
Peter Kramer in the N.Y. Times
The front page article in the Sunday review section of the Times today is by Peter Kramer, of "Listening to Prozac" fame, a fellow Brunonian, (the attention doctor was Class of ’76). He's one of us aging prescriber therapists; but I'd be surprised if you can use...
Regulatory Juggernaut Attacks Attentionland
Many readers of this material are current or former patients of mine, and as such they have already experienced the misery of rolling stimulant shortages, shifting co-pays, unresponsive byzantine insurers whose live employees know less than their automatons. They have...
Audio
Audio: Dr. Don’s Trances
Dr. Kerson leads clients through focus-enhancing relaxation exercises and guided meditations in these audio recordings.
Audio: Improving Focus & Functioning
An hour-long talk about Dr. Don’s revolutionary new approach to managing AD/HD in Adults. Recorded live on November 3rd, 2008 at a meeting of the New York chapter of CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder).
Audio: Treating AD/HD Adults
This is an audio recording of Dr. Kerson’s live address to the 2013 New Jersey state convention of the NASW. Dr. Don describes his four-part program for treating adults with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
Audio: Rewiring Your Brain Podcast
In this podcast, Dr. Don outlines his new approach to handling attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder in adults. This is followed by a brief question-and-answer segment.
