Meet Sari

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I want this site to be a place where we talk about a different side of AD/HD, the personal side, the human side, feelings about yourself and your relationships. I will give you my perspective that comes from working close to 20 years with women and men with AD/HD. I have often had the opportunity and the privilege to see people grow over several years and I've been able to observe and appreciate their shifting challenges.

Over the years, I have developed a framework for understanding what makes the difference between those who get stuck sometime after diagnosis and those who continue to grow and move on. I find it has been helpful to share this with my clients so they can understand the developmental milestones in the lives of adults with AD/HD and I have developied this site as a place to share these thoughts with you. My perspective has also evolved from my own journey of living with AD/HD as well as from people all over world who have shared their stories with me.

I hope this will be a place to talk about those shifting and important challenges and issues that emerge long past diagnosis -- questions of identity, meaning, authenticity; questions about how you form a new identity and sense of purpose, and how to organize your life in deeper ways beyond a new Franklin planner.

My goal is to give you a great place to explore and express yourself and to guide you in choosing experiences to help you on your life long journey - whether you are just starting out or if your feeling a little lost months or years after diagnosis.

I want this site to be a relaxing but active place - a warm place to check in, communicate, and connect with others. I'll very much enjoy sharing with you some of my own thoughts, recommendations and tips. I'll tell you about the products and services I offer and about the things I'm doing or things I hear about that I think are worth while.

I first became known to many of you because of the book I wrote about women with AD/HD. But I also work equally with men and couples. My second book "Journeys through ADDulthood" explores and identifies the long term journeys or passages that both men and women with AD/HD will travel through as they learn to live successfully with differences.

I have a great deal of affection for adults with AD/HD and respect for the tremendous struggles they face each day, invisible and sometimes incomprehensible to many around them. You need a place to sit back and relax, talk, feel understood and to share your understanding with others. You are the experts on yourselves and I have learned a tremendous amount from you. I have also received incredible support from people all over the world since the publication of my first book and this is a way for me to give back to you and to find a way to stay connected to you.

So I hope you will return to this site frequently and join other women and men around the world in an exploration of the challenges and gifts of living with AD/HD.

Warm Regards,

Sari

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Meet Sari

I am a psychotherapist in private practice in Ann Arbor, Michigan and have I specialized in individual, couple and group work with AD/HD adults and their partners for close to 20 years. I have written two books- "Women with Attention Deficit Disorder" and "Journeys Through ADDulthood". I train and am a consultant to mental health professionals about counseling adults with AD/HD. I have a special focus on women's issues, inattentive AD/HD, and the psychological complexities of coping with an adult diagnosis. I am a frequent presenter and contributor to national and international conferences and publications on these subjects.

I graduated from the University of Michigan and then spent 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where I earned a Masters Degree in clinical counseling at California State University. I became licensed as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and served as the specialist on adult AD/HD for the Family Service Agency of Marin County, California. I currently serve on the professional advisory board of the National Attention Deficit Disorder Association. I was proud to have been the 1996 recipient of this association’s award for outstanding service by a helping professional.

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Overview of Site

Following is an overview of the site.

I hope you will feel comfortable using it and return often.

In my Services page you will find out about professional services I offer that you may not know about from counseling to presentations and professional consultations.

On the Appearances & News page I will note places I will speak at or publications I will appear in.

The Sari's Products section, my store, will sell and describe my books and tapes and translations into other languages. I will tell you of upcoming products. You can read excerpts and reviews of the books.

One reason to buy here instead of somewhere else is that you can receive a signed copy, and it’s all very secure for ordering. Some people buy in quantity for professional classes or continuing education classes and we can arrange discounts for those and catalog or conference sales.

In the You Talk section I provide the Discussion Forum a place that may really be the heart of the site where you can talk to each other to share what you know, ask for and give help to each other.

Part of You Talk is the Guestbook where you can send me a private message. Even though I can’t respond personally I very much appreciate and enjoy hearing how you are doing with your ADD or your response to the site or the books.

Sari's Words of Wisdom contains material that I’ve written or spoken that have been written down. This section contains my popular Screening Checklist for women as well as the columns that I wrote answering your questions for my previous online Ask Sari column. From time to time I will post other things I've written or transcripts from online conferences I've participated in.

Resources and Recommendations will tell you about conferences I recommend or other products or events and book lists, website and links you should know about to stay connected.

I hope you will enjoy the site

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