Health and Wellness #4: Improving Personal Care Habits with ADHD (Members)

Health and Wellness Webinar Series

• Audience: Adults with ADHD
• Dates and Times: 7:00 – 8:00 pm EDT on Tuesdays from May 6 – May 27, 2025
• Participants will have the option to register for individual sessions or the entire series.

Gain knowledge about how ADHD affects health and practical tools to help you take steps today to improve your well-being. In this webinar series, ADHD experts cover strategies for healthy eating, improved sleep, increased physical activity, hygiene routines, and stress management. Sign up for one session or join us for the full series!

Unable to join a session at the scheduled time? Register anyway, and you will receive access to the recordings and handouts at the conclusion of the series, complete with additional handouts and resources to supplement your new knowledge.

Session #4: Improving Personal Care Habits with ADHD

Presenters: Anita Robertson, LCSW and Carrie Comstock

Understand why hygiene is often difficult for individuals who have ADHD and how to overcome sensory and executive functioning difficulties around hygienic activities.

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand how executive functioning challenges affect consistent hygiene practices
• Understand sensory challenges that may occur with ADHD and make hygiene difficult
• Identify tactics to adjust sensory stimuli to make hygiene more comfortable
• Implement short-term and long-term strategies to create more consistent hygiene practices
• Recognize signs that additional support is needed to overcome symptoms and know where to look for professional support

Anita Robertson, LCSW is a psychotherapist in Austin, Texas, and the author of ADHD & Us: A Couple’s Guide to Loving and Living with Adult ADHD. She is the creator of the ADHD Relationship Bootcamp to help neurodiverse couples develop new skills to make their relationship ADHD-affirming through games and challenges. She received her master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Austin.  She offers several online courses on ADHD. She has presented at the Annual International Conference on ADHD and published articles in CHADD’s Attention magazine. She loves seeing adults thrive with the ADHD-affirming support and tools they always deserved.

Carrie Comstock has been practicing as an occupational therapist since 2016. She earned her master’s degree in occupational therapy from the University of Florida. At UF she worked on a research project for young adults with LD and/or ADHD, and she has continued to work and publish with that team. As an OT based in Austin, Texas, she has worked with a wide range of diagnoses in pediatrics in outpatient care, including a niche population of teenagers and adults with sensory processing difficulties that have an impact on daily function. She strives to use a neurodiversity-affirming and strengths-based approach.

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