Attention and self-regulation group for children and teens with ADHD
Attention isn't just something you either have or don't have. It is a set of skills you can understand, practice, and strengthen.
Reset & Focus is a therapeutic group designed for children and teens with ADHD. Through mindfulness, nature-based activities, games, and experiential practice, participants learn to better understand how their attention works, strengthen executive functioning skills, and develop tools for emotional and behavioral regulation.
Who Is This Group For?
This group may be a good fit for children and teens who:
Have difficulty staying focused or sustaining attention
Are easily distracted or pulled away from tasks
Have difficulty shifting attention when needed
Act impulsively or have trouble pausing before reacting
Become easily frustrated or emotionally overwhelmed
Struggle with organization, planning, or completing tasks
Want to better understand how their brain works and develop strategies that work for them
What We Work On
Attention & Focus
Understanding different types of attention
Practicing sustained and focused attention
Learning how to shift and redirect attention
Strengthening awareness of distractions
Learning when and how to give attention a chance to reset
Executive Functioning & Self-Regulation
Building the ability to pause before acting
Strengthening emotional and behavioral regulation
Practicing flexibility and shifting between tasks
Developing planning and organizational skills
Increasing awareness of impulses, emotions, and reactions
Finding strategies for managing frustration and overwhelm
Training Attention Through Experience
Reset & Focus is not a classroom lesson about paying attention. It is a place to experience, practice, and understand attention in action.
Through games, movement, mindfulness exercises, sensory experiences, nature-based activities, and group challenges, participants explore how their attention changes in different situations and practice strategies for focusing, shifting, pausing, and resetting.
The group draws on mindfulness and principles from Attention Restoration Theory, including the idea that certain experiences in nature can give directed attention an opportunity to rest and recover.
Over time, children and teens build a personal toolbox of strategies they can use when they need to focus, manage frustration, pause before reacting, or reset after becoming overwhelmed.
Why Nature & Mindfulness?
Children and teens with ADHD spend much of their day being asked to direct their attention. For example, at school, during homework, in conversations, and while completing everyday tasks.
Mindfulness provides opportunities to intentionally practice attention, notice distraction, and gently bring attention back.
Nature-based experiences offer another pathway. Drawing on Attention Restoration Theory, the group incorporates experiences designed to engage attention in a less effortful way and provide opportunities for directed attention to recover.
Together, these approaches allow participants to explore attention not only as something they are expected to control, but as a skill they can learn to understand, support, and strengthen.
Group Options
Elementary School Group
Activities are playful, active, and experiential, using games, movement, nature, and mindfulness to help children practice attention, flexibility, impulse control, and emotional regulation.
Teen Group
Activities and discussions are adapted to the challenges of adolescence, with greater emphasis on understanding individual attention patterns, executive functioning, self-regulation, independence, and applying strategies to school and everyday life.
Group Details
Groups: Elementary School / Teens
Day: Coming soon
Time: Coming soon
Location: Bellevue, WA
Format: Small group
Fee: $65 per session