Welcome To West Coast Adult ADHD
Our team delivers specialized treatment services to adults with ADHD. We offer both in-person and online appointments.
Meet Our Clinicians
Lisa Willow, RSW, MSW
Founder, VisionaryADHD Clinician
Lisa is a Registered Social Worker with the BC College of Social Work (BCCSW). She holds a Master of Social Work Degree and has specialized training as an ADHD Certified Clinical Services Provider (ADHD-CCSP), along with completion of CADDRA’s, Evidenced Based ADHD Program for Health Care Providers. She is trained in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT). Lisa has worked in health care and mental health outpatient services since 2010 where she provides strengths based client centred care to individuals with a variety of mental health conditions. She currently works in the Adult ADHD Clinic on the North Shore of Vancouver.
Lisa has been researching and learning about ADHD since 2010 when her son was diagnosed with ADHD. She noticed a lack of resources for both children and adults with ADHD and has since become passionate about developing and providing services. Lisa’s approach is Holistic, Integrative, and Compassionate. She draws on several modalities and includes a whole person approach to healing and personal growth. This can include clinical interventions, CBT, DBT, nutrition, exercise, relaxation and mindfulness, self- compassion exercises, creativity. Collaborative and client centered means working together to move through challenges, to align with personal values and to live a life filled with meaning and purpose. Lisa has a background in holistic nutrition, natural health, yoga and mindfulness practices and creative arts. In her spare time she enjoys walking her dog in the forest, cycling, art, creative projects, comedy, and live music.
April Watson, Occupational Therapist
Audrey Kwok, Nurse Practitioner
Audrey is a Nurse Practitioner (NP) registered with the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM). Audrey holds a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology, a Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing, and a Masters of Nursing degree as a NP. She has always held a passion regarding human psychology. At the same time, she knew she wanted to pursue a profession helping people. As a Registered Nurse (RN), she had the privilege caring for those being treated for leukemia, and receiving bone marrow transplants (BMT). It is here where Audrey realized that she valued the unique rapport between herself and her patients. Today, as an NP, Audrey continues to enjoy forming therapeutic rapport with her patients while overseeing their care as a primary care provider.
In the primary care sector, her focus has been predominantly on woman’s health, sexual health, and mental health. After witnessing the effects of the pandemic on her patients’ mental health, Audrey sought out additional training from CADDRA’s ADHD program to better understand and assist her patients. At the West Coast Adult ADHD clinic, Audrey sees and assesses all walks of life to help bring better clarity to their symptoms, and guide them forward to proper treatment. She otherwise values time outside work with her husband and dog, regularly goes to the gym, and eats what Vancouver has to offer.
Jenny, Registered Clinical Counsellor
Jenny is a Registered Clinical Counsellor registered with the BCACC. She earned her Masters of Counselling and has worked as a school counsellor and in private practice.
She is trained in IFS (Internal Family Systems) EMDR, Gottman Level 1, Narrative therapy and has worked in various settings supporting mental health including addictions and trauma work. In her past, she has been an educator for over 15 years specializing in supporting students of all ages with learning difficulties, including ADHD. Listening to her students’ needs allowed her to individualize and diversify her teaching; she uses the same approach in her counselling. She enjoys working with individuals, couples, and youth.
John Woychuk, Clinical Counsellor
John Woychuk is a clinical counsellor with a focus on ADHD who helps clients identify areas of strength that can be further leveraged in their lives as well as areas of challenge that can be improved through cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness.
While mindfulness helps clients gently see and accept where they are and know themselves better, CBT helps to affect change through understanding the way thoughts and behaviors create experience. Using an experiential approach to shifting thoughts and behaviors, clients experience changes for themselves and are empowered to make new choices that enrich their lives. Having experienced his own family challenges with ADHD, and being a therapist specializing in ADHD has given John the tools to help others. John offers individual services and leads group programs to support clients with ADHD.
Lisa Hardy, Psychotherapist
Creative. Vibrant. Visioning.
Hi, I am Lisa Hardy. I am a psychotherapist, art therapist and coach with over 12 years’ experience helping a wide range of people. My discovery as a student of Art Therapy helped me find the capacity and brilliance of my own ADHD. Trauma was my career wheelhouse but now I am passionate in taking the specialized training and experiences of this work, to help people with ADHD, build on capacity and use past mental health struggles as a springboard to greater vibrancy and resiliency.
My role as therapist/coach is to facilitate and support this growth, discovery and self-learning, in a safe and compassionate relationship. What a great context for people with ADHD, seeking to create a healthy self-image, self-mastery and a clear vision for a future filled with meaning and purpose.
Sometimes our greatest discomfort comes when we aren’t who we once were and we are not yet who we are becoming. We need each other’s support to step into this reality.
Tracy, Registered Social Worker and Certified ADHD Life Coach
Tracy is a Registered Social Worker and Certified ADHD Life Coach with extensive experience as a mental health and substance use counsellor. She has completed CADDRA’s Evidence Based ADHD Program for Health Care Providers and has extensive training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She has facilitated group workshops for over 17 years, including Respectful Relationships programming, and has a history of activism in her community and abroad.
Tracy has been dedicated to learning about ADHD since her own diagnosis at the age of 50 She understands the complexities of living with ADHD at a mature age, and can therefore use both personal and professional experience to strengthen her connection with clients and build a mutually collaborative relationship. Tracy is passionate about using ACT approaches to care because she has seen great success in her clients’; abilities to make behavior changes when they are strengths-based and grounded in personal values, She utilizes self-compassion interventions as a foundation for improving clients’; wellness and overall life satisfaction. Tracy also enjoys working with people to enhance their communication skills and develop their own unique leadership style.
In her spare time, Tracy enjoys spending time with family, friends and her dog Micah, practicing yoga and her ukelele. She can often be found hiking trails and taking long walks in her neighborhood, or hyper focusing on her new special interest of the week. Or neither, and watching Netflix with her husband and a bowl of popcorn.
Nadina Dodd, Registered Clinical Counsellor and Art Therapist
Nadina Dodd is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and Art Therapist with lived experience of ADHD. She offers a holistic, collaborative, strengths-based and compassionate approach when working with clients and strives to provide a safe and respectful therapeutic relationship.
She has 7 years of experience supporting individuals with ADHD from diverse backgrounds and is a strong advocate for acceptance and education around neurodiversity. She can help you learn and practice new skills and strategies that support your brain functioning, navigate relationships, understand and manage emotions, and more!
Many of her clients are ’creatives’, young professionals and college/university students, 2SLGBTQ+ folks, newcomers, international students and people from the BIPOC community.
Her support is social justice oriented and, when you work with her, she will consider your social and cultural context (religion, sexual orientation, age, abilities, gender, life stage, etc) as well as the attitudes, systems and structures around you that can contribute to problems (ie; ableism, racism, sexism, homophobia, etc).
Andrea, Family Nurse Practitioner
Andrea is a board certified nurse practitioner with a diverse nursing background spanning nearly 15 years. Her passion for mental health has developed from both her professional and personal experience. Throughout her career Andrea has worked in many different settings with a wide variety of clients. She has become keenly aware of how pervasive, and often overlooked, mental health conditions can be across the lifespan. Additionally, growing up with ADHD she understands firsthand the significant benefits of accurate assessment and diagnosis, and holistic treatment. Andrea is a member of the Canadian ADHD Resource Alliance through which she has enhanced her knowledge of ADHD assessment and management. Andrea always strives to promote a culture of acceptance and to work collaboratively with her clients to achieve the best possible health outcomes.
Andrea achieved her Master of Nursing – Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of Saskatchewan. Prior to this, she graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, and subsequently from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with an Emergency Nursing Specialty advanced certificate. Before entering into the world of nursing Andrea pursued a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Alberta, focusing on sociology and political science.
ADHD Strengths or Weaknesses?
- Internally Distracted or Creative Imagination?
- Hyper-focussed or Capacity for super-focus in areas of interest?
- Hyperactivity or Highly Energetic?
- Inattention to Detail or Big Picture Thinker?
- Bored or Innovative and Creative?
- Distractible or Very Observant of ones surroundings?
- Impulsive or Ability to give Quick Responses?
- Embrace an ADHD friendly lifestyle!
- Is your work a good match for your ADHD brain?
- Do you need work accommodations to make it ADHD friendly?
- Do you need accommodations at university/college to achieve success in school?
- Is your home set up for an ADHD friendly lifestyle?
- People with ADHD are often creative, spontaneous, and ambitious!