This presentation brings together multidisciplinary speakers from mental health coaching to psychotherapy, psychiatry, and more to examine the relationship between attention challenges, hormonal changes, and psychological well-being of women in mid-life. This presentation offers real talk about what every woman deserves to know about hormones and their impact on ADHD symptoms. The presenters will highlight how ADHD often intersects with life stage transitions, trauma histories, and shifting neurobiology. Many women reach midlife having masked or compensated for ADHD symptoms for decades; however, hormonal fluctuations can intensify challenges with focus, organization, emotion regulation, and executive functioning.
The presentations also emphasize the psychological impact of stigma, internalized self-criticism, and repeated negative feedback experienced by those with ADHD. These experiences can contribute to lowered self-esteem, perfectionism, people-pleasing behaviors, and difficulty setting boundaries, when compounded by adverse experiences or chronic stress. Effective support often requires an integrative approach that includes assessment, collaboration among healthcare providers, medication or hormonal considerations, and therapeutic interventions addressing executive functioning and emotional experiences.

Overall, the presentation underscores the importance of recognizing ADHD in midlife, validating women’s experiences, and providing compassionate, multidisciplinary care supporting both cognitive functioning and psychological well-being.