A CLINICAL WEBINAR FOR PROVIDERS

What is ADHD?

  • The neurobiological differences and what the DSM criteria is missing to understand the full ADHD experience
  • Who gets a diagnosis and who gets missed?  (Discussing masking/camouflaging and how ADHD may present differently across the sex/gender spectrum).
  • How the pathologizing of traits without understanding the  context can be harmful and lead to more stress, trauma and harm to the individual

What is Chronic Pain & Fibromyalgia?

  • We will be highlighting the lack of recognition in how pain and stress are experienced differently females and different gender identities
  • How the majority of pain and medical research is conducted on male subjects, animal models and cells, and is not appropriate as an  ‘evidence-based’ treatment approaches for all
  • The current understanding of Fibromyalgia (including the functional medicine perspective)

Claire Sehinson will explore the intersection of ADHD and Chronic Pain through a combination of research, case studies and lived experience. She will also examine co-existing health conditions such as:

  • IBS, food sensitivities and unexplained gut issues
  • Pre existing trauma, anxiety and depression
  • HPA axis and burnout – how ADHDers might burnout in a different way
  • Atypical pain experiences in neurodivergent people
  • PMDD
  • Dysautonomia

She will round out her presentation with a discussion of the role of sensory processing and interoception (pain perception, emotional regulation, Alexithymia, and aphantasia), along with tips on supporting patients in a neurodivergent-affirming way.

Instructor(s)

Claire Sehinson, MSc

Claire is an educator, researcher with a functional medicine and nutritional therapy clinical practice. Her field of interest is the overlap of Neurodivergence and chronic complex health issues. She brings to her work her passion and lived experience of being multiply neurodivergent and diagnosed with Autism and ADHD as an adult, whilst navigating her own recovery from ME/CFS and dealing with many complex health issues throughout her lifetime. Claire has over a decade of specialist clinical experience working with complex illness, trauma, CFS, Fibromyalgia and chronic infections. Claire is the Head of Research at the Optimum Health Clinic (an integrative body-mind clinic) where she researches and trains practitioners on cutting-edge protocols to support complexly ill clients. Claire is a member of the Psychiatry Redefined faculty, supporting members of the online fellowship community. She continues to advocate for marginalized groups to raise awareness and share knowledge of intersectionality in healthcare.