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Just like the Gym is for your body, Therapy is for your Mind
Dr. Sneha Sharma
Psychiatrist, Anvaya Healthcare
info@anvayahealthcare.com
+91-9810659825
Just like the Gym is for your body, Therapy is for your Mind
Dr. Sneha Sharma
Psychiatrist, Anvaya Healthcare
AIIMS, LHMC & NIMHANS-trained psychiatrists & psychologists providing online ADHD treatment across India — evidence-based, confidential, and insurance-supported care from home.
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Ten million Indian children are diagnosed with ADHD each year. Most people hear that and think of disruptive boys in classrooms. That’s roughly a third of the picture.
The rest are girls whose inattentive symptoms were called daydreaming for a decade. Adults who spent their twenties and thirties wondering why everything felt harder than it seemed to for everyone else — missed deadlines, abandoned projects, relationships strained by disorganisation. A 2024 systematic review found adult ADHD prevalence in India ranging from 5.48% to 25.7%. A Delhi-NCR study found 14% of young adults screened positive. Most of them had never been assessed.
The condition is treatable. Medication works for 70 to 80% of people. Behavioural therapy and CBT build what medication alone doesn’t — skills, strategies, structure. Getting to either requires getting to the right professionals. Platforms like Anvaya Healthcare make that possible for patients across India, children and adults, without requiring a specialist centre that most cities don’t have.
Around 10 million children are diagnosed yearly, but many cases—especially in girls and adults—go unnoticed or mislabelled.
Studies show prevalence ranging from 5.48% to 25.7%, with about 14% of young adults in Delhi-NCR screening positive—most without proper assessment.
In girls, ADHD is frequently mistaken for “daydreaming,” while adults struggle with missed deadlines, disorganisation, and strained relationships without knowing the cause.
A psychiatrist (MBBS + MD in Psychiatry) handles diagnosis and medication. ADHD diagnosis isn’t a checklist — it’s a clinical process that requires a detailed developmental history, symptom mapping across different settings, and ruling out conditions that can look similar. Stimulant and non-stimulant medications are prescription-only. Only a psychiatrist can prescribe and monitor them.
A clinical psychologist (M.Phil. + RCI registration) delivers the psychological treatment. CBT adapted for ADHD. Skills training for executive function. Parent training programmes for families of children with the condition. Medication reduces symptom intensity; psychology builds the capabilities that make functioning more sustainable. For children especially, both tracks running together produces meaningfully better outcomes than medication alone.
In children: difficulty sustaining attention on anything that doesn’t immediately interest them. Losing things constantly. Forgetting instructions between hearing them and acting on them. In hyperactive presentations — unable to sit still, talking over others, acting before thinking. Teachers notice. Parents notice. The child often doesn’t, which is part of the problem.
In adults: the hyperactivity often turns inward. What’s visible is chronic disorganisation, difficulty starting tasks, missing deadlines that felt manageable, emotional reactions that seem disproportionate to what triggered them. People with adult ADHD have usually developed compensatory strategies — some good, some not. By the time they reach an assessment, they often present as high-functioning people with a persistent sense that they’re working twice as hard as everyone else for half the result. Across both: inattention that isn’t about motivation, forgetfulness that isn’t about caring, impulsivity that isn’t about self-control. These are symptoms of how the brain manages attention, not character flaws.
Persistent difficulty focusing on tasks, especially those that are not immediately engaging. People may get easily distracted, struggle to follow conversations, and find it hard to complete work or studies. This isn’t laziness—it reflects how attention is regulated in the brain.
Frequently misplacing items, missing appointments, or forgetting instructions soon after hearing them. Daily responsibilities can slip through the cracks despite good intentions. This pattern often causes frustration and is linked to working memory challenges, not carelessness.
Difficulty planning, prioritising, and managing time effectively. Tasks may feel overwhelming, leading to procrastination or incomplete work. Living or work spaces may become cluttered, and routines are hard to maintain, affecting productivity and consistency over time.
Acting quickly without fully thinking through consequences. This may include interrupting others, making rushed decisions, or having strong emotional reactions. It can impact relationships, work, and daily functioning, as responses often feel immediate and hard to control.
Book a session at Anvaya Healthcare. Start with a psychiatrist for the assessment, or let the team direct you based on the presenting concern. The initial consultation is a detailed developmental history — not a brief intake. For children: how they were as an infant, developmental milestones, school performance from the beginning, what teachers have said, what situations are hardest and when. For adults: academic history, work history, what patterns they’ve noticed across different contexts, what they’ve tried. Family history of ADHD is relevant too — the condition has a strong hereditary component.
Medication, where indicated, is prescribed legally under India’s Telemedicine Practice Guidelines (2020). Titration is gradual and monitored — starting doses are low, response is tracked, adjustments happen over the first few weeks. Psychological treatment runs alongside: CBT, skills training, parent training where applicable. Follow-up sessions track symptom response, medication tolerability, functional improvement at school or work. This is long-term management, not a course with a fixed end date.
Book online or call us. Our team helps you decide — psychiatrist or psychologist first. For ADHD, it's almost always the psychiatrist.
A thorough psychiatric assessment — not a quick form. A conversation covering history, symptoms, family context, and current functioning.
Diagnosis per DSM-5 / ICD-11 criteria. Medication introduced carefully with explanation. Legal prescription via online consultation.
Psychoeducation, CBTp, and regular follow-ups layered in as you stabilise. Long-term care — not a one-off consultation.
CBT for ADHD targets the specific cognitive and behavioural patterns the condition creates — not just inattention but the things that accumulate around it. The habit of starting tasks at the last possible moment. The avoidance of anything with a delayed reward. The shame spiral that follows a missed deadline. CBT addresses those patterns directly, with practical strategies rather than general advice. Skills training and executive function coaching is more concrete still. How to break tasks into pieces small enough to actually start. How to build external systems — calendars, reminders, environment design — that compensate for internal systems that don’t work reliably. This sounds basic. For someone with ADHD, these aren’t obvious skills and they don’t develop automatically.
Parent training is structured and evidence-based. Not parenting advice — a specific clinical programme teaching how to respond to ADHD behaviour in ways that reduce conflict, support development, and avoid the secondary damage to self-esteem that unmanaged ADHD causes over time. Behavioural therapy addresses patterns at home and school: reward systems, environmental modifications, consistent responses to specific behaviours. For younger children, behavioural approaches have strong standalone evidence even before medication is introduced.
CBT helps people with ADHD identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviours. It focuses on issues like procrastination, poor time management, emotional overwhelm, and avoidance of difficult tasks. Through practical strategies and structured exercises, CBT improves focus, emotional regulation, confidence, and daily functioning over time.
This approach teaches practical skills for managing everyday responsibilities more effectively. It helps individuals break large tasks into manageable steps, improve organisation, build routines, and use tools like reminders and calendars. Executive function coaching supports planning, prioritisation, and productivity in school, work, and personal life.
Parent training programmes guide parents on how to respond to ADHD-related behaviours in supportive and structured ways. Parents learn strategies to reduce conflict, encourage positive behaviour, improve communication, and build consistent routines at home. These evidence-based techniques also help protect a child’s self-esteem and emotional development.
Behavioural therapy focuses on improving specific behaviours through structured reinforcement techniques. It uses reward systems, consistent responses, and environmental adjustments to encourage positive habits and reduce disruptive behaviour. This approach is especially effective for children and helps improve behaviour at home, school, and social settings.
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Here’s a specific irony that comes up a lot: ADHD is characterised by difficulty with planning, follow-through, and remembering appointments. Requiring someone with ADHD to travel to a specialist clinic regularly, often during working hours, creates a friction that the condition itself makes harder to manage. Online removes that.
For families with children in treatment, the logistics of regular in-person sessions are real. Online sessions at home — no travel, no disrupted afternoons, no school pickup calculations — make consistency more achievable. Consistency is what makes ADHD treatment work.
Privacy matters too. ADHD in India still carries stigma — the child labelled as a problem student, the adult who doesn’t want colleagues to know. A private online consultation changes what people are willing to pursue. Flexible scheduling. Affordable compared to specialist in-person assessments. Pan India reach via Anvaya Healthcare means someone outside Delhi, Mumbai, or Bengaluru — where most ADHD specialists are based — accesses the same clinical quality without the waiting list.
Affordable, transparent pricing. The Mental Healthcare Act 2017 mandates insurance parity for mental health — check your policy’s OPD clause.
₹1,500 – ₹2,500 per session
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The psychiatrists and psychologists at Anvaya Healthcare trained at AIIMS, NIMHANS, IHBAS, Lady Hardinge Medical College, and VIMHANS. ADHD assessment requires experience with the condition specifically — across presentations that look very different in a seven-year-old boy, an eleven-year-old girl, and a 35-year-old professional. The differences aren’t cosmetic. They change what you look for, what you ask about, and what treatment looks like.
Treatment is personalised. A combined-type ADHD in a child still in primary school is a different clinical situation from inattentive-type ADHD in an adult who’s spent decades developing workarounds. The plan is built around the actual person.
For children: write down what situations are hardest. When does focus break down? What does a bad homework session actually look like? What has the school said, and for how long? Bring school reports if you have them. The more specific the history, the faster the assessment moves.
For adults: note the patterns you’ve observed across time. Not just right now — across jobs, relationships, tasks. What’s always been hard? What have you tried to manage it? What worked even partially?
For both: list the questions you most want answered. First sessions cover a lot of ground. The concerns that matter most to you can get lost if they’re not written down first. Private, low-distraction environment. For children especially, quieter is better. And be active in the session — ADHD management works best when the person themselves, not just the parent, is engaged from the start.
Yes. Assessment, medication management, CBT, and parent training all work well in online delivery. Some people find the home environment — familiar, lower pressure — actually easier for the assessment process.
Yes. The psychiatrists are qualified medical doctors registered with state medical councils, legally permitted to prescribe stimulant and non-stimulant ADHD medications under India's Telemedicine Practice Guidelines (2020).
It's long-term. Medication requires ongoing monitoring. Psychological treatment runs in phases. Most people with ADHD remain in some form of active management for years — which is appropriate, not a sign that treatment isn't working.
For most people, yes — particularly children and adults with significant functional impairment. Medication manages symptoms. Therapy builds the skills and strategies that make those symptom improvements translate into actual functional change. The combination consistently outperforms either alone.
Yes, online counselling is fully confidential. Your sessions, personal information, and treatment details are protected under strict professional and ethical privacy standards.
Start with a psychiatrist for assessment. A clinical psychologist for CBT, skills training, or parent training follows in parallel. Look for clinicians with specific ADHD experience — the presentations vary significantly, and experience with one age group or presentation type doesn't automatically transfer to another.
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