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Apr 30
44m 48s

Exploring Trauma and ADHD with Dr Kara D...

Kate Moryoussef
About this episode

This week, Kate is joined by Dr. Kara Davey, Senior Clinical Psychologist, trauma specialist, and adult ADHD expert. Dr. Davey shares both personal and professional insights into how unresolved trauma can amplify ADHD symptoms, especially in women, and why understanding this connection is vital for healing and long-term wellbeing.

Dr. Davey discusses her own ADHD diagnosis following a stillbirth, which deeply shaped her clinical perspective. Together, we explore how trauma, especially “small t” traumas like chronic stress or emotional invalidation, can go unrecognised but significantly impact mental health and functioning.

Throughout the episode, Dr. Davey emphasises the need for trauma-informed, ADHD-aware care and the benefits of therapies like EMDR and somatic work in processing trauma.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✨ How trauma (both “big T” and “small t”) can worsen ADHD symptoms in women

✨ The emotional toll of undiagnosed ADHD and its link to complex PTSD (cPTSD)

✨ Delayed ADHD diagnosis in women, often triggered by grief or life stressors

✨ The generational impact of undiagnosed ADHD in families

✨ Why validating emotional and relational trauma is key for ADHD support

✨ How therapies like EMDR and somatic work can help process trauma

✨ The importance of ADHD-aware, trauma-informed therapy

✨ Why remote therapy offers accessible, ADHD-friendly mental health care

Timestamps:

🕒 00:09 – Exploring Trauma and ADHD

🕒 06:10 – Understanding the intersection of ADHD and Trauma

🕒 11:25 – Recognising the impact of emotional and interpersonal trauma

🕒 20:42 – Trauma treatment options: EMDR and beyond

🕒 30:53 – ADHD-friendly therapy approaches

🕒 36:43 – The power of remote therapy for neurodivergent clients

Learn more about Dr Kara Davey's ADHD work here.

Links and Resources:

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Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity. 

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