Dr.KristinsKorner

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Dr. Kristin Carothers talks ADHD, anxiety, and depression with clinical sophistication, without emotional distance on this educational content series. With years of clinical experience and a personal ADHD diagnosis, Dr. Kristin J. Carothers, Ph.D. is now ready to open her office up to everyone. Dr.KristinsKorner exists to provide everyone with a space to feel seen, understand who they or their community are, and finally, to walk away with a little more knowledge than they had before sitting on this couch.

This podcast is for education. It shares what I’ve learned as a psychologist and what I’ve lived as someone with ADHD. Listening or reaching out doesn’t create a professional relationship of any kind with me, including therapy, assessment, or consultation. For support with your own situation, please reach out to a licensed provider. If you’re in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. In an emergency, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

Individual

Executive Function

The mental toolkit behind planning, starting tasks, and holding focus — the set of skills an ADHD brain often has to work harder to access.

Individual

Hyperfocus

A state of deep, almost tunnel-vision concentration on something engaging — the flip side of distractibility, not the opposite of it.

Individual

Time Blindness

Difficulty sensing how much time has passed or how long a task will take — why "five more minutes" can quietly become an hour.

Individual

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)

An intense emotional reaction to perceived criticism or rejection, common in ADHD experiences, that can feel far bigger than the moment that triggered it.

Individual

Emotional Dysregulation

Trouble managing the size or speed of an emotional response — feelings that arrive at full volume before there's time to turn the dial down.

Individual

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

A structured, evidence-based therapy approach that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors feed each other — and how changing one can shift the rest.

Individual

Anxious Avoidance

Putting off a task, conversation, or decision because of the anxiety it stirs up. It brings relief in the moment, but the dread is usually waiting on the other side.

Societal

Behavioral Parent Management Training (BPMT)

A skills-based approach that coaches parents on consistent, structured responses to a child's behavior, rather than placing the work on the child alone.

Societal

High-Conflict Co-Parenting

Co-parenting where communication regularly breaks down into conflict — and the strategies that keep kids out of the middle of it.

Societal

Masking

Consciously or unconsciously hiding ADHD traits to fit into a classroom, workplace, or social setting not built with an ADHD brain in mind.

Societal

BIFF Response

A communication method — Brief, Informative, Friendly, Firm — for responding to a hostile message without escalating it.

Cultural

Parentification

When a child takes on adult-level responsibility — caretaking, managing a household, holding a family together — often before they have the tools for it.

Cultural

Code-Switching

Shifting language, tone, or behavior between cultural spaces — a skill many people of color learn early, and one that can wear on a person over time.

Spiritual

Shame Spiral

The downward pull of one mistake triggering a flood of "what's wrong with me" thinking — distinct from guilt, and harder to talk yourself out of.

Spiritual

Grace (Self-Forgiveness)

Extending yourself the same patience you'd offer someone else — the practice of separating what you did from who you are.

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Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Raising Kids Alongside The Curriculum

Diagnosed, Not Just Studied

ADHD, examined from four angles.

Spiritual

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Societal

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Diagnosed, not just studied.

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Executive Function

Hyperfocus

Time Blindness

Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)

Emotional Dysregulation

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Anxious Avoidance

Behavioral Parent Management Training (BPMT)

High-Conflict Co-Parenting

Masking

BIFF Response

Parentification

Code-Switching

Shame Spiral

Grace (Self-Forgiveness)

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