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Something to use this week
CBT and solution-focused work, so sessions end with a concrete step rather than a general principle.
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ADHD Therapy in Windsor
Rotating shifts, production targets, a first term at university with no one checking in. Practical ADHD support for adults in Windsor, built around the schedule you actually have.
Tina Abadi
Registered Psychotherapist
RP, MACP · CRPO #13777
Ghazal Sheikhtaheri
Founder & Clinical Director
RP (Qualifying) · CRPO #21300
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If the pattern goes back further than the to-do list, Ghazal Sheikhtaheri, RP (Qualifying), works in Schema Therapy (depth-oriented and unhurried).
Some people want tools for this week. Others want to trace a pattern to its root. Both are good therapy. Ghazal is currently booking by waitlist (3–4 weeks).
What This Actually Is
When the problem was never effort
Most adults arrive at this conversation having already tried harder. Harder is not the missing ingredient, and it has usually been the only advice on offer for twenty years. What is actually difficult is a specific set of things: starting, sequencing, holding information in place while you use it, and switching between one mode and the next.
(This page is general information, not an assessment. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose ADHD or prescribe medication, and you do not need a diagnosis for this work to be useful.)
- Knowing exactly what to do and being unable to start it.
- A week that goes to whatever was loudest rather than whatever mattered.
- Losing the thread mid-task, mid-sentence, mid-errand.
- Deep focus on what interests you, and none at all for what doesn't.
- Time that behaves strangely: an hour that vanishes, ten minutes that won't pass.
- The shame layered on top of all of it, usually the oldest part.
The Approach
Practical, and aimed at where the day actually breaks
Tina works in cognitive behavioural and solution-focused approaches, which in practice means sessions are structured without being rigid. You name what you want to be different, the two of you work out what is holding it in place, and you leave with something to try before the next one.
The systems are deliberately small. An elaborate one built on a good week will not survive a bad one, and every abandoned system becomes further evidence for a story you have been telling yourself for a long time. That story is the second half of the work, and for most people it turns out to be the half that was costing more.
Why NoorMinds
Four reasons clients choose this practice
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A Registered Psychotherapist
Tina Abadi, RP, CRPO #13777, with a Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology.
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English or Farsi
Including the part of this that was never only about focus. Sessions in either language.
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Online across Ontario
No commute and no waiting room, so the trip to an appointment is one less thing to manage.
Fees
Straightforward and stated upfront
Free15-min consultation
$180Individual · 60 min
Insurance receipts provided after every session. Tina is a fully Registered Psychotherapist, so psychotherapy with an RP is commonly covered; please confirm the details with your insurer.
Questions
Common questions
My plant schedule flips between days and nights, and everything falls apart on changeover weeks. What helps with ADHD when the schedule won't hold still?
Anchors that do not depend on the clock. Tina Abadi, RP (CRPO #13777), helps adults build a few habits tied to events that happen on every shift, such as arriving, the first break and getting home, rather than to fixed times, and plans the changeover days deliberately because that is where things usually slip. Sessions are online across Ontario, in English or Farsi.
I'm on a study permit in Windsor and worried that falling behind could affect my status. Can therapy help?
Therapy cannot advise on immigration rules, but it can help with what is making you fall behind: starting work, planning around deadlines, and the anxiety that builds when the stakes feel high. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose ADHD, and you do not need a diagnosis to begin. Sessions with Tina Abadi, RP, are online, in English or Farsi, so they fit between classes.
Can a psychotherapist diagnose ADHD?
No. A Registered Psychotherapist does not diagnose medical conditions or prescribe medication, and this page is general information rather than an assessment. What therapy does is work on the difficulties themselves: starting, sequencing, remembering, and the shame that usually accompanies them. If you want a formal assessment, that is a conversation for your physician.
What kind of therapy do you use for ADHD?
Primarily cognitive behavioural and solution-focused work, which means sessions are structured and tend to end with something specific to try before the next one. Where there is trauma or long-standing self-criticism in the picture, the work is trauma-informed and paced to you.
Is online therapy effective for this kind of work?
Yes. Research finds video-delivered therapy comparable to in-person work for the concerns treated here, and executive-function strategies translate without loss. For many adults with ADHD, removing the trip to an appointment also removes one of the more common reasons appointments get missed.
Do I need a referral to start?
No referral is needed to begin psychotherapy with a Registered Psychotherapist. A free 15-minute consultation is the usual starting point, to talk about what is bringing you here and whether working together feels right.
What does it cost, and is it covered?
Individual sessions are $180 for 60 minutes, with a free 15-minute consultation to start. Receipts are provided after every session. Tina Abadi is a fully Registered Psychotherapist, so psychotherapy with an RP is commonly covered for her sessions; it is still worth confirming the details with your insurer.
Next Step
Start with something small and real
Book a free 15-minute consultation. No commitment, no pressure.
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NoorMinds offers online ADHD therapy to adults in Windsor and Essex County and across southwestern Ontario, from Chatham to London and the rest of the province, in English or Farsi.
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Windsor
ADHD Therapy for Windsor adults
In Windsor, 11.4 per cent of the labour force was in manufacturing and utilities occupations in 2021, compared with 3.9 per cent in Toronto. Shift work is common in manufacturing and in health care, and for an adult with ADHD a schedule that rotates is one of the hardest conditions to work under. Sleep is usually the first thing it takes, and attention, working memory and emotional control all lean on sleep more than most people realize. People often arrive convinced they are getting worse when the real change is that the one support they had has been taken away.
Students meet ADHD from another direction. The University of Windsor and St. Clair College bring in students from Canada and abroad, and non-permanent residents, many of them international students, were 3.3 per cent of the city in 2021. For some, the first term away from home is when ADHD becomes impossible to ignore: no bells, no one checking, a new country, and deadlines that land all at once. Commuting is rarely the problem here, since barely one Windsor commuter in forty spent an hour or more getting to work in 2021; the difficulty is the unstructured time in between.
The work with Tina Abadi, RP (CRPO #13777), starts with what is breaking down: sleep and transitions first, then two or three habits sturdy enough to move with a rota or a timetable, then the self-criticism that builds over years of being told to pull it together. It is cognitive behavioural, concrete and small-scale. Sessions are online, which saves a trip across town between shifts, and are available in English or Farsi.
Local support in Windsor
Independent organizations, not affiliated with NoorMinds, that adults in Windsor may find useful alongside or between sessions.
- CADDAC (Centre for ADHD Awareness, Canada): national ADHD charity with education, peer support groups and a resource navigator for adults.
- Windsor-Essex Community Health Centre (weCHC): community health centre whose services include counselling.
- Family Services Windsor-Essex: counselling for individuals, couples and families across Windsor-Essex.
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