About
ADHD Horizon
A psychological service for adults with ADHD, informed by clinical practice and evidence.
Who the service is led by
Dr Van Stephanopoulos, Chartered Clinical Psychologist
ADHD Horizon was created to offer clear, thoughtful, and evidence-based support to adults with ADHD. Before explaining the thinking behind the service, it may be helpful to briefly introduce myself.
I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with experience working across NHS and private settings.
Alongside clinical practice, I have worked as a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and held clinical leadership roles, contributing to service development, supervision, and training.
My clinical work has focused on assessment, formulation, and psychological therapy with adults, including ADHD and common co-occurring conditions.
If you would like to read more about my professional background, you can do so on my personal website www.drvan.co.uk
Why ADHD Horizon exists
My motivation for developing ADHD Horizon is closely linked to my own personal and professional journey with ADHD.
When I first encountered ADHD as a concept, I was working as an Assistant Psychologist in an NHS role I valued deeply. My initial response was sceptical. Reading the diagnostic criteria, I felt uneasy about what seemed like a broad label being applied to experiences I had long considered part of normal variation. At the time, I genuinely felt like “everyone was built like this”.
That view changed gradually. Two things mattered. One was my partner, a psychiatrist specialising in ADHD, who gently but consistently pointed out how clearly I met diagnostic criteria.
The other was my clinical work with adults who had ADHD. Listening to clients describe their inner experiences — patterns of effort, exhaustion, intensity, and frustration — I began to recognise something more consistent and specific. In their descriptions, I could see myself.
Accepting that I had ADHD was quietly transformative. It helped me make sense of longstanding difficulties, but also of strengths. It did not remove challenge, but it brought coherence. It also reinforced what I was already seeing clinically: ADHD does not prevent growth, meaning, or accomplishment.
Like many people, I had developed ways of coping long before ADHD was named. Some were taught, some discovered, some refined over time. I was also fortunate to find a line of work that captured my attention in a sustaining way. With hindsight, I understand how much this mattered.
Together with a growing evidence base, these experiences shaped my view that ADHD is neither a trivial label nor an insurmountable obstacle. It is a difference that benefits from understanding, structure, and the right kind of support.
How the service is designed
ADHD Horizon is built around clearly defined clinical pathways, which are grounded in current clinical evidence and offered following careful screening.
Each pathway has a different format, but the same overall aim: to help adults affected by ADHD understand what is happening, reduce unhelpful patterns, and develop more workable ways of managing difficulties in day-to-day life.
All services are offered following screening to confirm suitability, safety, and fit. ADHD Horizon does not provide diagnostic assessments, medication management, psychiatric care, or crisis / emergency support.
Current clinical pathways include:
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1:1 Therapy
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Couples Therapy
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Group Programme
Values in Practice
At ADHD Horizon, values are expressed through how the service operates, not through slogans.
Clarity
Clarity means helping people make sense of themselves and their difficulties in a way that goes beyond diagnosis alone. This includes understanding how ADHD interacts with other factors, patterns, and life experiences that may affect wellbeing, work, relationships, and day-to-day functioning. It also means offering clear pathways, transparent boundaries, and a structured process so people can understand what support is available and what the next step involves.
Compassion
Support is shaped by an understanding that ADHD can be frustrating, painful, and exhausting to live with. Compassion shows up in realistic expectations, careful pacing, and a non-shaming approach to difficulties that may have been misunderstood for years.
Change
The aim of ADHD Horizon is to support meaningful, sustainable change in how people understand and work with ADHD. Whether through individual therapy, group work, or couples therapy, the focus is on developing insight, skills, and approaches that can be carried forward beyond the sessions themselves.