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Your Child's Doctor or Therapist Sent You Here.
Here's why — and what to do next.
If a clinician referred you, they've already told you something most families never hear: what happens at home matters as much as everything else.
Most families get the diagnosis, the medication conversation, maybe a therapy referral — and very little guidance on what to actually do at home. But home is where most of life happens. The mornings, the meals, the homework, the transitions, the moments before bed. The ordinary interactions that make up the vast majority of a child's day — and become that much harder, that much more charged, when ADHD is in the house.
That's the gap this work fills.
Dan Leibowitz has spent 30 years working alongside therapists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and neuropsychologists — not as a replacement for clinical care, but as the piece that translates it into everyday family life. The PAUSE People System is what bridges the clinical picture and the home dynamic. And it's what your child's clinician likely had in mind when they pointed you here.
WHAT CLINICIANS TYPICALLY REFER FOR
1. Parent behavior training
The CDC and AAP both recommend concurrent parent behavior training as a frontline intervention alongside any clinical treatment for ADHD. It's almost never the first thing families are offered. This work is built around exactly that — grounded in what developmental psychology tells us about how attention, planning, and emotional self-regulation interact, and how the adults in the house shape all three.
2. Translating the evaluation
Neuropsychological and psychoeducational reports are dense, clinical documents. Dan reads them, makes sense of them, and builds a real action plan from them — for home and for school. Not more jargon. A picture of your child you can actually use.
3. Academics, Executive function coaching for students
Therapy addresses the emotional and behavioral piece. EF coaching addresses the planning, organization, attention, and self-regulation piece. They're complementary, not redundant — and most kids with ADHD need both.
4. Family dynamic support
When ADHD is in the house, the whole system is affected. The moments, the spaces, the interactions — they involve everyone. Dan works across every layer: student, parents, and the dynamic between them.
WHERE TO START
Not sure which offering is right? Here's a simple guide:
You just received an evaluation and need help making sense of it → Start with Now What? — a focused 1-hour session that turns the report into a real direction.
It's August and there's a packet on the desk — and bigger questions in the background.
The Refresher handles both → August Refresher
You want the whole family oriented and a shared plan → The Family Blueprint Session brings you, your child, and Dan together in one session — PAUSE framework, student EF coaching, and a Brain Blueprint everyone leaves with.
You're ready for ongoing parent coaching → PAUSE at Home is three months of 1:1 support built around the PAUSE People System — on-demand, flexible, and grounded in the same framework your clinician recommended.
Your child needs direct EF coaching → Student Coaching or the EF Launchpad — depending on whether you want an ongoing relationship or a structured, time-bounded program.
A NOTE TO CLINICIANS
If you're a therapist, psychiatrist, pediatrician, or neuropsychologist referring families to this work — thank you. Dan welcomes collaboration and is happy to coordinate with your office, review shared documentation, and keep you informed of progress with family consent. Reach out directly via the contact page.