ADHD worksheets built around how the brain actually works.
Executive function planners, dopamine menus, weekly check-ins, medication reflection, shame cycle maps, late-diagnosis integration, and couples/parenting-with-ADHD tools — designed for adults and teens, print-ready, clean PDFs.
ADHD Worksheet (Adult & Teen)
A weekly snapshot — strengths, friction points, and one structural fix to test
A one-page weekly ADHD check-in: how the brain showed up, a scaffolding inventory, and one small structural change to design around the week's biggest friction point. Adults and teens (14+).
Executive Functioning Worksheet
Rate the 8 EF skills, then design supports around your weakest two
A self-rating of the eight executive function skills (task initiation, working memory, time, planning, organization, emotional regulation, attention, flexibility) with a menu of external scaffolds to install around the weakest two.
Dopamine Menu Builder
Pre-built lists of activities that lift the ADHD brain's reward signal
A five-category dopamine menu — appetizers, mains, sides, desserts, specials — so a low-dopamine moment ends in a chosen activity instead of a default doomscroll. Make dopamine a choice, not a reflex.
ADHD Thought Record
A CBT thought record adapted for ADHD shame loops
Targets the shame self-talk that piggybacks on ADHD symptoms: catches the shame thought, separates 'brain' from 'character', identifies the structural fix, and reframes with a self-compassionate alternative.
Emotional Regulation for ADHD
The 20-minute rule — ride the wave without burning the bridge
Built around the ADHD emotion pattern: fast, hot, full-volume, and short-lived. The 20-minute rule prevents impulsive sends, quits, and conversations, paired with 7 evidence-based co-regulation options.
Sensory Regulation Worksheet
Map your sensory profile so you can dose your environment on purpose
An OT-informed sensory profile: identifies overstimulating and under-stimulating inputs, catalogs regulating inputs across six sensory channels, and builds a daily sensory budget to prevent meltdowns and shutdowns.
ADHD Weekly Planner & Habit Tracker
Three priorities, three anchor habits, a visible week
An ADHD-friendly weekly planner — three priorities (not twelve), three trackable anchor habits, a 7-day energy/mood grid, and a Friday review that surfaces what stalled and one structural change for next week.
ADHD Medication Reflection Worksheet
Bring numbers, not vibes, to your prescriber
A two-week structured reflection to bring to a psychiatry or primary care appointment: nine domain ratings (initiation, focus, regulation, impulse, sleep, appetite, anxiety, motivation, sense-of-self), a common-side-effects checklist, and prescriber questions.
ADHD Object Permanence & Visibility Worksheet
If it's not visible, it doesn't exist — externalize the reminder
Names the ADHD 'out of sight, out of mind' pattern across food, paperwork, friends, meds, laundry, and body needs — then installs three visibility scaffolds (clear containers, whiteboards, calendar alarms, human redundancy) around the costliest one.
Hyperfocus Management Worksheet
Steer it — don't fight it
Treats hyperfocus as a steerable force, not a symptom. Names what the client hyperfocuses on easily vs. avoids, catalogs the costs (missed meals, sleep, meds, people), and installs pre-set rails (hourly alarm, hard end-time, external interrupter, visible 'right thing?' note).
ADHD Morning Launch
Pre-decide the sequence
Pre-decided morning sequence reduced to a checklist — because the ADHD brain shouldn't have to make 40 decisions before coffee.
Transition Tolerance
Bridges instead of willpower
Log of daily transitions with difficulty rating and specific bridges — 5-min warning, music, movement — because transitions cost more than tasks.
Decision Fatigue Plan
Pre-decide the small ones
Pre-decision menu — breakfasts, workout times, grocery template, capsule wardrobe — so willpower is available for what matters.
ADHD Shame Cycle
Miss → shame → avoid → miss more
Mapping the ADHD shame loop and its intervention points — self-compassionate response, repair action, addressing underlying ADHD needs.
Clutter Hotspot Plan
Systems for the drop zones
Rather than fixing the whole house, build a visible, single-step, forgiving system for each drop-zone hotspot.
ADHD Money Plan
Automate what the ADHD brain can't monitor
Money-management systems that don't rely on monitoring, delay, or memory — autopay, auto-savings, one topped-up spending account, weekly review.
Parenting With ADHD
Executive function for two brains
Running EF for two brains — externalized systems, forgiven misses, repair language, medication timing aligned to parenting demands.
ADHD Couples Communication
Weekly meeting agenda
Structured 20-min weekly-meeting agenda for ADHD-in-a-relationship — plus mapping recurring friction to its ADHD root, not character.
Emotional Permanence
Anchors for the felt sense of being loved
Anchors — visible photos, saved voice memos, scheduled check-ins — for when the ADHD brain can't hold the felt sense that loved ones still care.
Late Diagnosis Integration
Grief is part of integration
Structured page for the grief of late ADHD diagnosis — the years of shame, what you now understand, what you'd say to younger self, what's next.
Weekly Reset
Sunday, 30 minutes
Close last week and set up this week with a repeatable ritual — ADHD brains lose the thread without one.
Interest-Based Motivation Map
ICNU: Interest · Challenge · Novelty · Urgency
Re-engineer boring tasks by adding at least one ICNU element — motivation is not willpower.
Executive Function Energy Budget
Track energy, not hours
Weekly AM/PM energy tracker with drain and refill notes — reveals patterns invisible to a calendar.
Social Battery Tracker
Masking costs more than the calendar shows
Track battery cost and recovery time per event — separate from calendar-time.
Body Doubling Plan
One of the highest-yield ADHD interventions
Hardest-to-start tasks, doubling partners, two scheduled slots this week, and what to adjust.
ADHD Activation Plan
Not a motivation problem — an activation problem. Shrink the entry point until 'start' is almost involuntary
For the ADHD task that can't be started. Shrinks the task to a 2-minute, 30-second, and sit-where-you-are version; adds body-doubling, environment prep, a reward at 15 minutes, and permission to stop at 15 minutes.
ADHD work is scaffolding, not willpower
The clinical mistake with ADHD clients is treating executive dysfunction as a motivation problem. It isn't. It's an interest-based nervous system that needs external scaffolds — visible plans, dopamine hooks, body doubling, sensory calibration — to do what a neurotypical brain can hold internally.
The worksheets here operationalize that. Weekly resets and morning launch plans externalize the plan. Dopamine menus and interest-motivation maps make the reward loop visible. Shame cycle maps interrupt the RSD spiral before it collapses the week. Energy budgets and social battery worksheets acknowledge that ADHD costs energy differently and plan around it rather than moralizing about it.
A typical sequence
Start with the ADHD Worksheet (weekly check-in) and the Executive Functioning Worksheet to map current scaffolding and friction points. Add the Dopamine Menu as the go-to activation tool and the Shame Cycle Map for the emotional layer that keeps clients stuck. For couples, use the ADHD Couples Communication worksheet; for parents, ADHD Parenting With ADHD. For newly diagnosed adults, the Late Diagnosis Integration worksheet is often the highest-value single page in the whole set.
Layer in the ADHD Thought Record when RSD or catastrophizing is running the show, and the Medication Reflection worksheet whenever there's a titration change or a decision to pause. Sensory Regulation and Body Doubling Plan handle the practical daily-life gaps.
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