Our ADHD 7-Step program was the first in NSW and is now one of the leading benchmarks for comprehensive ADHD treatment in Sydney. Our program is based upon multi-disciplinary assessment that identifies holistically not just the types of attention, impulsivity and hyperactivity issues, but also the comorbid emotional, social, behavioural, language/auditory, visual processing and learning problems. Our program includes school intervention, cognitive remediation (cognitive training & neurofeedback), social skills training, behavioural management, psychological therapy and executive skills training. Our aim is to address every area so that our patients don’t have to necessarily rely upon medication in order to be able to function to potential.

Our policy is to only medicate as a last resort as stimulant medications usually wear off after 8-10 hours, hence most patients are not covered by medication in the evenings when they are around their families, which can result in negative family interactions. Thus, medication can actually have some major drawbacks if people are not taught strategies on how to control their behaviours when the medication wears off. Our program aims not just for reaching academic potential, but at creating individuals that are resilient, have good functional skills, good relationships and are confident to be able to set their minds to anything they wish to achieve.

At the Sydney Cognitive Development Centre we not only offer child services, but also a range of adult clinics. The clinics were initially created as we found that as children developed into adulthood there were few clinics available to address developmental issues. Our director has conducted PhD and post-doctoral research into understanding how developmental disorders change into adulthood, hence we have created one of the largest Adult ADHD and Adult Autistic Spectrum clinics in NSW. We have strong mindfulness and executive training programs for adults that are extremely popular not just with our ASD and ADHD patients but adults in general who want to get more out of life. We also have an adult psychotherapy clinic. We offer numerous types of therapy, and also match the therapy to the person’s unique profile. We use a combination of therapies including the most popular and well researched therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy, ACT therapy, and family therapy.

Once an assessment has been completed either by ourselves or at another centre, we then offer very extensive therapy programs including: psychological therapy, cognitive training, social skill training, behaviour management, neurofeedback, family therapy, medication monitoring, and parenting skills. Our centre's philosophy is to utilise the latest in scientific neurotechnology in order to maximise potential. Our centre prides itself as being at the cutting edge of technology and using neuroplasticity to enhance well-being and performance.

We believe in highly comprehensive testing to get to the root of the problem, which means treatment can then be more targeted, resulting in much better outcomes.

Cognitive training is a type of individually designed ‘brain training’ program based on principles of neuroplasticity in the brain.

Neuroplasticity is the ability for the brain to change itself through some form of intervention. At the Sydney Cognitive Development Centre we have a highly unique program called the HighQ Cognitive Training Program.

We do not just offer computerised programs but rather we identify the exact nature of the weakness and then design a personalised one-on-one program to improve all required skills.

Our program is very skill based in that we first train the skills in an abstract manner using ‘games’ and then teach adults and children how to generalise these skills to everyday life.

Unlike other computerised ‘games’  at the Sydney Cognitive Development Centre we teach people how these skills exist in real life and teach them how to adapt these skills, so rereal-world functional benefits occur. As part of this training we also can assess patients to see whether neurofeedback would be helpful as part of a treatment program. At our centre we use the latest advances in neurotechnology to enhance cognitive skills both in terms of neuroplasticity and retraining the brain, as well as using technology to compensate for cognitive weaknesses.