Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

I'm Carol Fleck, and on behalf of the Attitude team, I'm delighted to welcome you to today's ADHD

expert's presentation titled

Creating Boundaries and Strategies for Highly Dependent Adult Children. Leading today's presentation

is Natalia Aisa. She is a therapist who is dedicated to facilitating awareness and

healing for individuals with

OCD. She also works with mental health practitioners to improve their OCD competency to help

patients. Natalia is the founder of Cairo's Wellness Collective, which specializes in OCD and

anxiety disorders. She is the author of self-guided

exposure and response prevention therapy for OCD, and now has a second book coming out this fall

titled, Anxious to Launch, Empowered Parenting Skills to Nudge your adult child out of the nest.

Highly dependent adult children get stuck in a cycle of emotional and financial reliance on

their parents. Many of these adult children are unemployed, not pursuing higher education,

and living with their parents despite no physical, neurological,

or intellectual disabilities. When their parents attempt to enforce boundaries or require more

from their adult children, their explosive, guilt-inducing, or panicked reactions may cause

parents to retreat.

Many highly dependent adult children meet the criteria for ADHD, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and other conditions, but they often resist treatment.

This webinar is designed for parents and therapists who are seeking to enhance their understanding of highly dependent adult children and to help them thrive.

You will lead with concrete and innovative solutions to overcome the dependency trap.

So without further ado, I'm so pleased to welcome Natalia.

Sorry, I'm ruined pleased to welcome Natalia a yesta. Sorry, I've ruined that.

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