Adult ADHD with Dr James Kustow
A new way of understanding, and thriving with, Adult ADHD.
Explore Dr James Kustow's groundbreaking approach to ADHD, including the Somatic Super Syndrome model.
A new way of understanding, and thriving with, Adult ADHD.
Explore Dr James Kustow's groundbreaking approach to ADHD, including the Somatic Super Syndrome model.
Dr James Kustow runs courses with The Grove. He is regrettably unable to undertake any ADHD assessments or add new patients to his clinic list. His psychiatry practice operates separately from The Grove.
If you are seeking ADHD assessment or ADHD consultation please contact The ADHD Centre on 0800 061 4276 or email enquiries@adhdcentre.co.uk or visit www.adhdcentre.co.uk
Are you living with Adult ADHD, or supporting someone who is, and feeling like the standard explanations don’t quite cover your full experience? Persistent fatigue, chronic pain, hypermobility, gut problems, brain fog, or immune sensitivities alongside the classic ADHD picture?
Dr James Kustow, Consultant Psychiatrist, leading Adult ADHD specialist, and author of How to Thrive with Adult ADHD (Penguin, 2024), has spent two decades working at the intersection of neurodevelopment, physical health, and integrative psychiatry.
His work offers something rare: a framework that finally joins the dots.
Bearing in mind that The Grove is a training company, rather than an ADHD clinic.
See our range of workshops and courses and support packages below. Many of these are designed for everyone who has an ADHD diagnosis or thinks that they might have ADHD. We also run a certificate course for professionals working with clients or patients who have ADHD, as well as a self-study online course Essentials of Adult ADHD+.
Whether you want to dip your toes in with a single webinar or commit to a full self-study programme, there’s a learning format here for you.
Dr James Kustow presents a regular programme of webinars about living with Adult ADHD, with free-to-attend sessions as well as in-depth paid focus events.
Our library of on-demand webinar recordings lets you access Dr Kustow’s most popular talks whenever suits you.
The startline course for adults who want to move from surviving to thriving.
This is Dr Kustow’s flagship live course for individuals with Adult ADHD, or those who strongly suspect they have it. Run on Zoom, in small interactive cohorts, it’s designed to be a genuine turning point.
Dr Kustow’s complete framework. Your timeline. Your pace.
The full Thrive with Adult ADHD methodology will soon be available as a comprehensive self-study online programme to work through entirely at your own pace.
A Transformative Daily Practice for Mind-Body Connection
Dr James Kustow created a guided practice to support emotional regulation and focus, specifically for adults with ADHD.
Solo-Soma Movement Meditation is an active, body-focused meditation designed to support a proactive approach to self-care. This innovative practice has been crafted through years of intuitive and creative work with a strong focus on the body.
Find out moreIf you’ve been referred to five different specialists for five different symptoms, but none of them are talking to each other, that’s the system failing you, not your body.
The 3S model offers:
The Somatic Super Syndrome (3S) is a model developed by Dr James Kustow to describe a striking pattern he observed repeatedly in his clinical practice: that many adults with ADHD also experience a cluster of physical health conditions that conventional medicine often treats in isolation, if it notices them at all.
At the core of the 3S model are three interconnected systems:
Connective tissue dysregulation: including hypermobility syndromes such as Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD). Research suggests approximately half of individuals with ADHD are hypermobile.
Dysautonomia: particularly Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), affecting the autonomic nervous system and contributing to fatigue, dizziness, brain fog, mood instability and disrupted sleep.
Immune hypersensitivity: including Mast Cell Activation Disease (MCAD), autoimmune tendencies, allergies, and chronic inflammatory conditions.
Together, these systems interact in ways that amplify ADHD symptoms, create additional layers of disability, and, crucially, often go entirely unrecognised. Dr Kustow’s work, presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry and featured in ADDitude Magazine, is helping change that.
In this powerful one-hour session, Dr Kustow and psychotherapist Robert Rees introduce the Somatic Super Syndrome model, exploring the overlooked connection between ADHD, the body’s stress system, connective tissue, and immune hypersensitivity.
Ideal for both individuals with ADHD and the clinicians and coaches who support them.
In this eye-opening 1-hour talk, Dr. James Kustow—consultant psychiatrist and leading voice in integrative approaches to ADHD—invites you to go beyond the behavioural and neurological models of ADHD. He presents a systemic and somatic framework for understanding the condition in adults, drawing attention to a constellation of comorbidities too often overlooked in mainstream practice.
If you work with ADHD—or live with it—this talk will shift your perspective and expand your clinical toolkit.
How to Thrive with Adult ADHD is a 90-minute live webinar exploring practical strategies to manage and harness the strengths of ADHD in adulthood. Led by Dr. James Kustow and Robert Rees, this expert-led session delves into Dr James unique conceptualisation of ADHD, providing practical strategies for management and describes possible evidence of associated physical health co-morbidities.
A 60-minute webinar with Dr. James Kustow offering an evidence-based overview of ADHD medication. Learn how different medications work, what to expect from titration, common side effects, and how treatment fits alongside therapy and lifestyle strategies.
Dr James Kustow BMedSci BMBS MRCPsych Dip Int Psychotherapy is a London-based Consultant Psychiatrist and the Medical Director of The Grove Practice.
He works in the Barnet NHS Adult ADHD Service, one of the few specialist NHS ADHD services in London, and holds a private practice on Harley Street. He is the Director of Education at UKAAN (UK ADHD Network), a trained integrative psychotherapist, and the winner of the ‘Genius Award’ at the 2021 Celebrating Neurodiversity Awards.
His research on the Somatic Super Syndrome – exploring the clustering of hypermobility, dysautonomia, and immune hypersensitivity in ADHD – has been presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry and featured in leading neurodiversity publications including ADDitude Magazine.
He is the author of How to Thrive with Adult ADHD: 7 Pillars for Focus, Productivity and Balance, published by Penguin in October 2024.
Dr Kustow’s clinical approach is rare: deeply evidence-based, genuinely integrative, and rooted in lived experience. He lives with ADHD, something he shared publicly for the first time in his book, and brings both professional rigour and personal understanding to everything he teaches.
Read Dr Kustow's full profile
In 2024, Dr James Kustow published his book on thriving with Adult ADHD.
If you have, or suspect you have, ADHD, or you simply feel stuck, drowning in half-finished tasks, unhelpful habits and a perpetual feeling that you can’t seem to ‘get it together’, then this book is for you.
Don’t just manage your ADHD – thrive with it.
– Matt Willis, musician and podcaster
Buy on AmazonThis certificate course is designed as CPD for mental health practitioners in their professional role working with clients or patients. This includes a focus for mental health professionals, counsellors, psychologists, psychotherapists, coaches, or doctors.
Dr James Kustow runs a 3-day training course to certify practitioners in working to support clients/patients: Certificate in Adult ADHD which costs £900 payable by instalments after a £300 deposit. Click below for details and to apply.
Friday 11 September 2026
12:30–17:30 in person (London) | 13:00–17:00 online
A half-day of live learning, real connection and focused CPD to deepen your clinical practice. If you value thoughtful, clinically grounded CPD in a warm, professional community, this afternoon is for you. This conference is designed for practitioners who want to keep their work sharp, ethical and alive.
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