About DrADHD
Cheers! I'm Dr. Hartman.
But let's scrap the Doctor... call me Julie.
ADHD ex-therapist turned radical ADHD Literacy group coach
For over 20 years, I’ve led the charge in banishing outdated ADHD propaganda and promoting ADHD Literacy™. Rooted in evolutionary psychology, I don’t follow tired scripts. Everything I do is co-designed and tested with clients for real impact.
Let’s celebrate the fact that ADHDers are among the most remarkable people in the world!
My Mission
Welcome to a whole new way of understanding ADHD. Whether you’re a professional or navigating ADHD yourself, this isn’t your typical program; it’s a life-changer.
Discover your ADHD brain and what that no one is telling you about, involving valuable ADHD mindsets and skills that become easy to apply.
Expect breakthroughs not taught anywhere else, like:
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My ADHD Literacy™ framework and easy, intuitive techniques will help you get it right the first time. We move past the outdated mess other professionals make of ADHD and instead build organic, fresh, lasting change for our clients.
And PS - everything you learn is applicable to all of your clients. That's the inclusive beauty of it! -
Shift from the ADHD struggle to the ease of living from your natural brain design.
You'll shift out of the messed up training that society gave you about ADHD and into what you should have been trained about all along... a perfect brain that can achieve every opportunity in life, on it's own terms!Practical strategies make everything fit, naturally.
This is more than just a program… It’s a movement.
Let’s break the mold and start making big things happen when ADHD is given the respect it deserves.
My Approach
A New Way to See ADHD
ADHD is often misunderstood, especially in adults. Traditional therapy methods weren’t designed for ADHD brains and rarely offer lasting results. My approach helps adults and professionals build real understanding through ADHD-specific insight, starting with how each brain actually works and why clarity must come before change.
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Once we’ve established evolutionary roots and reinterpreted neuroscience of the ADHD brain, we introduce tools, skills, strategies, systems, and accommodations. These must align with the individual’s values and natural brain rhythms to be effective. This foundation ensures that any new approach is built to last and truly supports the person’s daily life.
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My signature programs, such as ComprendMe™, CBTa™, and Flexivo™, are not about ‘fixing’ ADHD. Instead, they help people grow by living their ADHD synapses, specialties and sensitivities.
Expected benefits include Improved attentional control, self-direction vs overdelivering for others, emotional variability with ease, confidence, self-advocacy and sense of purpose, without conforming to societal expectations.
Practical strategies co-designed with clients, this work activates both automaticity and manually so at any given time of situation, solutions are at your fingertips.
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While individual therapy and coaching 100% have a place, this program offers what they can’t: a true learning ecosystem. In tribal cultures—past and present—growth comes not just from a guide, but from each other. Sharing stories, witnessing stumbles, exchanging ideas. It’s the kind of supportive experience most ADHDers never had growing up.
Clients consistently express how good it feels to regain control and build success on their own terms, prospering as yourself.
It’s not about fitting into a mold—it’s about fitting into who YOU are in the skillful way you were never taught.
My background
Evolutionizing ADHD Understanding and Impact
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My experience spans prestigious institutions like Stanford, UCSF, California Pacific Medical Center(CPMC), and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), as well as working at a residential facility for troubled youth.
Early on, I took matters into my own hands, diving into ADHD knowledge when professional training was scarce. I spent time in schools observing children, advocating for accommodations, and later shifted my focus to adults breaking free of neuronormative expectations and creating lives aligned with their brain-based ADHD strengths.
Through these efforts, I recognized the high prevalence of ADHD and how often it went dismissed or undiagnosed.
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Despite media claims of overdiagnosis, I’ve found that ADHD is underdiagnosed.
My work with children, teens, parents and adults shows ADHD affects about 1 in 4, not 1 in 20, as commonly reported. This underreporting stems from stigma and misconceptions surrounding ADHD, causing individuals to engage in “masking,” a chameleon-like camouflage in an attempt to avoid harm caused by bias, rejection and exclusion for being different… It makes my blood boil!
Evolution designed us as equals with different roles because how would humanity have survived and advanced if we were all cookie-cutter copies? My former clinical and neuropsychology experience, combined with my unique multidisciplinary approach via evolutionary studies, advocates that ADHD brains are highly prevalent because their contributions are beyond crucial for a healthy society. -
My passion is making ADHD knowledge practical and impactful, grounded in neuroscience and what’s worked for my clients programs. I believe the conventional understanding of ADHD is wrong.
My focus is on creating solutions tailored to how each ADHD brain truly functions, offering insights that go beyond traditional methods.
