If your ADHD treatment isn’t working well, don’t just push harder — troubleshoot smarter.
Structured, safety-first optimisation with an ADHD expert clinician — when meds aren’t delivering or the trade-offs are too high.
This service is for you if…
Medication “sort of works” but you still can’t function consistently
Side effects are limiting (sleep disruption, appetite issues, anxiety, crashes, irritability, emotional volatility)
You’re not confident the diagnosis is right — or it doesn’t explain the whole picture
Your care feels rushed, fragmented, or inconsistent
You suspect AuDHD, trauma overlap, mood instability, or layered comorbidity
You want a calmer, more experienced clinician to re-map the problem and rebuild the plan
You want a clinician who combines deep expertise with genuine kindness
You want someone who can troubleshoot and stabilise when things are unclear or have gone sideways
Appointment pathway
Most people start with a 60-minute troubleshooting consult.
From there, we usually use 30-minute reviews to optimise treatment safely:
Early optimisation: typically every 4–6 weeks until things are clearly improving and stable
Once stable: reviews usually space out to 3 monthly, depending on complexity and treatment needs
Long-term plan: when you’re consistently doing well, we’ll either move to 6-monthly reviews or (if you and your GP are comfortable) transition ongoing care back to your usual GP — with the option to return anytime if things change
What happens when we troubleshoot ADHD?
What we typically review
We’ll usually look at:
Your current diagnosis and formulation (what’s driving what? What might have been missed?)
Medication history (what helped, what didn’t, what happened at what dose and timing, what made things worse)
Response pattern clues (sleep, caffeine, hormones, workload, burnout, rebound/crash patterns)
Comorbidities and “ADHD lookalikes” that change treatment
Safety screening and a monitoring plan
A stepwise optimisation plan, including when not to push dose
Sometimes the answer is a different medication.
Sometimes ADHD isn’t the only story.
Sometimes the plan needs structure — not more willpower.
The goal is a plan that makes sense
…and keeps making sense
…even when life gets stressful.
Dr Chris Soo is an ADHD expert Specialist GP on the Gold Coast providing neurodiversity-affirming, evidence-based care. He is a lived-experience AuDHD clinician and works near-exclusively with ADHDers and AuDHDers, including complex presentations where diagnostic clarity, comorbidity, and safe treatment really matter.
Chris holds academic appointments as Adjunct Associate Professor at Bond University (from January 2026) and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at Griffith University. ChrisSoo_AcademicCV_2025 - upda… He is the founder of ADHD Clinical Mastery (clinician education), a full member of the Australasian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA) and a member of the AADPA Education & Training Committee, and a member of the Australian Society of Developmental Paediatrics.
Chris is a professional speaker, medical educator, and advocate for higher-quality ADHD care in Australia. He has been an invited speaker at the RACGP 64th Clinical Update Conference (2025), featured across the HealthEd Women’s & Children’s Health Update seminars in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide (2024–2025), and has presented at the AADPA Conference
He is known for combining clinical rigour with genuine kindness: careful listening, clear explanations, and calm clinical reasoning. Many patients and clinicians seek him out for diagnostic clarity and expert troubleshooting — especially when symptoms are nuanced, overlapping, or when treatment hasn’t gone as expected.
Chris supports people with ADHD across the lifespan and has worked in ADHD, autism, and mental health care for over 20 years. He is passionate about helping patients move from confusion to clarity, stability, and thriving — with one-clinician continuity and a structured, safety-first approach that doesn’t cut corners.
