ADHD Treatment for College Students
ADHD evaluations, medication management, and Disability Services documentation for college, nursing, medical, and graduate students. By telehealth anywhere in California, with evening and weekend times.
Why ADHD often shows up in college
Many students with ADHD get through high school on intelligence, structure, and parents keeping them on track. College removes most of that. Classes meet less often, deadlines are weeks apart, readings are longer, and nobody checks whether you started the paper.
That is why a lot of students are first diagnosed in college or graduate school, often after a semester that didn't match how hard they were working.
Signs of ADHD in college students
In college, ADHD often looks like falling behind on readings and lectures, cramming and pulling all-nighters before every exam, and starting papers the night before even when you meant to start early. Many students lose focus in long lectures or while studying, run out of time on exams, and get grades that don't match their effort or ability. All that catching up often leads to anxiety or burnout.
BrainHelp works with students at San Jose State, Santa Clara University, and colleges across California, by telehealth or in person in San Jose.
ADHD care built for student life
A 60-minute evaluation that looks at ADHD alongside anxiety, depression, sleep, and burnout, since they often overlap in college.
Stimulant and non-stimulant options, with timing planned around your class, study, and clinical schedule. ADHD medication management
Documentation for Disability Services offices, including extended time and distraction-reduced testing, after a full evaluation.
Practical strategies for planning, studying, and follow-through, plus supportive therapy at every visit.
Extra support around midterms, finals, and board exams. Test anxiety treatment
Appointments from your apartment or dorm, 7 days a week, anywhere in California.
For nursing, medical, PA, and graduate students
Chester Profeta, PMHNP-BC, teaches at the BSN and MSN PMHNP level and works with students in demanding health programs every week. He understands clinical rotations, long shifts, and exams like the NCLEX, USMLE, and PANCE, and plans treatment around them.
Graduate students dealing with dissertations, research deadlines, and less structure than ever are also a big part of the practice.
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I'm here to help.
Chester Profeta, PMHNP-BC
I'm a board-certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 16 years of healthcare experience, including inpatient psychiatry, outpatient psychiatric care, and teaching as a BSN and MSN PMHNP Clinical Instructor. I founded BrainHelp to help students and professionals who are held back not by a lack of ability, but by untreated ADHD, anxiety, depression, and burnout.
- ✓Listens to your full story, not just a checklist of symptoms
- ✓Medication is only one part of your treatment, alongside supportive therapy and practical strategies
- ✓Fits your schedule with evening and weekend telehealth across California