ADHD counseling for Idaho families — telehealth statewide
For more than 20 years, Dr. Phillip D. Rios has helped children, teens, adults and families work through ADHD, anxiety, depression, executive functioning challenges and life transitions. Warm, evidence-based, and built around your real week.
Tap to call — most consultation requests are returned the same business day.
Live sessions · Idaho statewide
Idaho families shouldn't have to drive two hours for an ADHD appointment — or wait months for one. Meet Dr. Phillip D. Rios face to face in a secure live video room: ADHD evaluation, therapy, parent coaching and executive-function work, delivered from wherever you are in the state.
Dr. Phillip D. Rios
Clinical Psychologist · 20+ years
Serving Idaho by live video
One short call to (808) 389-9517 — or the form below — and we match you to an opening, often the same week.
A confirmation with a single HIPAA-compliant video link. Nothing to download, no account to set up.
A real 50-minute session with Dr. Rios from your living room, office or dorm — anywhere in Idaho.
Written strategies, school or workplace recommendations, and a scheduled next session before you log off.
Encrypted video built for clinical care — not a consumer meeting app.
Low-bandwidth mode and a phone fallback if the signal dips.
Phone, tablet, laptop or desktop. One tap from your confirmation.
From the Treasure Valley to the Panhandle, including rural districts.
Parents can join from two different locations when needed.
Portions of ADHD assessment and rating scales delivered live on screen.
Live video sessions available across Idaho
Don't see your town? Live sessions reach every Idaho ZIP code with an internet connection — call (808) 389-9517 to check availability.
An honest question
Most families tell us the same thing after their first session: we should have called sooner. One conversation is enough to know whether this is the right place for you — and it costs you nothing but twenty minutes.
Get Help Now — (808) 389-9517Services
From early childhood behavior to adult burnout, each service is delivered by a licensed psychologist and shaped around your goals.
Focus, impulsivity, motivation and executive functioning support for kids through adults.
Play-informed, developmentally attuned care for behavior, worry and big feelings.
A respectful space for identity, school stress, mood and social pressure.
Support for burnout, life transitions, relationships and self-understanding.
Practical tools for worry, panic, avoidance and physical tension.
Rebuilding energy, motivation and meaning at a sustainable pace.
Strengths-based support for communication, routines and sensory needs.
Reducing conflict and building shared language and workable routines.
Thorough evaluation with clear, usable recommendations for home and school.
What treatment actually does
ADHD isn't a willpower problem. It's a difference in the brain's attention and self-management networks — and those networks respond to structure, skills and consistent practice.
Assessment identifies which networks are struggling — attention, working memory, impulse control, emotional regulation.
Skills training and repeated practice build reliable routes where effort used to disappear.
Sleep, environment, school accommodations and family responses either reinforce those routes or wear them down.
Before & after
No promises about outcomes — just the patterns families most often describe after consistent work together.
Mornings at home
Before care
Three reminders, a lost backpack, raised voices, and everyone leaves the house already defeated.
After working together
A visual routine the child owns, fewer verbal prompts, and a start to the day that doesn't cost the whole morning.
Homework & school
Before care
Two hours of avoidance for twenty minutes of work. Teacher emails pile up. Confidence drops.
After working together
Broken-down tasks, timed work blocks, and school accommodations backed by a written evaluation.
Adults at work
Before care
Deadlines missed for reasons that are hard to explain, followed by shame and late-night catch-up.
After working together
External structure that fits how your brain actually works, plus honest treatment of the anxiety underneath.
Family first
ADHD lives at the kitchen table, in the carpool line and at bedtime. We work with the whole household, so progress holds up outside the office.
You get language for what's happening, scripts for hard moments, and a plan the whole family can follow — not a diagnosis handed over at the door.
Island roots, Idaho reach
Founded in Honolulu and now serving Idaho families by secure telehealth — the same calm, unhurried standard of care wherever you log in from.
About
More than 20 years of individualized, collaborative care — now available to Idaho families online.
Dr. Rios has spent his career helping children, teens, adults and families understand what is actually driving the difficulty — attention, anxiety, mood, learning, sensory needs or a stressful season of life — and then building a plan around it.
Care is collaborative. Parents, partners, teachers and other providers are brought in when it helps, so strategies carry over from the office into the classroom, the kitchen table and the workplace.
The emphasis is practical: evidence-based methods translated into steps you can actually use this week, reviewed together and adjusted as things change.
Conditions treated
If you don't see your concern listed, it's still worth a conversation.
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Why families choose us
Two decades of clinical work with children, teens, adults and families.
No templates. Care is shaped around your history, goals and daily life.
Parents and caregivers are partners, not bystanders, in the process.
Tools you can use on a Tuesday morning, not just insights in session.
Care that adapts through school years, careers and life changes.
ADHD education
Written for Idaho parents and adults searching for straight answers about ADHD counseling and psychological support.
Fidgeting is the obvious one. The quieter signals — daydreaming through instructions, losing the same jacket weekly, emotional blow-ups after school — are what most families overlook.
Many adults reach their thirties or forties before anyone names it — usually after their own child is evaluated. Late diagnosis is common, and treatment still works.
Structure beats willpower. Families who change the environment — not just the child — see the biggest drop in daily conflict.
A written psychological evaluation is the difference between a sympathetic teacher and enforceable accommodations that follow your child year to year.
Counseling doesn't remove ADHD. It builds the scaffolding — planning systems, emotional regulation, self-understanding — that turns a diagnosis into a manageable daily life.
Visual guides
Free visual explainers used in our Idaho online ADHD counseling sessions — tap any image to open it full size.
Resource center
Educational resources for families and adults. These are supports, not substitutes for professional care.
A structured set of prompts to organize your observations before a first appointment.
Disclaimer: Educational only — not a diagnostic tool or a substitute for evaluation.
Request this guide →Calm-first responses for hard moments, plus routines that reduce daily friction.
Request this guide →Planning, time and task-initiation strategies for school, work and home.
Request this guide →Grounding, breathing and exposure-informed steps written in plain language.
Request this guide →You don't need to have it figured out before you call. That's the point of the consultation.
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