About
Meet Dr. Andrew Wichterman
I'm a licensed professional counselor, a counselor educator, and an ADHD specialist. I've spent nearly two decades helping people understand how their brains work, and I hold a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision.
My career started in community mental health, where I served children, adolescents, and families in home-based and outpatient settings. That work shaped how I practice: I look for what is actually driving a behavior before reaching for a label, and I take the systemic and trauma-related factors seriously rather than treating symptoms in isolation.
Along the way I developed and directed Battleground Skate House and Youth Center in Battle Creek, Michigan — an indoor skate park built as a therapeutic environment for teenagers who were not going to show up to a traditional office.
Today I do three things: comprehensive ADHD evaluations for children, teens, and adults; training and consultation for clinicians who want to conduct ADHD testing themselves; and writing and speaking on ADHD, faith, and mental health.
My students call me Dr. W. I take a whole-person approach — spirit, mind, and body — and I believe clinical integrity and Christian faith can work together without either one being watered down.
Credentials
PhD, Counselor Education and Supervision
Regent University
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC, LPC-S)
State of Michigan
Counselor educator
15 years teaching; 15,000+ counselors trained in his department
EMDR-trained
Plus CBT, DBT, Motivational Interviewing, and neurofeedback
Where I practice
Virtually throughout Michigan, and in person in West Michigan, serving the greater Grand Rapids area.
19 yrs
of clinical counseling experience
15 yrs
teaching as a counselor educator
15,000+
counselors trained in his department
How I approach this work
Most ADHD evaluations rely on a short checklist and a fifteen-minute conversation. That is not how the brain works, and it is not how I work. A real evaluation includes a clinical interview, standardized measures, collateral input from the people who know you best, and careful differential diagnosis to separate ADHD from the conditions that mimic it.
I also believe young people are frequently misunderstood and too quickly handed a diagnosis. I have watched medication become the first answer for difficult behavior without anyone investigating what else might be driving it. My work goes the other direction: understand the pattern first, then choose the intervention.
The result of an evaluation is not just a label. It is a written report with a clear roadmap for what to do next — something you can hand to a school, a physician, or an employer.
About this website
This site publishes educational writing on ADHD for adults, parents, and clinicians — research-informed, plainspoken, and written for real life rather than for a journal. It also houses my books and guides, my professional training course for clinicians, and information about evaluations, consultations, and speaking.
Everything here is educational. It is not a substitute for individual assessment, diagnosis, or treatment, and reading it does not create a clinician-client relationship. If you want to work together, get in touch.
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