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.
Editorial standards
Articles on this site are written by Andrew Wichterman, PhD, LPC, and carry his byline. They draw on nineteen years of clinical practice in ADHD assessment and treatment, and on the research cited at the end of each article.
Who is responsible for it
The practice is led by Andrew Wichterman, PhD, LPC, a licensed professional counselor and supervisor in Michigan with 19 years of clinical practice, a doctorate in Counselor Education and Supervision, and a focus on comprehensive ADHD evaluation for children, adolescents, and adults. He is not a physician. Articles that touch on medication describe what the research and clinical guidelines say and are not prescribing advice; decisions about medication belong with your prescriber.
How sources are chosen
Clinical claims are tied to peer-reviewed research, professional guidelines (the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5-TR), or standard clinical references such as Barkley's handbook. Each article lists its sources at the end. Where evidence is weak or mixed, as it is for most supplements and for several popular non-medication treatments, the article says so rather than rounding up. Where an article describes clinical experience, it reflects patterns seen in the practice and is labeled as such.
Faith content
Some articles are written from an explicitly Christian perspective. They are marked as such in the Faith and ADHD hub and separated from the clinical material. The clinical content stands on its own regardless of the reader's beliefs.
Updates and corrections
Articles carry a published date and a last-updated date. When guidelines change or an error is found, the article is revised and the date updated. If you find a factual error, email aw@drandrewwichterman.com and it will be reviewed.
Advertising and affiliate links
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Everything here is educational. It is not a substitute for individual assessment, diagnosis, or treatment, and reading it does not create a counselor-client relationship.
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