Research, reflection and clinical insight
Longer pieces on the things that come up most often in the room — written by Hebba Morcos, Registered Psychologist.
Mostly about ADHD, identity, and the ways neurodivergence gets missed in women. Written for people trying to make sense of their own experience, not for other clinicians.
Worth a proper read
"Who Am I?" — ADHD and the quiet work of rebuilding your sense of self
ADHD isn't just about attention — it shapes how you see yourself. What the research tells us about ADHD and identity across the lifespan, why late diagnosis brings both relief and grief, and how therapy can help you rebuild a self-story that's actually true.
Read the article →When ADHD looks like BPD: what the research says about women
Emotional intensity, unstable relationships, a lifetime of feeling "too much" — and sometimes, the wrong diagnosis. Why ADHD in women is so often mistaken for borderline personality disorder, and what a thorough, gender-informed assessment looks like.
Read the article →Things to work through
Free, and open to anyone — you don't have to be a client. Each one opens on its own page, so you can send yourself the link and come back to it when you have the time and the head for it.
The Regulation Room
What each state feels like from the inside, and eight short practices for finding your way back.
Open → InteractiveThe Wandering Nerve
Where it goes, what it does, and why the out-breath does more work than the in-breath.
Open → InteractiveThe Fawn Response
Reading the room before you enter it. Why it made sense, what it costs, and what the evidence really shows.
Open →Saying the Thing
Four scripts you can use word for word — what to actually say, not the theory that you should.
Open → InteractiveBoundaries
How to set a boundary to what you'll do, and what to do when it isn't taken well.
Open → InteractiveBefore You Feel Like It
Waiting until you feel like it is how the flat stretch keeps itself going. How to size a first step to the day you're actually having.
Open →Know when there's a new one
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These are the areas the articles come out of. Each one links to how that support actually works at Coral Psychology.
ADHD & neurodiversity
Attention, organisation, emotional regulation and burnout — including late diagnosis in adulthood.
Learn more → AdultsWomen's wellbeing
Identity shifts, perfectionism, burnout, and the pressure to hold everything together.
Learn more → AssessmentNeuro-affirming assessments
Thorough, strengths-based ADHD and autism assessment for children, adolescents and adults.
Learn more → Children & teensChildren & adolescents
Play-based and talk therapy for children and teenagers — and support for the parents and schools around them.
Learn more → AdultsAnxiety, trauma & wellbeing
Worry, panic, and the effects of difficult experiences that still shape the present.
Learn more → ApproachTypes of therapy
CBT, ACT, DBT and the other approaches used at Coral Psychology, in plain language.
Learn more →Who's writing this
Hebba Morcos
Registered Psychologist · Coral Psychology, Wangara WA
Hebba works with neurodivergent individuals, women, children and families — in person in Wangara and by telehealth across Australia. She brings both professional expertise and lived experience of ADHD to her work, and has a particular interest in the ways neurodivergence is missed or misread in women.
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