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Join date: Feb 25, 2026
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Toni Stephan is a Principal Counsellor specialising in individual, couples, child, and family counselling. She has extensive experience supporting clients navigating relationship distress, separation, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity, and behavioural and learning challenges.
With a special interest in ADHD and executive functioning, Toni combines relational frameworks with practical strategy-building to help clients strengthen emotional regulation, communication, and connection.
Her writing reflects her active, collaborative therapeutic style — translating clinical insight into thoughtful, accessible guidance that supports meaningful and lasting change.
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Jul 9, 2026 ∙ 3 min
When Your Child Lies: Understanding ADHD, Fear, and How to Respond
Most children with ADHD lie out of panic, not manipulation. Here's why punishment backfires, and what actually helps build honesty over time.
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Jul 9, 2026 ∙ 3 min
When Your Partner Lies: What's Really Going On (and What Isn't an Excuse)
Understanding the link between ADHD, shame, and dishonesty, without letting it become an excuse. Understanding the link between ADHD, shame, and dishonesty, without letting it become an excuse. You catch them out. Maybe it's small, "I already sorted that," when they clearly hadn't. Maybe it's bigger. Either way, that particular kind of gut drop happens, the one where you're not just annoyed, you're wondering if you can trust anything they tell you. If your partner has ADHD, you might have...
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Dec 15, 2025 ∙ 3 min
Parenting a Teen with ADHD: Less Battles, More Connection
Parenting a teenager is challenging at the best of times. Parenting a teenager with ADHD can feel like you’re playing on “hard mode” — with the rule book constantly changing. As a parent of an ADHD teen are you feeling exhausted, confused, and unsure whether you’re being too strict… or not strict enough? Often you have tried everything — routines, consequences, encouragement — yet still find yourselves locked in a daily power struggle over homework, screen time, chores, or emotional...
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Toni Stephan
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Principal Counsellor at Hills Relationship Centre
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