Adult ADHD Treatment in Seminole Heights

The first visit is $169 for new patients who book online with a card on file, 35% off the regular $260. Nothing is charged when you book, there's no contract, and each monthly follow-up is $136. The adult ADHD and ADD treatment page has the complete picture.

How do you drive from Seminole Heights to Linebaugh Avenue?

From Central and Osborne, the quickest route in light traffic heads west on Hillsborough Avenue to Dale Mabry Highway, jogs over to Anderson Road by way of Sligh Avenue, then runs north on Anderson to Linebaugh. That's about 9 miles and 17 minutes, all on surface streets, with no toll.

Starting farther north along Florida Avenue, near Sligh, the Busch Boulevard route is shorter, about 8 miles and 14 minutes. Busch turns into Gunn Highway just past Dale Mabry, and Linebaugh peels off to the west soon after.

Padgett is open 9 AM to 5 PM on weekdays and until 7 PM on Wednesdays. A mid-morning slot misses the worst of the commute on Hillsborough Avenue, and the Wednesday evening window suits anyone who works downtown.

Why is the first visit in person when so much is online?

Because Padgett holds every new patient ADHD evaluation face to face at the Tampa clinic, whatever the distance or schedule. The 30 minutes with Morgan Colee, PA, cover what your symptoms are and how far back they reach, childhood included, the effect they have on your job and your household, your health history, medications and any prior records.

Neither a diagnosis nor treatment is promised in advance. If a controlled medication is considered, the provider checks E-FORCSE, the state's prescription drug monitoring program, before writing anything. Florida law requires prescribers to consult that system before prescribing a controlled substance for a patient 16 or older, under section 893.055 of the Florida Statutes.

Do half-finished projects mean you have ADHD?

Not by themselves. Trouble with organization, time management and finishing tasks is among the adult ADHD symptoms the National Institute of Mental Health describes, but a diagnosis needs a pattern that began in childhood and shows up across your life, not one stalled project.

Old Seminole Heights is known for bungalows dating to the early 1900s, according to the City of Tampa, and the neighborhood library even keeps a Historic Homes Collection for restoration work. If your own porch or bathroom has been almost done for a year, that alone doesn't settle anything. What the evaluation asks is whether the same pattern shows up at work, with bills, in conversations and back in your school years, so bring examples from each.

How do follow-ups work from Seminole Heights?

Monthly follow-ups are 15 minutes, cost $136, and are required to stay on treatment. You can come in or join by video from home, provided you're physically in Florida and show a valid Florida driver's license or state ID on camera.

At about 17 minutes each way, the drive roughly doubles a 15-minute visit, so video may make sense most months, with an in-person visit whenever you're already out that way. ADHD telehealth in Florida explains the setup. Any prescription goes to the pharmacy you choose, close to home or work, and it's paid for there, not in Padgett's visit fee.

Where can you get outside in and around Seminole Heights?

Rivercrest Park runs along much of the Hillsborough River between Hillsborough Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to the City of Tampa.

Farther up the river, Rowlett Park on East Yukon Street has two miles of asphalt trail through oak and pine hammocks, plus fitness stations and a canoe launch, per the City of Tampa. A walk by the water is a good time to take stock of the month before a follow-up.

Back at Central and Osborne, the Seminole Heights Branch Library, founded in 1927 as one of seven city libraries and rebuilt in a building dedicated in 2014, has meeting spaces if you'd like somewhere quiet to prepare your notes for the first visit.

Which nearby neighborhoods are also served?

Sulphur Springs, just north, is about 14 minutes from the clinic, and Tampa Heights, to the south, about 20. Egypt Lake-Leto, to the northwest, is closer at about 10 minutes, and Temple Terrace is about 20 along Busch Boulevard.

Book your in-person evaluation. If worry and restlessness are part of what you're dealing with, ADHD or anxiety? is worth reading first.