What is ADHD Coaching?

Coaching Overview

Do you find yourself staying late at work, or up all night finishing projects? Do you keep missing important deadlines? Can you keep it together at work, but managing home life seems impossible? Adults with ADHD live with the constant need to prioritize and the feeling that important tasks are never complete. If you live with a lack of self-confidence fueled by an ever-present nagging inner critic, you know what it is like to feel stuck – and have most certainly experienced overwhelm. 

With an experienced ADHD coach, you can learn how to transform that negative inner critic into a neutral – even supportive – guide. With an ADHD coach, you’ll also discover helpful strategies and resources, and learn how to utilize personal strengths and your unique gifts to create much desired change. ADHD coaching is a partnership between coach and client. Together, we are greater than the sum of our individual parts. Working with an ADHD coach on your team will be a life-changing experience.

What is coaching?

The coaching relationship is a partnership between client and coach. As the client, your goals are at the forefront of the journey. As the coach, it is my job to:

  • Help you clarify what you want to achieve, in the short term and long term
  • Be a deep listener to help you identify unspoken thoughts and intuitive wisdom
  • Ask questions, simplify, reframe, and offer perspective
  • Encourage new ways of thinking, sort through options, and set doable action steps
  • Help pace the journey, recognize achievements, and applaud success

What does it mean to be a certified coach?

Not all coaches are certified, but certification by leading industry organizations, such as the International Coaching Federation (ICF), provides credentials that denote a coach’s training and experience.

ICF is a highly respected international organization that sets ethical and performance standards for life and business coaches. There are three levels of certification: Associate Certified Coach (ACC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC), and Master Coach Certification (MCC). In addition to this certification, a coach may have additional expertise and certifications in certain unique areas of training. 

What is ADHD coaching?

To be a coach specializing in ADHD requires additional training. Training is available through a few programs. Ongoing ADHD education comes from participating in national and regional events. An ADHD coach needs a thorough understanding of executive function (EF) challenges and its comorbidities (co-existing challenges)–anxiety, depression, PTSD, RSD (rejection sensitivity dysphoria) and more. Staying current in the neuroscience of the brain, as well as understanding how sleep, food, stress, and exercise affect thinking and mood, is an important component of being an ADHD coach.

An ADHD coach also possesses a diverse and creative set of tools and strategies to help clients with:

  • Organization
  • Planning
  • Prioritization
  • Time management
  • Related executive function challenges

These tools and strategies will be enriched by the coach’s personal work and life experience catering to ADHD clients in many different work and life settings.

Can YOU benefit from ADHD coaching? 

Do you…

  • Lose track of time
  • Have memory problems
  • Find planning or time management challenging
  • Constantly search for an improved level of organization
  • Find leaving one project behind and beginning another painful
  • Feel held back from advancement because of your ADHD challenges
  • Find you are constantly letting others down – most of all, yourself
  • Accept that living with anxiety and stress is simply the norm
  • Believe that taking time for self-care and enjoying life is a fantasy

If any of this seems familiar, you could benefit from ADHD coaching. Learn about how my years of education and experience in helping individuals with ADHD can work for you.