ADHD coaching is a collaborative partnership designed to help people with ADHD build skills, create structure, and develop strategies that make daily life more manageable. It’s not about fixing you—it’s about understanding how your brain works and creating systems that actually fit.
What ADHD Coaching Addresses
ADHD coaching focuses on the real-world challenges that impact daily functioning:
- Time Management & Planning – Working with time blindness, creating realistic schedules, techniques that accommodate attention shifts
- Organization – Building systems that work for your brain
- Accountability – Supportive structure that keeps you moving forward
- Setting Priorities & Decision-Making – Cutting through overwhelm to focus on what matters
- Motivation & Follow-Through – Building momentum and completing what you start
- Self-Advocacy & Confidence – Learning to speak up for your needs and recognize your strengths
- Executive Function Skills – Task initiation, planning, working memory strategies
How is ADHD Coaching Different from Therapy?
Many people wonder about this important distinction:
ADHD Coaching focuses on:
- Present and future—what’s happening now and what you want to create
- Building practical skills and systems for daily functioning
- Action-oriented strategies and accountability
- Real-world solutions and habit building
- Goal setting and follow-through
Therapy focuses on:
- Past and present—understanding why challenges exist
- Processing emotions, treating mental health conditions
- Emotional healing and insight
- Addressing trauma, anxiety, depression
- Understanding root causes
Both are valuable, and many people work with both a therapist and an ADHD coach simultaneously. They serve different but complementary purposes.
Who Benefits from ADHD Coaching?
Adults with ADHD:
- Professionals struggling with focus, organization, or time management at work
- People balancing multiple responsibilities
- Those who want to develop better coping strategies
- Anyone looking to understand their ADHD and work with it
Students:
- College and university students managing academic demands
- Those transitioning to independent living
- Anyone needing help with deadlines, routines, and study strategies
Teens:
- High school students staying on top of schoolwork
- Young people learning to advocate for themselves
- Those who want external support beyond parents
Parents:
- Parents wanting to support their children with ADHD more effectively
- Those looking for structure to reduce conflict at home
Anyone with Executive Function Challenges: You don’t need a formal ADHD diagnosis to benefit. If you struggle with organization, time management, or follow-through—whether from ADHD, anxiety, stress, or habit patterns—coaching can help.
The Coaching Process
Coaching is individualized and action-focused. We work on what’s happening now and what’s next. Each session typically includes:
- Discussion of current challenges and progress
- Exploration of strategies tailored to your brain
- Action steps to try between sessions
- Adjustments based on what’s working and what isn’t
Progress depends on honesty and consistency. This is a partnership—I bring knowledge of ADHD-friendly approaches, you bring knowledge of your life. Together we build skills and systems you can sustain independently.