ADHD coaching – questions & answers

On the calls we discuss your immediate and longer term challenges. We consider work performance, health and home life too. Whatever makes sense to you. We reflect on a better approach together and you resolve how to take the necessary steps over the next week(s). The idea is to reflect, try, improve, and progress in a constructive and honest framework. No nagging, but there is accountability that comes with the process of regularly reviewing the changes you are making.

Coaching is easy to set up, though sometimes there is a short waiting list to coach.

Since then I have coached over 400 adults with ADHD, that’s about 10,000 hours and over fourteen years of full-time, adult ADHD coaching.

It takes a broad range of skills and experience to be a good ADHD coach. ADHD Coach training and experience are clearly important, but business and life experience can be crucial too.

ADHD coaching is not a simple repeatable process, it’s two people working together on a shared problem. We bring our collective knowledge, insights, and wisdom to resolve the issue. It’s teamwork, debated, discussed and then you take action to make meaningful change and progress. Many ADHD clients coach with me for years on end, coaching becomes a part of their ongoing life planning and management.

Here’s some relevant training, work and life experience to support our ADHD coaching:

You can read more about my ADHD challenges in my bio here.

The advantage of being coached by someone else with ADHD is their insight, experience, and empathy. I can relate to and understand your ADHD challenges, often straight away – I can see the problem as it’s the same for me. We can both start from an informed position, no need for lengthy explanations. Sometimes it’s simply too hard for someone without ADHD to understand!

The way people with ADHD see the world, the way they speak and joke, the way they perceive time and authority are so similar – it’s extraordinary. I have travelled a similar road, and so have the many amazing and successful ADHD clients that I have coached. There is much strength to be drawn from feeling part of a tribe, to hear how others like you have achieved wellbeing in their lives.

Coaching help can cover anything you like. Whether our focus is on work, home, health, friends, goals, study, relationships or even the meaning of life – we do so with our ADHD differences in mind.

I want to help you to see your neurology as more difference than disorder, though I certainly won’t under-play or under-estimate the pain and problems. My aim is to help you understand your different brain-wiring, accept your limitations, to embrace your unique ADHD personality and traits and so to live a life more aligned with your strengths and values – and of course to get some planning and paperwork done along the way.

Our ADHD genes are essential for society – we are the creatives, mavericks, entertainers and out-of-the-box thinkers. We may work ineffectively and constantly struggle, simply trying to be ‘normal’, but our subtly different minds can more easily produce original insights, art, ideas, solutions and humour. And we push boundaries that need to be pushed: as rebels, inventors, explorers and entrepreneurs.