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Coaching for professionals & entrepreneurs (with ADHD) struggling to find flow!

ADHD Coaching Is An Investment That Pays Dividends For Life

ADHD Coaching is one of the most effective ways a professional can invest in yourself.

An "ADHD Coach" is a life coach specifically trained to help adults with the brain-based condition of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder manage their lives.

Specific training is required to be credentialed as an ADHD Coach. The ADHD coach training prepares the coach to better assist clients by recognizing and distinguishing nuances between brain science, behavior idiosyncrasies, and habits. Distracting and avoiding behaviors often show up when ADHD clients need framework, systems, or more specific support structures that are not in place.

A client has his or her experience of ADHD, but often is missing the knowledge that allows them to show up and function fully in their career, their relationships and in their business. Understanding how your particular ADHD experience manifests is critical to success in coaching. That is why ADHD coaching begins with building and deepening your awareness of your own life.

Our goal is to shed light on how ADHD can not just inhibit but enhance your performance and use that unfolding awareness as the basis to experiment in real-time with alternative actions or behaviors. Coaching becomes a safe 'sandbox' in which to experiment and notice. When awareness is heightened, you can consider the coaching relationship as more experimental. The metaphor shifts from a 'sandbox' to a 'Pietre dish' in which you 'cause' or 'avoid' reaction.

By deepening your awareness, you are more naturally able to unplug negative (and perhaps life-long) narratives, make clear distinctions of how ADHD comes into play and may stand in the way of you being your best self.

Coach and client share responsibility for 'co-creating a relationship'. So when we work together, each session begins with a prep form, submitted prior to the session, and a client-generated topic to serve as a framework for each session. The goal of coaching sessions if to build your awareness and understanding so that you can take action in different ways in your life.

The key to successful ADHD coaching is moving intentions into actions, noticing, and adjusting.

This structure helps you stay focused and find incremental solutions in each session.  It's one of the ways coaching works and why coaching can generate immediate, powerful results.

Coaching Is Not Therapy

Many people explain the experience of coaching like therapy.... but it is not.

The main difference between ADHD coaching and traditional psychotherapy is in its approach. Therapy tends to look back to your past for the causality of current conditions. It often seeks to help you understand the root causes of pain and attempts to help you understand it so you can move to acceptance. Therapy is a great solution if you seek to heal from past trauma, pain, and supports emotional wellness.

In contrast, Coaching meets you where you are today and helps you focus on where you want to go. Alternatively, Coaching helps you set goals and remove the obstacles that are in your way. Instead of ruminating on the past and digging to find out why you did what you did then, coaching moves from today forward.

Coaching for professionals & entrepreneurs (with ADHD) struggling to get it all done and have a life!

Becoming an ADHC Coach has been my passion for as long as I can remember. I didn't know what it was but was always interested in the therapeutic model. However, the more I learned about coaching, the more I was attracted to the idea of creating change through action.

Our coaching process moves your thoughts and engaging intentions to action. I also am a self-awareness junky. So when discovered the vocation of coaching, I felt called to helping others in this way. I believe that self-awareness is the key to creating personal success and a life you love.

Why do I love working with professionals with ADHD?

Because I have been surrounded by high performers with ADHD my whole life.

And as a result, I know how hard it is to get started and stay sane as a micro-business owner and entrepreneur. I've also worked hard to automate processes in my business to save time. I love working with parents because they're the busiest, most essential humans on earth right now.

Since I launched my business in 2008, I've encountered difficulties, hardship, and the incredible growth that being an entrepreneur while raising your family provides. I also stand on the shoulders of those with whom I've worked to manifest my business vision.

So, although it's not easy, I want you to know it is doable.

Many of us are in the 'Sandwich Generation' - working parents have become the peanut butter stuck between 2 slices of bread: our aging parents, and our growing, busy (and often exhausting) families. Add a spouse, a home, and a career into the mix and it's a wonder we're not all half-crazy!

You deserve a life you love... that works. But, juggling all the priorities takes a solid foundation, clarity, courage, support, guidance, and freedom from the judgment and shame that the muggle world offers.

Above all, the coaching space allows the opportunity to slow down, get it together, prioritize yourself, and determine what direction to go in your life, business, or career. Additionally, we'll examine how to incorporate routines and winning systems that work for you. We focus on building awareness first. With deepened awareness, you help yourself. Awareness helps you problem-solve more effectively. You'll make work easier, more effectively regulate emotions, get and stay organized, get important things done, and create time at the end of the day for whatever you like to do most.