ADHD coaching – questions & answers

An experienced, first principles approach

Q. Is coaching by phone?

Yes, in my experience phone is the best medium, video distracts us from thinking deeply. 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.

Three 50min sessions each month at a fixed time and day

Coaching is by phone or voice whatsapp only, we can think, focus and take notes

Payment is monthly, in advance, by credit/debit card through Stripe

I coach weekdays, from 9am-6pm. US based clients USA can coach between 8am-1pm EST.

Coaching is quick and easy to set up, with admin support to help with dates and payments

Coaching is international, but in fluent English only

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Q. What’s your ADHD coaching experience and training?

I trained with the ADD Coaching Academy and have over 10,000 hours of ADHD coaching with over 500 ADHD professional clients.

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:

Trained with ADD Coaching Academy, New York

Established and ran Cambian Adult ADHD Clinic in London

Set up and hosted Europe’s largest adult ADHD support group for 4 years

Over 500 ADHD adults coached, over 10,000 hours coaching

Twenty years in tech, sales, marketing, web/social media, managing start-ups

Set up and established several start-up businesses – some successfully!

Single parent for sixteen years

Personally experienced in ADHD diagnosis and medication

Recovered from depression and addiction

Q. Do you have a system for your coaching?

Each ADHD adult has a different set of challenges. We take a first principles approach. You chose what to focus on and I help shift your thoughts into plans and actions. I want our sessions to be fluid and effective, after all I’m ADHD and get bored easily! I want to help you deliver long-term, consistent results. Most ADHD adults are perfectionists and self-critical, so we will focus on your strengths and work on the problem areas that you identify.

We ask questions like “do you have to do this task?”, “is it realistic?”, “could someone help you or even do it?”, “what’s been stopping you?”, “what would make it easier?”, “how can you make it less overwhelming?”.

We work out the problem, work on motivation and need, plan what needs to be planned and develop strategies that work for you. We make sure we define ones that are sustainable and actionable. You try it out, like an experiment. You give it the benefit of the doubt, a new behaviour or routine for maybe a few weeks and we discuss whether it is working in following sessions.

With time and some refining it works, new habits form, new approaches work well and you start to make the progress you want.

Q. Can you coach me, if you’re ADHD too?

I am ADHD myself – I procrastinate, avoid dull tasks and fail to plan too - I know what it is to be ADHD. 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.