ADHD Coaching
Support for Adult ADHDers to adult - your way.
Whether it’s better time management, achieving goals, relationships, work, focus, socialising, building healthy habits, or learning to find your strengths …
ADHD coaching can help.
Do you think you might have ADHD?
Have you recently had a diagnosis as an adult and you’re not sure ‘where to next’?
Have you felt somehow different for a long time and not understood why things have been so darn difficult at work, at home, in your relationships?
Finally you might have some answers, but yet it can also feel like just the beginning.
Let’s face it, the whole process can be a huge rollercoaster of emotions.
As someone who was diagnosed at 48, I completely understand.
Things make more sense than ever but yet you’ve been thrown off course at the same time.
That’s where ADHD Coaching comes in.
Coaching helps you navigate your path forward so you can play to your strengths and learn to manage the bits of ADHD that are causing challenges for you.
What is ADHD coaching?
✔️Learning to find and appreciate your strengths!
✔️Coming to terms with your diagnosis - what to expect, what’s normal, what’s next
✔️Managing emotions and overwhelm
✔️Healthier self-esteem and relationships
✔️Time management
✔️Tackling day-to-day life and tasks that are important to you
✔️Psychoeducation (understanding why your brain is doing what it’s doing and what you can do)
✔️Understanding the link with addiction (process and behavioural)
✔️Cultivating a life that fits to you, rather than trying to fit into neurotypical templates leading you to hide your light, mask your life away and go down the well-worn ‘burn out’ cycle.
So, let’s stop trying to cram your spicy brain into non-spicy ways! It doesn’t work and makes us ADHDers freaking miserable.
As your ADHD coach, I’ll help you:
embrace ways to be more you in the world, not less
find strategies that mean you can get the things you want to do done, but in ways that work for your brain - and your lifestyle
reframe self-beliefs and tame that harsh inner critic and perfectionistic tendencies that are sabotaging and undermining you
focus on your strengths, while finding ways to manage the things that aren’t working as well.
Sound good?
Great! Let’s harness that hyperfocus and get cracking.
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“But isn’t coaching just full of unqualified charlatans?” I hear you say …
You may be surprised to know, ADHD coaching is recommended as an intervention in the first ever Australian Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines for the treatment of ADHD (July 2022), endorsed by the Australian Psychological Society, the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, The Australian Clinical Psychology Association and the ADHD World Federation amongst many others.
A review of 22 studies of ADHD Coaching by Ahmann et al (2018) found positive outcomes for people with ADHD in supporting their executive functioning, ADHD symptoms, self-esteem, wellbeing, and quality of life.
As always, it is highly recommend you check the credentials/qualifications of any practitioner you consider working with.
We can do hard things! Graduating psych in 2017. Took me 10 years while working, but I got there eventually.
My qualifications include:
Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) - 2017
Master of Counselling (underway, 2023)
ADHD Coach Training, ADDCA - 2023
Graduate Certificate, Counselling - 2022
Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification - (underway, 2023)
Science of Wellbeing, Yale University - (underway, 2023)
Certified Grey Area Drinking Coach - 2021
Lifeline suicide prevention training, ASIST - 2019
Smart Recovery Facilitator training - 2021
Trauma-informed care certificate (AOD) - 2022
My own lived experience of mental health, addiction, eating disorders, trauma, DFV, co-dependency and, more recently, a late diagnosis of ADHD.
Vast amounts of professional and personal development, therapy, coaching and self-study around trauma, family systems, attachment theory, co-dependency, Taoism, EFT, polyvagal theory, shadow archetypes, inner child work, meditation, yoga.
ADHD podcasts
Alcohol dependence and ADHD - listen here.
ADHD, alcohol and grey area drinking - listen here
LD ADHD (Aus)
Addiction, ADHD and acceptance - listen here.
TEAM DSC (Aus)
Do you suspect you might have ADHD? - listen here.
Alcohol-Free Lifestyle (USA)