Frequently Asked Questions regarding ADHD Coaching

Coaching is partnership experience where we discover your goals and your passions and use them to help you travel down a path to the life you want.

Typically, sessions are 45 minutes long. The client and coach develop a personal partnership in which the coach asks questions and helps the client explore strategies and solutions to reach their goals.

100%! What happens in our sessions stays in our sessions. We follow ICF (International Coaching Association) guidelines for privacy.

The time that your coaching process will take depends on the complexity of your goals and your commitment and openness to your process. 

Click on the APPOINTMENTS page and select INTAKE Session.  The Intake session is Free.

Feel free to use our Contact page or  email us coachingadhdlife@gmail.com and we'll get back to you within 24-48 hours. 

Coaching isn't for everyone and there are definitely some boundaries for coaching.

 If any of the following are true for your situation, you or your child may be best served in another capacity:

• Those who communicate through physical aggression or unsafe behavior towards themselves or others
• Active abusers of drugs or alcohol.
• Those looking for ADHD medication advice/referral
• Those with a medically related condition that would be better served by medical professional (i.e. depression) 
• Those needing trauma-based support or therapeutic intervention.
• Those unwilling or unable to challenge their own assumptions or who struggle to maintain a growth mindset
• Those who are looking for a quick fix or magic bullet.
• Those not wanting to be coached

An individual  might choose to work with a coach for many reasons, including but not limited to the following:

• Something urgent, compelling or exciting is at stake (a challenge, stretch goal or opportunity) 
• Core strengths need to be identified, along with how best to leverage them
• A gap exists in knowledge, skills, confidence or resources
• A desire to accelerate results
• A lack of clarity with choices to be made
• Success has started to become problematic
• Work and life are out of balance, creating unwanted consequences

Professional coaching focuses on setting goals, creating outcomes and managing personal change. Sometimes it’s helpful to understand coaching by distinguishing it from other personal or organizational support professions.

Coaching is an ongoing partnership between the client and coach and supports personal, professional or academic growth based on self-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. Coaching assumes that the client is capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying a supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks. Coaching is present and future focused.  The emphases in a coaching relationship are on action, accountability, and follow through.  Coaching is also less linear and without a set curriculum.

Therapy: Therapy deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or in relationships. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past that hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with the present in more emotionally healthy ways. 

Consulting: Individuals or organizations retain consultants for their expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, the assumption is the consultant will diagnose problems and prescribe and, sometimes, implement solutions. 

Mentoring: A mentor is an expert who provides wisdom and guidance based on his or her own experience. Mentoring may include advising, counseling and coaching. .

Training: Training programs are based on objectives set out by the trainer or instructor. Training also assumes a linear learning path that coincides with an established curriculum.