Life coaching is an opportunity to explore what it is that you really want out of life, who you are at your core, and how you can become who you want to be. 

Life coaching takes the form of regular conversations each centered around a topic of your choosing and aiming at your desired outcome. Coaching is not a quick fix, and a lot of the work happens outside of our sessions. The progress you make builds over time, and it can be quite dramatic.

The relationship between us, coach and client, is a partnership among equals. If you are looking for an authority figure to tell you what to do, you are not looking for a life coach. I will never assume that I know what's best for you. A foundational idea of coaching is that you are the expert on your own life and what is going to work for you.

As a coach I support you by creating a safe space where you can think out loud, asking questions to help you to find clarity, and helping you to recognize your strengths, values and limiting beliefs so that you can expand your view of what is possible.

ADHD Coaching is life coaching through an ADHD lens. ADHD coaches have a deep understanding of ADHD, and not only do we better understand people with ADHD than a general life coach, many of us have the personal experience of living with ADHD ourselves. We know this experience is life in hard mode.

ADHD Coaching adds a teaching component to life coaching. An ADHD coach may share their knowledge of ADHD where it is relevant to the conversation or when you request information. This information may help you to understand your personal experience through an ADHD lens and/or recognize potential strategies or hacks that you might want to try. It is up to you whether or not you want to use the information and how.

ADHD coaching puts special emphasis on strengths, barriers and supports. Recognizing your strengths and how you can utilize them to propel you forward, gets you into positive thinking, seeing possibilities. Planning for potential barriers, things that might keep you from following through on your plan and adding supports such as rewards, accountability buddies, check lists, etc. help to keep you moving toward your goals. Of course, it's always wonderful when everything works out according to plan, however, these plans are like experiments. They can be adjusted as we learn what works best for you.

Imagine what it would feel like to experience the deliverables listed below. This is how powerful ADHD coaching can be.

ADHD Coaching Deliverables*

• Understanding of your ADHD brain

• Expanded perspective and clarity

• Clear direction

• Personalized plans

• Tools to support your executive function difficulties

• Motivation

• Resilience

• Boundaries

• Support

• Achievement beyond what you considered possible

• Activation of your true authentic self

• Self-compassion

*What you get out of coaching is dependent on the effort that you put into it and the time commitment that you make. Are you ready to start seeing the changes that you want to see in your life?

To get the most out of your coaching experience:

• Bring an agenda/topic to each session.

• Have tools available for taking notes.

• Make sure you are in a distraction-free environment.

• Be open to considering new ideas or strategies.

• Be willing to explore your thoughts, experiences, and aspirations.

• Make decisions based on what works best for you.

• Commit to and follow through on actions.

• Communicate openly about what you need and what you can handle.

• Don’t expect a quick fix; change takes time.

At the beginning of each coaching conversation I will ask you what topic you would like to discuss during the coaching session and what outcome you would like to aim for by the end of the session. The topic of our sessions is always up to you, so be sure to have a topic in mind before the session starts. Once we have established the topic we’ll do some exploring, working our way toward the agreed upon outcome.

Through the coaching conversation we will discover your values, what gives you purpose, barriers including limiting beliefs which may be keeping you from reaching your potential, and strategies to move you toward your goals.

If at any point you feel that we are going down a path that is not helpful or not in the direction of the decided upon outcome, you are welcome and encouraged to share that with me.

At the end of the session, we will have identified an action that you can commit to taking that will bring you closer to your goal. Then we will reflect on whether we have reached the desired outcome and what progress was made in the session.