ADHD Coaching
Are you feeling stuck, uncertain of your next move, or have a goal but struggling to start/stay focussed on it?
Have you been diagnosed with ADHD and left unsure what to do next? Are you self-diagnosed/identifying, or just curious about ADHD and how it could relate to some of your traits or struggles?
Our ADHD Coaches could help you with all of this and more! Our coaching differs from life or career coaching in that it is tailored to those with ADHD (or such traits) and gets underneath the differences in executive functioning and unique challenges this brings.
Our coaches have lived experienced of ADHD, and of navigating life, work, relationships, and parenthood through this lens.
We will create a dedicated, safe space for you to work through your thoughts. Take some time each week or fortnight to pause, reflect, and take action with the help of our coaches.
Our Coaching Method
Our coaching is client-led, which means you are the owner of our sessions together, and the direction they take. Our coaches are there to hold space for you, and to ask questions to prompt your thinking and exploration of what might really be coming up for you, or getting in your way. We will also hold you accountable, if this is something that could help you, to completing actions and celebrating small wins.
Coaching focuses on forward-looking, action-orientated goals, rather than exploring the past or the “why”. ADHD Coaching specifically can assist with executive functioning challenges. Our coaches have trained with ADHD Works, and our method has evolved from their Executive Functioning Framework, which recognises that there can be an up-to-30% development delay in executive functioning skills for those with ADHD. This means that other forms of life or career coaching won't always work for people with ADHD.
Areas of executive functioning include:
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Self- awareness
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Motivation
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Impulsivity
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Emotional Regulation
Our coaches will help you to identify where you might be hitting challenges with these, and will equip you with tools and techniques to explore these further and ultimately take action to mitigate and manage them. After completing a course of coaching, we'd expect that you could apply your new-found toolkit to everyday life, and situations that may arise. Coaching is an exploration of, and investment in, yourself.
Own your day, the ADHDo way!
Meet your Coaches
During a corporate career, where he found things much harder than they should be, and noticed that his career ladder seemed to have more rungs than everyone else's, Ben received a diagnosis of ADHD (Primarily Inattentive).
He is now energised by using his skills built over many years of commercial, operational, and technical experience to help others in similar positions.
Ben's coaching approach works with your ADHD, to optimise results for those working with a non-typical set of skills.
Ben lives with his wife, son, and Dobermann. In his spare time he enjoys being ignored by his dog on long walks.
Colette was diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD at the age of 38. Her background is in IT Product Ownership, where she has always built great relationships and driven right to the root of problems, but struggled with being told what to do, or performing tasks that seemed perfunctory.
Colette is on the board of trustees for York Mind (mental health charity) and sees first hand the difficulty that people can face in accessing appropriate help and support.
Colette's coaching style is laid back, friendly, and non-judgemental. There are no silly questions (or silly answers), and sessions will always be driven by what the client wants to achieve.
Colette lives with her wife, two sons, and two cats. She tries (pretty unsuccessfully generally) to play guitar when she has time.