ADHD Coaching
ADHD coaching supports you to leverage your strengths, and find new ways to manage your challenges. It's a space to explore your life experience, and build your confidence.
Why ADHD coaching?
You may be formally diagnosed, self-identified or just starting to wonder. It can be a life-changing experience to identify your ADHD, but where do you go from there?
Coaching can support you to see how your ADHD impacts you, and to get a deeper understanding of your challenges (so that you can find solutions that really work for you).
ADHD coaching benefits
Neurodiversity coaching isn’t generally about quick wins, although you can certainly feel supported and notice changes in a short period of time. We’re often incorporating processes that can take a bit of time for your brain, body and life to catch up with! Here are some of the outcomes we might work towards:
- A better understanding of your unique experience of ADHD
- Building self-confidence and being kinder to yourself
- More in-depth understanding of your needs and how to express them
- Creating a lifestyle and way of working that is sustainable
- Getting on top of things, feeling more organised and less overwhelmed
- Improving your personal and professional relationships
Common topics in ADHD coaching
The coaching process is unique to your goals and what you would like to work on, and there’s nothing you’re meant to know in advance. You may be really clear on your goals, or it might be something we figure out together. There’s no set programme or topics, but here are some areas that often come up:
- Executive functioning: understanding day-to-day experiences such as planning, time management and task initiation; designing approaches to support and optimise.
- Energy management: considering any patterns of overwhelm and burnout, looking at practical ways to manage your energy over time.
- Emotional regulation and relationships: managing your emotions, and considering the boundaries and communication that would best support your relationships.
- Motivation and focus: leveraging your strengths and interests, and finding strategies to help you get stuff done (and rest when you need to).
- Self-perception and confidence: building a more positive and compassionate relationship with yourself supported by a better understanding of your ADHD.
What is ADHD coaching?
ADHD coaching is a space to talk openly about what you’re experiencing, to share what it’s like for you. Sometimes you might have questions that I can answer based on my experience and knowledge, although often we’re exploring questions together so that you can keep making sense of your own perspective and experience.
ADHD coaching can be practical, focusing on specific habits or behaviours you want to stop, start or change. We can work together to devise specific adjustments you can make over time, figuring out manageable strategies for success (on your terms).
Coaching can support you in building self-confidence, and a more positive sense of self. It can help you to recognise and adjust your coping mechanisms, as well as the emotions, beliefs and thought patterns they’re connected to.
A bit about Christina...
Following my accreditation as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coaching Federation, I tailored my post-graduate certificate with the University of Chester to focus on neurodiversity.
To continue my professional development, I completed CPD studies in neurodiversity coaching, mental health coaching, and trauma-informed approaches. I’m committed to my ongoing development, receiving ongoing coaching and supervision.
I was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and DCD (dyspraxia) in my late thirties, so I have personal understanding and lived experience of neurodivergence.
What to expect in ADHD coaching...
- We'll do 60 minute sessions online, generally either weekly or fortnightly for 6-12 sessions. We can keep working together beyond those initial sessions too.
- You may be able to receive a grant through Access to Work that will pay for (or subsidise) your coaching with me. You don't have to have a formal diagnosis to apply. Note that it can take quite a few months for your application to be fully processed.
Considering working with me? Want to meet and see if it's a good fit?
Coaching sessions cost £120 – £200 / hour. Reduced price sessions are available for Access to Work clients, with some low-cost sessions also available for those in financial need.
We can have a 30-minute, no-pressure conversation to see if it's the right next step.
