ADHD Coaching


ADHD coaches work collaboratively with their clients who have ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms to address specific needs and personal goals. Coaching addresses the academic, vocational, emotional and interpersonal life difficulties that are a result of these symptoms and helps clients find ways to overcome these challenges. Coaches help people explore where they are now, where they want to be and how they can get there.

A coach helps people with ADHD carry out the practical activities of daily life in an organized, goal-oriented and timely fashion. In close partnership, an ADHD coach helps the client learn practical skills and initiate change in his or her daily life. A coach may help an adult with ADHD:

  • maintain focus to achieve identified goals

  • translate abstract goals into concrete actions

  • build motivation and learn to find ways to use concrete and abstract rewards effectively

Coaches help individuals with ADHD learn how the symptoms of ADHD play out in their daily lives. Coaches primarily ask questions to help the client reflect and discover their own answers to these questions. The following are examples of questions coaches may ask:

  • What changes do you want to make in your daily life?

  • What small steps can you take today in the direction of your goals?

  • How can you motivate yourself to take action towards this goal?

  • When must this action be completed?

  • What steps have you taken already, and when will you take the remaining steps?

  • How will you evaluate the impact of your plan?

Coaches support clients by providing encouragement, feedback and practical suggestions to address specific challenges as well by supporting them and holding them accountable for following through on their goals.


In-person & virtual options are available for individuals ages 8 and above (children, youth and adults welcome).

(Select Information from CHADD)