Frequently Asked Questions

ADHD coaching helps you build routines and systems that fit how your brain works instead of fighting it. We focus on the practical problems: starting tasks, following through, managing time and attention, and dealing with the frustration that piles up around all of it. The work is about what you do next, not analyzing your past.

Coaching helps you close the gap between what you intend to do and what you actually do. We work on how you operate day to day, your systems, your follow-through, the way you handle pressure, and build changes that hold. There’s real overlap with therapy, so this is a fair question. The firm difference: therapy can diagnose and treat mental health conditions, and coaching can’t and doesn’t.

Somatic coaching pays attention to what’s happening in your body while you work on change. A lot of what keeps us stuck lives in physical states like tension, shutdown, or a fight-or-flight feeling that won’t settle. It helps you understand and shift those states so change holds instead of living only in your head.

Executive function is the set of mental skills that run your day: planning, prioritizing, starting tasks, tracking time, and switching between things. ADHD makes these harder. Executive function coaching builds practical workarounds so those things take less effort and go more smoothly.

Most ADHD coaching works on strategy and uses cognitive tools (organization, scheduling, thinking your way through situations). That work is useful, but it stalls when we are in a fight-flight-freeze response (overwhelm, extensive work stress, heavy procrastination). Your nervous system has to be in a workable state before any strategy holds. So I coach both the system and the state it runs on.

It works when the client, the coach, and the approach are a real fit. Beyond that, the more useful question is what it works on. Coaching won’t fix everything. What it reliably helps with is the gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it, the part where systems, follow-through, and staying regulated under pressure break down. If that’s where you’re stuck, coaching tends to move the needle.

Task paralysis is rarely a motivation problem. More often your nervous system has hit a freeze response and locked up under too much pressure. Somatic work teaches you to catch that freeze early and move through it, so you can act instead of sitting there knowing exactly what you should be doing.

Yes. Rejection sensitivity tends to hit fast and physically, before your thinking brain has caught up. Somatic work helps you notice that reaction in the moment so you can respond to it, rather than getting pulled into shame or shutting down.

It’s your body’s ability to shift between states without getting stuck, from alert to calm and back again. ADHD tends to make that shift harder. You might crash from hyperfocus straight into shutdown, or feel wired and exhausted at once. Regulation gives you more control over that swing.

No. Plenty of the people I work with are somewhere in the process: diagnosed, waiting on an assessment, or fairly sure but not formally tested. Coaching works with how you actually function day to day, and that doesn’t hinge on a diagnosis. I’m not qualified to diagnose ADHD, so if that’s what you’re after, you’d see a physician or psychologist.

Yes, and the two tend to work well together. Medication can turn down the noise, but it doesn’t hand you the systems, the habits, or the regulation skills. That’s the part we build. A lot of clients find coaching is what helps them actually put the clarity medication gives them to use.

A general life coach works across any goal you bring. An ADHD coach understands how ADHD specifically shows up in your follow-through, your sense of time, your focus, and your emotions, and builds the work around that. You’re not spending the first stretch of every session explaining how your brain works before you can get to the actual problem.

Yes, and this is the situation a lot of my clients are in. From the outside you look like you’re handling it. What nobody sees is how much effort that’s costing you, and it tends to catch up eventually. Coaching helps you build support that doesn’t run on white-knuckling, so you’re not burning everything you have just to keep up appearances.

Often, yes. Burnout with ADHD usually comes from years of overriding your own wiring to keep pace. We look at what’s actually draining you and how to build a way of working you can hold onto. Regulation work matters here, because running on stress is the quickest route back into burnout.

We start with what’s actually on your plate right now and work on it directly. That might mean building a plan, troubleshooting something that keeps not happening, or doing some hands-on regulation work when you’re stuck. You leave with a concrete next step you can use.

Most people notice small shifts within the first few sessions, usually around getting unstuck or feeling less alone in it. Deeper change, where new habits hold on their own, tends to take a few months. I’ll be honest with you about pace rather than promise a quick fix.

Yes, all coaching is virtual. It works well for this kind of work and means we can meet wherever you are

$160 per 50-minute session. Coaching is a private-pay service and usually isn’t covered by insurance, but it can often be covered by professional development funds or as an accomodation by employers. I also have a limited number of sliding scale spots which we can discuss.

No. I’m a coach, not a therapist, counselor, or medical provider, and coaching isn’t treatment for a mental health condition. I work with you on how you function day to day and where you want to go. Many of my clients work co-currently with a therapist or come to coaching after working with a therapist for a while.