1:1 and Group Coaching For Women and Parents with ADHD.
If you're a woman or a parent, with ADHD who feels like you're constantly juggling everything and barely keeping it together, despite others praising your achievements, you're not alone. The reality is, that managing everyday tasks often requires an extraordinary amount of effort, which can be exhausting and overwhelming.
Our coaching programs are here to support you, whether you're dealing with the complexities of ADHD, managing the impact of trauma, or both. We offer both 1:1 and group coaching options, tailored to meet your unique needs.
Understanding the Impact of ADHD and Trauma People with ADHD often face additional challenges due to trauma, which can intensify symptoms like mood swings, low self-esteem, and difficulties in daily functioning. Our coaching uses a trauma-informed approach, helping you address these interconnected issues effectively.
Strengthening Relationships ADHD can create challenges in relationships, leading to misunderstandings and frustration. Our coaching helps you develop clear communication skills and empathy, improving cooperation and reducing tension with your loved ones.
1:1 and Group Coaching Options Choose our personalised 1:1 coaching for individualised support, or join our group coaching to connect with others who share similar experiences. Both options aim to empower you to manage ADHD symptoms, enhance your emotional well-being, and build a more balanced, fulfilling life.
Living with both trauma and ADHD can significantly impact your executive functioningβ the mental skills that help you manage time, stay organised, and control impulses.
How Coaching Can Help
Coaching is a deeply personalised and supportive journey, integrating psycho-education and therapeutic techniques to foster meaningful change and growth for individuals with ADHD and trauma. The aim is to help you understand and manage your condition in a way that feels empowering and affirming, leading to improved executive functioning, greater self-acceptance, enhanced self-compassion and self-esteem, and a deeper understanding of your own needs and those of your family members.
Enhancing Executive Functioning:
Practical Skills and Strategies: Together, we'll explore tips and tricks like habit stacking, hacking the reward loop, and creating effective routines tailored to your unique needs.
Motivation Techniques: We'll find ways to inspire and motivate you to engage in activities that benefit your well-being, like exercise and organising your home (this is NOT as simple as βyou will feel better if you just go for a walkβ or βDonβt put it down, put it awayβ tropes. We know that already!
By integrating these strategies, you'll learn to enjoy enhanced daily productivity and a greater sense of accomplishment. (You know youβre feeling like youβve never done enough even when you have hey!)
Fostering Self-Acceptance and Self-Compassion:
Understanding Your Condition: We'll delve into how trauma and ADHD impact your brain and behavior, helping you develop a more compassionate understanding of yourself.
Letting Go of Self-Criticism: Together, we'll work on reducing self-criticism and embracing a more positive self-image.
Cognitive Restructuring: Using techniques like cognitive restructuring, we'll challenge and re-frame negative thought patterns, fostering healthier self-talk.
Building Self-Esteem:
Recognising Strengths: We'll find out your realised and unrealised strengths and achievements, helping you to do more things youβre good at, build confidence and reduce feelings of shame.
Overcoming Shame: By addressing and reframing negative beliefs, you'll develop a stronger sense of self-worth. Shame is a particularly pervasive one, we will also work with all of the parts of you that are born out of being shamed as a child, and more.
Achieving Goals: As you learn to manage your symptoms effectively, you'll experience a sense of accomplishment and pride in your progress.
Understanding and Meeting Your Needs:
Personalised Strategies: We'll create a tailored plan to help you understand and meet your own needs, as well as those of your family members who may also have ADHD.
Value-Driven Actions: Together, we'll identify your core values and commit to actions that align with them, creating a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Life Balance: We'll focus on achieving a healthy balance that supports your overall well-being and personal growth.
Practical Tips and Strategies for Everyday Life:
Psychoeducation: We'll explore how your brain and nervous system function, and how this understanding can help you navigate challenges and leverage your strengths.
Habit Stacking: We'll develop neural links to help you remember tasks and create a reward loop, replacing the cycle of shame with positive reinforcement.
Habits vs. Routines: We'll learn how to create routines that support healthy habits, recognising that routines provide the structure needed for sustainable change. (ADHDers donβt build habits the same way as our non-spicy folk).
Avoiding ADHD Burnout: We'll implement strategies to prevent burnout by pacing yourself, balancing high-energy tasks with restful activities, and recognising early signs of overwhelm.
Wellbeing Strategies: We'll focus on holistic wellbeing to address co-morbid issues like depression, weight and health challenges, and anxiety. This includes incorporating regular movement (the nicer term for exercise), balanced nutrition, and mindfulness practices into your daily routine.
Support for Individual Needs:
Workplace Adjustments: We'll discuss how to ask for reasonable adjustments at work and understand your rights and responsibilities.
Communicating Needs: Together, we'll develop skills to communicate your needs effectively to your partner and family members. For example, explaining why you need your 'doom piles' to remember things but can't handle theirs.
Resources for Ongoing Learning: You'll have access to a curated list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, helpful TikToks, and apps to support your ongoing learning and management of ADHD.
Organisational Tools: We'll explore effective calendar systems and other organisational tools to help you manage your time and responsibilities more efficiently, make your life easier, recruit the people in your world to help, and feel better about having this brain in your head.
Can Coaching Help with Navigating Relationships?
Absolutely! Not only can coaching provide tailored support and strategies to help couples navigate the complexities of ADHD in their relationships, but once you know you, you will also be able to feel better about how you show up in friendships and other relationships as well.
Developing Effective Communication:
Skill-Building: Helps couples develop better ways to express their needs clearly and understand each otherβs perspectives, fostering better communication and cooperation.
Finding Compromises: With guidance, couples can openly discuss their differences and find compromises that work for both partners, reducing tension and improving collaboration.
Building Empathy:
Understanding Challenges: Coaching sessions can provide insights into the unique challenges each partner faces, fostering empathy and reducing conflict.
Reframing Perspectives: Recognising ADHD as a legitimate condition, rather than a character flaw, helps both partners approach each other with greater compassion and patience.
Addressing Over-Functioning and Under-Functioning:
Balancing Responsibilities: Coaching can help couples recognise and address the dynamics of over-functioning and under-functioning, working towards a more balanced partnership.
Encouraging Independence: Strategies to support the ADHD partner in handling tasks independently can reduce learned helplessness and build confidence.
Improving Intimacy and Connection:
Enhancing Intimacy: Coaching can guide couples in enhancing their connection and intimacy, addressing challenges highlighted in resources like ADHD After Dark.
Strengthening Bonds: By working through these issues together, couples can navigate the complexities of ADHD and strengthen their bond using communication frameworks like Non-Violent Communication.
When someone has a disability we can see, we understand that accommodations are necessary, we do not blame them or their personality for their inability. We need to be able to have the same, very open and honest conversations about brains. Empathy requires understanding and safety, intimacy requires all three.