Overview
A practical, neuroinformed foundation: everything you need to start coaching ADHD clients with skill and confidence. Online recorded course.
Our ADHD clients are some of the most complex, creative, and misunderstood people we work with and they deserve more than a general approach. ADHD coaching is one of the fastest growing specialisms in our field and most practitioners still don't know how to do it well. Many of us find ourselves sitting with ADHD clients and sensing that what we know isn't quite fitting. We can see what's happening, we care deeply about helping, but something in our existing training doesn't fully reach what these clients need. Some of us are already working with ADHD clients and wondering how to do it better. Others of us want to build a genuine specialism but aren't sure where to start. And some of us have been quietly wondering whether ADHD coaching could become the heart of our practice: whether we could build an ADHD coaching business that is focused, meaningful, and sustainable but have no clear picture of what that would actually look like or how to make it happen.
Foundations of ADHD Coaching is built for exactly that moment.
This is a practical ADHD coaching course designed to give practitioners a clear, workable understanding of how to support ADHD clients. Across the training, participants will have the chance to work through key areas of ADHD coaching step by step, building both understanding and confidence. The course helps practitioners understand the difference between ADHD coaching and therapy, develop a clear sense of direction, and know how to begin the work, structure sessions, and decide what they can actively do with clients in practice.
This training programme combines knowledge of the ADHD brain with practical coaching strategies that support regulation, self-understanding, motivation, and everyday functioning. It is designed to help practitioners move beyond theory and develop an approach that feels structured, useful, and applicable in real client work.
You can learn in your own pace and time.
Who this is for
This training is for coaches, psychotherapists, and counsellors who want to move into ADHD coaching as a distinct discipline not simply to understand ADHD better, but to practise as an ADHD coach with skill, confidence, and a solid neuroinformed foundation.
ADHD coaching is not the same as general coaching or therapy with ADHD clients. It has its own framework, its own tools, and its own way of understanding what a client needs and why. If you have been curious about what that actually means in practice and how to build that specialism into your professional identity, this programme is designed for you.
What you will leave with
By the end of this programme you will have a clear, practical foundation in ADHD coaching as a distinct discipline. You will understand how to begin with a new ADHD coaching client, how to move through the different stages of the coaching relationship, and what to focus on at each step.
Each session builds on the last, and each comes with handouts and practical tools you can take straight into your client work. This is not just theory, but material you can use in your practice.
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ADHD Coaching Foundation: 10 Sessions, 10 Topics
ADHD Coaching Training Programme
1. Understanding ADHD
Gain a strong foundation in what ADHD is, how it affects daily life, and why it is often misunderstood. This section introduces the core features of ADHD and the lived experience behind the label. What is the difference between Coaching and Psychotherapy or Counselling.
2. Different ADHD Presentations
Explore the different ways ADHD can present across individuals, including inattentive, hyperactive, impulsive, and combined profiles. This section highlights the diversity within ADHD and why no two clients are the same.
3. The ADHD Brain
Understand ADHD from a brain-based perspective, including attention regulation, motivation, executive function, and the role of key neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine. This helps coaches make sense of patterns that are often misread as laziness or lack of effort.
4. Recognising ADHD Patterns in Clients
Learn how ADHD may show up in coaching through procrastination, inconsistency, overwhelm, emotional intensity, time blindness, disorganisation, and self-criticism. This section supports coaches to notice what is happening underneath the surface.
5. Working Pre and Post Diagnosis
Support clients who are exploring ADHD, questioning it, newly diagnosed, or reflecting on a missed diagnosis later in life. This section looks at identity, relief, grief, self-understanding, and the impact of finally making sense of long-standing struggles.
6. Contracting and Structuring ADHD Coaching
Learn how to create a coaching structure that works for ADHD clients. This includes clear contracting, realistic goals, accountability, pacing, session focus, and adapting the coaching process to neurodivergent needs.
7. Beliefs, Shame, and Emotional Regulation
Explore the emotional side of ADHD, including shame, self-doubt, frustration, rejection sensitivity, and limiting beliefs. This section helps coaches support clients in developing greater self-understanding, resilience, and emotional steadiness.
8. Sensory Regulation and Overwhelm
Understand how sensory load, stress, and nervous system overwhelm affect ADHD clients. Learn how to recognise signs of overload and support clients in building regulation strategies that help them function more effectively.
9. Procrastination, Motivation, and Daily Life Challenges
Focus on the everyday realities of ADHD, including procrastination, task initiation, planning, organisation, routines, and follow-through. This section offers practical coaching approaches to help clients create systems that are realistic and sustainable.
10. Masking, Authenticity, and Sustainable Change
Examine the impact of masking and overcompensating in ADHD clients. This section supports coaches to help clients reduce burnout, build self-acceptance, and create a life that fits their brain more honestly and effectively.