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What’s ADHD Coaching and Why Should I Hire an ADHD Coach?

Updated: Sep 27, 2019



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Adults with ADHD often struggle with staying focused and organized and often find it hard to be productive. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a professional to help them live a more comfortable life and become more efficient, focused, and organized? That’s exactly where ADHD coaching comes in handy.

It’s what it sounds like: it’s a coaching service specially designed for adults with attention-deficit disorder (ADHD). It encompasses a professional who is trained to help these people beat old habits such as disorganization, procrastination, and negative thinking. An ADD coach can help point out when the hyperactive mind has started going down the route of negativity and unproductivity. With the help of ADD / ADHD coaching, you can clarify your goals, objectives, values, and activities as well as identify obstacles that might keep you from achieving those goals. Unlike psychotherapists, an ADD coach helps you focus better on your priorities, tasks, actions, and schedules.

With that said, ADD coaching looks to tackle life and work practicalities such as memory recall, time management, organizational skills, and other functional issues an ADHD adult may be going through. It offers a holistic strategy that meant to build every aspect of your life.

Who actually is an ADHD coach?

This is a specialist who helps those with ADD / ADHD to lead a fulfilling, productive life. Think of an ADD / ADHD coach as a mentor who guides you to reach personal insights and master coping skills required to navigate the complex world of business, career, relationships and everyday life. Remember, this is a professional who is highly trained and experienced in both life coaching and attention deficit disorder.

The reasons why You should Find an ADD Coach

Being late, scattered, overwhelmed, and disorganized is an everyday struggle for adults with ADD. But, it doesn’t have to be that way, and an ADD / ADHD coach can help in more than one way. An ADD / ADHD coach enables you to identify and work around ADD / ADHD stumbling blocks so you can stop struggling and set yourself up for success.

With that, here are ADD / ADHD coping skills that an ADD / ADHD coach can help you with:

  • Decluttering your life, workspace, and digital clutter

  • Cultivating good time management skills

  • Developing effective organizational skills

  • Planning and being accountable for your goals and objectives

  • Working on big projects

  • Prioritizing tasks, projects, etc

  • Sprucing up Interpersonal skills

  • Improving communication and relationship skills

Conclusion

In the long term, ADD / ADHD coaching is a vehicle for facilitating people with ADHD to become successful and more productive on their own terms.

Sasha Raskin, MA, is an international #1 bestselling co-author , the founder and CEO of Go New , a transformational education program, a life, and business coach and a psychotherapist in Boulder, CO. He is working on a P.h.D in Counseling Education and Supervision and is an adjunct faculty at the Contemplative Counseling master’s program at Naropa University, from which he also graduated. Sasha has been in the mental health field for more than 10 years, worked with youth at risk, recovery, mental health hospitals, and coached individuals, couples, families, startups, and groups. He has created mindfulness stress reduction and music therapy programs within different organizations. Whether it’s in person or via phone/video calls, Sasha uses cutting-edge, research-based techniques to help his clients around the world to thrive.

As a coach Sasha Raskin provides individual and group coaching in Boulder, Colorado, and worldwide via video and phone calls, drawing from over ten years of experience. His services include: life coaching, business coaching, career coaching, ADD / ADHD coaching, leadership coaching, and executive coaching. Schedule your free 20-minute coaching phone consultation with Sasha Raskin

As a counselor in Boulder, CO, Sasha provides individual counseling in Boulder, CO , family therapy in Boulder, CO, and couples therapy in Boulder, CO, marriage counseling in Boulder, Colorado, and couples intensives / couples retreats, drawing from over ten years of clinical experience. Schedule your free 20-minute psychotherapy phone consultation with Sasha Raskin

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