Trying to Find an ADHD Coach?
Questions about ADHD Coaching?
What's ADHD Coaching all about?
Coaching is a working partnership designed to:
How can ADHD coaching help me?
What do I need to get better at?
The challenges those of us with ADHD face every day have mostly to do with "executive functioning" issues:
What skills do I need to learn or improve upon?
Strategies for success include clear and achievable planning for your day, week, month and year. These are nuts-and-bolts skills, and paying attention in a skillful manner.
When you get to the end of your day, look at your planner, and see that you've done everything you've planned (using the skills you've learned via coaching), that's a WIN.
Another important skill is learning to "pay attention to what you're paying attention to" (Thanks to David Giwerc, my coaching teacher, for this insight and way of phrasing it!). Our "attentional difference" often takes us in directions that may not be serving us well.
As we learn to monitor and note our thoughts and what we're doing throughout the day, we are also learning how to use this info to keep us on task, understand what leads to us losing our focus, and what helps us stay on task . This skill requires commitment and practice.
Once we start including this skill into our daily lives, we get incrementally better at being "informed" by our thoughts, not "ruled" by them.
How long is a coaching session?
Usually a coaching session lasts 50 minutes, though there are occasional exceptions. I recently had a 3 hour coaching/strategy session with a client working on completing a business plan. I am also available between coaching sessions for check-ins.
How do I determine if Tom Dooley is the right ADHD Coach for me?
To find an ADHD Coach that's the best fit for you is important, because you're engaging in a partnership. One of the best ways to start is to have a list of your biggest ADHD challenges, what you feel your strengths are, and what you want to accomplish for yourself.
If you're interested in hiring Tom Dooley as your ADHD Coach, set up an initial consultation. This is usually conducted over the phone (also offered: in-office consultations and coaching for those in the San Jose/Monterey Bay areas). You'll get a good idea if Tom is the right coach for you, and if you feel he has the knowledge and communication skills to help you make progress and successfully manage your ADHD.
Coaching is a working partnership designed to:
- Help you understand when and how ADHD is getting in your way
- Develop skills, strategies, and awareness to live the life you really want
- Learn to Manage your ADHD by minimizing its negative impact, and using your strengths to their best advantage.
How can ADHD coaching help me?
- You'll be developing skills and strategies you can use for the rest of your life.
- What we co-create is homegrown and custom designed for managing YOUR ADHD, built to work with the unique way you learn and process info.
- You'll also learn to see your ADHD in a whole new way- under what conditions it shows up, when it's holding you back, and just as importantly, when and how to increase the opportunities to work from your strengths.
What do I need to get better at?
The challenges those of us with ADHD face every day have mostly to do with "executive functioning" issues:
- organization
- time management
- planning
- prioritizing
- time estimation
- successfully completing long-term or multi-step tasks
- strategizing, goal-setting
- tracking details
What skills do I need to learn or improve upon?
Strategies for success include clear and achievable planning for your day, week, month and year. These are nuts-and-bolts skills, and paying attention in a skillful manner.
When you get to the end of your day, look at your planner, and see that you've done everything you've planned (using the skills you've learned via coaching), that's a WIN.
Another important skill is learning to "pay attention to what you're paying attention to" (Thanks to David Giwerc, my coaching teacher, for this insight and way of phrasing it!). Our "attentional difference" often takes us in directions that may not be serving us well.
As we learn to monitor and note our thoughts and what we're doing throughout the day, we are also learning how to use this info to keep us on task, understand what leads to us losing our focus, and what helps us stay on task . This skill requires commitment and practice.
Once we start including this skill into our daily lives, we get incrementally better at being "informed" by our thoughts, not "ruled" by them.
How long is a coaching session?
Usually a coaching session lasts 50 minutes, though there are occasional exceptions. I recently had a 3 hour coaching/strategy session with a client working on completing a business plan. I am also available between coaching sessions for check-ins.
How do I determine if Tom Dooley is the right ADHD Coach for me?
To find an ADHD Coach that's the best fit for you is important, because you're engaging in a partnership. One of the best ways to start is to have a list of your biggest ADHD challenges, what you feel your strengths are, and what you want to accomplish for yourself.
If you're interested in hiring Tom Dooley as your ADHD Coach, set up an initial consultation. This is usually conducted over the phone (also offered: in-office consultations and coaching for those in the San Jose/Monterey Bay areas). You'll get a good idea if Tom is the right coach for you, and if you feel he has the knowledge and communication skills to help you make progress and successfully manage your ADHD.
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