While the most common approach to ADHD management is focused on fixing what’s wrong with us, trying to make us fit, stopping our ADHD from showing up, it only makes things worse. What is more, it ignores the strengths of the ADHD brain wiring and the opportunities to build a happy life, hidden behind them. Even if as kids we were intuitively able to find what works for us, this “fixing and fitting approach” quickly switched our focus onto our weaknesses and efforts to compensate them.
Reinforcing feelings of failure, tiredness of 24/7 masking, and hopelessness to ever change that.
ADHD Coaching offers a broader perspective – to build on strengths and interests – the only fuel to an ADHD brain. While – yes – scaffolding around weaknesses, getting to know them, building support systems around them, but actually pouring some fuel into this Ferrari at last!
Ok! But is that evidence-based? Does ADHD coaching work?
Is it more effective than a therapeutic approach? What actually IS the difference?