At NVCS, I coach older teens and young adults with ADHD or executive function challenges. I blend academic and life coaching with an understanding of neurodiversity. Through coaching, individuals can develop life skills that are part of adulting, strengthen written expression and study strategies necessary for academic success, as well as reflect on well-being and life balance. I meet each individual client where they are, and together we build and practice skills to advance client goals.

Why A Coach?

Why Coaching for Adolescents/Young Adults with ADHD?

Coaching done right is both enlightening and empowering for young people who need to develop resiliency, explore life with curiosity, discover their confident selves and find what brings them joy and happiness.

Teens and young adults have many wonderful resources to help them succeed. Tutors can provide invaluable instruction and therapists provide expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and learning differences. Coaches also provide a unique type of service, working with kids to support them as they learn to take charge and lead their own journey.  Coaches build confidence, resilience and creativity - replacing fear of failure with anticipation to try new things and curiosity to learn from any setbacks. ​

Coaching is a particularly useful platform for those impacted by the effects of ADHD. Many people with ADHD have become used to, and frustrated by, receiving a large amount of instruction. Their parents (or partners) may also be exhausted by their own efforts to provide timely reminders and oversee day-to-day routines. A coach can step in both to work with the client to create his/her/their own structures, and help identify opportunities for greater self-reliance. 
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Now offering group work sessions to all students who are current or former clients.

GSD Collaborative work sessions provide more robust accountability between coaching and takes advantage of the power of co-working to help students Get Stuff Done!

In one mindset, effort is a bad thing ... If [you were smart]  you wouldn't need effort. In the other, effort is what makes you smart or talented. You have a choice. Mindsets are just beliefs. They're powerful beliefs, but they're just in your mind, and you can change your mind.
-Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. Mindset