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What is ADD coaching?

"ADD coaching is a supportive, practical, concrete process in which you and the coach work together to identify and pursue your goals. The primary purpose of coaching is to help the individual with ADD develop the structure necessary to function effectively and to teach practical approaches to the challenges of daily life." Quote by Nancy Ratey, Ed.M.

"Not all people with ADD do need a coach. But after you have a medical diagnosis; have found the right combination of medications to normalize your brain functioning; educated yourself about ADD and how it has and can affect you; surrounded yourself with supportive, understanding people and a support group; and you still find yourself spending hours and days playing solitaire instead of doing the dishes, paying bills or doing your paperwork, it is time to consider hiring a coach." Quote by Andrea Little, member of the National ADDA Board of Directors

As your coach, I will provide the structure, support, and encouragement you need to help you set and achieve your personal and professional goals. I won't try to "fix" you. (If you're like most ADDers, you've had people trying to "fix" you all your life!). I know you're not "dumb, stupid, or lazy." I will focus on your good points and help you optimize your strengths. I will help you organize and prioritize, focus and concentrate. We will employ skills and strategies to successfully manage your life in spite of ADD. I will provide an emotionally safe environment for you to make the positive changes you want make in your life.

Sari Solden, MS, MFCC, says in her book WOMEN WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER (Underwood Books, Grass Valley, CA, 1995) (p. 246) "…it can be wonderful to find a "Coach." This can be someone trained and paid or someone that you helped to develop, a non-judgmental friend who's organized but flexible…There are three main areas in which a coach can help in your personal life. First, she/he can help you stay on track and help you prioritize to meet your goals. …Next, your coach can help you see your successes by being supportive, almost a cheerleader…Thirdly, a coach can be right in your house to help you maintain systems, put papers away, getting to all the stuff that you hate: that boring, repetitive filing, paying bills, balancing the checkbook or going through papers."

Hallowell and Ratey in their book DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION (Pantheon Books, New York, 1994) say: "We particularly like the idea of a coach. This person may also be a therapist, but need not be. It may be a friend or a colleague, anyone who knows something about ADD and is willing to put in the time--ten or fifteen minutes a day--to coach. …The person with ADD will greatly benefit from having a "coach," someone standing on the sidelines with a whistle around his neck calling out encouragement, instructions, and reminders, and in general helping to keep things going on task. People with ADD thrive with this sort of structured encouragement, and they feel lost without it."

Kevin Murphy, PhD, and Suzanne LeVert, in their book OUT OF THE FOG (Skylight Press, New York, 1995) say: "…you may find it very helpful to enlist a coach or partner in your efforts to come to terms with the disorder--a trusted person who can guide you through skill-building techniques, and help you through the periods of frustration that are bound to crop up. Coaches can help remind you of your long-range goals, while gently keeping you focused on the tasks at hand. A coach can be particularly helpful at work, especially when you're first learning new skills and techniques." (p. 147)

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