I coach both adolescents and adults who have either been diagnosed with ADHD or who, despite lack of formal identification, have challenges related to attention and executive function.
The adolescents include high school students who find themselves smart but scattered, as well as undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students who find themselves facing the fast-paced world of highly competitive universities, where even the most gifted may falter in the face of the simultaneous lack of structure, endless distractions, and exceptionally challenging workload. The executive function impairments common to adults with ADD, which include such difficulties as beginning, sustaining, and completing work tasks, may prove to be near insurmountable obstacles for students with ADHD. Russell Barkley’s characterization of ADHD as “not a disorder of not knowing what to do, but of not doing what you know,” is lethally accurate for students.
I also coach professionals in a variety of fields, including education, medicine, publishing, non-profits, and the arts, where difficulties with prioritizing, time management, physical organization, and follow-through may result in low achievement and inconsistent performance, or high achievement at too high a cost.
I have a particular interest in women searching for balance in lives complicated by responsibilities and needs both inside and outside of their families, and in artists who struggle to find that elusive balance between structure and spontaneity, or who are still searching for “the right time” — or even the justification — to fully commit themselves to their art.