ADHD coaching provides structure and strategies for living well with ADHD. It focuses on practical solutions for overcoming daily challenges and forming positive habits that stick.

Benefits of ADHD Coaching

Task prioritization, initiation, and completion
In the simplest terms, ADHD coaching helps you get stuff done. A coach can help you prioritize your to-do list and provide strategies for seeing a task through from start to finish. Many people use their coaching sessions to plan and carry out tasks.
Motivation and accountability
Regular meetings with an ADHD coach can act as built-in deadlines, providing motivation to follow through on tasks.
Education and metacognition
ADHD coaching gives you a better understanding of how ADHD impacts your executive functions. This improves your metacognition —how you think about the way you think—and allows you to approach tasks in the way that best suits your brain.
Long-term skill development
Over time, working with an ADHD coach helps you strengthen your executive functions and establish positive habits. It develops lifelong, transferrable skills that will serve you in all areas of life.

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Common Questions

ADHD coaching supports you in getting back on track and maintaining the support to keep you there. It provides the external structure and encouragement to change behavior, monitor progress, and create a sense of accountability. Coaching helps you achieve your goals by problem-solving past and current obstacles, as well as helping you break down and simplify the specific tasks you need to complete first in order to reach those goals. Coaches work with you in a non-judgmental partnership that emphasizes practical tools for time management, planning, organizing, prioritizing, and decision-making systems for effective and satisfying daily living.
There are a few key differences between working with a coach versus working with a therapist.
- Therapists are trained to diagnose and help people who are facing mental illnesses; coaches are not.
- Coaching focuses more on helping you achieve your future goals, while therapy tends to have more of a past and present focus. However, many coaches do look at how the past contributes to your present, and many therapists will also help you achieve your future goals.
- Therapists are members of a highly regulated profession who are also licensed through governing boards. Coaching is a newer profession that is less regulated by a consistent governing body. As such, coaches bring a variety of background experiences and expertise that support them in effectively working with their clients on skills, strategies, and problem-solving. Before beginning work with any coach (in private practice or at the Hallowell Todaro ADHD Center), we recommend you review your coach’s credentials to make sure their background and expertise are a good fit for you.
- Coaches usually work with their clients for shorter periods of time, while therapists may work with clients for longer periods, maybe even years.
A Coaching Program Intake is right for you if you want more information about ADHD and how it shows up for you in your life. It’s a good option if you can use the support, accountability, and expertise of a coach to build new skills, achieve your goals, and make lasting changes in your life.

Catherine Mutti-Driscoll, ADHD Coach for Hallowell Todaro WA — Our Coaches

They’re here to help you reduce stress, achieve your goals, and overcome the daily challenges of ADHD.

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How It Works

1 . All new clients—both those with and without an existing ADHD diagnosis— begin with an initial evaluation where we assess their needs.

2. We create a tailored treatment plan, which may include further evaluation and diagnosis, regular therapy or coaching sessions, ADHD medication, and/or any of our additional services.

Please note: our intake process may vary slightly from location to location.

Cost of Services

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Out of Network Provider

Hallowell Todaro ADHD Center is an out-of-network provider and is not currently contracted with any insurance providers, public or private.

In most instances, coaching services are not eligible for reimbursement by insurance as the insurance industry does not recognize coaching as a medical procedure. There is not an official procedure or CPT code for these services.

We recommend contacting your insurance company to confirm out-of-network coverages prior to scheduling.

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