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, an ADHD coach helps you get stuff done. ADHD coaches 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.

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.

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Cost of Services

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What about insurance?

Hallowell Todaro is an out-of-network provider and does not accept insurance. If you have out-of-network mental health coverage, we can help you seek reimbursement for therapeutic services by providing superbills for you to give your insurer. Coaching services are not typically covered.