Specialist ADHD Coaching
Support for ADHD minds and families – gain clarity, embrace strengths and create meaningful change through coaching
Coaching for every age and stage – supporting adults, young people and parents with ADHD and executive function challenges
Specialist ADHD Coach, Claire Bates
Break Free from the Struggles of ADHD
Understand ADHD, unlock strengths, and reshape life.
Shame and Low Self-Worth
Feeling 'not good enough' and weighed down by negative messages from the past.
Executive Function Challenges
Struggling with organisation, time management, and regulating focus.
Emotional Dysregulation
Difficulty managing emotions, maintaining healthy relationships, and dealing with impulsivity.
Social Struggles
Avoiding interactions, people-pleasing, and struggling to set or respect personal boundaries.
Workplace and Home Stress
Thriving in some environments but feeling lost in others, battling clutter, and facing burnout.
Self-Perception and Limiting Beliefs
Questioning your worth, feeling broken, and struggling to embrace your differences and strengths.
Shame and Low Self-Worth
Feeling 'not good enough' and weighed down by negative messages from the past.
Executive Function Challenges
Struggling with organisation, time management, and regulating focus.
Emotional Dysregulation
Difficulty managing emotions, maintaining healthy relationships, and dealing with impulsivity.
Social Struggles
Avoiding interactions, people-pleasing, and struggling to set or respect personal boundaries.
Workplace and Home Stress
Thriving in some environments but feeling lost in others, battling clutter, and facing burnout.
Self-Perception and Limiting Beliefs
Questioning your worth, feeling broken, and struggling to embrace your differences and strengths.
Practical Support, Real Understanding
Coaching can support you in changing and growing in any area of your life.
Change is not easy; it can feel uncomfortable—it takes work! Having a coach by your side assists you in pushing through the hard bits and staying on track. Specialist coaching will keep ADHD at the centre to ensure that whatever you choose compliments you or your child’s unique profile.
1:1 Coaching for Adults with ADHD
Coaching is about ‘change’—making changes in your life can enable you to thrive and feel fulfilled, which will, in turn, positively impact your health and well-being.
Coaching can help you to:
- understand ADHD
- explore and accept your version of ADHD
- unlock your strengths
- identify personal goals and generate bespoke strategies to move you forward
- stop unhelpful behaviour patterns by developing new helpful ones
- be assertive and set boundaries
- A coaching session with me is 50 minutes @ £60 per session.
Our sessions will be via Zoom. If you prefer face-to-face, I am happy to consider this option if logistics allow. Travel time and costs will be charged.
ADHD informed Parent Coaching/Consultancy
ADHD-informed parent coaching offers understanding, encouragement, and practical support for parents of children with ADHD. We begin by looking at what’s working in your family and what feels challenging. We consider your parenting values and priorities. Together, we build a clear and compassionate understanding of your child’s unique ADHD and explore evidence-based, neuro-affirming strategies to support positive and lasting change for your family.
- Parent coaching is offered as a course of 5 one-hour sessions @ £250.
Our sessions will be via Zoom. If you prefer face-to-face, I am happy to consider this option if logistics allow. Travel time and costs will be charged.
1:1 Executive Function Coaching for Young People (13 – 21 yrs)
Executive functions are the everyday brain-based skills that help us manage life — things like staying focused, organising tasks, managing emotions, and working towards goals. Executive Function skills are the foundations of academic success yet rarely are they considered or explicitly strengthened in school.
Everyone has a mix of strengths and challenges, but we do often see more executive function difficulties when someone has ADHD. This can affect learning, confidence, wellbeing, and relationships at school, work, and at home.
The great news is that executive functions can be strengthened and because the brain is more adaptable when you are young, getting some help to do this before your brain is fully developed (by your early 20’s) is a smart move.
Executive function coaching starts by exploring your executive function profile and assists understanding of your brain function. Together, we gently explore challenges through an executive function lens, building self-awareness, discovering strengthening strategies that work for you, and developing helpful habits over time so life can feel easier and more manageable.
- Executive Function Coaching is offered as a course of 8 sessions @ £450 (divided into 3 payments)
I offer these session face-to-face in Harpenden and via Zoom. The young person’s age and location will inform how we will work together.
Coaching Rooted in Experience and Empathy
I started this because I saw a huge gap. After an ADHD diagnosis, there’s often nothing—no follow-up, no guidance—just a report and maybe a prescription. I wanted to be the support I never had, to create a service that truly understands what it’s like to live with ADHD every day.
I know the frustration, the loneliness, and the constant questioning of “why can’t I just figure this out?” I’ve been there—as a parent advocating for my children when no one seemed to listen, and as someone who had to dig deep to find the answers others couldn’t provide. I was staggered by the lack of compassion and understanding about neuro-difference. People I thought would know about ADHD – just didn’t!
I have spent years learning from my own experience, training with the best, and working with others who felt isolated and stuck. I’m here to help you explore you or your child’s version of ADHD. Together, we’ll uncover what works for you and create a path that fits your values and aspirations.
I bring more than professional training to the table. I share a lived experience, empathy, and a fierce belief that ADHD isn’t a flaw—it’s a difference.
You’re not broken, and you’re not alone.
Proud to be an ADDCA Associate Certified Coach (AACC)
This isn’t about fixing you
it’s about helping you to thrive as you
it’s about helping you to thrive as you
Self-Acceptance
Discover how to embrace your unique brain and feel comfortable asserting your needs in every aspect of life.
Validation
Finally, feel seen, heard, and understood - your experiences matter, and they’re not just 'all in your head.'
Empowered Change
Learn to identify what’s working, let go of what’s not, and confidently make positive, meaningful changes.
Hope and Direction
Replace overwhelm and doubt with a sense of purpose, actionable steps, and renewed optimism for the future.
Book Your Free Discovery Call
Let’s meet to discuss your needs, answer your questions, and determine whether we’re the right fit.
Start Coaching
Sessions are shaped around you. We’ll regularly check in to make sure coaching is meeting your needs, with the freedom to adjust, add extra support, or pause at any time.
Create Lasting Change
Turn insight into action – one step at a time.
A Path to Self-Awareness and Positive Change
Book Your Free Discovery Call
Let’s meet to discuss your needs, answer your questions, and determine whether we’re the right fit.
Start Coaching
Sessions are shaped around you. We’ll regularly check in to make sure coaching is meeting your needs, with the freedom to adjust, add extra support, or pause at any time.
Create Lasting Change
Turn insight into action – one step at a time.
How Coaching Has Made a Difference
Parent Coaching
I found Claire when I really needed help. She was calm, empathetic and practical. I can’t recommend Claire enough – she helped me understand my son’s reactions and behaviour, change my response and build my parenting confidence to face the challenges while treasuring the unique character that is my son.
D.F.
I come to coaching sessions overwhelmed. When Claire asks me some questions and I say things out loud, it all becomes clear. I know where to start and I can get moving.
L.J.
Coaching has helped me to find my own ways to emotionally regulate in certain situations but what has been most valuable is that because of coaching I am kinder to myself when I get dysregulated. I am also doing more to look after my emotional state.
J.B.
Claire puts you at ease. No judgement or unrealistic expectations. I have been coached before but they did not get ADHD. Claire ‘gets’ it and that has made all the difference. This coaching is working for me!
H.I.
Commonly Asked Questions
Do I need to have an ADHD diagnosis?
No, that’s not necessary. I work specifically with individuals who have a suspected or confirmed ADHD diagnosis.
How is ADHD coaching different from ‘life’ coaching?
ADHD Coaching addresses the specific needs and aspirations of the individual being coached. Unlike other forms of coaching, however, ADHD Coaching also addresses the specific needs of clients who have ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms. It is a supportive, collaborative, goal-oriented process.
Because ADHD Coaching specifically addresses the needs of people affected by ADHD, it is a seamless blend of three distinct elements, Coaching, Skills Coaching and ADHD Education each employed by the coach as needed.
ADHD Coaches Association ACO
What are executive functions?
Executive functions are a set of cognitive processes and mental skills managed by the brain’s prefrontal cortex that act as a management system for daily life.
I trained as an executive function coach with MindSpark. My work follows MindSpark’s Guiding Principles and adheres to Association of Coaching (AOC) competences.
MindSpark’s model is based on 11 executive functions: response inhibition, working memory, emotional control, cognitive flexibility, sustained attention, task initiation, planning/prioritising, organisation, time management, goal directed persistence and meta-cognition
My work with young people is based on understanding and strengthening these functions particularly in the context of study and learning.
How many sessions will I need?
On average, people tend to book between 8 – 12 sessions for adult coaching. To start, I recommend booking 3 sessions as an introduction to coaching. This gives us time to get to know each other and see if coaching feels right for you. After that, you can decide if you’d like to continue, and we’ll work together to find a schedule that fits your needs and budget.
Parent coaching is offered as a course of 5 sessions. Experience has shown me that this is the right amount of time to support real progress while keeping the process purposeful and focused. That said, I can adapt the number of sessions to your needs.
Executive Function coaching I deliver this over 8 sessions – 7 coaching sessions with the young person plus 1 session with parent/carer/stakeholder to share insights, strategies and encourage scaffolding going forward.
Where do you do your coaching sessions?
Most of my sessions are held virtually, making it easy to connect wherever you are. I’m based in Hertfordshire, UK, and I’m happy to consider home visits for local clients when possible (with travel time and costs covered).
Executive Function Coaching: Whether I work with your in person or virtually will depend on age and location. I will discuss this on an individual basis during our discovery call.
What areas do you cover?
I work with clients throughout the UK and recently from the following areas:
| Harpenden
St Albans Wheathampsted Welwyn Garden City Hitchin Berkhampstead Tring |
Hemel Hempstead
Hertford Stevenage Hatfield Watford Luton Bedford |
Milton Keynes
Leighton Buzzard Dunstable Letchworth Garden City Harlow Aylesbury |
Align Your Life with Who You Are
If you’re ready to take that first step, contact me. Let’s work together to create a life where you feel supported, confident and accomplished.
- You can find out more about coaching and me
- I can find out what you want to get from coaching
- Together we can explore if we are a good fit and if coaching could work for you
