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What's ADHD Coaching?

ADHD coaching is a partnership that helps you better understand how your brain works, step back from what's been getting in your way, and find strategies that actually fit your reality — so you can move toward what matters to you.

Who is it for

For people with ADHD, diagnosed or not, who want to better understand how they function and navigate everyday challenges.

For parents who want to better understand their child with ADHD and support them in a way that fits.

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How coaching works

Curious what this could look like for you? Here's how it unfolds, one step at a time. We start with a conversation, no pressure, no commitment, just a chance to see if this feels right. From there, we move at a pace that respects where you're at, building something that actually fits your life rather than asking you to fit a mold.

The adventure starts with a conversation

 

A complimentary 30-minute meeting to get to know each other, understand your needs, see if coaching is a good way to support you, and see if we are a good fit.

Then, if we agree that coaching with me is what's right for you at this moment, we start the process by a Strategy & Planning session, followed by a number of coaching sessions and closing it with a wrap-up session.

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Strategy and Planning Session

A 2-hour session to explore your strengths, challenges, learning style, values, and reality — and to set clear goals and priorities together.

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Coaching
Sessions

Weekly 50-minute sessions to work through daily challenges, spot patterns, and practice strategies that help. Typically 6 to 18 sessions, depending on you.

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Wrap-up
Session

A final session to step back, look at how far you've come, and think about what's next. Sessions take place online.

Finally, at the wrap-up session, you can decide if you are ready to fly solo (yeah!), if you want to commit to a new set of weekly coaching sessions, if you want to get one session a month, or whatever design works for you. So you can keep growing!

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Not Ready to Book a Discovery Call Yet?
Start With This.

If a discovery call feels like a big first step, start smaller: download my free ADHD Daily Planner — a simple, one-page tool built around how an ADHD brain actually works. It breaks your day into:

  • Power Hour Tasks — the ones that matter most, tackled first

  • Quick Tasks and Surprise Tasks — for the unexpected stuff

  • Energy + medication tracker

  • Self-care checklist — food, movement, connection

  • End-of-day check-in — close the day, get ready for tomorrow

Why I became an
ADHD Coach

For this little girl. For little me. 

This girl grew up believing something was wrong with her, who couldn't explain why everyday things felt so much harder than they looked to everyone else. Even years later, as a successful surgeon, she still felt too much, or never quite enough. Who couldn't understand why she had such a hard time to "just do" the things. That little girl was me.

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Understanding (truly understanding) my own ADHD brain changed everything. I stopped fighting myself and learned, one step at a time, to work with my brain instead of against it — messy, non-linear, and full of its own kind of brilliance. That's the path I now walk alongside my clients, each in their own way, at their own pace.

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About my training

My path here wasn't a straight line. I trained and worked as a physician, with a background in clinical research, before becoming a certified mindfulness instructor. More recently, I completed my training as an Advanced-Certified ADHD Life Coach (A-CALC) through the iACT Center's International ADHD Coaching Training program, an ICF-accredited program (view certificate). I'm a member of the ADHD Coaching Organization (ACO) and the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and I'm currently working toward my ACC certification with them.

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© 2021 by Mariana Smith :-)

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