Parent Coaching

Parenting an ADHD child can feel exhausting, confusing, and overwhelming (even when you’re trying your best). Maybe you’ve read the books, joined the groups, and still feel stuck. Maybe you’re juggling school challenges, meltdowns, routines, and your own frustration…sometimes feeling like you have no time for yourself in the process.

It’s also common to:

• feel misunderstood or judged (by others and yourself),

• get overstimulated or shut down (especially if you have ADHD too),

• want less arguing and more connection,

• desperately want to support your child’s strengths, but not know where to start.

I know these experiences firsthand. As a parent of two ADHD children, a social worker, and someone with ADHD myself, I’ve spent years learning how ADHD brains work. It was when I began suspecting my oldest child had ADHD that I thought, “I know about ADHD, but I don’t know how to parent it.” That moment led me into a deep dive, and a wake up call about how little I actually understood at the time.

Many years later, I’ve dedicated my work to helping parents and adults build a comprehensive, practical understanding of ADHD, and to showing why doing things differently: in ways that align with how ADHD brains work, is not optional, but essential.

When we shift from “Why won’t they just listen?” to “I wonder what might be happening for them right now?”, we can begin adapting our approach in ways that actually reduce yelling, frustration, negotiation, and guilt.

My approach is grounded in:

• age-appropriate expectations informed by child development research

• a connection-based parenting framework

• a neurodiversity-affirming perspective

• curiosity about the messages we’ve received about parenting

• finding strategies that work for your family

• exploring competing needs and real-life constraints