For Psychotherapists and other mental health professionals

Collaborate with us!

Our coaches often work in collaboration with mental health providers.  For clients experiencing mental health conditions requiring psychotherapy and/or medication management, collaboration within the treatment team is essential.  Together we can set priorities, clarify roles, and maintain consistency in developing and implementing an individualized treatment plan.

While coaching and psychotherapy share common themes, there are some elements that distinguish ADHD coaching (we understand that therapists may incorporate some or all of these elements):

  • Clients in coaching focus on barriers to daily functioning at work, school, home, community, and self-care.

  • People with ADHD learn and resource differently than neurotypicals. ADHD Works Now coaches work with clients to identify educational, calendaring, tracking, and other tools that are effective for each individual.

  • ADHD is an ADA recognized disability: ADHD Works Now coaches assist clients in addressing workplace/workload issues and with requesting individualized accommodations where needed.

  • Text accountability and support between sessions is unlimited (response times fall within a specific timeframe - this is not crisis intervention).

  • Sessions may include a family member with or without client present for educational purposes only. We refer out for family or couples counseling.

Mental Health Professionals refer older teen and adult clients TO coaching who:

  • Would benefit from additional support, strategies, tools, and accountability.

  • Need/want coaching around:

    • Managing workload

    • Managing household responsibilities

    • Managing social obligations and goals

    • Improving eating and exercise routines

    • Reframing cultural and social expectations of adults in a neurotypical world 

    • Need/want more than 1x weekly contact (coaching includes text support between sessions)

ADHD Works Now will refer TO you clients who:

  • Are younger teens or children

  • Are looking for family or relationship therapy

  • Whose level of stress, depression or anxiety precludes effective coaching 

  • Are showing signs of psychological distress creating a barrier to effective coaching:

    • Sustained unstable mood: moderate to severe symptoms of depression and/or anxiety;

    • Lack of progress in coaching that appears to be related to disordered personality or thought distortions;

    • Developmental Disorder(s) co-morbid to ADHD and interfering with progress;

    • Indication harm to self or others including but not limited to suicidality and moderate to severe disordered eating or other self-care.

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