Ivan Pope PhD, ADHD Coaching
I specialise in ADHD coaching for people who have a creative life but who may be stuck or find it difficult to achieve what they want.
I believe that self-awareness is key to changing things and that recognising the patterns, big and small, of your life, is the starting point for that change. This is the basis of my ADHD coaching: learn your patterns of behaviour and modify them.
If you are struggling with ADHD or with your life and career, I can help. The traits of ADHD can really mess up your ability to get where you want to be. My coaching is designed to get you moving in the right direction by recognising this. The effect of ADHD on a creative life is often to stall it. You know you are creative, you have all the ideas in the world but somehow you just can’t get where you want to go. This can happen to anyone in any walk of life, but from my lived experience it is commonplace among people who are following creative paths. I define creativity very widely to encompass anyone who is taking a non-standard approach to their life and work and will coach anyone who needs it, but my experience is with artists, writers and entrepreneurs. That’s because I am all of these things.
Coaching can tackle a number of issues to unstick you and allow you to make progress. ADHD isn’t about a fixed set of symptoms, it’s not an illness to be cured. ADHD manifests in your life as a pattern of behaviour that seems to have no logical source. ADHD Coaching doesn’t attempt to fix you, it sets out to work with you to build self awareness, to help you anticipate and deal with ADHD as and when it arises in your life.
The key to my ADHD coaching is self awareness. I think of my work as life coaching as much as ADHD coaching. It’s for people with the attributes of ADHD. It doesn’t mean you have to be formally diagnosed with ADHD. I don’t impose any requirements on those I coach except that they show up and engage. I bring a lot more to my coaching than my training.