ADHD Coaches - Executive Functions for ADHD Professionals

Upgrade the view of executive functions as a toolkit that ADHD clients carry, an invisible disability, and coach them to adapt that toolkit to boost life performance.

Highlight the 11 executive functions for ADHD coaches, focusing on functions: self-awareness, working memory, and emotional self-regulation. Explain how organization, self-control, time management, flexible thinking, attention, and motivation shape outcomes.

Develop self-awareness of your own executive function strengths and deficits using the 11 executive functions self-test, then adapt and guide clients with ADHD by applying action-based tools learned yourself.

Explore self-awareness as the core executive function in ADHD, examining the mind voice, inner dialogue, and how strengthening metacognition helps clients transform deficits into strengths.

Examine a real client story of the inner critic and malfunctioning self-awareness, revealing how negative internal self-talk hinders ADHD-related executive functions.

Empower clients to improve self-awareness by talking out loud to themselves, tying the new habit to an existing daily routine, and persevering through bumps with coaching guidance.

Use mind wandering to expand client self-awareness and improve executive function in ADHD. Learn to schedule calm, pressure-free breaks that spark insights and reduce procrastination.

Tie a new action to an existing habit and track progress with a mind wandering chart, setting small, manageable goals linked to clients' strengths or hobbies.

Reframe ADHD as emotional self-regulation, rooted in the amygdala, and learn coaching strategies to help clients balance intense emotions and manage executive function traits for inner stability.

Explore how emotional self-regulation affects ADHD professionals, illustrated by a real client story about fear, amygdala activation, and strategies to calm, self-soothe, and refocus after stressful meetings.

Coaches help clients test how language shapes emotion by listening to word choices, teaching I statements, and reframing problems to foster self-awareness, calm focus, and resilient thinking.

Learn to ground clients in their bodies using the five point scale to recognize emotions, map bodily cues, and stop before a tipping point in emotional regulation.

Ground your ADHD clients by guiding them to walk barefoot, breathe slowly, and feel the grass against their feet to calm the body and regulate emotions.

Film anger moments to review later and boost self-awareness and emotional self-regulation. Link amygdala hijack, prefrontal shutdown, and working memory challenges in ADHD.

Develop your own emotional self-regulation by using grounding techniques, barefoot walking, deep breathing, and changing how you speak to stay grounded when emotions intensify.

Explore how working memory deficits—an executive function often impacted in ADHD—affect focus, task transitions, and emotional regulation, using post-it note and bridge analogies.

Expose how working memory deficit drives headaches, dizziness, and self-criticism, triggering shallow breathing and a downward emotional spiral as the amygdala activates in fight, flight, or freeze.

Explore a real client story to understand working memory challenges in ADHD and learn coaching strategies, visual aids, slowing down, rescue phrases, and making PowerPoints easier to remember.

Explore how ADHD affects short-term and long-term memory, understand working memory deficits, and learn about prospective memory, with brief notes on auditory processing disorder and spatial memory.

Explore spatial memory as a key working memory deficit that helps clients locate items, track space and time, and connect focus with navigation, informing executive function coaching.

Auditory processing disorder causes the brain to misinterpret sounds despite normal hearing, leading to missed or misheard speech; use slow, short, clear instructions and ask for repeats.

Externalize a weak working memory with a simple notebook and pen, carried or attached by string, to capture reminders and tasks; adapt the tool to daily life and habits.

Center your vital belongings in one place to support working memory and spatial memory, helping you breeze out the door quickly and stay grounded.

Set up a launch pad near the front door with labeled hooks and bags for each activity to center key items, helping ADHD clients leave home with ease.

Put the tools into action by rating your working memory, creating a launch pad, and turning it into a habit through grounding, then finish strong.

Encourage clients with executive function deficits to invest more initial effort and seek help, learning to work with their challenges and applying their strengths and life lessons.

Discover how to counter working memory deficits in clients by simplifying tasks, recognizing when to simplify, and using a real, updated course with expanded PDFs and resources for ADHD professionals.