I coach talented, motivated students and professionals who have either been diagnosed with ADD or who, despite lack of formal identification, have challenges related to attention and executive function.
The students include undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students who find themselves facing the fast-paced world of highly competitive universities, where even the most gifted may falter in the face of the simultaneous lack of structure, endless distractions, and exceptionally challenging workload. The executive function impairments common to adults with ADD, which include such difficulties as beginning, sustaining, and completing work tasks, may prove to be near insurmountable obstacles for ADD students. Russell Barkley's characterization of ADD as “not a disorder of not knowing what to do, but of not doing what you know,” is lethally accurate for students.
I also coach professionals in such fields as education and medicine, where difficulties with prioritizing, time management, physical organization, and follow-through may result in low achievement, inconsistent performance, or high achievement at too high a cost.
And I have a particular interest in women searching for balance in lives complicated by responsibilities and needs both inside and outside of their families, and in artists who struggle to find that elusive balance between structure and spontaneity, or who are still searching for “the right time” — or even the justification — to fully commit themselves to their art.
In addition, I coach a very limited number of highly motivated high school students who truly commit to the coaching process.