Frequently Asked Questions
Executive Function Coaching is a specialized form of coaching aimed at helping individuals develop and improve their executive function skills. Executive functions refer to a set of mental processes that enable individuals to manage themselves and their resources in order to achieve goals. These skills include:
- Organization: The ability to arrange and keep track of tasks, materials, and information.
- Time Management: The skill of allocating time effectively to tasks and activities.
Planning and - Prioritization: The capacity to set goals, create plans, and determine the order of tasks.
- Task Initiation: The ability to begin tasks and activities without procrastination.
- Working Memory: The skill of holding and manipulating information in one’s mind while performing tasks.
- Self-Control: The capability to regulate emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in order to achieve goals.
- Flexibility: The capacity to adapt to changing situations and adjust plans accordingly.
- Problem-Solving: The ability to identify challenges, generate solutions, and implement strategies to overcome obstacles.
- Emotional Control – The ability to manage feelings to achieve goals and complete tasks.
- Self-Monitoring – The ability to view and evaluate oneself.
Executive function coaching helps individuals identify their strengths and weaknesses in these areas. The coach then collaborates with the individual to develop personalized strategies and techniques to enhance executive function skills. This may include setting goals, breaking tasks into manageable steps, creating schedules and routines, using visual aids and reminders, practicing self-monitoring and reflection, and implementing other evidence-based interventions.
ADHD Coaching is not psychotherapy. Here’s how I look at it: coaching focuses on building skills and taking action to create the life you want to have. Therapy tends to focus on your past and emotional healing. Both are important for living easier with ADHD. Lots of folks work with both a coach and a therapist Many people work with an ADHD coach and a therapist at the same time.
As an International Coaching Federation (ICF) member I subscribe to the ICF Code of Ethics and take my ethical responsibility very seriously. At the outset of our coaching relationship, we will both sign a coaching agreement ensuring clarity about what this means in practice. Coaching is a safe and 100% non-judgmental space.
