Carli Derifield is a Certified ADHD Coach and the founder of Sanctuum, an ADHD coaching practice in Newport Beach, California. Drawing on a 30-year career as a founder and technical expert in a science-driven healthcare field, where she built three self-funded companies with two exits, she brings evidence-based rigor to a strengths-first approach grounded in VIA Character Strengths and neuroscience. As the parent of two 2e teens, she understands how ADHD shapes work, relationships, and family life. Carli holds a Master of Science, completed leadership and innovation training at MIT, and is ADDCA-trained. She specializes in ADHD burnout avoidance and recovery, working with adults in person in Orange County and virtually worldwide.
Sanctuum is currently servicing clients globally - US, Canada, Ireland, UK, Australia, Indonesia, and France.
Business Name:
Sanctuum ADHD Coaching
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Entrepreneurs/Small Business Executives RelationshipsLanguages
EnglishMethod of Coaching:
Telephone, Video Conferencing, In-PersonClient Testimonial
"I have been coaching with Carli for the past 4 months after my diagnosis at 46. She is incredible, compassionate and insightful. She helped me understand my ADHD and navigate several life-changing decisions that I just couldn't seem to make because of my overwhelm. Deciding on ADHD coaching was the best decision I have made in a very long time!"
- S. Franko, UK
Carli Derifield coaches adults with ADHD who are capable, accomplished, and tired of working twice as hard as everyone else to get there. As a founder and technical expert in a science-driven healthcare field, she built three self-funded companies with two exits, and she knows from the inside what it takes to perform at a high level while managing a brain that works differently.
Her coaching is built on two foundations: VIA Character Strengths and neuroscience. Carli holds a Master of Science and leadership and innovation training from MIT, and she brings that evidence-based lens to every session. Rather than focusing on what's broken, she helps you understand how your brain actually works, recognize the strengths you already have, and build from there.
Carli specializes in ADHD burnout avoidance and recovery. Many of her clients arrive after years of compensating until it stopped working. Coaching takes a whole-life view, looking at sleep, nutrition, exercise, neuroregulation, relationships, work, and support systems, or the lack of them. Together you'll work on executive function, follow-through, overwhelm, rejection sensitivity (RSD), and masking, co-creating tools and systems realistic enough to become part of your life and sustain themselves.
Are you a late-diagnosed adult making sense of your story? An entrepreneur or executive whose strategies are starting to crack under pressure? A parent navigating ADHD at home as well as at work? Carli works with entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, 2e (twice-exceptional) individuals, students, parents, and couples. As the parent of two 2e teens, raising them alongside her neurotypical husband, she understands how ADHD shapes family life and relationships as well as careers.
Beyond one-on-one coaching, Sanctuum offers free self-reflection tools and shares research reviews that give you the context you need to decide what works for you.
If you're ready to stop fighting how you're wired and start working with it, Carli offers free consultations in person in Newport Beach and virtually worldwide at sanctuum.com.
