I am an ACC (ICF) and AACC (ADDCA) certified ADHD Coach specializing in:
- Newly diagnosed ADHD adults wondering ‘what next?’
- ‘Outwardly successful, inwardly messy’ ADHDers
- Harsh inner critic, imposter syndrome, shame
- ND adults moving into a new challenge (e.g. change of job role) with ADHD showing up in new ways
- Teenagers
- Transition from school to higher education and employment
Business Name:
Caroline Carrier Coaching Ltd
Coaching Focus:
Advocacy Career/Work Related Learning ChallengesLanguages
EnglishMethod of Coaching:
Video ConferencingClient Testimonial
"I came into ADHD coaching expecting strategies to boost my productivity. But rather, coaching helped me most with challenging emotions, challenging negative self-perceptions and perspectives, and being kinder to myself. I hadn’t expected to work on becoming kinder to myself, but this is a highlight of our coaching experience together! This trickled down to help me study in ways that were more efficient and less perfectionist. I loved when we started sessions with something positive that has happened in the week. Commentary on body language, observations on patterns and changes in behaviour/posture/mood, and comparisons to the past: when you pointed these things out, it really helped me pause and reassess beliefs I had about myself and how far I’ve come."
- Psychology graduate, 24
If you had school reports anything like mine (“a consummate waster of time”, “an excellent mathematician, but a terrible student”, “bouts of complete chaos”), your inner critic has probably made a life’s work of asking you questions like:
- Why can I be so brilliant at times – and at others so rubbish?
- Am I simply lazy despite appearing so hard working?
- Am I stupid despite allegedly being pretty smart?
- Am I incapable despite my achievements and successes?
- What would ‘normal’ people think, if they could see all this mess in here?
Finally getting my late ADHD diagnosis as well as excellent ADHD education and coaching moved me past these shame-based questions. Now I LOVE my ADHD and everything it brings, and I am kinder to myself. If you’d like to take that same journey, and understand your own ADHD and how thrive with it, get in touch!
As a former qualified teacher, exams reasonable adjustments assessor and head of a UK boarding school's special education team, I also provide training to school staff and businesses to help them appreciate ADHD/ND strengths and understand the experience of, and support needed by, ADHD/ND individuals. I can offer advice to parents on getting the support their ADHD teenager needs at school and in exams, and to adults wanting to self-advocate confidently in the workplace.
Session Details
I offer a free discovery call to discuss what brings you to coaching, what you hope to get out of coaching and how our coaching partnership would work and to answer any questions you have. If you decide to go forward, then in our first session we’ll get clear on your big picture goals and why they are important to you right now. Each subsequent session, you will bring one thing that is important to you right now and we’ll explore what is coming up for you, what you’d like to be different and what is in your way. We’ll look to past successes, ways you can bring your strengths to the situation, how you might reframe your thinking to shift into forward movement or a new perspective, and how you will take that into action.
ADHD Awareness Training / Education
I offer an ADHD awareness program of 10 sessions, usually used with groups of teachers, but adaptable to parents or individuals learning about their own ADHD. I also have a standalone 1hr session entitled: “Five Things the Diagnostic Criteria Won’t Tell You about ADHD”, again targeted at school staff, but adaptable for others.
