Julie Legg chats with London-based certified ADHD coach Laurence Pratt, the founder of ADHD Goals, with a background in UX research and design.
Laurence shares his journey to an ADHD diagnosis and the purpose it brought him in becoming a coach. Laurence describes how his coaching approach focuses on empowering clients to reach their goals by identifying their strengths and addressing common ADHD challenges like time management, task completion, and workplace dynamics. Through a personalized, strengths-based framework, he helps clients harness their abilities and navigate ADHD’s complexities.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Background and Journey: Laurence shares his late diagnosis of ADHD and discusses how challenges in his career and personal life led him to discover ADHD, eventually inspiring him to become a coach. ADHD coaching provided him with a new sense of purpose, allowing him to support clients in understanding and managing their own ADHD challenges.
- Common Client Goals: Laurence’s clients typically seek help with specific ADHD-related challenges, such as time management, task completion, and navigating workplace dynamics. He addresses interconnected ADHD traits using an executive functioning framework.
- The Role of Strengths and Saboteurs: Initial assessments help to identify a client’s strengths and “saboteurs,” which helps personalize solutions and align strategies with the client’s natural inclinations and obstacles.
- Framework and Process: Coaching sessions start with a free introductory call to assess the client’s needs. Laurence’s approach involves identifying strengths and challenges and equipping clients with tools to manage ADHD traits and achieve personal goals. Many ADHD traits are interconnected so, when seeing an ADHD coach for one life challenge, you may end up working on several traits together – both positive and negative traits.
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