ADHD Life Coach | Quinn Geear Coaching
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from having to keep so much of your life in active awareness. Remembering what needs to happen, getting yourself started, keeping up with work and home, staying connected in relationships, taking care of your health, and trying to make sure nothing important gets dropped. When ADHD touches several parts of your life at once, even a life that looks like it is functioning can take a huge amount of energy to hold together.
ADHD life coaching gives us space to look at the whole picture. We can work on practical things like follow through, time, home, work, relationships, and everyday responsibilities, while also paying attention to your strengths, values, energy, capacity, identity, and what you want more room for in your life. The work is about understanding what supports you, what keeps creating friction, and what you need now to build a life that feels more grounded, meaningful, and like your own.
What is an ADHD life coach?
ADHD does not stay neatly contained.
It can affect whether you start something, remember it, prioritize it, finish it, or realize you took on too much in the first place. It can affect conversations with your partner, keeping up with the house, making appointments, handling money, taking care of yourself, navigating work, and having anything left for the parts of life you enjoy.
Those areas affect each other too. A draining workday changes what you have available at home. A full week can push your own health or relationships aside. A cluttered environment can make it harder to think. A conflict with someone you care about can take up attention you needed somewhere else.
ADHD life coaching gives us room to see those connections and decide where support would make the biggest difference.
Common ways this shows up
ADHD can show up across everyday life in ways like these:
- Routine things keep becoming emergencies. Bills sit unopened. Appointments get booked late. Laundry stacks up. The Honey-Do list increases before you're able to cross things off.
- You rely on pressure to get moving. You know something needs to happen, but the energy to do it shows up once the deadline, consequence, or urgency gets close enough.
- Everything feels equally important. Work, laundry, messages, groceries, paperwork, appointments, and the thing you wanted to do for yourself are all competing for the same attention.
- You remember everyone else's needs before your own. You keep track of what your partner, kids, coworkers, clients, or family need while your own appointments, rest, meals, or projects keep getting pushed back.
- You know what to do and still cannot consistently do it. Knowing, remembering, starting, switching, and finishing are different parts of the process, and any one of them can become the place where things stop.
- The same relationship conflicts keep coming back. Forgotten conversations, interruptions, household responsibilities, emotional overwhelm, or different communication needs can keep creating tension.
- You are functioning, but you are exhausted. You are getting through the week while spending far more energy than people around you can see.
Who this support is for
This may be useful if you:
- Have ADHD and see it affecting several parts of your life
- Were diagnosed later in life and are still figuring out what that means for you
- Are holding a lot together and tired of how much energy it takes
- Keep putting your own needs behind work, caregiving, relationships, or other responsibilities
- Want practical support and space to look at values, identity, capacity, strengths, and self-trust
- Are going through a transition and the systems that used to help are no longer enough
- Want to ask for what you need, take up more space, and spend less energy masking or adapting around everyone else
How coaching supports this
We start by looking at what is happening across your life.
We map where your attention goes, what gives you energy, what drains it, what keeps getting delayed, what you avoid, what you keep forcing, and what matters enough that you want more room for it.
Then we try things.
That could mean simplifying a system, reducing the number of steps in a task, using body doubling, moving information outside your memory, planning around your energy capacity, asking someone for support, setting a boundary, changing an expectation, or taking something off your plate.
We pay attention to what changes.
Over time, you build a clearer sense of what you need, what helps, what costs too much, and what you want to keep making room for.
What working together looks like
We start with a free 50-minute Discovery Call where we talk about what is happening, what you want support with, and whether we want to work together.
From there, we meet over Zoom, usually weekly or every other week. You bring the context of your life and what matters to you. I bring curiosity, reflective questions, creativity, structure, and an eye for patterns and connections.
Some weeks we may work on a practical problem. Other weeks we may be making sense of a decision, relationship, transition, or something you are learning about yourself.
How it works:
Step 1: Understanding your patterns
We map how attention, energy, motivation, capacity, and values move through your life.
We look at where you have energy, where you lose it, what you keep avoiding, where you are compensating, what comes more easily, and which parts of your life keep asking for more support.
Step 2: Building strategies that support you naturally
Once we see where the friction is, we try different ways of supporting it.
That might mean adding structure, simplifying something, using body doubling, changing how you plan, creating stronger reminders, adjusting your environment, protecting your energy, asking for help, or approaching something in a completely different way.
Step 3: Building lasting self trust
Over time, you get clearer on what you need and more comfortable responding to it.
You can make decisions that fit your values and capacity, communicate your needs earlier, take up more space as yourself, and leave more room for the people and parts of life that matter to you.
Meet your coach
I spent more than twenty years working in IT and leadership before I was diagnosed with ADHD in my forties. For a lot of those years, I was successful at what I did while using far more energy than I understood to keep everything moving.
My career taught me to notice patterns, understand context, and look closely at the conditions around what is happening. My analog collage practice gave me space to follow curiosity, experiment, make connections, and create without needing everything figured out before I started.
Both show up in my coaching.
I pay attention to patterns and friction, and I am equally interested in your strengths, what gives you energy, what matters to you, and what you want more room for in your life.
I trained through ADD Coach Academy and am continuing my credentialing work through ADDCA, ICF, and PAAC. I coach adults across the country over Zoom.
What we can work on together
Coaching can support different parts of your life because ADHD can affect all of them.
- Daily life and follow through. Starting tasks, prioritizing, remembering things, making decisions, switching gears, and finishing what matters.
- Energy and capacity. Understanding what you have available and changing the plan when your capacity changes.
- Relationships and communication. Repeated conflicts, forgotten conversations, household responsibilities, boundaries, and asking for what you need.
- Home, money, and life maintenance. Bills, paperwork, appointments, organization, cleaning, errands, and the administrative work that keeps life moving.
- Work and career. Workload, accommodations, burnout, career changes, masking, values, strengths, and figuring out whether your role still fits.
- Identity and self-trust. Letting go of old assumptions about yourself, trusting your own information, and deciding what feels aligned now.
- Creativity, connection, and meaning. Making room for art, interests, friendships, community, rest, play, and the things that make life feel fuller.
Ways to support yourself
A few things you can try:
- Put important information somewhere outside your memory. Use visible reminders, calendars, notes, timers, or shared systems so you do not have to keep everything in your head.
- Match tasks to your energy capacity. Some days are better for decisions and focused work. Other days call for simpler tasks, maintenance, or rest.
- Make the next step concrete. “Deal with finances” is vague. “Open the electric bill and check the due date” tells you exactly where to begin.
- Use body doubling when another person helps you start or stay with something. Work alongside someone in person or virtually.
- Look for what is making the task hard before adding another system. Too many steps, too many choices, missing information, low energy, sensory overload, unclear expectations, or boredom may be part of what is happening.
- Put your own needs on the list. Your health, rest, relationships, interests, and maintenance need time and attention too.
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ADHD coach and founder of Quinn Geear Coaching.
I trained through ADD Coach Academy and work with adults at every point on the ADHD awareness spectrum, whether that's a diagnosis from last month, one from twenty years ago, or a long held hunch that's never been formally evaluated. I believe you don't need to become a different person, you need a more accurate understanding of who you already are.
Let's work together.
You start with a free 50 minute Discovery Call. There’s no cost and no pressure, just a conversation about what's bringing you to coaching. If it feels like a fit, you move to
The Starter Package - Everyone Starts here:
- 1 x 90-minute intake session
- 4 x 60-minute ADHD Coaching sessions
- Rate: $830 (USD) ($90 intake + 4 sessions at $185/session, paid in advance.)
Ongoing Coaching - To continue the work after the Starter Package:
- 6 x 60-minute sessions
- Between session email check-in support and either one laser coaching, body doubling, or creative expression session each month.
- Rate: $1,100 (USD) (6 sessions at $185/session, paid in advance.)
Notes
All sessions happen over Zoom, scheduled no more than two weeks apart and there’s email/text support between sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a life coach help with ADHD?
ADHD life coaching can help with the parts of everyday life where you keep getting stuck, overwhelmed, depleted, or unsure what you need.
That can include work, relationships, time, money, home, health routines, follow through, transitions, energy, creativity, boundaries, or self-trust.
The focus depends on what is happening in your life and what you want to change.
What if I am functioning but exhausted by what it takes to keep everything going?
Coaching gives us space to look at what is taking so much energy.
Maybe you are keeping too much in your head. Maybe you are masking all day. Maybe your schedule leaves no recovery time. Maybe you are doing things in a way that takes five steps when you need two. Maybe your own needs keep getting whatever is left over.
We figure out where the energy is going and what could change.
How do I figure out what I need instead of constantly pushing through?
We look at the situations where things become easier or harder.
Do you need clearer expectations? More time? Fewer interruptions? Another person nearby? More external structure? More recovery? Less on your plate? More interest or meaning in what you are doing?
Those patterns give us information about what kind of support, environment, boundaries, or capacity you need.
How is ADHD coaching different from therapy?
ADHD coaching focuses on what is happening in your life now, what you want to understand, what you want to change, and what you want to try next.
Therapy can treat mental health conditions, trauma, emotional distress, and other clinical concerns.
Some people work with both because they want support with different parts of what they are experiencing.
