Adults
Work, household systems, follow-through, and the long-running sense that something straightforward is taking more effort than it should.
Certified ADHD Life Coach
Build strategies around the way you actually think, work, and live.
ADHD is not only about attention. It can shape planning, time, motivation, transitions, organization, emotional regulation, follow-through, relationships, school, work, and the experience of repeatedly wondering why something that looks simple feels so difficult.
Mary Giancarlo, MA, CALCCertified ADHD Life Coach
How coaching works
A strengths-aware approach.
Coaching is not about forcing yourself into somebody else’s system. We look closely at where things break down, what helps your brain engage, what strengths are already present, and what practical supports can make daily life more workable.
Most people arrive having already tried a great deal. The planner, the app, the early alarm, the promise to be more disciplined. When those fail, the usual conclusion is that the person is the problem. Usually the fit was wrong: the system was designed around someone else’s attention, not yours.
So we start from what is actually true about you: when you focus easily, what makes a task feel possible to begin, where the day reliably comes apart. Then we build from there.
Who I work with
People I work with.
Teens & young people
School demands, homework, transitions, and building strategies that a young person actually finds usable rather than ones imposed from outside.
Parents
Understanding what is ADHD, what is development, and what is the family pattern around it, and responding in a way that reduces friction.
Couples & relationships
Expectations, shared responsibilities, and the interpretations that build up when the same thing keeps not getting done.
Common coaching areas
- planning
- time awareness
- task initiation
- follow-through
- organization
- transitions
- accountability
- school and work routines
- communication
- emotional overwhelm
- household systems
Trying harder is rarely the answer. Understanding what actually helps you begin, focus, and follow through usually is.
ADHD and relationships
It rarely stays inside a planner.
ADHD-related patterns rarely stay contained inside a planner or a to-do list. They can affect expectations, communication, responsibility, shame, frustration, and how people interpret one another.
A forgotten task can be read as carelessness. A postponed conversation can be read as avoidance. Over time those readings harden into a story about who each person is. Naming the mechanism underneath usually loosens the story, which makes practical arrangements far easier to agree on.
Credential
Mary Giancarlo, MA, CALC
Certified ADHD Life Coach