Your voice is always central.
Family members, carers, teachers and tutors can provide valuable additional perspectives, but these are not treated as more authoritative than your own experience.
Neuroflow ADHD Coaching
ADHD Coaching
I work with teenagers who are ready to learn more about their ADHD brain and explore what may be contributing to the challenges they are experiencing.
I take a whole-person approach. Through my training, I understand that ADHD does not exist in isolation. Sleep, nutrition, movement and stress can all affect how the brain works.
Using an internal skills coaching model, I support young people to develop practical skills and explore how to use them in daily life, at a pace that suits them.
I will teach them all about a set of internal skills called executive function skills. I will help them to understand that these skills are crucial for managing everyday tasks, regulating emotions and meeting academic challenges. Some of these skills are often underdeveloped and impaired in the ADHD brain.
- Weekly or fortnightly meetings
- In-person or online
- Tailored, one-to-one support
Neuroflow ADHD Coaching
About Your Coach
My name is Louise Cooper, and I am an ADHD coach. I have lived experience of ADHD, as one of my children was diagnosed five years ago.
My coaching takes account of the wider context of living with ADHD, including education, everyday routines and the support already in place. My role is practical coaching; medical assessment and medication advice remain with appropriately qualified healthcare professionals.
My qualifications include the ADHD Coaching Award and Certificate through the Universal Coaching Alliance and the Association for Coaching.
My coaching supports people with ADHD to better understand themselves — how their brain works, where their strengths lie, what may feel more challenging, and what helps them to feel confident, capable and able to thrive.
By building greater self-awareness and developing practical strategies that work for them, I aim to make everyday life feel more manageable and positive.
This is not another place where you are told to ‘try harder’ or simply become more organised. Coaching begins with compassion, curiosity and understanding.
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How Neuroflow Coaching Works
I offer warm, practical and individualised support centred on each person’s own goals, experiences and priorities.
Sessions are weekly, one on one, strengths-based and practical.
Before the first session, I ask you and, where relevant, a family member, carer, teacher or tutor to complete separate information gathering questionnaires. This will give us valuable insight into who you are and how you are struggling. These are not used to decide whose account is ‘correct’, but to understand different experiences and notice where perspectives overlap or differ.
Throughout coaching, your lived experience remains central, with information from others used as helpful context.
Coaching model in more detail
You are capable.
Neuroflow coaching focuses on practical skills, with the aim of supporting greater confidence and independence in everyday life.
My coaching approach is informed by reading and training about ADHD, executive functioning and self-regulation. It focuses on practising everyday skills and working towards greater independence.
Our approach has been informed by the work of leading ADHD researchers and practitioners, including Dr Russell A. Barkley, whose extensive research has helped shape modern understanding of ADHD as a condition involving difficulties with executive functioning and self-regulation, and Michael McLeod, creator of the GrowNOW Internal Skills Model™.
Dr Barkley's work highlights that ADHD is about much more than simply being distracted or finding it difficult to concentrate. Executive-function challenges can affect a person's ability to regulate attention and emotions, inhibit impulses, hold information in mind, motivate themselves and sustain behaviour towards a future goal.
Michael McLeod's work similarly emphasises the importance of developing internal executive-function skills, including self-awareness, self-regulation, self-motivation and self-evaluation, so that people can gradually become less dependent on others continually prompting, reminding or directing them.
ADHD coaching is not simply about introducing more planners, reminders or organisational systems. While these can be useful, lasting progress also comes from helping a person develop the internal skills that allow them to become increasingly independent.
The internal skills model
Four skills we build, three areas where you see them.
01
Self-Awareness
Recognising what is happening, what is needed and when action is required.
02
Self-Regulation
Managing emotions, impulses and responses.
03
Self-Motivation
Developing the ability to begin and persist with tasks, including those that may not feel immediately interesting or rewarding.
04
Self-Evaluation
Learning to reflect on actions, recognise what worked and consider what could be done differently next time.
All four powered by Working Memory
The four internal skills
Academic
Working towards study goals, planning schoolwork and developing strategies for academic challenges.
Home
The most common one. Self-regulation, anger, arguing, with parents and siblings, and starting, sticking with, and finishing non-preferred tasks.
Social
NOT “social skills” – this is Social Executive Functions, and perspective-taking skills. Making friends and keeping them, long-term.
The internal skills model
Michael McLeod's work highlights four important areas of executive functioning.
At Neuroflow, these principles complement our wider neuro-affirming coaching approach. Rather than repeatedly telling a person what they should be doing, we help them become more aware of how their own brain works, recognise patterns in their behaviour and develop strategies they can increasingly initiate for themselves.
The aim is building greater self-understanding, autonomy and confidence, with less reliance over time on other people to provide constant prompting and direction.
ADHD Coaching
Common focus areas include:
- Study support
- Developing organisational and time management strategies
- Navigating social pressures and peer relationships
- Preparing for academic transitions (e.g. GCSEs, A-levels, university)
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What to Expect from ADHD Coaching Sessions
ADHD coaching sessions take place in a warm, non-judgemental environment.
Sessions typically include:
Weekly or fortnightly meetings (in-person or online)
Collaborative goal-setting and progress tracking
Guidance on motivation, planning, and follow-through
Age-appropriate tools to build confidence and resilience
I will regularly review progress with you and adjust the focus to keep sessions relevant to your goals. Progress and outcomes vary from person to person.
Initial session
The first coaching session allows clients to reflect on their challenges and satisfaction in all areas of life and to develop clear, long-term goals to guide future coaching sessions.
Regular sessions
Regular coaching sessions may last 30 to 60 minutes and are used to report progress on the previous week’s goals, reflect on factors enhancing and inhibiting progress and develop a step-by-step plan for identifying and achieving the next week’s goals.
Evaluation
At the end of the specified coaching contract period, an evaluation session is held to determine objectively if progress has been made and to decide upon the client’s next step. Clients may choose to continue with the same meeting schedule, readjust it or terminate coaching.
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Find the Right Support for You
Whether you’re exploring coaching for yourself or for a young person, please get in touch to discuss what you are looking for and whether my practical, goal-focused approach is a suitable fit.
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ADHD Coaching FAQs
What’s the difference between ADHD coaching and therapy?
Coaching offers practical, goal-focused support with everyday skills such as planning, organisation and working towards personal goals. It is not a diagnostic service, medical treatment, psychotherapy or medication advice, and it does not replace care from an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Some people choose coaching alongside therapy or medical care. Questions about diagnosis, mental health treatment or medication should be taken to the appropriate healthcare professional.
How many sessions will I need?
This varies depending on your goals. Some people choose to work with a coach for a few months to establish helpful routines, while others continue longer-term. Your coach will discuss your preferences and recommend a flexible plan that works for you.
Can ADHD coaching take place online?
Yes. Sessions can take place online or face-to-face, depending on your preferences, location and the arrangements agreed with Louise. Workplace sessions may also be possible where appropriate.
What are the benefits of private ADHD coaching?
Private coaching offers time to explore your own priorities and practise strategies that fit your everyday life. At Neuroflow, the approach is personalised and goal-focused. Availability and suitability are discussed individually; particular results cannot be promised.
Can particular results be guaranteed?
Coaching is a collaborative process. Goals and progress are reviewed together, but the pace and extent of change depend on individual circumstances. Specific grades, changes in behaviour or other personal outcomes cannot be guaranteed.
This does not affect your legal rights, including your right to services provided with reasonable care and skill.
How are parents, carers and other professionals involved?
The young person’s perspective remains central. Before coaching begins, please discuss who will be involved, any consent required, what updates may be shared and the limits of confidentiality, including safeguarding and legal responsibilities.
Different perspectives can provide useful context. Coaching does not determine which family member’s account is correct, and it is not a service for resolving legal disputes or providing clinical assessments.
What should I confirm before booking?
Please ask Louise for written confirmation of the session format and length, total price, payment arrangements and any cancellation, rescheduling or refund terms before you commit to coaching. For packages, please also confirm how unused sessions are handled.
Any agreed terms must respect your legal rights. If you need to change a session or have a question about a booking, please email louise@neuroflowcoaching.co.uk.
Privacy and personal information
Please keep initial enquiries brief, with your contact details and the type of support you are looking for. Avoid sending medical records, detailed health information or private information about another person in an initial email.
Before providing questionnaire responses or detailed personal information, please ask Louise for written privacy information explaining how it will be used, stored, shared and kept, and the rights that apply to you.
For privacy questions or requests about your information, contact louise@neuroflowcoaching.co.uk. You can also seek advice or raise a data protection concern with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
How can I raise a concern?
Questions, feedback and concerns are welcome. Please contact Louise at louise@neuroflowcoaching.co.uk, explaining what happened, any relevant dates and what you would like to happen next. Email is a useful way to keep a clear record of the concern and the response.
Everyone involved in coaching is asked to communicate respectfully. Disagreement and making a complaint are not, by themselves, unacceptable behaviour. Threats, harassment and abusive language are not acceptable.
Immediate safety concerns may require a session to pause or end. Any decision about future sessions, payments or refunds must take account of the agreed coaching terms and your legal rights. Raising a concern does not remove your right to seek independent advice or use other available complaint routes.