Carl Argent

About me
You may know exactly what needs doing and still not be able to begin. Time gets away from you, priorities compete for attention, and motivation turns up for the wrong task at the wrong moment. Or you may be capable and committed yet caught in the same patterns, succeeding on the outside while privately feeling overwhelmed, uncertain or disconnected from your own direction.

Hi, I’m Carl. I am an Association for Coaching Accredited Coach and a qualified integrative counsellor, and much of my work is ADHD coaching with adults, whether you are diagnosed, waiting for an assessment, or simply recognise these patterns in yourself. I also offer life and leadership coaching for decisions, pressure and change at work.

Coaching gives you a confidential space to pause, think openly and work out what would genuinely help. You do not need a perfectly defined goal; feeling stuck, overwhelmed or aware that something needs to change is enough.

Life and leadership coaching
People work with me to:

• Find direction or make a difficult personal, career or leadership decision.
• Turn an important goal, or insight gained through therapy, into action.
• Manage pressure, competing priorities, boundaries or overwhelm.
• Improve motivation, planning, organisation and follow-through.
• Lead, communicate and handle difficult conversations more effectively.
• Strengthen relationships and understand recurring patterns.
• Use their strengths more deliberately at work and in life.

Sometimes discovering what you genuinely want is the most valuable part of coaching. We can begin wherever you are.

How we will work
My approach is person-centred and the work has a clear shape, so you know what you are buying. The Coaching Programme is six sessions: a mapping session, four working sessions and a review. Before we meet you complete my free Strengths Across Life Profile and bring your top five strengths. In the first session we agree what better would look like and take a short measure of where you are. Every session ends with your Next Step plan for the fortnight: what you want by next time, the best thing about it, the one inner obstacle that usually gets in the way, and what you will do when it does. At the review we repeat the measure, so you can see what moved rather than take my word for it.

You leave with four things: a strengths profile, a one-page plan in your own words, routines you have tested and kept because they worked, and a written review with the before-and-after measure alongside. The agenda is yours, the toolkit is evidence-based and the pace is set together; I will not hand you generic answers or assume the same strategy works for everyone.

I am not here to tell you how to live because you probably have enough people doing that already. I will listen carefully, ask questions, offer respectful challenge when useful and help you notice what can be difficult to see from inside your own experience.

Goals become more powerful when they actually belong to you. Together, we separate your priorities from outside expectations, understand what is keeping you stuck and find a way forward that feels both meaningful and realistic.

Coaching is a vehicle for your development as a more self-aware, capable and fully expressed person. Insight matters, but we do not stop there. We turn what you discover into decisions, manageable actions and practical experiments, then learn from what happens and adjust rather than treating a setback as failure.

Where helpful, I will introduce psychologically informed ideas or practical tools. They support the work rather than dictate how you should live; the important question is whether something works for you.

ADHD coaching: your difference is an asset
I specialise in coaching adults with ADHD. You do not need a formal diagnosis. If you are waiting for an assessment or simply want to recognise these patterns in your life, you're very welcome.

You may know exactly what needs to be done but still struggle to begin. Motivation may disappear, priorities compete for attention, time gets away from you, or one absorbing interest pushes everything else from view. That does not mean you lack ambition, effort or ability, and it does not mean your goals need to become smaller.

My ADHD coaching is neuroaffirming. ADHD can create genuine difficulties, but focusing only on difficulty can hide what is valuable about how you think. Rather than trying to make you function more like somebody without ADHD or relying on rigid routines and generic productivity advice, we explore how your attention, motivation, energy, emotions, habits, relationships and environment interact.

We identify the conditions that help you function well, recognise strengths you may have learned to overlook and find practical support for what remains difficult. This might mean making time more visible, reducing decision overload, creating a clearer first step, changing your environment or building flexible systems that do not depend on memory and willpower alone.

The aim is to help you understand and trust how you work, take ownership of what you can influence and channel your abilities towards the goals you choose.

Psychological understanding with practical momentum
My coaching is conversational, evidence-informed and focused on forward movement. I draw on person-centred practice, positive psychology and practical approaches to behaviour change.

Because I am also a qualified counsellor and relationship therapist, I understand that change is rarely just a matter of creating a better plan. Thoughts, emotions, previous experiences, relationships, confidence and fear can all affect whether we move towards something or pull away from it.

We can pay attention to those experiences without turning coaching into therapy or losing sight of why you came: to move forward. If counselling, an ADHD assessment or another kind of support would be more appropriate, I will be open with you about that.

Getting started
The six-session Coaching Programme is available with 60-minute or 90-minute sessions, in person in Southend-on-Sea and online via Google Meet across the UK; you can start with a single session if you would rather try one first. For ADHD at work, the six-session ADHD at Work programme has the same shape and can sometimes be funded through an Access to Work grant, subject to eligibility and approval by the DWP.

If you recognise yourself anywhere in this profile, you are welcome to email me or call me on 07707 885373.

We can begin with a free 30-minute video consultation to talk about what is happening and decide whether working together feels like the right next step. It is a free, no-obligation call.

Much of my coaching is with adults with ADHD, whether diagnosed, waiting for an assessment or self-identified. We work on the practical things that get in the way: starting the task you keep avoiding, planning, time, follow-through, and the conditions that make a working day less exhausting. The focus is on building around how your attention actually works, rather than trying to become someone else.

I also work with people facing a decision or a change at work: whether to stay or move, preparing a conversation you have been putting off, stepping into more responsibility, or rebuilding capacity after burnout. This work is practical and forward-looking, drawing on your values, your existing strengths and what is already working.

ADHD coaching for work can sometimes be funded through an Access to Work grant, subject to eligibility and approval by the DWP. I also work with employers on neuroinclusion, manager confidence and practical workplace adjustments.

Alongside this I have a particular interest in relationship dynamics, masculinity and the social roles that shape identity, emotion and behaviour — how expectations around being a provider, protector, fixer or caregiver can influence confidence, pressure, communication and self-worth.

Individual coaching, including life coaching and Life After Therapy, is £85 for 60 minutes or £125 for 90 minutes. ADHD coaching is priced separately as a specialism at £110 for 60 minutes or £155 for 90 minutes, beginning with a 90-minute mapping session at £165. Executive and leadership coaching starts from £150 for 75 minutes. Rates are held for 12 months from your first paid session.

The Coaching Programme is six sessions (a mapping session, four working sessions and a review) and is £459 with 60-minute sessions or £675 with 90-minute sessions, paid in full, which saves 10% on the single-session rate. It includes a strengths profile, a one-page plan and a written review with a before-and-after measure. The ADHD at Work programme has the same shape — a 90-minute mapping session, four 60-minute working sessions and a 60-minute review — and is £695 self-funded.

Employer-funded and Access to Work coaching is charged at £150 a session, or £900 for the six-session programme. Access to Work funding is decided by the DWP and is subject to eligibility and approval.

I also offer a free 30-minute online consultation so we can discuss what you want to change and whether working together feels like a useful fit. It is a free, no-obligation call.

I offer coaching sessions either in person in Southend-on-Sea, Essex (SS3 9LE), or online across the UK via secure video sessions. Online coaching provides flexibility and accessibility for clients nationwide, while in-person sessions offer a confidential and reflective space for those who prefer face-to-face work.

I offer a free initial consultation over video to discuss what you are looking for from coaching, answer any questions, and explore whether the approach feels right for you. My work is person-centred, collaborative, and tailored to the individual rather than based on rigid programmes or one-size-fits-all solutions.