Pippa Farley

ADHD, Executive Function & Life Coach and Consultant

I am a strength-focused  ADHD Coach and consultant passionate about enabling and empowering individuals of all ages. I specialise in guiding clients to recognise and harness their strengths, allowing them to overcome personal challenges. I offer tailored coaching through one-on-one and small group sessions, awareness programs, and workshops in educational institutions and organisations. I focus on fostering understanding by breaking down the stigma associated with ADHD and other neurodiversity by reframing as traits.  Through this strengths-based approach, I aim to create inclusive environments that celebrate neurodiversity.

I am a certified ADHD executive function, life, family, and group coach. I was trained by the ADHD Coach Academy (ADDCA), a global leader in ADHD and life coaching, and Barefoot for Group Coaching. I have a psychology degree and executive function accreditation. I have worked in the corporate environment and have a family with three children (now aged 23, 21, and 18), two of whom have ADHD.    To add, I have recently been diagnosed with ADHD.

Coaching practice - The Mind Pathway

My coaching practice is based on a collaborative partnership. I provide a safe platform to enable and empower you to achieve your objectives, goals and personal growth through self-awareness.  In developing strategies to create conscious choices, generate new habits and action plans, find solutions, acknowledge intentions, make easy decisions, and be accountable. A coaching journey is a powerful tool that enables you to discover who you are, uncover what you want and provide the path to an enhanced quality of life, whether personal, academic, or business.

In coaching as part of self-discovery, you get to understand executive functions, what your strengths and challenges are, your motivators, interests, passions, processing modalities, barriers to progress and how to overcome them, triggers and what makes you tick, awareness of your unique brain and learning how to manage it, are just some examples.  Coaching for me is seeing how people, young or old, can transform and achieve what they thought impossible to be possible.     

We are all fortunate as our brains are neuroplastic, meaning our ability to pick up new habits, perceptions, and narratives and create new neural pathways are constant and lifelong.

What is ADHD 

ADHD can be diagnosed at any point in a lifetime and, according to the classification of the DSM-5 (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), falls into three subtypes:

• Inattentive - easily distracted, has difficulty focusing, particularly on one task. Once referred to as ADD
• Combined - inattentive, impulsive and hyperactive - the most common
• Impulsive and hyperactive - fidgeting, in constant motion

ADHD is thought to affect 1 in 20 individuals. It is often more challenging to pick up in girls and adults as hyperactivity is less obvious. According to the DSM-V, the diagnostic process was based on children between 6-12 years old.  Hyperactivity only occurs in 25% of children and 5% of adults.  Sadly, this can lead to misdiagnosis for adults, female and male, girls and inattentive boys.

ADHD is now known to be a deficit of channelled attention rather than a deficit of attention.  Though not included in the DSM-V, with ADHD, there is an interest-led nervous system, hypersensitivity and often, in conjunction, rejection sensitivity.

ADHD is situational and paradoxical. On the one hand, you can be in a state of high focus or even hyperfocus, where you can become intensely absorbed in an activity that interests or stimulates you, such as computer games, sports, or interest-led projects.  When this occurs, one focuses excessively on the task, sometimes to the exclusion of everything.  However, this state is not easily controlled and typically occurs sporadically.  Conversely, persons with ADHD can find it hard to focus and often find it challenging with tasks that are repetitive, boring, or require prolonged mental effort, which can lead to difficulty completing tasks, staying organised, and following through on commitments.   The inconsistency of sustained attention often results in the mislabelling of being called lazy. For a person with ADHD, this inconsistency can lead to feelings of shame, imposter syndrome, and negative thoughts.

Types of Coaching

ADHD Coaching-  focuses on understanding the biological underpinnings of your unique brain wiring, strategies to manage your ADHD, and your strengths and talents. The coaching empowers you to ignite your interests and discover your passions by creating self-awareness, building self-confidence and self-esteem, and fostering personal growth and self-discovery.    

The challenges that present with ADHD are, for example, self-regulation, organisation, working memory, getting on task, sustained attention, rejection sensitivity, boredom, perfectionism, overwhelm, and negative thoughts.   

ADHD has many super strengths and benefits, such as creativity, spontaneity, the ability to hyperfocus, intuition, and many more. These strengths can be harnessed and developed through coaching, leading to increased self-confidence and a more positive self-image.  

The coaching partnership creates a safe space to uncover, forge, and move towards plans, intents, and goals, whatever they may be. Whether you are a student, an employer in the workplace, an employer or self-employed, looking to enhance or change careers, at home, with family, relationships, friends, or in all areas of life, coaching supports self-esteem, reframes negative limited beliefs, and helps create positive steps through self-awareness.

Workplace ADHD Coaching can significantly improve individual and organisational performance by creating a more supportive and productive environment for all employees in the office setting, hybrid and home.  Coaching can benefit employees with ADHD and who are neurodiverse as it helps them better manage their traits and improve productivity.  For employers of persons with ADHD and neurodiversity, it helps to understand how to get the best from their employees.  Areas of benefit are improved time management, enhanced strategies for focusing and concentrating, improved organisational skills and ways to manage stress, enhanced communication skills and emotional intelligence, increased self-awareness and goal setting, support of the work-life balance, enhanced job performance and career growth, and legal and ethical considerations.

For educators, ADHD coaching can provide strategies to support students with ADHD in the classroom, leading to improved learning outcomes and a more inclusive learning environment.

ADHD Family Coaching builds ADHD awareness and coaches the parents to support their child or adolescent as well as the child or adolescent. The coach acts as a guide, providing strategies and support to both the parents and the child or adolescent, fostering a collaborative and understanding family environment. Extensive research points to the more family intervention and understanding of ADHD, the more reduced the symptoms are. ADHD is believed to be very genetic. ADHD coaching is about managing your brain and uncovering your superpowers and passions.

Executive Function Coaching concerns strategies that help strengthen executive functions and ways to overcome challenges. Executive Functions are often referred to as the management system of our brains; they are essential to executing tasks, whether starting or finishing a project, decluttering, making decisions, organising projects, planning or prioritising, and recalling information.  Executive functions include attention, working memory, organisation, planning and prioritising, time management, getting on task, response inhibition (thinking before speaking or acting and consequences), flexibility, emotional control, stress management, problem-solving, and goal direction, which are just some examples. They are fundamental to our everyday living, academia and working life. 

Life Coaching encourages self-discovery, finding solutions, creating strategies, acknowledging intentions, choices, actions, and accountability. It also applies to ADHD coaching.

Who benefits from ADHD Coaching

• Adults with ADHD: Individuals who struggle with organisation, time management, and other ADHD-related challenges in their daily lives.
• Students with ADHD: Coaching can help students develop study skills, manage their time, and stay organised
• .Parents of Children with ADHD:  Coaching can provide parents with strategies for effectively supporting their children while managing their stress.
• Professionals with ADHD: Employees or business owners who need help managing their workload, improving productivity, or balancing work and life responsibilities.

Some example reasons for seeking coaching

• You sometimes get stuck and need help understanding how to take the next step to get where you want to be, or you might not even know what that step might be.
• You may be looking to change careers, change jobs within a company, return to work after having a family, or set up your own company. Are you struggling with motherhood and work-life balance? Are you in the wrong job? Are you looking to change careers?  Are you a student looking to find a job?
• Do you want to build on your executive functions, such as organisation, getting on task, planning and prioritising, transitioning or flexibility, emotional control or sustaining attention, response inhibition, working memory and goal direction?  In learning about the strengths and challenges of your executive functions, you can build on them and work to execute tasks more efficiently.  Executive functions are a higher indicator of success in academic and working life.   If you find you are struggling with your executive functions or you have ADHD, you may find:
  • Regularly miss deadlines with essays, homework or projects;
  • Forget to take note of what you have to do as in homework or projects at work
  • Are often late
  • Struggle with planning and prioritising what to do first, so either avoid all task or do something completely unrelated.
  • Get distracted by other thoughts mid-conversation or failure to listen to instructions. 
  • It can be difficult to stay on task, particularly if the project is multilayered or you haven’t noted down what is required. 
  • Procrastination for a myriad of reasons, getting started, no time, perfectionism, fear of failure
  • Get easily dysregulated and struggle with stress
  • Find it hard to communicate what you need whether it is in the workplace or in education. Find it hard to self advocate or articulate how you best work
• If you feel you are not achieving at work and want support to help with improving your productivity and help getting started to get on task
• If you suspect you have ADHD
• If you have ADHD or have recently been diagnosed with ADHD
• Late Diagnosis ADHD
• Parent of a child or children with ADHD
• You want to incorporate exercise into your day
• Improve your self care
• Want to understand more about ADHD and require awareness training - families, the education sphere or workplace.  
• Want to engage in group coaching, the benefits you can meet others with ADHD and it is a lower cost

Services

A free introductory half-hour call to help you learn more about the coaching process and determine whether you want to pursue it.

Coaching

• One to one Coaching for students and adults  
• Family Coaching
• Career Coaching
• Group Coaching
• Coaching in the workplace

Neurodiversity Consultancy & Awareness 

• Family ADHD Consultancy & Awareness
• Education/Business ADHD Consultancy & Awareness
• ADHD explanation presentations & strategies
• Group ADHD Awareness and Coaching
• Executive Function Consultancy & Awareness

Family Executive Function Consultancy & Awareness

• Education and Business Executive Function Consultancy, Awareness training and coaching
• Group Executive Function awareness and coaching

Support with Disablitiy Student Access (DSA) and Access to Work

Please contact Pippa Farley for further information or to book

ADHD coaching for the young and old

Executive Function Coaching 

Fees are to be discussed with Pippa Farley.

Please email for further details.

Having two children with ADHD, both of whom present very differently, led me down the route of psychology and coaching.  My interest led to setting up my company, Mind Pathway, for ADHD, executive function and life coaching. 

I have since been diagnosed with ADHD just two years ago.