I am committed to the best practices in the coaching profession in order to provide you with a valuable coaching experience. This site is full of my personal writing about coaching and living with ADHD – I hope you connect with some of my blogs.

Please look around my site for general information and contact me for your coaching services. As Your Attention Coach, I am devoted to your growth and personal development through ADHD Coaching. My professional education includes specific training around the issues of living with ADHD. I believe there is a way to live with ADHD that is compassionate and satisfying – let me help you find your way to self fulfillment. I coach in person and/or on the phone according to my client’s needs.

Are you looking for change in your life?

What issue brings you to Your Attention Coach? I became a coach to help students and adults struggling with ADHD after my children with ADHD forced me to broaden my scope of skills. I become a better parent and a more grounded person. It’s been a fantastic journey of self-growth and I have so many practical tips and insights to share with you.

Are you ready to do something really different that you’ve always wanted to do?

Coaching will change your life with time and attention and a willingness to be coached.

Are we a good fit to work together?

It’s really important we want to work together. All my tips and insights have meaning when we click. Who you are matters.

An Adventure Begins with One First Step…

Contact Maureen Nolan, ACC at 404-713-0488 or email today and take your first step to change.

My Attention Coaching Helps People to be Empowered in

Does That Sound Like Something You Want? Read on…

Attention Coaching helps people find solutions to challenges from their ADHD who:

• are always late

and hurt the people they say they love

• are disorganized

and lose bills, keys, phones and business appointments

• do not return phone calls

and miss meetings, important messages and confuse their family and friends

• forgets about people and projects not right under their nose

and lose jobs, friends, family, opportunities and self esteem

• are unhappy with inattention, distractions and disruptions

and become depressed

• may be hyperactive

and think there is no help

• are married to linear people who are confused

and the marriage is on the rocks…for the last time

• know people who are angry with them for unknown reasons

but are willing to take another look at their behavior

• do not organize

and depend on everyone else to make things happen – are sucking the life out of their social group

• are in pain

and noone wants to hear about it anymore

• needs hope

and has the willingness to find coaching solutions

• need solutions

and are willing to become more of who they really are

• live in fear

but will make an appointment to start a new life of success.

Contact ADHD Coach Maureen Nolan at 404-713-0488 or by email. Together we’ll discover how coaching will work for you.

ADHD Coach – It’s a Calling

by ADHD Coach, Maureen Nolan, ACC, Your Attention Coach

I became what I always needed – an ADHD Coach.

I needed a coach during all my academic years, especially when in architectural graduate school I heard myself say, ‘I need a wife’.

I needed a coach when I transitioned from full time editor to full time mom. It was a hard transition.

I needed a coach anytime I was told – just do it; try harder; you’re not paying attention; that was stupid; you’re doing that on purpose; why can’t you do what I want you to do; you don’t follow directions; don’t put words in my mouth; I can’t take it anymore; why are you so sensitive; why can’t you do anything right; that’s wrong; you’re wrong and on and on.

Each time I heard negativity I took it to heart and believed it must be so because someone said it.

I’ve since learned I don’t have to believe anything anyone says about me and sometimes I don’t have to believe what I think about myself! This is a healthy result of excellent ADHD Coaching I’ve received and it’s my gift to you. My job is to find what you’re good at and remind you that is the essence of your self-esteem. You Are; You Be; You Rock; You Thrive with an ADHD Coach.

Be transformed through coaching. It happened to me and it can happen to you, too.

I’m giving it all away – bit by bit and blog by blog I’m disclosing everything I know about how to coach people with ADHD. It’s not a sale, or a gimmick but a change of life attitude about what people want and what I can do about it.

I became an ADHD Coach in Atlanta because I heard parents and family members and individuals talk about mis-managing lives, living in chaos, living in fear, living on the edge, living with addictions, panic, anxiety and being generally unhappy and confused. Not only that, but I was living in chaos and discovered that along the way to become an ADHD coach my life began to make sense.

My passion is coaching. I feel alive, happy, inspired, peaceful, invigorated and fulfilled when I coach. It’s is how I live God’s plan for me to be in service to humanity. This is no small thing to claim the energy of my life in alignment with the energy of creativity and the universe.

What?

It’s simple but it’s not easy to disclose professional information because I’m talking in general terms. Be aware that your personal version of ADHD may not be similar so take away what you can use and leave the rest!

Stop! and Start Here

Have you been diagnosed? What is the value of diagnosis?

I talked with a parent yesterday who believes he has ADHD and is actually taking medication but is not diagnosed with ADHD. It’s a very ADHD thing to approach solutions like this. Sometimes it’s even part of the diagnostic process…if the medication makes a difference, you might have ADHD.

What was the value of your ADHD diagnosis?

Back home to Decatur, Georgia one week after attending the third ADHD Coaches Organization conference and my brain is finally recovering from overwhelming stimulation of the best kind:

• Excellent workshops about
  • ADHD
  • Autism Spectrum Disorders
  • ADHD and Weight Gain
  • Business
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Neuroscience
  • Masterful Coaching
  • Referral Relationships
  • Tibetan bowls
  • Alternative treatments
• Stimulating conversations about
  • New and old friends
  • Best coaching practices
  • Hotel food – Great!
  • International coaching
  • Writing about coaching
  • Wine
  • Travel
  • Certification
  • Families
  • New books in the field
  • Education and ADHD
  • Clinical practices
  • and on and on from morning through dinner
• Opportunities for the future
• The next ADHD Coaches conference in Chicago same place, first weekend in May, 2011?

I’ll be there. My workshop will be on ‘Recovery from Stimulation’.

Atlanta, Georgia schools in the 1960′s did not recognize the relationship between ADD-ADHD and education. I was a straight C+ student, very quiet and reserved, not a problem to anyone (but myself): a classic female inattentive ADHD student.

My sister was a brilliant ADHD student, not very quiet and full of anger at the unknown  impact ADHD had on her life: a scholarship winner and summa cum laude college graduate. There’s no doubt our lives would have been different with early diagnosis and ADHD coaching for academic and symptom management and success.

Not much has changed in the ensuing thirty-five years. Students and ADHD go invisibly hand in hand but now there is Maureen Nolan, ACC an ADHD Coach to walk with clients with untreated ADHD symptoms, to coach and educate ADHD clients  .

Call Maureen Nolan Atlanta ADHD Coach for your ADHD needs.

How can I help you?

404-713-0488

• humanistic in nature. Clients are accepted unconditionally in their presenting situation.
• a collaboration and partnership. I honor your experience and perspective.
• is discovery. Are the present beliefs working for you?
• is about movement – guiding you to be in the flow of your life and toward the development and achievement of your goals.
• affirming of your right and capacity for self-direction.
• facilitating your goals.
• supporting of self-initiation.
• is preparatory – what will you do when x happens?
• is intentional.
• is reflective.
• is affirmative.

Coaching is based on a Five Stage Model for Change

1. precontemplation

2. contemplation

3. Preparation

4. Action

5. maintenance

Coaching is carried out in a safe environment for change to occur by:

• Promoting insight
• Promoting self-evaluation
• Making a commitment to act
• Identifying and avoiding situations that produce non-productive behaviors (i.e., being late)
• Using rewards for goal attainment
• Role playing
• Exploration of the problem/challenge from a different perspective
• Encouraging self-advocacy
• Encouraging supportive relationships both professional and personal

This definition of ADD Coaching describes the backbone of a coaching relationship. It is derived from a presentation at CHADD National 2009 in Cleveland, OH developed by Sandy Maynard.

The following is a direct quote from a newsletter by Jodi Sleeper-Triplett of JST Coaching. She is one of my teachers.

Professional coaches provide an ongoing partnership designed to help clients produce fulfilling results in their personal and professional lives. A professional coach helps people improve their performance and enhance the quality of their lives.

Coaches are trained to listen, to observe, and to customize their approach to each individual client’s needs. They seek to elicit solutions and strategies from the client. They believe the client is naturally creative and resourceful. The coach’s job is to provide support to enhance the skills, resources, and creativity that the client already has.

AD/HD coaching embraces the ideals and core competencies of both life coaching (www.coachfederation.org) and AD/HD coaching (www.adhdcoachinstitute.org). This approach provides the structure and strategies needed to create success for clients with AD/HD, while honoring the clients as creative and resourceful individuals. In AD/HD coaching, we hold our clients more accountable and usually have a tighter plan with more frequent contact than in general life coaching. Meeting with AD/HD clients occurs at least once a week, which is more often than in many life coaching or executive coaching programs.