As accredited mental health professionals with addition training at the King’s College London, that is renowned for their research in ADHD and associated disorders. We combined our knowledge and expertise with being educated at masters level in Coaching and Mentoring at Chester University to offer professional coaching services, in addition to our mental health practice.
It’s our unique experience and expertise of understanding the neuroscience of the ADHD brain that enables us to know how to focus on ADHD brain health. Combined with when to look at the past because it informs the present, as well as in order to help distinguish limiting belief systems.
If you are diagnosed with ADHD, you may have been recommended prescription medication by your Doctor as part of your treatment plan.
However, coaching can help you learn life skills to manage your ADHD symptoms. It can also help address some of the conflicting emotions there may be if you have received your initial diagnosis as an adult rather than a child. Together, we will look at how you can successfully navigate this world of neurodiversity by gaining knowledge and employing key strategies.
Brain scientists have found that deficiencies in specific neurotransmitters underlie many common disorders, including anxiety, mood disorders, anger-control problems, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Fact: ADHD was the first disorder found to be the result of a deficiency of a specific neurotransmitter — in this case, norepinephrine.
The Neuroscience of the ADHD brains have low levels of a neurotransmitter called norepinephrine. Norepinephrine is linked arm-in-arm with dopamine and dopamine is the thing that helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure center.
An ADHD brain has impaired activity in four functional regions of the brain. ADHD accounts for the range of differences in individual brain function and behavioural traits. Meaning the brain is wired differently, in comparison to the ‘average person’ (someone known as neurotypical), whose brain functions and processes information in the way society expects and finds acceptable.
1. Frontal Cortex: this region controls high-level functions of Attention, Executive Function and Organization
2. Limbic System: this region is located deeper in the brain. It regulates our emotions and attention.
3. Basal Ganglia: a deficiency here can cause inter-brain communication & information to “short-circuit.” That results in inattention or impulsivity.
4. Reticular Activating System: this is the major relay system among the many pathways that enter & leave the brain. A deficiency here can cause inattention, impulsivity, or hyperactivity.
Maintaining a healthy brain day-to-day is important to stay sharp and feel good. But keeping a focus on this in the longer term has wider significance benefits for individuals with ADHD.
Leading research indicates that it is possible to lower the risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases by focusing on improving brain health.
ADHD coaching is a relatively new field that has become more prominent in recent years. ADHD coaching is an intervention that complements medication and other non-pharmacologic alternatives. As a specialty within the broader field of coaching, ADHD coaching is a practical intervention that specifically targets the core impairments of ADHD.
People with ADHD often struggle with time management, staying organized, maintaining relationships, and other life skills. Our professional coaching service can help you overcome these obstacles and regain confidence.
We help people with ADHD focus on brain health to help enable them to carryout the practical activities of daily life in an organized, goal- oriented and timely fashion. We help individuals with ADHD learn how their symptoms of ADHD play out in their daily lives.
We work collaboratively with clients who have ADHD or ADHD-like symptoms to address specific needs and personal goals and become brain healthy.
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Emotional dysregulation is a mental health symptom that involves trouble controlling your emotions and how you act on those feelings. To those around you, your emotions and reactions will seem out of proportion compared to what you’re reacting to. It’s similar and closely linked to executive dysfunction.
Emotional dysregulation is common in people with ADHD, due to the symptoms that ADHD can present. But remember it is not in itself considered one of the major markers of ADHD in the same way that hyperactivity, inattention and impulsivity are.
However, research has shown that ADHD and emotional dysregulation are connected, and that emotional dysregulation can be viewed as a core trait of ADHD as with rejection sensitive dysphoria.
If there is one word you should add to your vocabulary today, tomorrow or soon, it is coherence.
HeartMath Resilience Coaching helps you tap into the power and intelligence of your heart – your heart’s intuition – which awakens you to the best version of yourself. Learn to change your heart rhythm pattern to create physiological coherence that is derived from heart rate variability.
Coherence aims to reduce stress by learning to intuitively regulate your heart rhythm. Using the latest scientifically validated HeartMath training systems you’ll learn new techniques transforming and enhancing your life, boost resilience and overall performance.
As a result in changing your heart rhythm intuitively you change how you feeling, in a moment. All the research shows that when you have it, your life can be so much better than when you don’t.
Add coherence to your life and learn how to achieve it whilst experiencing the benefits within yourself and your environment.
“Connecting the mind, body and emotions, HeartMath technology offers a quickly learned scientifically validated approach to decreasing stress and impacting cardiac risk factors such as: high blood pressure, diabetes, arrhythmia and chest pain. Everyone needs to learn these techniques.”
-Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC, Medical Director Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine
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