Certificate in ADHD Coaching
Join the UK’s leading ADHD Coaches on our ICF Level 1 Accredited Coaching Course.
A comprehensive, practical, live online course to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to coach ADHD clients effectively.
Course Fee
£3500
Duration
4 months
Delivery
Live on zoom
Cohort Size
15 max
Upcoming cohort start dates
October Cohort: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-2pm, 19th October, 2026. Sold out.
February Cohort: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-2pm, 22nd February, 2027. Now enrolling
Overview
Globally recognised training accredited by the ICF, meeting the highest standards for coaching education, delivered with an ADHD informed lens.
You’ll learn a range of contemporary psychological approaches to both ADHD and coaching. From an executive function approach to ADHD to humanistic and solution focused coaching approaches, you’ll become a flexible and confident coach able to apply a range of techniques.
The course is also practically focused to allow you to connect with the lived experience of coaching and supported with supervision and mentoring.
You'll come away not just with a theoretical grounding in ADHD and ADHD-informed coaching, but you'll be able to confidently use this in a coaching room, having been given real opportunities to coach during the course both as part of sessions and using a peer coaching facility.
This course is for you if…
You are new to ADHD coaching. This course is designed to help you become a confident ADHD coach with a toolbox of psychologically informed coaching techniques.
You come from an existing background in a helping profession such as therapy, teaching, or social work, and want to develop a new lens for your practice or add a different way of working to your toolbox.
You have taken a course in ADHD coaching already, but want to take it to the next level with a gold-standard accreditation.
You want to learn from practicing, experienced and ICF Certified ADHD Coaches.
You’d like a course grounded in evidence based approaches to ADHD
You want a course which will enable you to achieve your ICF ACC Credential
Learn to coach in the real world, with our support
Peer community
We invite you to join a small group of your colleagues where you'll be able to digest everything that's going on in the course. We find that people in these learning groups often end up meeting for years after they graduate. You'll also have a place to swap coaching practice hours with your peers in our peer coaching area, which supports you to build your coaching confidence together. Find out more about the community you’ll find on the course here
Mentor Coaching
You'll get one-to-one and group mentor coaching, which is feedback on your actual coaching with an experienced PCC certified coach. This means that you'll leave with detailed feedback on what you're doing really well and areas for growth tailored to you.
Supervision
Starting to coach real clients can feel daunting, and you might have a lot of questions, whether it be about the business or about your clients. Supervision is the place that you can take all of these. We’re there to support who you are as coaches with free monthly supervision for 12 months after you graduate. An experienced PCC certified coach will be there to facilitate a conversation between you and your peers, and perhaps offer a bit of their own perspective.
Modules
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In this module, you will learn about ADHD through the lens of executive function. This is a model developed by Thomas Brown that was built from an observational model of ADHD, where he has described the areas that you can observe to be affected by ADHD.
Executive functions include memory, regulating emotions, getting started with a task. Over eight sessions, you will dive into each executive function, explore how the strengths and challenges they bring, and then unpack what a coaching approach to that might be.
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This module equips you with the skills that you need to confidently lead a coaching session. From how we ask questions as coaches, to how we listen actively, to the overall structure of what we're trying to accomplish in a coaching session.
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In this module you will explore a range of Humanistic coaching models, all of which centre on how we view the client in the coaching relationship.
Person-centred coaching holds the client as whole, resourceful, and capable, and this informs how we coach. If these things are true about our clients, then we will consider them the expert in their ADHD experience.
We also look at challenging coaching, - if we do hold our clients as whole and capable, then this might also provide space for us to challenge our clients. You’re going to find your style of challenge vs support in this module.
Finally, we explore positive psychology, which has some evidence on helping ADHD people savour what's going well.
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In this module you will learn about solution-focused coaching, which is a way to work towards outcomes with your clients.
We can do this through constructing a preferred future with our clients and helping them understand what the smaller steps might be towards it. Or looking for evidence of things that are going well, and helping our clients to do more of that.
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As an ADHD Coach, your clients might bring thoughts and feelings about their ADHD into sessions. This module gives you a few ways you can work with that, including:
Narrative coaching, which breaks down how these stories might be constructed
Gestalt coaching, which is all about how we might look at the experiences people are having with their ADHD in the coaching space
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In the last module, you will explore the Ethics of practicing as an ADHD Coach, exploring the ICF’s Ethical code as well as understanding how your role relates to safeguarding.
There will also be space to reflect on your coaching journey with your peers and start thinking ahead as you put your learning into practice.
Meet your faculty
Chris Fraser PCC
Director, Course Lead, Mentor Coach
Alongside running SOAC, Chris has an ADHD coaching practice at The ADHD Workshop. In his life before coaching, he taught English all over Europe and led a team in the humanitarian sector before joining the Bank of England.
He coaches people from all walks of life, from creatives to leaders, as well as delivering ADHD and Neurodiversity training to organisations including the NHS, Ordinance Survey and Kings College London.
With lived experience and a particular interest in the intersection of disability and ADHD, his approach focuses on partnering with clients to work with their ADHD strengths.
Emma Winston PCC
Course and Syllabus Lead, Mentor Coach
Emma’s professional background is a varied one; before becoming a coach, she worked in the technology sector, and as a musician and creative technologist, as well as spending several years in academia as a researcher and lecturer, and completing a doctoral thesis examining person-centred psychological theory in non-clinical, community music spaceas.
She specialises in coaching at intersections of lived experience, and has a particular interest in coaching autistic ADHDers, as well as those with experience of chronic illness. She is passionate about coaching that is ethical and psychologically informed, as well as truly person-centred, pluralistic, and tailored to the individual needs of the coachee.
Nana Meulengracht Larsen PCC
Course Lead, Mentor Coach
I’m a coach, facilitator and trainer with more than 20 years’ experience in leadership and team development, including senior roles at Tate and the Royal Albert Hall. My work now spans ADHD and neurodiversity, leadership, mental health and wellbeing, inclusion and sustainable performance, with facilitation work across major UK arts and cultural organisations.
I was part of SOAC’s first ADHD Coach Certification cohort, so it feels very special to return as a mentor coach and facilitator. I bring a warm, curious and practical approach, and enjoy helping coaches build confidence, self-awareness and skills that genuinely fit the way they work.
Testimonials
ICF Accredited Certificate in ADHD Coaching
Live Zoom group sessions twice a week, for 2 hours each session.
Total of 58 live hours and 3 hours 1-1 mentor coaching.
Next cohort Mondays and Wednesdays from 22nd Feb 2027
Course fee £3500
Get to know us by booking a no pressure chat or joining one of our free workshops:
Enrolment and payment plans
You are welcome to pay up front or in monthly instalments with an initial payment.
This includes everything you need to complete the course - all tuition, group and 1-1 mentor coaching, assessment and certification. There are no extra fees.
It also includes ongoing monthly supervision for 12 months after the course ends.
Not ready to jump in yet? Come and meet us first
Join a free workshop where you’ll learn about a model of understanding ADHD, a little about our approach to coaching and have an opportunity to ask any questions you have. With no obligation and free of charge.
Choose a date below to get started.