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ADHD Coaching | Nicola Hladky | Specialist ADHD Coach & NCPS Registered Psychotherapist

ADHD Coaching

You do not need fixing.
You need a way of working that fits your brain.

Specialist ADHD coaching for ambitious professionals, leaders and high performers who want to understand their ADHD, work with their strengths and build a way of working that is actually sustainable.

Being capable and struggling are not mutually exclusive. You can be brilliant at what you do and still spend half your day trying to get yourself to start. Trying harder is what you have already been doing. The work is to understand how your brain actually operates, and build around it.

Online across the UK, Europe, UAE and USA. Self-funded and Access to Work funded clients welcome.

MSc Psychology Certified ADHD Coach NCPS Registered Psychotherapist EMCC Accredited Executive Coach
Nicola Hladky, specialist ADHD coach

You have probably spent years trying harder than everyone else.

Many of the people I work with were diagnosed with ADHD later in life. Some have only recently connected the dots. Looking back, suddenly a lot of things make sense.

  • The unfinished projects.
  • The last-minute panic.
  • The periods of extraordinary focus followed by complete exhaustion.
  • The planners you were convinced would change everything.
  • The feeling that you are capable of so much more, if only you could consistently access it.

You are intelligent. You are capable. You may even be very successful.

But underneath the achievements can be an enormous amount of effort, because you've been relying on pressure, urgency and adrenaline to compensate.

You have more ideas than you know what to do with.
You start things easily but struggle to finish them.
You move between intense hyperfocus and complete shutdown.
You know what needs doing, but getting started feels disproportionately difficult.
You have tried the planners, productivity systems and routines. They work brilliantly for about three days.
You leave things until the pressure becomes unbearable, then somehow produce your best work.
You constantly feel like you're behind, even when you're achieving more than most people around you.
You spend far more energy organising yourself than actually doing the work.

And perhaps the most frustrating part: you know you're capable of more. You just haven't found a way of accessing that capability consistently.

ADHD is a different way of operating,
not a lack of ability.

Most productivity systems assume that if something is important, you'll naturally be able to prioritise it, start it and follow it through. ADHD doesn't always work that way.

So rather than asking

"How do I make myself work like everyone else?"

We ask

"What actually helps my brain work well?"

We look at:

  • How your attention works
  • What creates momentum
  • What makes starting easier
  • What causes overwhelm
  • Where executive functioning gets stuck
  • Why certain systems haven't worked
  • What structures genuinely support you
  • How to use your strengths intentionally

Perfect systems are not the aim. A system you can actually live with is.

Discipline is not what changes here. What changes is how much force it takes to get things done.

Focus instead of fragmentation

You understand where your attention goes and learn how to direct it more intentionally.

Consistency instead of chaos

You build structures that work with the way you naturally operate.

Confidence instead of shame

You stop interpreting every struggle as evidence that you're lazy, unreliable or not trying hard enough.

Intention instead of firefighting

You become less dependent on urgency and last-minute pressure.

Sustainable success instead of exhaustion

You create ways of working that don't require you to burn yourself out to prove you can do it.

Because strategy without understanding doesn't tend to stick.

Some ADHD programmes focus heavily on practical strategies. Others focus on understanding the diagnosis. You often need both.

My approach combines:

ADHD Coaching

Practical tools, systems and strategies designed around your brain, your work and your actual life.

Psychology

Understanding the patterns, beliefs and behaviours that have developed over time.

Psychotherapy

Exploring the emotional impact of years of feeling like you should be doing better.

Productivity is only part of the picture. ADHD can also affect how you experience:

  • Confidence
  • Identity
  • Relationships
  • Work
  • Success
  • Wellbeing

Getting more done is part of it. The bigger shift is in your relationship with how you work.

The ADHD Coaching Programme

Personalised support for the way your brain actually works.

We start with what is actually happening in your life and build from there, rather than working through a generic ADHD productivity curriculum.

Together, we identify where you are getting stuck, understand why, and create practical ways forward that fit your brain rather than fighting against it.

The programme includes:

  • Personalised ADHD coaching with Nicola
  • ADHD-specific tools and frameworks
  • Practical strategies for work and life
  • Support as you implement change
  • Accountability and guidance between sessions

In sessions

Fortnightly 60 to 75 minute 1:1 sessions. You bring what you're working through. We work on the thing that matters now, rather than forcing you through a predetermined programme.

Between sessions

Direct WhatsApp access, because ADHD doesn't wait for your next appointment.

Sometimes you're stuck at 9am on Tuesday. Sometimes you've suddenly fallen off the system that was working last week. Sometimes you need help turning a swirling list in your head into one clear next step.

You don't have to wait until the next session to bring it into the room.

ADHD Coaching Programme

£3,200

Payment plans available

Available for:

  • Self-funded clients
  • Clients who have already secured Access to Work funding
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"I had tried every system going and none of them stuck. Within a few sessions I finally understood why. They were all built for a different kind of brain. For the first time I have systems that actually work for how I think. My workload feels manageable and I am not spending half my day fighting myself to get started."

Poppy · Financial Planner, London

No. We can discuss your challenges and whether ADHD coaching is appropriate for you.

If you are using Access to Work funding, you will need to meet their eligibility requirements.

Absolutely not. A later diagnosis can give you a new framework for understanding patterns that may have been there for years.

The work is less about changing who you are and more about understanding yourself differently, then finding ways of working that fit.

ADHD coaching focuses on practical ways of working with ADHD: systems, executive functioning, attention, implementation and accountability.

Psychotherapy can explore the emotional and psychological patterns that may sit alongside those challenges. Nicola brings both perspectives to the work.

No. ADHD can affect work, relationships, home life, confidence, organisation and wellbeing.

The coaching can focus on whatever is creating the greatest impact for you.

Yes. Clients who have already secured Access to Work funding are welcome.

If you're exploring funding, the free consultation is a good place to discuss whether the programme may be appropriate.

You've spent long enough trying to force yourself into systems that were never designed for you.

You don't need another planner. Another productivity hack. Another promise that this time you'll finally get organised.

You need to understand what actually works for your brain. Let's build that.