What is Executive Functioning Coaching for ADHD?
The gold-standard therapy approach for clients who want to learn to manage their ADHD symptoms is Executive Functioning Coaching. Sometimes people think that this term means that only individuals who are professionals in executive-level jobs are appropriate for this therapy. That is a common misunderstanding. Executive Functioning in this instance actually refers to the specific parts of the brain and the tasks associated with them that the therapy addresses. ADHD generally involves abilities that are grouped together under the title Executive Functioning, which is a fancy way of referring to the following types of tasks: sustaining attention and avoiding distraction, committing day-to-day information to memory and being able to recall it later, organizing and following through with assignments and projects, regulating intense emotions, and fitting in socially with peers and colleagues.