Getting diagnosed with ADHD at age 50 changed my life in ways I never expected.
For years I thought I was just bad at “adulting” — always losing my keys, working twice as hard as everyone else, bouncing between careers and hobbies, buying planners with enormous optimism and then immediately forgetting to use them, and carrying around the constant feeling that I just wasn’t reaching my potential. I was also hell as a student — impulsive, talkative, and challenging of authority. Let’s just say, I really got to know the assistant principles in my school. and Turns out there was actually a reason my brain worked differently.
I’m now an ADHD coach, longtime special educator, former ski bum, mountain biker, and professional overthinker with more than 20 years of experience working with struggling students, overwhelmed adults, and beautifully unconventional brains.
My approach to coaching is deeply strengths-focused. Because while ADHD can absolutely create challenges with organization, productivity, emotional regulation, school, work, finances, and relationships, it also comes with creativity, humor, intuition, resilience, curiosity, and the ability to think completely outside the box. Often the strengths are just buried underneath years of stress and self-criticism.
I specialize in helping people move away from shame and toward practical systems, self-understanding, confidence, and momentum — without pretending you need to become a completely different person to succeed.
Also, I firmly believe movement is medicine, mountain bikes are cheaper than therapy (debatable), and a good sense of humor is one of the most underrated ADHD coping strategies out there.
Whether you’re a student, parent, educator, or adult trying to finally make sense of how your brain works — you don’t have to figure it out alone.