What You’ll Learn

Across 8 powerful modules, you’ll learn how to:

• Coach ADHD clients with structure and strategy

• Use ADHD-specific coaching models for focus, clarity, and momentum

• Understand dopamine, motivation, and emotional regulation

• Help clients overcome overwhelm, procrastination, and time-blindness

• Build realistic ADHD-friendly coaching plans that clients can actually follow

• Communicate in a way that reduces shame and increases traction

• Set boundaries, maintain ethics, and stay within proper scope

• Confidently coach ADHD minds at a professional level

By the time you finish, you will have a repeatable process you can use in real coaching sessions.

​Course Structure

8 Core Modules | 10 Weeks | Fully Online | Accredited Certification

Module 1 — The ADHD Coaching Mindset

Learn what makes ADHD coaching fundamentally different, and how to build a coaching relationship rooted in trust, clarity, and emotional safety.
 

Module 2 — The ADHD Brain in Action

Deep dive into executive function, dopamine, planning systems, and the behavioural patterns behind ADHD.

Module 3 — Assessment & Intake

Learn how to identify strengths, challenges, triggers, and tendencies — and how to create an ADHD-friendly intake process that sets clients up for success.

Module 4 — ADHD Coaching Frameworks

Master the ADHD Coaching Model™, including goal-setting, micro-steps, accountability, and momentum loops.

Module 5 — Emotional Regulation & RSD

Understand rejection sensitivity, overwhelm, shame spirals, and the emotional drivers behind behaviour — and how to coach through them.

Module 6 — Focus, Time & Productivity

Learn how to coach clients through procrastination, time blindness, motivation slumps, and focus challenges using neuroscience-backed tools.

Module 7 — Ethics, Boundaries & Scope

Know when to coach, when to support, and when to refer to medical or psychological professionals.

Module 8 — Integration, Coaching Practice & Certification

Apply everything you’ve learned with a case study, mock coaching session, and final assessment to become a certified ADHD Practitioner.

Your Certification

Upon completion, you’ll receive the Certified ADHD Practitioner (ADHD-C) designation from ADHD Real, accredited through iGNLP™.

This qualification certifies you to work with ADHD clients professionally, ethically, and confidently — as a standalone coach or integrated into your existing practice.

 

Who This Is For

This professional training is ideal for:

• Life or business coaches

• Therapists or counsellors

• NLP practitioners

• Teachers, SEN staff, or mentors

• HR professionals and managers

• Anyone wanting to specialise in neurodivergent coaching

• If you’ve completed the Associate ADHD Practitioner Certification, you’re perfectly prepared for this level.

 

Program Details

• Duration: 10 weeks (recommended pace)

• Access: Lifetime

• Format: Video lessons, downloads, worksheets, and practice sessions

• Assessment: Final case study + knowledge review

• Support: Access to the ADHD Real community and practitioner resources

 

Why Train With Us

This training was built by Matt Barnett, Master Trainer of NLP, internationally recognised coach, and founder of ADHD Real.

As someone who lived most of his life undiagnosed with ADHD — and later became a trainer to thousands worldwide — Matt brings a blend of professional expertise, personal experience, and deep compassion that makes this program uniquely powerful.

This is ADHD taught by someone who has lived it, coached it, and understands it.

 

Become a Certified ADHD Coach

If you want to help ADHD minds thrive, if you want a coaching model built specifically for neurodivergent brains, and if you want to elevate your coaching practice to a professional standard — this is your path.

Enroll now in the Certified ADHD Practitioner Training
and start the journey toward coaching mastery.

🎓 Understand deeply. Coach effectively. Transform lives.