ADHD Coaching
ADHD & Executive Function coach for adults, children, families
What ADHD Coaching Looks Like With Us
Life can feel overwhelming, frustrating, and confusing for everyone (adults, kids, teens, whole families), especially when ADHD traits show up as both challenges and strengths. Attention, motivation, follow-through, and other aspects of executive functioning may feel like constant hurdles, sometimes accompanied by communication difficulties, low self-esteem, or daily tasks that feel harder than they should be. Decision-making can feel especially tough, adding to the sense of being stuck.
Even without a formal ADHD diagnosis, you might feel weighed down by patterns that affect school, work, relationships, or day-to-day life. And often, these struggles come with a sense that your or your child’s potential is still out of reach, unable to move forward on the goals that matter most.
We’re here to help you understand how you learn, make decisions, get things done, process information, self-regulate, and communicate so you can take meaningful action, develop new strategies, and create practical tools and habits that feel more aligned with who you are.
Olga and Mark Lubarsky
Somatic and Coaching Center in San Mateo, CA
ADHD and Executive Function Coaching
“Navigate your unique mind. Get unstuck. Move forward.”
This work is deeply personal to us. It’s shaped by advanced training, life experience, parenting, and everything we’ve learned along the way.
Children & Families with ADHD
Whether your child has an ADHD diagnosis or simply shows traits that feel outside the norm, your daily life and family dynamics may not follow a typical path. ADHD affects how a person learns, processes, and thinks. While the brain wiring behind it can come with unique strengths, sometimes even referred to as “superpowers,” the intensity of it all often comes at a great cost. When these traits don’t align with everyday expectations, it can lead to challenges for both the child and the family. Despite the best intentions, the emotional ups and downs can leave everyone feeling overwhelmed.
Because ADHD impacts every aspect of life, it often affects family dynamics and overall well-being too. The traits are highly inheritable and can appear in different forms and intensities, which means their influence is often felt across generations. Many families face ongoing struggles and miss opportunities to build on their children’s strengths.
We help children and families build skills and systems that work with how the child’s brain functions. That means tapping into what comes naturally, building on existing strengths, and creating habits that align with the child’s values, needs, and goals. Our approach is tailored to each individual and grounded in an understanding of how their brain works.
This is not a one-size-fits-all process. It’s collaborative, personalized, and based on deep respect for your family’s unique situation. Together, we explore what helps your child thrive, how to reduce overwhelm at home or in school, and how to support meaningful growth for the whole family. The level of involvement can vary depending on age, family dynamics, and individual preferences. Some children may not want their family involved in coaching, and we fully respect that.
The ultimate goal of coaching is to build a new story rooted in success, one that your child can truly recognize and believe in. The more they experience their own growth and see what’s possible, the easier it becomes to navigate daily challenges with confidence, clarity, and support.
Combining ADHD Coaching with NeuroMovement®
Some of the common traits seen in ADHD, whether in children or adults, include challenges with self-awareness, sensing the “whole self” in space, and emotional regulation. These are not just cognitive issues. They often show up in the body as well.
That’s why we sometimes recommend combining ADHD coaching with Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement®. This gentle, movement-based approach supports brain change through the body. For those struggling with executive functioning, whether diagnosed with ADHD or not, it can be a powerful complement to coaching.
We especially encourage young children to begin with in-person ABM NeuroMovement® sessions when possible. It helps build a stronger foundation for emotional regulation, body awareness, and the ability to pause, connect, and act with more intention. This integrated approach gives clients, both children and adults, the benefit of working with the whole self: brain, body, and emotions.
Interested in combining ADHD Coaching with NeuroMovement®?
Adults with ADHD or Related Traits
If you’ve lived with ADHD, whether diagnosed or suspected, you likely already know how unique you are. One moment, you may feel driven, capable, and passionate. The next, you may feel stuck or unable to move forward. You might struggle with tasks others find simple, yet succeed in areas others find complex. It’s easy to feel confused, blame yourself, or lose confidence.
You may have developed ways to cope, compensate, and adapt. Still, it can feel like something is holding you back from fully accessing your strengths. This may impact your career, relationships, passions, energy, and overall well-being.
As coaches, we help you embrace your uniqueness, get unstuck, and take meaningful steps toward your goals. We’ll be your professional thinking partners, supporting you through a process of self-discovery while helping you work with your ADHD traits, not against them.
You are not broken, even if it has sometimes felt that way. The goal of coaching is to help you build a new story that reflects who you are and how your brain works. This story is grounded in your strengths and shaped by real experiences that show what is possible. As you begin to see your own growth and potential more clearly, it becomes easier to move through daily challenges with greater confidence, clarity, and energy.
What Our Clients Are Saying
We’ve been lucky to support kids, teens, and adults with ADHD brain wiring and executive functioning challenges. We often hear how much starts to shift: more ease at home, better grades and confidence in school, higher performance at work, less friction in communication, improved social lives and self-esteem, and new strategies that actually stick.
Because our work is private and sensitive, most stories stay between us and our clients. The reflections below offer a small glimpse into the kinds of changes that can happen.
If you’re curious to hear more, we’re always happy to share examples during a free consultation.
"Mark is a kind and patient practitioner who works with my 10-year-old son with mild Autism and ADHD. He engages my son with attentive, good humor, and his calm, upbeat demeanor puts my son at ease, and they are able to connect and share a laugh. I notice that my son uses a lot more spontaneous language and comments on more things after his lessons with Mark."
"My son and I have been working with Olga and Mark for over a year now. My son's capabilities have accelerated steadily since working with Mark. His mood and energy levels are always high after each session. It has led him to develop much more confidence... We love Mark's and Olga's passion and dedication to their work! It makes a great deal of difference for our family."
"Mark is very patient and calm, and my son enjoys talking to him. We are happy he has had the chance to have these sessions as he transitioned to kindergarten this year."
Curious About How It Works?
These are some of the most common questions from new clients who are exploring ADHD coaching and want to know what to expect.
What is ADHD coaching, and how is it different from therapy?
While therapy usually focuses on processing past experiences and their emotional impact, ADHD coaching is more about moving forward. It’s about figuring out what it takes to make progress on the goals that matter to you in a way that fits how your brain works and who you are. The coach acts as a thinking partner, someone who accepts you as you are but also helps you stretch into growth.
Coaching builds awareness of your patterns, your values and strengths, what actually works for you, and what tends to get in your way. It’s especially helpful for addressing challenges with follow-through, motivation, decision-making, and other executive functioning struggles that often come with ADHD. Learning to manage impulsivity, communication, and self-esteem issues are also often part of the process.
ADHD coaching is practical and action-oriented, but it’s not one-size-fits-all. Every client is different. What works for one person may not work for another, which is why the process is collaborative, respectful, and grounded in curiosity.
Do I (or my child) need an ADHD diagnosis to benefit from coaching?
You don’t need a diagnosis to benefit from ADHD coaching. We are not medical practitioners, and we work with many clients who don’t identify with any labels at all. Some people find it helpful to get evaluated, and in some cases, we may recommend seeking medical or therapeutic support if it feels timely and valuable.
But to start coaching, all you need is a desire to grow and a commitment to the process. We bring a deep understanding of ADHD and executive functioning, and we work through that lens whether or not there’s a formal diagnosis. The patterns we help with can show up in many people, not just those with a specific label.
At the core, we don’t see you or your child as someone who needs to be fixed. We see a person with a unique brain and real potential. Coaching is about helping you move toward meaningful goals in a way that honors who you are.
How is your approach different from other ADHD coaches?
What makes our approach unique is the way we blend coaching and somatic practices, supported by deep experience working with people who have unique brains and patterns. Whether you choose to combine our methods or focus only on ADHD coaching, we draw from both backgrounds to help you understand and embody how your brain works so you can move forward with strategies that feel natural to you.
As deeply trained ADHD coaches, we’ve spent years learning how to support people with challenges around attention, motivation, and executive functioning. What sets us apart is our additional training and over a decade of experience in NeuroMovement, a learning-based somatic method that helps people build new patterns through movement, awareness, and embodied learning.
After more than ten years of working with children of all ages and their families, we understand the dynamics and challenges that often come with ADHD, Autism, and other neurodiverse traits. This means we bring both professional knowledge and lived experience to our work, especially around managing overwhelm, balancing family life, and finding better ways to care for yourself.
Mark’s background in tech and leadership also adds another layer, especially when we work with professionals who are facing career or work-life challenges. Whether you’re a family, a teen, or an adult, we bring a warm, whole-person approach to coaching.
You can read more about our approach: Our Story page.