Coaching and Family Therapy - The Fiona Project

The reality for parents - and the need for coaching

‘I tell my son dinner is in 10 mins and he never comes downstairs, I have to go and call him again or go up there and get him, when I get there, he’s just sat looking at the wall, it drives me mad’.

Children with ADHD have executive function dysregulation, put simply they know that 10 minutes is longer than 5 minutes, but they have no sense of what that feels like.

'I tell my daughter that if she is good at school this week we can go to party play on Saturday, but she just isn’t interested’.

Children with ADHD have a limited or lagged time horizon, Saturday doesn’t exist in their world until Saturday. ADHD children have two timelines – now and not now, strategies help to expand this into their working memory.

‘My son has forgotten his school bag again, ill just run it to the school for him’.

Helicopter parenting – is an enabling behaviour with no strategy to help your child fix this for themselves. – coaching improves family life.

Coaching and Family Therapy