Services

Doing Doing Done provides coaching services to people with ADHD, ASD (I and II) and clients with addiction issues and in recovery. To discuss your own unique challenges and goals for coaching, please arrange a meeting to discuss a plan for you.

ADHD Coaching for Adults

For adults with or without formal ADHD or ASD diagnosis.

Often clients arrive at coaching without any particular goal - they generally want to manage their daily demands better and become more productive. This need is met by exploring the client's particular brain, their strengths and interests that provide them with their most valuable resources.

ADHD Coaching for Young Adults and University Students

Parental involvement encouraged.

Whilst this age group has usually got the maturity required for the coaching process, parents often arrange, encourage and pay for it. Parental involvement and degrees of accountability will be discussed at the beginning of the coaching relationship.

Parental involvement is beneficial for building a ADHD friendly home and maintaining a supportive environment for the young person.

ADHD Parent Coaching for Children Under 14

The most efficient way for managing ADHD in children under 14yrs old is by educating and training the parent in ADHD friendly parenting strategies, to manage a suitable home environment and to advocate for their child in their educational setting. Some coaching sessions will involve the child.

Teens (14 years +) 1:1 or with parents

I use Dr Maragret Sibley’s STAND model (Supporting Teens Autonomy Daily) based on Motivational Interviewing. Coaching is about promoting autonomy and independence. It creates a clear framework where everybody knows what their responsibilities are and allows them to take ownership of both their success and shortcomings.

With teens, coaching works most effectively and rapidly with the parents involved. Parent - teen coaching may not initially be everyone's cup of tea, but it promotes the best and the most sustainable outcome, not just for the teen, but the entire family. When parents understand their child's specific struggles and challenges, they are equipped to provide the best support for their child.

Small Group ADHD Coaching

Tailored to your specific needs.

ADHD Consultation, Presentations, and Training

Swantje is available for presentations, speaking events or for training. Please get in contact to discuss your needs and availability.

July 2023

For International Coaching Federation

"Creativity And/ In coaching - Coaching clients with ADHD creatively"

I will explain the presence of creativity in our lives as fundamentally innate creative mechanisms in our humanity that underlie our cognition,

our ability to exercise choice and even neuroplasticity. Drawing on the works of Carl Rogers, Rollo May and Paul Ricoeur I discuss creativity as a fundamental human need.

Relating these theories about creativity and contemporary brain science to the coaching relationship illustrates how a creative approach lends itself for clients with ADHD. It broadens their self-conception and fosters the externalization of executive functions, and therefore contributes significantly to boost their autonomy, self-efficacy and confidence to achieve their chosen outcomes.

July 2024

For International Coaching Federation

"Executive Functions - A Major Piece in the ADHD Coaching Puzzle"

There is no doubt about the importance of executive functions in modern life. To get anything done, we need to have solid skills that allow us to manage all aspects of life: organise, plan, prioritise. Initiate tasks, sustain our attention, persist in our goals. Manage time, control our emotions, inhibit automatic responses. And stay flexible… and more…

Often people only begin to understand the importance of these skills when they are impaired, like in ADHD. The fallout of limited or impaired executive function is huge for the individual as well as their family and loved ones.

This presentation looks at a holistic approach to explaining and supporting executive functions. We will explore Russell Barkley's quest of tracing their development as an adaptive advantage in evolution.

July 2024

For Goulburn Valley Joint Addiction and

"Mental Health Project Echo Understanding Self- Stigma"

Stigma is one of the social determinants of health for individuals with mental illness and SUD.

In this presentation I share my exploration of self- stigma, drawing on my background in philosophy (medical ethics, public health) and lived experience. I hope this non-medical perspective can enrich participants’ understanding of self stigma as a major obstacle for individuals to regain functionality, social participation, and recovery. I believe that practitioner and carer understanding of self stigma is a crucial step in helping individuals to overcome it.

July 2024

For aadpa Conference, Brisbane : "Collaborative Care: The Future of ADHD”

"ADHD Coaching for University Students"

This presentation draws attention to the unique challenges of young adults with ADHD. Not only does this age group grapple with asserting their independence whilst managing new external transitions with their impaired executive functions whilst being exposed to a host of new opportunities and distractions, but they also need to navigate a number of internal transitions.
This presentation outlines the key challenges for university students with ADHD as well as a generic coaching approach as a starting point to support them as they begin their transition to university.

Coaching is not covered by Medicare, nor by Private Health Insurance. Some coaching services can be claimed through the NDIS or Job Access.