Welcome!

I want to help my clients create their uniquely safe space where they have the support they need to identify and explore their own strengths.

In this space, we will celebrate your strengths, explore your interests and identify areas of change.

My goal is to help you launch into a new phase of your life with the confidence and the knowledge that you can achieve your goals - no matter how big or small they are.

You are not alone on your ADHD journey. There are many people just like you with our own unique challenges walking similar paths.

Discovery Meeting

If you are curious about ADHD Coaching, this is the where we start.

If you want to get to know me and ask questions about my approach to ADHD Coaching, this is a great way to do it.

What we will do during the meeting:

  • Spend 10 or 15 minutes getting to know each other.

  • Have a 15-minute mini session.

  • Spend the rest of the time on Q&A. If you think of questions later, I will be happy to answer them via email.

My goal is to help you decide if coaching with me will benefit you.

This meeting is free and will last about 45 minutes.

I will not pressure you to schedule ADHD Coaching sessions during this meeting. If you decide that you are ready for ADHD Coaching, schedule when you are ready. Scheduling is quick and easy through this website or by contacting me directly.

Appointment & Scheduling

Discover how you can achieve your goals with ADHD Life Coaching and schedule an appointment today. We are eager to support you with clarity and confidence.

A Little about Me

My name is Laurie. I was born in 1969 and grew up in East Tennessee. I went to college and graduate school in Pittsburgh, Hoboken, and near Nashville. My degrees are in Physics; doing graduate work in plasmas and later in optics & lasers.

After graduate school, I got married and moved to Washington State. I worked in IT as an application and database developer. I have struggled with depression since my teen years and was diagnosed bipolar around 2001.

My husband, and I moved back to the Nashville area when he had the opportunity to join the faculty at the University of Tennessee in 2003. We added 2 boys to our family in 2005 and 2010. I inadvertently ended my IT career with Covid, partially due to my youngest son’s AuDHD*. It took several years from then for us to understand that he had the condition and then start the management process. I am happy to say that he is doing well now. Managing AuDHD is lifelong and he is doing amazingly well at it.

My AuDHD journey really started with helping my son start his journey. Time and again, I have heard moms say they learned of their ADHD as they were helping their children. After we get our kids on their management paths, we start to help ourselves.

One of the first tools I used to educate myself about ADHD was Tracy Otsuka’s ADHD for Smart Ass Women podcast. She focuses on embracing yourself, ADHD/AuDHD warts and all. Although the podcast is geared towards women, to me, the overwhelming message is to find our strengths and learn to use them to our advantage.

I have always gotten joy from helping people - from making them smile and feel good about themselves. Since this brings me such happiness, I have learned how to do it well. I know clearing out all of the negatives we have built up over the years isn’t easy; it definitely wasn’t for me. I also know from experience that it can be done.

IT work came easily to me but it wasn’t fulfilling. For the first time in my life, I am passionate about my work. I know I can help you reach your goals.

*Symptoms of neurodivergence appear at different times; everyone is different. Hormones can greatly affect presentation. Puberty and menopause both commonly change how an individual needs to manage their ADHD.