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45 minutes · Live on Zoom · No cost

Is ADHD coaching a viable career move?

An honest 45 minutes with a psychiatrist who both treats and coaches ADHD — on what this work actually involves, who it suits, what it pays, and what separates a coach clients keep from one they quietly drift away from.

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  • FormatLive on Zoom · recording sent to everyone who registers
  • Led byDr Sidra Bukhari, Specialist Psychiatrist & ADHD Coach

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The session

Four things you’ll leave knowing

No slides about mindset. This is the practical picture, from someone who assesses, treats and coaches ADHD every week.

01

What ADHD coaching actually is

Where it sits alongside therapy, medication and assessment — and, importantly, where it stops. The boundary is the thing most training gets wrong.

02

Whether your background fits

Counsellors, teachers, nurses and career-changers all arrive with different gaps. We'll go through what each one needs to close.

03

The money, honestly

What ADHD coaches charge, how long it realistically takes to fill a caseload, and what a part-time practice looks like next to a full-time one.

04

How to train without wasting a year

What to look for in a programme, what the credential landscape actually means, and the questions to ask any provider before you pay.

Why people ask

The rate gap is the reason most people come to this session

Coaching a specialism prices differently from general practice. These are typical UK private rates.

General counselling / therapy

£45–50

per hour, typical UK private session

Specialist ADHD coaching

£150–200

per hour, typical UK private session

These are market ranges, not a promise of earnings. What you charge depends on your experience, your niche and your local market — which is exactly the sort of thing worth asking about live.

What makes this different

Most ADHD coach training is written by coaches who have never sat in a diagnostic clinic

Which is why so many newly qualified coaches freeze the first time a client’s problem turns out not to be a coaching problem.

The clinician

Assesses, diagnoses, prescribes

Dr Bukhari runs ADHD assessments and manages medication. She knows exactly what titration fixes, what it doesn’t, and what a client is describing when they say the tablets stopped working at four o’clock.

The coach

Coaches ADHD adults, week in, week out

She also coaches. The programme wasn’t theorised — it was built from what actually moved the needle across thousands of ADHD patients, and rebuilt around what didn’t.

Almost nobody occupies both chairs. That overlap is the entire course.

  • You'll know when a stuck client needs a better system — and when they need a medication review. Coaches without clinical grounding spend months on strategy for a problem that was pharmacological all along.
  • You'll spot what's sitting underneath the ADHD. Anxiety, trauma, autism and burnout all imitate it. Missing them is the single most common way coaching quietly fails.
  • You'll coach the way the ADHD brain is actually wired. Point-of-performance cues and if-then plans, not generic goal-setting that assumes working memory the client doesn't have.
  • You'll hold your scope confidently. Knowing precisely where coaching ends is what lets you work close to that line instead of hovering nervously far from it.
  • You'll speak the clinical language. When you write to a GP or psychiatrist, it reads like a colleague's letter — which is how referral relationships get built.
  • You'll charge specialist rates, because you'll be operating at a specialist level. That is the honest reason the rate gap exists.

This is not a coaching qualification with ADHD content bolted on the front. It was built backwards — from what genuinely changes the lives of ADHD adults, by someone who has treated them from both sides of the problem.

Dr Sidra Bukhari

Specialist Psychiatrist · MRCPsych · ADHD Coach

  • Over ten years in psychiatry, specialising in adult ADHD
  • Experienced in ADHD treatment both pharmacological and non-pharmacological
  • Insight from thousands of ADHD patients' real-world challenges
  • Founder, Mind Companion Institute · The CPD Standards Office Provider No. 23240

Who it’s for

Come along if you recognise yourself here

  • The therapistAlready seeing ADHD clients, aware you're improvising the ADHD-specific part.
  • The educatorSENCO or teacher who understands the young people and wants a route into paid practice.
  • The career-changerDrawn to this work, unsure whether it's a real living or a nice idea.

Next date to be announced

Forty-five minutes to find out if this is your next move

Free, live, and recorded for anyone who can’t make it. Bring the question you’ve been quietly wondering about.