with Kate Horne
Partnering with women and girls on a journey from surviving to thriving
ADHD Life Coaching with Kate Horne
Partnering with women and girls on a journey from surviving to thriving
I am excited to be working on building this new website for my work Life Coaching and storytelling work.
As a Life Coach, I specialise in supporting women and girls navigating life with ADHD – both those that have received a formal diagnosis AND those displaying its traits and challenged by its symptoms.
When I was diagnosed with ADHD over a decade ago what I needed was to partner with the Life Coach that I am now, I just had no idea that such a person existed. Yes I knew of the psychiatrists and mental health professionals who would help me access ADHD medication and offer me therapy as I worked to come to terms with my journey to diagnosis, but I simply had no idea that another type of expert was “out there”, filling the important void in the treatment and management of ADHD: someone with the in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals and neuroscience of ADHD who was also equipped with the “real life” practical tools and strategies that have been proven to be so effective for ADHDers to “do” life.
As a Life Coach (graduating through The International ADHD Coach Training Center Programme) I help you to minimise the challenges and leverage the strengths of living with your unique brain. I do this by first identifying the symptoms you are experiencing (challenging behaviour patterns/ habits) and understanding what you want to change in your life (your goals, big and small). Then, over a course of regular coaching sessions (£80/hr), I collaborate with you, brainstorming and honing tailor-made solutions and unique strategies with the aim of closing the gap between your current experience of life and how you wish it to be. Through this partnership and the inherent accountability of the coaching process, I empower you to make significant changes to their life, with lasting results.
Wherever you are on your journey, whatever your age (13+), whether you are struggling with homework or the responsibilities of a new job, challenged by the demands of life as a new mother or navigating your way through the menopause, I would love to empower you to make the changes that you want to see in your life, for you to truly thrive.
I believe that you aren’t broken, on the contrary, that you are creative, resourceful and whole. I want to partner with you to deepen your self awareness.
Coaching helps us find the best tools for dealing with the nitty gritty of everyday life at the same time as enlightening us in our search for the answers to life’s biggest questions: who were really are and what our place is in the world.
Book in for a complimentary 30min session
Take this unique opportunity to:
- Ask me any questions that you might have about the coaching process
- Explore with me how coaching could work for YOU
- Email me and let’s get a date in the diary for a 30 mins session on Zoom
(as featured in Telegraph Magazine)
My ADHD Journey
(as featured in Telegraph magazine)
Over a decade ago I told a psychiatrist that while my life had spawned the trappings of so-called success – articles written, documentary films made, husband bagged, baby made – I had always felt that I was on a collision course with ‘something’; that sooner or later my inner madness would be revealed to the world: moods that swung from zone-out procrastination (accompanied by a whirring, berating inner chatter) to razor-focused concentration, from spurts of impulsive decision making and sociability to complete paralysis.
Unbeknownst to me, I was experiencing the topsy-turvry traits of ADHD, a condition that the psychiatrist determined I had been born with. With medication and a short course of therapy my unruly thoughts could be “tamed”; my brain could be “fixed”, it seemed. Hurrah, I thought.
And so it was:
The prescribed medication called my straggler thoughts to regimented attention for periods of time, enabling me to start and finish tedious tasks that had erstwhile flawed me.
The isolated hours spent with a psychiatrist (weeping through the grief of three decades of undiagnosed ADHD) proved to be a cathartic process worth the small fortune it set me back.
The short course of prescribed Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helped me move away from dwelling on past woes, learning to manage my negative and entrenched thinking patterns, guiding me towards more positive actions.
BUT, pills popped and therapy done, did I feel – as I had been lead to believe that I would – “fixed”? Far from it. Why? Because, like so many millions of others with the condition who have been prescribed the same standard course of action for ADHD, I had been fobbed off.
The reality is ADHD is a woefully inadequate and downright misnomer for what is a highly complex neurodevelopmental condition.
The ADHD brain is scientifically proven to differ in structure, chemistry and function to a neurotypical brain.
ADHD is scientifically proven to impact an individual’s entire internal response system, causing their attention, activity, emotions and impulse control to be dysregulated, affecting EVERY SINGLE THING that they THINK, SAY and DO.
An ADHD brain cannot simply be “fixed” by popping a pill (or two) and a few hours spent reframing how one thinks about oneself. That’s WHY, pills popped and therapy one, I found myself still longing to be equipped to tackle the things that I simply needed to get done, to acquire the practical ‘know how’ to “do life” better: I wanted strategies to break infuriating habits of a lifetime such as leaving every kitchen cupboard door open; techniques to ameliorate my shame-inducing slapstick comedy cooking routines and to control my chronic oversharing at the school gates that left me with hideous shame hangovers . How, my whirring brain quizzed me during sleepless nights, could I really turn those things in my life around in the way that I so desperately wanted to?
What I really needed was to partner with the me that I am now, I just didn’t know she was out there. What I needed was an ADHD Life Coach.
Now I’m here for YOU, to partner with you, wherever you are on your ADHD journey.
I believe that as ADHDers we are not broken; on the contrary, we are creative, resourceful and whole. I want to partner with you to deepen your self awareness.