Become an ADHD certified coach
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Become an ADHD certified coach 〰️
Become a Certified ADHD CoacH
Where great ADHD coaches are born.
The ADHD community doesn't need more coaches. It needs better ones.
Online, it looks like there's an ADHD coach on every corner. In the trenches, we hear a different story. Frustrated, disappointed, sometimes heartbreaking stories from people whose coach ticked a box that said "works with ADHDers" but didn't understand the masking, the burnout, the shame spiral, the hyperfocus. That's coaching with half the picture.
Some of you reading this are coaches already. Some of you have never coached a single session, you just know you're good with people and feel pulled towards this work. Both belong here. Because our training works the way we coach: turn what you're good at into what you're great at, by leaning into your strengths and strengthening them
Nov 4th 2026 - Jan 15th 2027
9 weeks | Live Online Sessions & Recorded
Live sessions: Wednesdays & Fridays at 12:00 GMT
Interested in becoming an ADHD coach?
Not sure if you’ve got what it takes to be a coach?
We’ve partnered with:
The first ADHD coaching certification co-created and delivered with a clinical neuroscientist, with ethics and safety standards led by a clinical psychologist.
Clinical neuroscientist Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas CBiol and accredited ADHD coach and founder Rosie Turner guide you through the certification, with senior clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas holding every coach we certify to clinical-grade practice.
This is for you if:
You're a coach who wants real neuroscience, not buzzwords
You're a therapist tired of watching ADHD clients fall through the gaps
You're an HR or wellbeing lead who wants to actually support neurodivergent teams
You're a sports or wellness coach who sees ADHD in your athletes every day
You suspect your own ADHD and want to finally understand it properly
WHY JOIN OUR Accredited adhd coach TRAINING
lived it.
This isn't theory to me, or to the coaches we train. It's my life, and it's the lived experience of the family we've built at Untangled. Real people who've actually been in the mess, not just read about it.
Back it.
Lived experience alone isn't enough. That's why every cohort includes soulful science with clinical neuroscientist Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas, deep chats with experts on hormones, trauma, relationships and eating disorders, and why clinical psychologist Michaela Thomas leads our ethics, so you know exactly where coaching ends and therapy begins.
Built it.
With ADHD brains in mind, from the ground up. Most coaching starts with story, then state, then strategy. We flip it. State first, because you can't think your way into action from a dysregulated nervous system, you have to feel your way there first. No hand holding, no one dimensional syllabus, no generic strategy that ignores how your brain actually works. You learn a CPD certified method built around how ADHD brains function, with tools you can use from day one and the agency to make it your own.
Share it.
We believe in collaboration over competition. You don't finish this and disappear into the world alone. We've built an ecosystem, connecting you to a real network, honest business advice, and people who can help you build faster.
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Our Team
Dr Miguel Toribio-Mateas
Clinical Neuroscientist
Dr Miguel is a clinical neuroscientist, published author and former go go dancer turned yoga teacher, which makes him living proof that tangled careers make the best teachers. He co-leads our training with the soulful science, evidence-based but never dry, specialising in nutrition, the gut and brain connection, and mental health. And he doesn't just teach ADHD, he lives it.
ROSIE TURNER
Founder & Accredited ADHD Coach
Founder of ADHD Untangled, accredited ADHD coach, podcast host and movement teacher. Diagnosed at 33 after a decade of corporate jobs that never quite fit, she has dedicated her life to helping the ADHD community rewrite struggle into strength. Today she coaches individuals, trains workplaces and certifies the next generation of ADHD coaches, all built on one belief: strengthen the strengths.
MICHAELA Thomas
Senior Clinical Psychologist & CBT Psychotherapist
Michaela Thomas is a senior clinical psychologist, CBT psychotherapist and ADHD Coach of the Year 2025 who has devoted half her life to psychology, from NHS occupational health to primary care. She leads the ethics and safety standards behind our training, so coaching stays coaching and every coach we certify works to clinical grade practice. She's Swedish, so she does not beat around the bush, and she doesn't just work with ADHD. Late diagnosed herself, she lives it too.
OUR Untangler Family
Past GUEST SPEAKERS
Inside the Certified ADHD Coaching Training
One method runs through everything: State. Story. Strategy. Most coaching jumps straight to strategy. That's exactly why it fails ADHD brains.
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Before we do anything else, we co-create something most of us never had. A space where you feel seen, understood and can finally come as you are. Because for ADHDers, connection is state work, and feeling safe is where the untangling begins.
🧠 Dr Miguel: ADHD as a neurotype
🧡 Rosie: Creating safety and building trust as a coach
⚖️ Michaela: Ethics, scope and clinical grade practice -
You can't coach a brain you don't understand. We map the ADHD brain together, then introduce the framework the entire training hangs on: state first, story second, strategy third.
🧠 Dr Miguel: Mapping the brain, neuroanatomy for coaches
🧡 Rosie: The ADHDer Framework
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Trauma with Dr Miguel -
Story work begins, and it begins with yours. The beliefs you've carried about your brain, your confidence, your "too much" and "not enough". You untangle them here first, because you can't take a client somewhere you've never been.
🧠 Dr Miguel: The ADHD brain meets lived experience
🧡 Rosie: Untangling confidence and reframing limiting beliefs
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Strategy begins, built on meaning instead of should. Because ADHD brains don't run on should, we run on what matters. You'll find the why your brain can actually plug into, then work backwards from it, breaking big goals into strategies that are actually yours.
🧠 Dr Miguel: Unmasking as rewilding, why ADHDers mask and what it costs
🧡 Rosie: Working back from what matters, goals and strategies that stick
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Hormones -
Same person, same brain, different fuel. This is where you learn why an ADHDer can be unstoppable on Tuesday and unable to start on Wednesday, and how to coach both without shame. Strengths first, because from strength comes confidence.
🧠 Dr Miguel: Hyperdrive and paralysis, why both coexist in ADHD
🧡 Rosie: Untangling motivation, can't stop vs can't start, and powerful questioning
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Parenting -
The graveyard of unfinished things isn't a discipline problem, it's a perfectionism problem.
This is where you learn to coach follow through the ADHD way: imperfect action over perfect plans, done over flawless, progress over perfection.
🧠 Dr Miguel: Habits, reward pathways, perfectionism and the ADHD brain
🧡 Rosie: Untangling perfectionism and taking authentic action
💬 Deep Chat: Disordered eating and ADHD, with Dr Miguel -
ADHD energy isn't constant, some days you bounce in, some days you force yourself through the door. Pretending otherwise is the fast road to burnout. Here you learn to work with the body instead of overriding it, and to anchor the states you and your clients want more of.
🧠 Dr Miguel: The body as co-pilot, nervous system regulation
🧡 Rosie: Anchoring positive emotions
💬 Deep Chat: ADHD and Movement -
The voice that says "who am I to do this" doesn't disappear with a certificate. This is where you rewrite it. The science of enoughness, self worth beyond perfectionism, and permission to lead as yourself without waiting to feel ready.
🧠 Dr Miguel: The neuroscience of enoughness, how nervous system safety shapes self worth
⚖️ Michaela: More Than Enough, self worth beyond perfectionism
💬 Deep Chat: Imperfect Action and Imposter Syndrome, with Rosie -
The training most coaches never get: how to actually build the thing. Your offers, your pricing, your visibility, your way. Because a brilliant coach nobody can find helps nobody.
🧠 Dr Miguel: The neuroscience of connection
🧡 Rosie: Entrepreneurship and living the work
💬 Deep Chats: Being a Founder with ADHD -
No exam hall, no trick questions. You coach, you get feedback, you grow. With flexible deadlines and multiple submission dates, because we built this for how ADHD brains actually finish things.
And it doesn't end when you certify
You're not left in the lurch, you're part of the family. A year's access to all recordings and updated materials. The WhatsApp group that never goes quiet. Invites to new deep chats in future cohorts. And The Untanglers, our supervision membership, with monthly support from Rosie and quarterly sessions with Dr Miguel, so you're never coaching alone.
FAQs
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Coaching that's built for ADHD brains — not standard coaching with a neurodiversity module stapled to the back of it.
The difference shows up fast. Most coaching runs on a simple assumption: once you know what you want, you'll go and get it. Set the goal, break it down, check in weekly, celebrate the win. That works for plenty of people.
It falls apart for ADHDers, because knowing was never the problem. The gap isn't information. It's everything that happens between deciding and doing.
ADHD-informed coaching works inside that gap. It knows motivation runs on interest, urgency and novelty rather than importance. That time doesn't behave itself. That a dysregulated nervous system can't be reasoned with, however good the strategy is. That masking, rejection sensitivity and years of quietly absorbed shame are shaping the whole thing whether anyone names them or not.
So instead of handing someone another system to fail at, we start with state. Get the nervous system somewhere safe enough to think from, then build strategy on top of it. Most coaching goes story, state, strategy. We flip it, because you can't think your way into action from a body that's braced for impact.
One thing to be clear on: this isn't therapy, and it isn't clinical care. We don't diagnose, we don't treat, and we don't go digging through the past. ADHD coaching sits alongside clinical support, not instead of it — and knowing exactly where that line falls is part of what we train.
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Some people arrive here with a decade of coaching behind them. Some have never run a single session and just know they're good with people. Both belong.
You'll probably feel at home if you're:
Already coaching and tired of half-fitting your ADHD clients into a model that wasn't built for them
A therapist, counsellor or clinician who wants a forward-focused offer that complements the work you already do
In education, HR, occupational health or SEND, supporting neurodivergent people daily with no proper framework to do it with
Brand new to all of it, usually because you've lived this — your own diagnosis, your kid's, your partner's — and you can't unsee it now
We teach the coaching skills alongside the ADHD specialism, so you leave with a full method rather than a certificate and a vague hope.
Lived experience isn't a requirement, but we won't pretend it doesn't count. Understanding the burnout, the masking, the 2am hyperfocus and the shame spiral from the inside gives you something no syllabus can hand over.
Where it's not the right fit: if you want a clinical qualification, if you're hoping to assess or diagnose ADHD, or if you want a badge without the practice.
We have a free quiz to help you discover your coaching strengths, or sign up for our free live Q&A to have your questions answered.
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Train with people who've done the work. Look for training that's independently certified or accredited, then look past the badge at what's actually inside it. Who's teaching? What's their experience? Is it built for ADHD brains, or is it general coaching with a neurodiversity chapter bolted on?
Check the syllabus goes deep enough. Executive function tips alone won't cut it. You want the neuroscience, the nervous system, emotional regulation, rejection sensitivity, burnout, masking, hormones, and how ADHD actually shows up across different genders and life stages.
Find your people. The coaches who thrive aren't the ones who finish a course and disappear. They're the ones with a network — honest business advice, people to refer to, and somewhere to take the hard questions.
This is exactly what you’ll find in our program.
Learn more about how our training works in our upcoming free live Q&A.
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When would be the right time? When will you not be busy? If you're waiting for a quiet patch, you'll be waiting forever. Most people don't attend everything live it's all recorded and designed to flex around real life. If you can show up for roughly three hours a week as often as you can, you're in a great position. The rest you catch up in your own time.
Everything is recorded. You won't fall behind. The Wednesday practical sessions are the ones I'd love as many people live as possible but even then, it's not compulsory. We do a recap so no one's lost.
Plus you get access to all the recordings for a year after you've trained.
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This is the one I hear the most and it's also the one I want to push back on hardest.
Coaching isn't about having your shit together. It never will be. None of us will ever fully have our shit together that's just perfectionism dressed up as a prerequisite.
Your clients aren't coming to you because you've cracked it. They're coming to you because you get it. Because you've lived it. You only need to be a few steps ahead, or have knowledge they don't have yet, to make a real difference. And honestly? The fact that you're still in it often makes you more relatable, not less.
I started coaching when I was basically homeless and completely all over the place. I thought I had no business helping anyone. Turns out, that was exactly what made me effective.
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It would be a great foundation but it absolutely doesn't shut you off from training. One of the biggest takeaways and something I experienced myself is that the training IS your coaching. You'll be coached in the group, you'll self-coach, you'll go through your own transformation. It's two for one. And if you want 1:1 time with me after, ad hoc sessions are an option. There's also The Untanglers, our post-certification supervision membership, where I'm there monthly to support you.
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The live sessions are roughly four hours a week 90 minutes with me, 90 minutes with Dr Miguel, plus a group session. There are also some short pre-records I'd love you to listen to, but honestly, stick them on in the car or on a walk. There are workbooks if you like to write. There are recordings if you miss anything live. We built this for ADHD brains it's meant to be flexible.
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Honestly, I don't know and I won't promise something I can't confirm. There may not be another one this year. If you're feeling called to do this, now is the time.
What You'll Get From the Training
Understand ADHD from a range of leading experts: the science, nuances, strengths and everyday challenges.
❋ Coaching Framework
You’ll learn how to support clients through overwhelm, procrastination, and inconsistency using real tools, real practice, and expert feedback.
❋ Learn to Adapt
You’ll be able to adapt your coaching to different brains - whether you're supporting an elite athlete who can’t stop, or a client who’s frozen by overwhelm.
❋ Inclusive Practices
Whether you’re self-employed or part of an organisation, you’ll learn how to coach in line with inclusive practices and disability awareness so you're creating meaningful support that works.
❋ A Supportive Space
It’s a private community, not just a course- built for ADHD brains with post-training support available.
The investment
£2,750 ( * if booked after 1st Sept 2026 - 20% VAT will be added)
✔️ CPD Certification
✔️ 9 weeks with 2 x weekly live calls (all recorded)
✔️ Guest expert workshops & talks
✔️ Additional coaching templates, materials, and workbooks
✔️ Private online community
*Please note: All payments are non-refundable, including full or part payments, due to the limited spaces and the preparation involved in delivering this training.
Still Unsure?
Come along to our free live Q&A to ask us your questions, or if you can’t make it live, put in your details here and let us know how we can help.

