Can You Actually Make Money as an ADHD Coach?
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Is ADHD coaching a good career? Here's what happened when I stopped treating it as a side thing.
There's one question that lands in my inbox more than any other. It arrives in different wrappers, but underneath it's always the same:
"Okay, but can you actually make money as an ADHD coach? What would I even do with the certificate?"
Every time, I'm surprised for a second. Then I remember that three years ago, I didn't believe it either. I trained as a coach to add a little something alongside my yoga and Pilates teaching. A side thing. Before that, I spent ten years holding onto corporate PA jobs because I was certain I could never earn a living doing work I actually cared about.
This post is the honest answer. Not the "six figures in six months" version you'll find elsewhere, and not the cautious non-answer either. What the work pays, what it involves, what separates the coaches who earn from the ones who don't, and what I can't promise you. Three years of running ADHD Untangled and training cohorts of coaches went into this, so you're getting the real numbers where I have them and a straight "it depends" where I don't.
Can you make money as an ADHD coach?
Yes. You can build a real, full-time income as an ADHD coach. I know because ADHD Untangled started as my side project three years ago and has just officially grown into the UK VAT bracket, which means the business now earns enough that the government requires us to charge VAT on everything we sell.
For the non-accountants among us (hi, ADHD brain): a business only has to register for VAT once its turnover passes £90,000 a year.
My "side thing" became a full-time living. Then a company. Then a company big enough to be taxed like one.
That's not a promise about your income, and anyone who does promise you an income from coaching is someone to walk away from. It's proof of something more useful: the demand is real, the work is real, and "ADHD coach" is a career, not a hobby with a certificate.
What do ADHD coaches actually do for money?
The certificate isn't the product. The product is what you build with it, and there are more shapes to that than most people expect:
Coach ADHDers one-to-one. The classic model: your own clients, your own hours, your own practice.
Bring real ADHD understanding into work you already do. Therapists, HR professionals, sports coaches, wellness practitioners: an ADHD specialism deepens an existing practice rather than replacing it.
Train workplaces. Companies increasingly want genuine ADHD understanding in the building, not a lunchtime awareness slide deck.
Build the thing you keep thinking about at 2am. Group programmes, retreats, communities, content. Some of our graduates have gone on to co-run retreats within months of certifying.
What separates the coaches who earn from the ones who don't?
Community. That's the unfashionable answer, and I'll stand by it.
Coaching can be lonely, and lonely coaches drift. The ones who build an income have a network: other ADHD coaches who refer clients, share what's working, and pick each other up on the flat weeks. That's exactly what we've built at ADHD Untangled, because it's the community I needed every single day of the last three years and couldn't find.
Take one of our recent graduates, Louise. She certified as an Untangler coach in March. By May she was supporting me on our ADHD retreat in Bali, and she's now building her own client community.
The honest bit: what I can't promise you
Full honesty, because that's how we do things here.
I can't promise the money arrives on any particular schedule. Building a client base takes real work, and it looks different for a therapist adding a specialism than for someone starting from zero.
I can't promise the money will stay in your bank account either, or that you'll spend it wisely. Managing money with an ADHD brain is a whole other conversation. I get into it properly with Clare Seal on the podcast, and it's worth a listen if that sentence made you shiver
And here's the thing we've learnt from watching coaches succeed and struggle: money alone isn't enough to build a career an ADHD brain can actually commit to. The coaches who last have built something that plays to their strengths, gives them freedom in how they work, and means something to them, with a decent living on top. That combination is the real shift. It's what finally lets you believe success is possible for you, by being exactly who you are.
The ADHD community doesn't need more coaches. It needs better ones. And better coaches get paid.
What the training costs right now (updated 23 July 2026)
Because we've crossed the VAT threshold, 20% VAT is added to the ADHD Untangled training investment from 1st September 2026:
Book before 1st September 2026
£2,750
Book from 1st September 2026
£3,300 (inc. VAT)
Same training, same certification. The difference is purely timing.
The next cohort runs 4th November to 15th January: 9 weeks, live online, everything recorded. Payment plans are available.
If you've got questions first, I'm hosting a free live Q&A on Tuesday 11th August. Money questions, "am I ready?" questions, awkward questions: nothing is off the table.
FAQs
Can you make a living as an ADHD coach?
Yes. ADHD coaching can be a full-time living, not just a side income. ADHD Untangled grew from a side project into a UK VAT-registered business within three years, and our graduate coaches earn through one-to-one coaching, workplace training, retreats and group programmes. Like any self-employed work, income builds over time rather than arriving with the certificate.
How much do ADHD coaches earn in the UK?
There's no fixed salary, because almost all ADHD coaches are self-employed. Income depends on your session rates, how many clients you take on, and whether you add higher-leverage work like workplace training or group programmes. Be wary of any training provider quoting guaranteed earnings: nobody can promise you an income.
Do you need a qualification to become an ADHD coach?
Coaching is unregulated in the UK, so legally anyone can call themselves an ADHD coach. That's precisely why training matters. Clients, and increasingly the AI tools they use to find coaches, look for evidence you actually understand ADHD rather than just having lived it or read about it. The ADHD community doesn't need more coaches. It needs better ones.
Is ADHD coaching the same as therapy?
No. ADHD coaching is not therapy, and it doesn't treat, cure or manage ADHD as a clinical condition. Therapy typically works with mental health and the past; coaching works forwards, on practical strategies, self-understanding and building a life that works with your brain. Many clients have both, and a well-trained coach knows exactly where the line is and when to signpost someone to clinical support.
Can I train as an ADHD coach if I've never coached anyone?
Yes. Never having coached is a completely valid starting point, and it's where I started too: I was a yoga and Pilates teacher with ten years of PA jobs behind me and no coaching clients at all. Our cohorts regularly include therapists, HR professionals, teachers and career-changers whose main qualification on day one is lived experience and the pull towards this work.
So, can you actually make money as an ADHD coach?
Yes. I've watched it happen from both sides now: first in my own bank account, then in our graduates'.
What I can't do is make it happen for you. What I can do is train you properly, hand you the community I never had, and tell you the truth the whole way through. That part's a promise.
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