Writing on ADHD, coaching, and the instruments behind the forms — kept here in full, so it stays readable without a subscription and citable on our own domain.
2 pieces, in order.
A professional reading guide to ADHD coaching, CBT, executive-function work, mindfulness, and specialist clinical practice
Prevatt and Levrini's procedural guide to running an ADHD coaching engagement — what it specifies well, who it is really written for, and where the evidence runs thin.
2 pieces, in order.
The gold-standard adult ADHD screener is 18 questions long — and only six of them are scored. Here is what Part A actually means, and why Part B has no total.
A screener earns you a next step, not a diagnosis. Here is what the result means, what a real assessment involves, and what a coach can do while you wait.
A career coach's template in Ember Console is your letterhead and your named boxes, each with the instruction that fills it and the rule that fails it.
Six steps turn a new coaching client into a working engagement. Five of them a tool can run. The sixth is the read-back step, and it stays with you.
A coaching program template is five written parts. Four get written once, before session one. The fifth gets written after every session, and that is the part that picks your tool.
The published questions for each stage of a session, credited, plus a table of the five places an answer can get written down afterwards and who writes it.
A coaching engagement runs on about a dozen documents. Here is each one, who fills it in, where it can live, and the Codex page with its template.
Ember Console is in closed beta. Your letterhead, boxes, prompts and evals stay in Ember, so a new AI changes the prose in the boxes and not the template.
Executive work adds a sponsor, a reporting limit and a second reader. Group work adds the participants. These are the clauses each puts on top of the standard ten.
Session one is the only session with nothing behind it. Six headings that fit it, what the ICF and Co-Active pages leave out, and where the hour gets written up afterwards.
An invented GROW session put through an Ember Console template: the prompt behind each box, the test it has to pass, and the line I fixed afterwards.
Four sections a health coach can act on, the readiness screen the ranking templates add to them, and a table of where the answers get filed and who reads them.
Four headings for a mindset session write-up, the Ember Console build behind each one, and the rule that fails the reframe box when the words are yours.
Six session-notes tools say their AI picks up how you write. Here is what each page claims changes, and the three questions none of them answers.
One box at the end of your session report: an open question drawn from the thread this session left hanging, and the eval that fails it unless your client's own words are in it.
You already send a short written record after every session. Ember Console does the recording, the boxes and the editing; filing it into your shared document is still yours.
Four lines a coach writes before handing a session to an AI: export, guardrails, consent, retention. Three have a published answer, and one does not.
Ember Console's free plan runs four reports a month. Run the first as written, then put exactly one change into each of the next three.
You never send a recap, and you still read something before the next call. The same letterhead, boxes and evals build a report whose only reader is you.
The commitment belongs in your write-up in the client's own wording. One box prompt that quotes it out of the transcript, and the standard I set so a paraphrase does not pass.
Five steps run between a coaching session and the report your client reads. Only one is the writing, and the step that decides the rest is the pass line.
Ember Console's editor takes past edits into the next report. The fix you make every week is one to write into the box prompt or the eval instead.
Ember Console's free plan runs four reports a month and Individual is $8 a month billed yearly. Both count reports, and whether a session makes one report is not stated.
Ember Console runs the workflow; the ChatGPT, Claude or local model you already pay for does the writing. Two bills, and the pricing page quotes one.
Six steps that turn the report you already send into a template in Ember Console: your letterhead first, then a prompt and a test behind every section.
Ember's landing names Littlebird as one of three AIs that can reach Ember Console. That clause is the whole stated relationship, and here is what it covers.
A commitments box should hold what your client promised, not what you suggested. One eval, written as a rule a reader can mark pass or fail.
Ember Console says data can be managed individually or centralized for offices. What centralizing means is not stated, so three questions land on the office first.
Two things sit in front of your first recorded session: your client's agreement, and a jurisdiction rule the pages ranking for it do not state the same way.
A session report is read when you are not there. Your letterhead sits above every sentence in it, and PDF or Word decides who can change those sentences afterwards.
Three kinds of product sell one word. A meeting tool's template is an agenda, a clinical scribe's is the format a clinician files, and only some mean your sections.
A coaching plan covers the whole engagement; a session report covers one session. Six places the plan can live, who keeps it current, and the field both published templates omit.
A coaching session structure splits in two: the sections and the standard behind each one stay fixed, and what fills them comes from the session you just had.
A six-heading outline to use in the next session, the published structures it is checked against, and who ends up filling the page in once the call is over.
Business coaching templates in Ember Console: a box for the decisions, a box for the figures the client stated, a box for the owners, and a test beside each one.
One template can carry an intake, a follow-up, a review and a closing session, as long as no box prompt names the session it is written for.
Four kinds of tool, sorted by whether the document they leave behind still has your model's stages as its headings. No model is named best here.
Seven questions to put on a coaching intake form, the published forms they are checked against, and a table of where the answers get filed and who reads them.
Six vendor pricing pages, pulled on 2 October 2026 and sorted by the documents each one holds. Three name no price, and the pulled text never says report.
An eval is the standard a box has to clear before you read the report. Three tests make one a reader can mark pass or fail.
The T-GROW coaching model is GROW with a Topic stage in front. Here is that box as a template: its prompt, and the test that keeps it to one topic.
A four-cell action plan template you can fill in by hand, then that same section rebuilt inside Ember Console, with the test every action has to pass.
A coaching report sample out of Ember Console is your letterhead and your own sections, and the two parts that built each section are not on the page.
Not every session ends in a commitment. One line of a box prompt that allows the empty answer, and one eval that fails anything the client did not say.
A box prompt holds four lines that describe a section: the reader, the contents, the part of the transcript it draws on, and the length. Every must goes to the eval.
Five named sources of coaching worksheets and templates, sorted by who fills the page in, with vendor pages pulled 3 October 2026. In four of five, a person types.
Accountability coaching runs on the record of what the client agreed. Six systems compared: what each keeps, what each costs, and who can actually read it.
Six clauses traced to published coaching agreements that rank for the phrase, the optional guarantee clause none of them carries, and the records clause you write yourself.
A short GROW question bank, then one question per stage as the prompt behind a box, with the test that box has to pass before the report is built.
The four stages as four questions with a blank each, plus where a GROW worksheet lives after the session and who ends up writing the answers down.
The life coaching templates that rank on Google are pages you download. The one in Ember Console is your letterhead, your sections, and a test beside each of them.
The prompt you paste with every transcript is already two documents: the lines that ask for writing, and the lines that say must or never. Cut it there.
Four cases where Ember Console is the wrong buy for a coach: the client-written recap, the no-recording rule, the transcript, and the storage answer I cannot give yet.
A first Ember Console template for the client who says they will not reread the last report: what you agreed in their words, the one next step, what got in the way.
Three fixes exist for a box that came out wrong: an edit changes this report, the prompt changes what the box is asked, the eval changes what it has to pass.
Session-report tools split on one question: does the tool bring its own model, or the workflow around the AI you already pay for? A table, and what each side bills.
Session-report tools split on one question: does the tool bring its own model, or the workflow around the AI you already pay for? A table, and what each side bills.
Ember Console is in closed beta at $8 a month. The AI you already use still writes the report; what Ember adds is the criteria each section has to pass.
Every box in an Ember template holds one prompt and one eval, and a box that misses the standard you set is reworked before the report reaches you.
The tools coaches get pointed at write minutes for the people who were in the meeting. A coaching client needs a report, in the coach's own sections.
The thing to watch in a reply to a missed commitment is where it puts the cause. The lapse research and one swim-lesson thread show why that matters more than the tone.
Three of the top-voted r/adhdwomen answers describe a habit set up in an earlier hour, before the moment that needed it. And the real range is 4 to 335 days.
A dated planner keeps a record of every day a client missed. The replies upvoted in the ADHD abandonment threads all take the printed dates out, and that is a design question.
A plan written at midnight assumed nobody would interrupt and nobody was expecting anything. By 9am both are gone, and the plan never wrote the condition down.
The pages on ADHD task paralysis explain why the freeze starts. The r/ADHD accounts also say how it ended, and the ending is the part a client can date.
A check-in becomes surveillance at the point where the client stops being the first reader of their own answer. How often you ask is not what does it.
A Focusmate subscription and a deposit contract are opposite payments. One buys a booked stranger, the other buys money back on follow-through, and only one has a randomised trial behind it.
Six results on the first page tell a client that ready is a decision. The action research states a condition none of those six mentions.
The pages on should statements tell you to reframe the sentence. Ask what the should points at instead: a client who cannot name the task is not describing a task.
Search for ADHD coaching software and the page that answers was written for the client, not for the coach with a caseload. That changes what a coach should shop for.
Coach advice externalises the task into the environment. The top-voted r/ADHD threads hand it to a named person with a clock, and that is a different prescription.
In the threads where adults with ADHD describe finishing, the word is relief rather than pride. Relief is what the end of a delay feels like, and that changes what a coach writes down.
Coaches rename homework to lower resistance. In a 2025 review of 59 studies, what predicted follow-through was the reason given for the task and the review that came after it.
Almost every top result for 'weekly review template' is a checklist, and none of them names the person who reads the finished review. That is where the little evidence sits.
A client's fortnight is organised by the date of the next session. Two r/ADHD threads show what that date does to both ends of the gap, and why the coach sees neither.
A to-do list that holds wishes as well as tasks cannot be prioritised. Count the share of lines that are really tasks before teaching any method for sorting them.
A check-in with two answers makes the second one a confession, so the client picks silence instead. Write a usable third answer and the reply comes back.
The Paperbell and CoachAccountable comparisons price a platform switch for the coach. The transition each active client pays for is on no feature grid. Here is how to count it.
Coaches try to cap the volume of between-session messages. The receipts point at scope instead: no written job for the channel, no reply clock, no out-of-bounds list.
The complaint that an ADHD app is too childish has no page of its own. It is loud in client threads and absent everywhere an app's tone actually gets decided.
A hack rarely fails on its merits. It gets dropped around week two, about six weeks short of the 59 days a habit takes to feel automatic.
ADHD app abandonment has a calendar date, and it lands on the first day the week stopped being ordinary. Here is how to get that date out of a client.
Body doubling helps on a task the client has already done and can get in the way of one they never have. Social facilitation research says why; the advice pages stop earlier.
The ADHD tools that live past three months share one habit: they move yesterday's unfinished task forward without being asked. Here is how to test a tool for it.
Another person's presence raises arousal, which lifts a rehearsed task and sinks an unfamiliar one. That is why body doubling fails on the task a client cannot start.
Motivation is rarely what fades after a good session. The plan's fit with the week is. Ask for the day it stopped making sense, not whether it got done.
One 2024 network meta-analysis took CBT for adult ADHD apart part by part. Organisational strategies and acceptance work came out on top.
Novelty pays for the first two weeks of a new ADHD routine. Automaticity takes a median of 59 to 66 days. Week three is the gap between them.
The top-voted fix for ADHD task initiation is to start with the smallest step. The reply underneath it says the client cannot get to that step either.
A 63-trial review found behavioural work moves function, not symptoms, with the gains still there at three years. Every trial in it enrolled 10-to-19-year-olds.
Two 2025 meta-analyses reach opposite answers on whether ADHD medication improves quality of life. Check who was in the trials before you quote either one.
A survey of 481 US ADHD coaches explains why no field-wide number can answer whether coaching is worth the money, and what can be answered instead.
Goal attainment scaling comes with no license and no fixed items. You write five levels with the client before the work starts, then score what happened.
Two New Zealand groups scored the same on ADHD symptoms and reported different lives. What to measure when the score moves and the life does not.
Two results on the same search page disagree about ADHD coaching. One question sorts them, and the sorting costs a coach more than it pays.
ADHD is a disorder of performance, not of knowledge. Russell Barkley's point of performance is the moment the knowing runs out, and it is where an ADHD coach's work belongs.
The product demo: from three familiar frustrations to a sent form, a client's answers, a flagged report, and a gentle reminder — the full loop, under two minutes.
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