Question 1

Why can't I finish anything I start? Could personalised ADHD coaching help?

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If you constantly start projects with enthusiasm but struggle to see them through, have dozens of half-finished tasks, or feel mentally exhausted from what should be simple work, personalised ADHD coaching can transform how you approach task completion. This pattern isn't laziness or lack of discipline—it's how your ADHD brain is wired. Your brain runs on interest-based motivation rather than importance or deadlines, so when a task loses novelty, your brain struggles to generate the dopamine needed to keep going. Charlotte's personalised coaching helps you identify your unique motivation triggers and build systems that work with your brain, not against it. Unlike generic productivity advice that fails people with ADHD, personalised coaching creates strategies tailored to your specific challenges, lifestyle, and goals. You'll learn practical techniques for task completion, breaking overwhelming projects into brain-friendly chunks, and building accountability structures that actually stick. Charlotte combines ICF-certified ADHD coaching expertise with gut-brain health insights to address both the neurological and physiological aspects of motivation and focus. Book your free discovery call to discuss how personalised coaching can help you finally finish what you start—without fighting your brain every step of the way.

Question 2

How long is the NHS ADHD assessment waiting list in Birmingham in 2025?

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NHS ADHD assessment waiting times in Birmingham currently stand at approximately 19 months for children and significantly longer for adults, with some areas of England reporting waits of up to 7-10 years. Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS reports that as of November 2025, over 10,000 children sit within the neurodevelopmental pathway, with the majority at the initial triage stage. For adults in the wider West Midlands region, waiting times vary dramatically by NHS trust, but waits of 3-5 years are common. While waiting for NHS assessment, you can explore the Right to Choose scheme (England only), which allows you to choose alternative NHS providers with shorter waiting lists—potentially reducing your wait to 3-12 months depending on the provider. You can also consider private ADHD assessment (£500-£1,500), which typically provides diagnosis within 4-8 weeks. Critically, you don't need a formal diagnosis to start ADHD coaching and benefit from strategies that work. Charlotte's personalised coaching supports people at every stage: waiting for assessment, recently diagnosed, or diagnosed years ago but still struggling. Book a free discovery call to discuss how coaching can help you thrive now, rather than waiting years for formal support.

Question 3

Is it ADHD, anxiety, or am I just lazy? How does personalised coaching help me understand?

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Here's the crucial difference: laziness means choosing not to do something you don't want to do. Anxiety means wanting to do something but feeling paralysed by worry about outcomes or judgment. ADHD means desperately wanting to do something, knowing you should do it, but your brain simply won't let you start or focus—no matter how hard you try. This distinction is critical because ADHD often co-exists with anxiety and depression, making self-diagnosis incredibly confusing. Signs suggesting ADHD rather than laziness include struggling with focus, organisation, and time management since childhood, working incredibly hard but still underperforming, experiencing emotional overwhelm or rejection sensitivity, and finding that stimulants like caffeine calm you down rather than energising you. Charlotte's personalised ADHD coaching helps you identify your specific pattern of challenges through structured self-assessment and exploration of your lifelong experiences. You'll gain clarity on whether your struggles align with ADHD traits, learn strategies that work for ADHD brains specifically (rather than generic try harder advice), and receive guidance on whether formal assessment would benefit you. Importantly, you don't need a diagnosis to benefit from ADHD coaching—if you resonate with ADHD challenges, coaching can help you implement strategies that actually work. Book your free discovery call to discuss your unique situation and create a personalised path forward.

Question 4

Do I need an official ADHD diagnosis to work with a personalised ADHD coach?

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No—you absolutely do not need a formal ADHD diagnosis to access personalised ADHD coaching, support strategies, or start building a better relationship with your brain. Many people benefit enormously from ADHD coaching while waiting for NHS assessment (which can take 3-7 years in some areas), if they choose not to pursue formal diagnosis, or if they resonate strongly with ADHD traits but don't meet full diagnostic criteria. Charlotte's personalised coaching is for anyone who resonates with ADHD challenges, struggles with neurotypical productivity advice that just doesn't work, feels constantly overwhelmed despite trying their hardest, or wants practical, brain-friendly strategies regardless of diagnosis status. You will need formal diagnosis if you want ADHD medication or workplace protections under the UK Equality Act 2010. However, if you want Access to Work funding (UK government scheme providing up to £66,000 annually for workplace support including coaching), a diagnosis helps significantly but isn't always required. Don't wait years for a diagnosis to start getting support—personalised coaching provides practical strategies, accountability, and understanding now. Charlotte's approach focuses on your lived experience and actual challenges rather than diagnostic labels. Book your free discovery call to discuss how personalised coaching can help you thrive today, regardless of diagnosis status.

Question 5

Why do I forget things constantly even when they're desperately important?

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If you forget conversations minutes after having them, walk into rooms and immediately forget why, lose your keys multiple times daily, or miss critical appointments despite caring deeply, you're likely experiencing ADHD-related working memory difficulties rather than early-onset dementia or carelessness. Working memory is your brain's ability to hold and use information temporarily—like a mental sticky note system—and ADHD significantly affects this executive function. It's not that you don't care or aren't trying hard enough; your brain simply processes and retains information differently to neurotypical brains. Common working memory struggles with ADHD include forgetting what someone just said mid-conversation, losing track of tasks when interrupted (even for seconds), struggling to follow multi-step instructions without writing everything down, and forgetting important deadlines despite genuinely caring about them. Charlotte's personalised ADHD coaching helps you build external systems that work as your brain's backup memory—phone reminders, visual cues, strategic note-taking methods, and body doubling accountability. Rather than fighting your working memory challenges, you'll learn to work with them through personalised strategies tailored to your lifestyle and specific forgetting patterns. Charlotte also incorporates gut-brain health approaches, as nutrition and gut health can significantly impact cognitive function and memory in people with ADHD. Book your free discovery call to discuss your specific memory challenges and create a personalised system that actually works for your brain.

Question 6

I did well at school but struggle now—can personalised ADHD coaching still help me?

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Absolutely yes—and this is one of the most common patterns for women with ADHD, particularly those diagnosed later in life. Doing well academically is not evidence you don't have ADHD; it's often evidence you had high intelligence that masked struggles, had structure provided for you (school timetables, parental oversight, clear deadlines), hyperfocused on subjects that interested you, or worked twice as hard as peers to achieve the same results at enormous emotional cost. Many high-achieving women with ADHD weren't diagnosed in childhood because they were quiet daydreamers rather than hyperactive, achieved good grades despite internal chaos, or were labelled bright but disorganised or not reaching potential. The real test often comes when external structure disappears—university, first job, living independently, parenthood—and suddenly everything feels impossible. Charlotte's personalised coaching specifically addresses this high-functioning ADHD experience. You'll identify where you've been compensating unsustainably, build systems that replace the structure that used to exist externally, develop strategies for environments without natural deadlines or accountability, and learn to recognise when you're masking or overworking to hide struggles. Charlotte herself understands the unique challenges facing professional women with ADHD and creates coaching that fits your life, not generic advice. It's never too late to get support—many of Charlotte's clients are successful professionals in their 30s, 40s, or 50s who are tired of working three times harder than everyone else just to appear normal. Book your free discovery call to discuss your specific challenges and create a personalised approach.

Question 7

What's the difference between personalised ADHD coaching and therapy? Which do I need?

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ADHD coaching and therapy serve fundamentally different purposes, and understanding this distinction helps you choose the right support. Therapy focuses on emotional processing, past experiences, and treating mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, or trauma—it asks why do I feel this way and explores your history. Personalised ADHD coaching is action-oriented, future-focused, and practical—it asks what do I do now and builds concrete strategies for daily life. Choose personalised ADHD coaching if you want practical strategies for focus, time management, and organisation, accountability and structure to implement changes, help creating ADHD-friendly routines and systems, or guidance while waiting for NHS assessment. Choose therapy if you need help with trauma, clinical depression, or anxiety disorders, exploration of past experiences affecting current wellbeing, or treatment for co-occurring mental health conditions. Many people benefit from both simultaneously—Charlotte's coaching addresses the what strategies work for my ADHD brain while therapy addresses why do I feel so much shame about my struggles. Charlotte works collaboratively with therapists when clients are seeing both, ensuring approaches complement rather than duplicate. Her personalised approach recognises that every person's ADHD presents differently and requires tailored strategies, not one-size-fits-all solutions. Book your free discovery call to discuss whether coaching, therapy, or both would best serve your current needs and goals.

Question 8

Can personalised ADHD coaching help if I've been diagnosed late (as an adult)?

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Yes—personalised coaching is particularly powerful for late-diagnosed adults, and this is a core specialty of Charlotte's practice. Being diagnosed with ADHD in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond is increasingly common, especially for women who were systematically missed in childhood due to gender bias in ADHD research and diagnosis. Late diagnosis can be simultaneously relieving and overwhelming—relief at finally having answers, but grief and anger at years lost to self-blame. Charlotte's personalised coaching for late-diagnosed adults helps you reframe your past (those failures weren't personal flaws—they were undiagnosed ADHD symptoms), build ADHD-friendly systems from scratch rather than continuing to use neurotypical strategies that never worked, unlearn decades of shame, self-criticism, and internalised messages that you were lazy or broken, and identify your ADHD-related strengths like creativity, hyperfocus, problem-solving, and lateral thinking. Late diagnosis often means you've developed compensatory strategies that worked for years but are now causing burnout—Charlotte helps you identify which coping mechanisms to keep and which to release. She also supports you in navigating disclosure decisions (work, family, friendships), understanding how ADHD has shaped your relationships and career path, and building self-compassion after years of not knowing why everything felt harder for you. It's never too late to learn how your brain works and stop fighting against it—Charlotte works with women across all ages and life stages. Book your free discovery call to discuss your late-diagnosis experience and create a personalised coaching plan.

Question 9

I'm on the NHS ADHD waiting list—what can personalised coaching do for me now?

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With NHS ADHD waiting lists in Birmingham and across the UK stretching to 3-7 years for adults in some areas, waiting passively isn't an option if you're struggling now. Personalised ADHD coaching provides immediate practical support without requiring formal diagnosis, giving you strategies and systems that work while you wait for NHS assessment. Charlotte's coaching helps you implement ADHD-specific strategies for focus, organisation, and time management that neurotypical advice never addresses, build external accountability structures so you're not relying purely on willpower, explore whether ADHD resonates with your lived experience through structured self-assessment, and create coping strategies for your specific challenges (work, relationships, household management). Critically, Charlotte can also guide you through the Access to Work application process—a UK government scheme providing up to £66,000 annually for workplace support including coaching, often funded at 100% with no cost to you. Many people don't realise you can apply for Access to Work before receiving formal NHS diagnosis, though diagnosis helps significantly. You can also explore Right to Choose (England only) to reduce NHS waiting times to 3-12 months with alternative providers, consider private assessment (£500-£1,500) if financially viable, or connect with support communities while you wait. Don't waste years waiting for permission to get support—personalised coaching provides tools, strategies, and understanding now that will benefit you whether you're eventually diagnosed or not. Book your free discovery call to discuss your current struggles and create a personalised support plan while you wait.

Question 10

Why is everything so overwhelming? Even simple tasks feel impossible with ADHD.

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If simple tasks like replying to an email, doing laundry, making a phone call, or loading the dishwasher feel like climbing Everest, you're experiencing ADHD-related executive dysfunction and overwhelm—not weakness or laziness. Executive functions are your brain's management system for planning, prioritising, initiating tasks, and regulating emotions, and ADHD significantly affects all these processes. Everything feels impossible with ADHD because of task initiation struggles (your brain can't generate motivation to start, even when consequences are severe), decision fatigue (too many choices cause complete shutdown), emotional dysregulation (small frustrations trigger disproportionate emotional responses), and mental exhaustion (you're working 10 times harder than neurotypical people just to function at baseline). This isn't a character flaw—it's a neurodevelopmental condition affecting brain chemistry and structure. Charlotte's personalised ADHD coaching helps you identify what's draining you most through detailed exploration of your daily challenges, break overwhelming tasks into genuinely achievable micro-steps your brain can accept, build momentum through small wins rather than tackling everything at once, and create personalised systems that reduce daily decision-making load. Charlotte also incorporates gut-brain health approaches, as gut inflammation and nutritional deficiencies can significantly worsen ADHD symptoms including overwhelm and emotional regulation. Rather than generic just make a to-do list advice, personalised coaching creates strategies specifically for your life, responsibilities, and unique ADHD presentation. Book your free discovery call to discuss your specific overwhelm patterns and create a personalised plan that makes daily life genuinely manageable.

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