If you’re an adult with ADHD, you’re in the right place.
I’m Melia Dicker, a Certified Professional Coach for adults with ADHD.
I know what it’s like to be smart but scatterbrained, driven but disorganized, perfectionistic but prone to mistakes.
I became an ADHD coach to guide people like me through the process of self-acceptance and personal and professional growth.
Through 1:1 virtual coaching, you’ll learn to play to the strengths of your wildly creative brain.
By experimenting with ADHD-friendly strategies, you’ll learn how to get the right things done with less stress.
I would love to help you produce the results you intend to, and most importantly, to see that you are someone who can.
Work With Me
All sessions take place via Zoom video conferencing and are 50 minutes each. Longer sessions may be scheduled on request. To make steady progress, weekly sessions are recommended, but the frequency is up to you.
— What Clients Say —
“Working on a game plan together to tackle my week has been awesome! I feel like I'm finally beginning to understand how my brain works.”
Spiral upward.
You may be all too familiar with downward spirals into shame, anxiety, and choices that don’t serve you. As imperfect humans and ADHDers, we’ve all been there.
Thankfully, you can reverse the direction at any moment and begin to spiral upward. You’ll recognize how far you’ve already come, observe where you are now, and get clear about how you want to grow.
As you learn to regulate your attention, emotions, and behavior, you can accomplish the things you want to do and treat yourself with kindness, especially when you stumble.
Little by little, you can evolve into your most authentic self and learn to have your own back, no matter what. I would love to guide you through this process.
Use the Rising Spiral progress tracker to see how far you’ve come and where you’re still growing
— What Clients Say —
"Melia, you are seriously changing my life—or rather, unseriously! 😄 The days since our session have been so different. I feel a sense of possibility. I’ve been giving myself credit for what I am doing — and therefore have been doing more and doing it more effectively, making changes, and feeling so much better.”
Focus Areas
Adulting with ADHD
Accept your wild, creative ADHD brain and learn to work with it, not against it
Forgive yourself for past missteps and replace negative self-talk with relentless self-compassion and self-acceptance
Figure out a blend of executive function and emotional regulation strategies that work for you
Experts in the field agree that “Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder” is a misnomer, because ADHDers don’t have a deficit of attention and may not show hyperactivity. They do have difficulty with self-regulation, including attention and emotion.
Because of the intensity and impulsivity of this neurobiological brain difference, ADHD can wreak havoc on every aspect of your life — your health and safety, career, relationships, and finances — if you don’t actively manage it.
The good news is that ADHD is highly treatable with medication and targeted skill-building. You can learn to work around its challenges and channel its strengths, ultimately thriving more than you ever have before.
You’ll realize that ADHD has advantages, too: ADHDers tend to be the funniest, most creative and insightful people you’ll ever meet.
Many of us weren’t diagnosed until later in life, particularly during the pandemic, and are now reshaping our identities to include our ADHD. We’re learning how to navigate the world all over again in ways that work for our neurodivergent brains. I’ll coach you through this challenging but highly rewarding process.
Coaching can be tailored to those with new and/or late-in-life diagnoses, 2e (Twice Exceptional / gifted) or two-generation ADHDers (parents with ADHD who have kids with ADHD).
Letting Go of Perfectionism and Negative Self-Talk
Reconnect with your true self and what really matters to you
Do what you want to do, not what you “should” do, without guilt or apology
Learn how to be kind to yourself when you fall short of expectations, accepting that we are all imperfect and evolving humans
If you struggle with perfectionism and negative self-talk like I have, you often feel stressed, frustrated, and exhausted. Nothing ever lives up to your ideals or satisfies your inner critic.
You compare yourself to others — especially those without ADHD — and zoom in on what’s wrong, so it’s easy to miss what’s right. You may have done what you “should” for so long that you’ve lost sight of what you want to do.
You can learn to replace judgment with compassion and erase “should” from your vocabulary, accepting — even appreciating! — what is. This has changed my life, and it will change yours.
— What Clients Say —
“Melia provided techniques I can use to move from perfectionism toward self-compassion. She offered tangible skills that I’m using in my day-to-day life and asked insightful questions that made me truly examine parts of myself in new ways.”