Meet Your Coach
Hi! My Name is Kristi and I hope to be your new coach! A Coach is someone who teaches a specific skill. Coaching refers to a method of training, counseling or instructing an individual or a group how to develop skills to enhance their productivity or overcome a performance problem. Should you embark on the coaching journey with me, I will help you develop skills and strategies for overcoming the “performance problems” of everyday life, such as difficulties with planning, organizing, time management and staying on track, which are also known as executive functions. As your coach, I will provide a safe, nonjudgmental place for you to focus on what matters to you. Think of me as your Accountability Partner!
A Bit About Me and My Vision
My vision for ADDaptable Solutions is to help adults, with or without ADD/ADHD, make everyday tasks less daunting and more manageable by increasing awareness and developing a personal toolbox. A toolbox is a way to organize the strategies you have found successful for managing your difficulties. It is a reminder of what works, and sometimes, what does not. Together we will create a toolbox that maximizes your ability to get back on track, and minimize the time it takes to do it!
The Formal Stuff
I am a wife and mother to two busy teenage children. My son has been diagnosed with ADHD since the age of five and I have experienced all the parenthood ups and downs of raising (and continuing to raise) a neurodivergent child. I am very familiar with IEP meetings, behavior plans, specialists, medications, and therapies. This diagnosis has personal significance to me.
Educationally, I have a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Clinical and School Psychology, and an Educational Specialist Degree in School Psychology.
I am a Certified Life Coach
I am completing certification for Mindfulness coaching
I have nearly thirty years of experience helping people overcome cognitive limitations and maximizing functioning. For the past 12 years I have been working with adults who have sustained cognitive impairment as a result of concussion. In one-to-one therapy, I helped people rehabilitate cognitive deficits in attention, memory, language, visual processing and executive functioning and develop skills and strategies for improving their daily functioning. I have also worked as a trained psychometrician administering neuropsychological testing. In addition, I have worked in the public school system (Primarily K-8) as a School Psychologist, writing IEP and behavior plans, and performing psychological and learning evaluations.