For ADHD coaches
For ADHD and executive-function coaches
Your clients do not have a motivation problem between sessions. They have a follow-through problem, and it shows up on the days you can’t see.
The session is the easy part. Your client leaves with a strategy they genuinely believe in, and the strategy meets a Tuesday. By the time the next call comes around, the calendar block never happened, the working memory of why it mattered is gone, and you spend the first fifteen minutes reconstructing a week instead of coaching it.
Most ADHD memberships already try to close this. An "ask me anything" inbox, a voice-note channel, an accountability team, a co-working room. Every one of those answers the member who raises a hand. The member who most needs you is the one who hasn’t raised a hand in three weeks, and by design your system never reaches her.
The instinct is to message more. That is how coaches burn out, and it doesn’t work anyway, because the useful message is not "how’s it going?" It’s the one that names the specific thing she said she would try.
What a check-in actually looks like
Priya, you didn’t send a question in this week, and I’m not waiting for one. Last Thursday you named the calendar block as the strategy you’d try. Did it hold, or does it need to be smaller?
38 words. One question. Built from her goal, her last session, and the thing that is outstanding.
It is drafted from what you already know about that one client:
- The client’s stated goal, in their words
- What actually came up in the last session
- The one thing they said they would try
- Whether they have opened anything you sent since
You read it, change what you want, and send it. Nothing reaches a client without you. The client name above is an example; the drafting never invents a name or a detail you did not give it.
Questions ADHD coaches actually ask
How do I keep ADHD clients accountable between sessions without nagging them?
Send fewer messages that are far more specific. A check-in that names the exact strategy from the last session and asks one question reads as attention, not surveillance. A generic "checking in!!" reads as pressure precisely because it’s carrying no information. It says nothing. The rule that holds up in practice: one question gets answered, two is a survey.
My ADHD client has gone quiet. What do I actually say?
Name the silence without making it mean anything, then point at their work rather than at the relationship. "You have not been in the room in three weeks and I am not going to guess why" is honest and carries no accusation. Follow it with one concrete question about the commitment they made, not about how they are feeling in general.
Is it unprofessional to message coaching clients between sessions?
It depends entirely on where the message points. "I am always here for you, day or night" builds reliance on you, and clients feel it. A message that points at their goal, the thing they said they would try, and one small ask is not presence, it is follow-through. You’re not saying "I am here." You’re saying "I noticed." Different message.
What does Guided Gen do that my Notion tracker does not?
Your tracker stores what you already know. It doesn’t write Tuesday’s message, it doesn’t put that message in your voice, and it can’t tell you whether the client opened it. Guided Gen drafts from the same fields you’re already keeping by hand, and then shows you who actually engaged, so the next call starts from where they really are.
Does it work for group ADHD memberships, or only 1:1?
Both, and groups are where the gap is widest. In a group the quiet member is invisible by default, because attendance is usually optional and nothing surfaces absence. Check-ins are drafted per member, so the person who missed two sessions gets reached individually without you scanning a roster at 9pm.
Try the drafting before you try the tool
The free prompt walks the same six questions and drafts a check-in you can send today. No account, no download. It arrives in one email and it is yours to keep whether or not you ever pay us anything.
Guided Gen is new. There are no customer reviews or usage numbers on this page because there is nothing yet honest to publish.
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