Your Team
Our certified coaches have over 100 years of combined experience working with individuals with ADHD of all ages. Each coach has different specialties.
Please check out more below to learn what each ADHD Coach on the Coaching With Brooke Team can do for you!
JUSTIN
ADHD and LD Life Coach
Works with: Students and Adults
Justin Converse became a certified life coach in 2018 through The Life Coach Institute of Orange County and began working with both children and adults before starting his training with JST Coaching and Training. JST focuses on working with teens and adults with ADHD and Executive Functioning issues. Prior to coaching, Justin majored in psychology at Ohio University, and it is because of his experiences there that sparked his interest in coaching. At age six, he was diagnosed with ADHD as well as a Learning Disability. Because of this, he was medicated at an early age and an Individual Education Plan (IEP) was established. Back then it was standard to treat ADHD and Executive Functioning issues solely with medications and academic accommodations because it was assumed he couldn’t succeed on his own. In school, he was very disorganized, but because of these accommodations he always had someone to make sure he turned in his work on time. However, this situation set him up for failure once he started university. Without the IEP and personal instructor, he struggled to keep his life organized and to find the motivation to study.
These struggles with basic life skills made Justin realize the benefits of having a knowledgeable and experienced coach and has given him a passion to help others succeed and achieve their goals. Combining Justin’s personal experience with his knowledge of ADHD and executive functioning, Justin and his clients can work together to reach their goals and attain the skills needed to succeed in life. Justin's belief is that once you take the step to join in the online coaching process, nothing is out of reach. Justin's hobbies include paddle-boarding with his boyfriend, taking the dog to the beach, and traveling as much as possible.
DEA
Executive Function Coach
Works with: Students and Adults
Dea, is certified professional life coach through The Life Coach Institute, has worked with the company over 2 years, and has over 11 years teaching experience. As a teacher, she observed how individuals with similar struggles all benefited from learning strategies they would consistently use, but what worked for one didn’t always work for another. As an online ADHD coach, she spends time helping clients identify their Executive Function weakness and strengths and the impact on their life. Then, she works with her clients to create unique systems that help them manage their time, prioritizing plans, organizing, or even regulating stress and emotions. Through consistent use and monitoring, she helps clients take these systems and turn them into habits that allows clients to see the changes they are looking for.
Dea received her Bachelor's summa cum laude from St.John’s University, as a dual major in Childhood Education and Special Education. While teaching in Queens, graduated summa cum laude with a Master of Science in Education in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from St.John’s. With multiple teaching certifications, she worked in a variety of class settings and grades, working with individuals and their diverse needs. Working predominantly as a Special Education teacher has given her an extensive background in both knowledge and personal experience with ADHD and individualized education plans (IEP).
Currently, Dea lives in Florida where she homeschools her son who has ADHD. She enjoys being outside with her family, helping the neighbor’s care for their farm animals, and dedicated to learning something new everyday. Dea's approach at home is the same with all her clients to build a strong foundation based on the individual’s needs, learn different strategies and approaches to solve issues, and create systems around what works best.
MÁRTA
ADHD and Executive Function Coach
Works with: Creative Students and Adults
Márta Vajda, M.Ed., is an educational consultant, coach, and researcher, who is passionate about bringing out the best in students and creative adults with ADHD. Her evidence-based work focuses on improving well-being and achieving and measuring positive lived experiences. She draws on over 12 years of diverse experience in education with a variety of student needs across the globe. She helps motivated students with organizational, time-management, and goal-achieving strategies to improve their specific lifestyle skills and find non-medical ways to better manage ADHD symptoms through online ADHD coaching.
Márta holds degrees in International Relations, Business, and the Social Foundations of Multicultural Education from Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University, respectively. She is pursuing a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration in the positive lifelong educational outcomes for students with ADHD. She holds certifications in the Foundations of Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, Educational Consulting, and Teaching English as a Second Language. She is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), a graduate member of both the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
She is a writer, abstract artist, rock climber, and avid traveler. While roots started in her native country of Hungary, they've extended far and wide from Canada to the U.S., where she continues to be a lifelong learner building on knowledge about humanistic psychology and social impact that explores the depths of human potential. She believes every student has the capacity to be the best version of themselves and, with the right tools in place, including support, accountability, and the genuine care of a coach, they can live a life with purpose and meaning.
KELLY
ADHD and Growth Mindset Coach
Works with: Adults and Students
Kelly is an ADHD and Growth Mindset Coach, who focuses on helping her clients adopt a positive mindset, develop self compassion, and identify their individual strengths, as the powerful foundation for lasting change. Kelly is well-versed in the many ways ADHD can manifest in kids, teens and adults, and has an arsenal of tools to help her clients strengthen their executive functioning skills, rewire their brains for more positive thinking, and gain a stronger sense of self worth, all through a compassionate ADHD lens.
Kelly has been mentoring kids, teens and adults, as well as been a vocal coach for the last 13 years. She is the mother of 2 children; one with severe ADHD, and is currently homeschooling, using ADHD friendly teaching styles to adapt to her son’s special needs. She graduated from the ADD Coach Academy (ADDCA).
As a mother, and woman with ADHD herself, Kelly understands the struggle of managing family life, a busy household, and building a business, and looks forward to helping her clients turn from overwhelm and low-self esteem, to confidently thriving.
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EKATERINA
ADHD and 2e Coach
Works with: Adults
Ekaterina is a certified ADHD Coach who works with adults on transforming their lives for the better. Her mission is to help neurodiverse adults create a life of their dreams by reducing everyday struggles, building positive life habits, and increasing joy. Ekaterina enjoys assisting individuals with balancing work, personal projects, relationships, and self-care. Her coaching style is warm, empathetic, and flexible.
She helps ADHDers understand not only how their unique brain wiring works, but also how to take advantage of the performance and character strengths they already possess. She will challenge you to use your innate creativity to create systems and structures that would work for you. If you struggle with inattentiveness, Ekaterina will partner with you to find strategies for success. If it is impulsivity that causes you trouble, she will be happy to share how mindfulness can serve as an antidote (yes, even for our ADHD brains!).
Having been diagnosed later in life, Ekaterina dove in headfirst to learn more about the mind and the brain. She graduated with honors with a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Sciences from the University of California, Davis. Ekaterina worked as a software engineer but became an ADHD online coach to honor her true passion for helping people on their ADHD journey. She completed the Advanced ADHD & Life Coach Training Certification Program at the ADD Coaching Academy. Ekaterina is also a certified yoga instructor, skydiver, and proud space nerd.
LAUREN
ADHD Parent Coach
Works with: Adults and Parents
Lauren is an Adult ADHD and Parent Coach who focuses on helping clients create calm and manage the chaos. Lauren helps clients gain control and balance for themselves, their child and their family. Regardless of the number of family members with ADHD, everyone in the household is impacted. She helps clients learn about the uniquely wired ADHD brain and develop specific strategies to create an environment for success and harmony.
For the past twenty-five years, Lauren has been an advocate and educator for her daughter who struggles with ADHD and Executive Function challenges. She learned to navigate the health and school systems and understands the joy and challenges of parenting a neuro-diverse child. Through patience and persistence, she helped her daughter achieve great success and independence. This experience motivated Lauren to become an online ADHD coach. It is her wish to impart that wisdom to other parents who are struggling with their children or themselves and to support them in their journey.
Lauren received a BA from Boston University and a MPA in Health Policy and Management from New York University. Lauren has coaching certificates from the Co-Active Training Institute and the ADHD Parent Coach Academy. She also holds a certification in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University and a certification in Plant Based Cooking from the Rouxbe School of Cooking. Lauren is a certified Master Vegan Lifestyle Coach and Educator and loves to teach people about compassion and eating healthy through lectures, private chef events and food demonstrations.
Lauren is married with three children and a dog, which is her fourth child. She enjoys entertaining, tennis, photography and travel.
GLORIA
ADHD Productivity Coach
Works with: Adults and Students
Gloria is an ADHD Productivity Coach, who focuses on helping her clients create systems and routines that feel good to them, that focus on their strengths/needs, and that work for how they want to live their life. Gloria is from Annapolis, MD and has over 17 years of Special Education teaching experience. She graduated from Notre Dame of Maryland University with a Masters in Leadership and Education with an emphasis in Special Education. Additionally, she received her Bachelors in English Literature and has a Certification in Administration. She loved her job at the high school teaching English Literature to 9th and 10th graders and working with students on achieving their goals in and outside of the classroom.
Gloria is the mother of 2 boys, one with ADHD, and has also been married for 14 years to a spouse with ADHD! As a woman with ADHD herself, Gloria understands the struggles of being multi-passionate and creating a life and a business that she thrives in while working a full time job, managing the household, the budget and all of their family activities! But, she is also proof that it can be done!
She can't wait to help her online ADHD clients go from feeling chronically chaotic to clear and focused on creating a life they love!