Your ADHD kid isn't giving you a hard time. They're having a hard time — and so are you.
I'm Mandy, an ADHD coach for kids and the parents who love them. Together we turn the homework wars, the morning chaos, and the "why won't they just listen?" days into real skills, real confidence, and a home that finally feels calmer.
Trained by ADDCA (the ADD Coach Academy) Basic ADHD Coach Training, Fundamentals of Coaching for Families. Certified by the International Coaching Federation as a Professional Certified Coach. Serving ADHD kids, families and adults in person in the Minneapolis/St Paul area and other areas online virtually. Learn the machine. Play it well.
Does this sound like your house?
If any of this lives at your house, you're in exactly the right place.
If you've ever…
Asked the same thing five times and ended up just doing it yourself
Watched a 20-minute worksheet swallow an entire evening
Heard your bright, funny kid mutter "I'm just dumb", and felt your heart crack
Lost your patience, then lost sleep over losing your patience
Been told to "just be more consistent" by people who don't live in your house
...you are not a bad parent, and your kid is not a bad kid.
You're both worn out by a brain that's wired differently - and nobody ever handed either of you the manual. So let’s learn the machine together.
The turn
There's a reason the usual advice isn't working.
ADHD isn't a behavior problem you can punish into shape. It's a difference in how the brain regulates, how it starts, plans, remembers, and manages big emotions. Sticker charts and consequences don't build those skills. But coaching does.
That’s the work we do together. I coach your child to build the skills and self-belief they are missing, and coach you, so new strategies actually stick at home, in real life, on your hardest days.
Less yelling. Less guilt. More "I did it myself, Mom."
How I help
Support for your kid — and for you.
There's no one-size-fits-all here. Pick the help that fits your family right now.
1:1 Coaching for Kids & Teens
I partner directly with your child to build executive-function skills, getting started, staying organized, managing big feelings, inside a relationship where they feel capable, not corrected. They leave each session with a win they chose.
Parent Coaching
You can't out-discipline an ADHD brain. I'll teach you how your child's brain actually works and the calm, concrete responses that lower conflict instead of fueling it, so you lead with a plan instead of running on willpower.
Family Support
The whole system, working together: your child builds skills while you build the home that lets those skills stick. Everyone rowing the same direction, and the change holds.
Meet Mandy
Hi, I'm Mandy — and I get it.
I'm an ADHD coach for kids and families, trained through the ADD Coach Academy. I don't show up with a clipboard and a list of everything your kid is doing wrong. I show up curious, on your team, and focused on one thing: what works for them, helping your child learn their machine, their brain - and helping you become the calm, confident guide they need.
SOCIAL Proof
Parents are seeing the difference.
For the first time in years, homework didn't end in tears. For either of us.
— Parent, mom of a 9-year-old
Coach Mandy helped me figure out how MY brain works. Now I start my homework without freaking out.
— Client, age 11
She gave us a plan instead of one more thing to feel guilty about. Our whole house is calmer.
— Parent of two
Take the TILT Assessment and See What is Throwing Things off in your House
Not ready to book? Totally fine. Take my free quiz to see if regulation, skills or systems is the current challenge at play in your house.
Regulation: Safety before strategy. Calm before skills.
Skills
Systems
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Take the TILT Assessment and See What is Throwing Things off in your House
Not ready to book? Totally fine. Take my free quiz to see if regulation, skills or systems is the current challenge at play in your house.
Regulation: Safety before strategy. Calm before skills.
Skills
Systems
One quick confirmation email, no spam, unsubscribe anytime.
Picture the version of your home where mornings aren't a battlefield and your kid says "I've got this."
That version is closer than it feels right now. Let's talk. Book a free, no-pressure call and tell me what's going on at your house.
ADHD KID COACH
Learn the machine. Play it well. 🧠🎯
ADHD Kid Coach, LLC