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Meet Your Coach: Andrew Macdonald

Who is Andrew Macdonald?
Andrew Macdonald is a highly experienced ADHD and International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited Professional Certified Coach (PCC). He specializes in helping individuals navigate work, organization, and personal life challenges, particularly those impacted by ADHD. With a deep understanding of the unique struggles his clients face, Andrew equips them with tailored strategies to overcome obstacles and move forward with confidence.

Professional Background & Qualifications
ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Advanced ADHD Coach Training (ADDCA, USA)
Member of AADPA & ADHD Coaches Australasia
Graduate Certificate of Professional Accounting, New England University, Australia

Business Coach & Trainer with years of experience in Sydney, Australia
Andrew’s expertise extends beyond ADHD coaching. As a qualified accountant and experienced business coach, he has helped clients meet key performance indicators and workplace goals, ensuring success in both professional and personal settings.

A Passion for ADHD Coaching
For over three years, Andrew has been dedicated to ADHD coaching, a field he is deeply passionate about. His empathetic and client-centered approach creates a safe and validating space, allowing individuals to recognize their strengths, build self-confidence, and embrace personal growth.

A Balanced Approach to Coaching
Andrew believes in the power of “Green Time”—spending time in nature through activities like running, swimming, and being around animals. These practices help boost energy, focus, and overall well-being. He also emphasizes fun, connection, and self-compassion as key components of effective self-management.

Coaching Locations & Availability
Andrew provides coaching sessions online via Zoom and phone, serving clients across Australia, including: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, Newcastle, Geelong, and beyond.
International clients in the U.S. and worldwide.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Coaching?

Briefly coaching is about creating a deep self awareness in a person of what their challenges and difficulty is in being the person they wish to be, building a picture of where they would like to be with their life and then setting small goals to take themselves from where they are to where they want to go.

For example, a person who is often impulsive becomes deeply aware of what triggers their impulsivity, the thoughts and feelings they have at such moments and the behaviour it triggers in them and off course the results of those behaviours.

The next thing coaching helps the person do, is define the thoughts, feelings and behaviours they wish to have. For example they may wish to think clearly, feel calm and confident and replace impulsive behaviours with less reactive behaviours and more sustainable and positive ones.

The last step of coaching is to help the person look for simple, realistic and effective ways to get from where they are to where they would like to go. In our example they would want to avoid their trigger situations that spark impulsivity but also focus on their strengths, enjoy calming activities, connect with their true selves and slowly over time replace reactivity and impulsivity with being the people they want to be and practicing positive and sustainable behaviours over and over again.

Coaching helps identify the challenging behaviours and how they show up as well as the strengths of the person and the positive behaviours that they can replace behaviours that are not serving them well, with.

Why is Coaching So Successful?

The simple answer to this question is that Coaching works. The self awareness and realisation acts as deep motivation to propel the person towards the person he/she wishes to be and he/she pursues positive and effective behaviours more consistently.

In a survey conducted by ADDitude magazine on more than 4000 people effected by ADHD, ADHD coaching was rated as extremely or very effective by 48% of people who were managing their ADHD with Coaching. This was more than all other treatments except exercise (56%). It was more than medication (40%), CBT (42%) and all other interventions including mindfulness, nutrition, neurofeedback and other home based brain training.

Is Coaching Worth The Expense

Coaching can be expensive but may reward exponentially if you find the life you really want to have. A lot of peoples’ lives remain blocked today because of factors reasonably easy to deal with if they can access the right support and tools to take their life forward.

Coaching can be just the support and tools such people need. Getting their lives back may pay rewards in many different aspects of their lives. Most people find, for example, if they improve their organising skills they are happier, are more confident, enjoy better relationships and may earn more money. If they can find ways to manage their impulsivity and reactivity they are likely to enjoy better relationships, be more calm and confident and may develop their strengths and enjoy many rewards as a result of that.

Also, some coaches will be open to negotiating their rates if someone is committed to coaching but may not be able to afford it. Be open and state your circumstances and what your budget will allow and it’s likely it will be negotiable by someone. But it’s more important to look for someone who you feel comfortable with and get on with.

How Can I Get the Most Out of Coaching

To be successful at coaching a person needs to truly embrace the principles of coaching. These include:
• Being open to the possibility that real change is possible.
• Being open in the partnership with your coach and expressing clearly what your challenges are and what changes you would like to make.
• Be willing to take one’s life in the direction of their strengths and move away from things/people they find challenging to do/deal with.
• Take responsibility to follow through on commitments they make at coaching to bring change to their life.
• Be regular at coaching and work slowly and consistently at their challenges and the changes they wish to bring about.

How is it different from Therapy?

Therapy and coaching approaches a person’s challenges from different perspective. Below is a brief description of the differences.

THERAPY, mainly answers the WHY question in the person that has some challenges going on in their life. It considers a person’s past, including their childhood, to understand and answer questions relating to their current psychological state and challenges. In this way the person heals and is able to feel more calm.

COACHING on the other hand answers the questions of WHO, WHAT and HOW. WHO the person is today, and WHO they want to be in the future. WHAT thoughts, feelings and behaviours exist today that may present challenges and WHAT are the desired future thoughts, feelings and behaviours the person wishes to create for them-self. Finally, the HOW is the means to take the person from where they are to where they want to go. Thus, coaching mainly doesn’t consider a person’s past but just the present and future to resolve the person’s challenges. It uses positive psychology to work with their strengths with little emphasis of what their past has been or why they have the challenges they do.

Why Is It Coaching Becoming More Popular

There are a number of changes in society over the last few decades that has increased the need and popularity for coaching. Internationally changes brought about by the internet, smartphone, apps and other media and technology advances has brought about a very fast pace of life together with additional uncertainty and rapid change. The consequence of this in people’s lives is that they are forced to accept change and events even when they are not ready for it and with insufficient time to process the change and determine how to adapt to new circumstances. Where a person’s life is impacted by such changes, they may develop challenges that can last long into the future. Coaching has become the means for many people to process some of the consequences of these rapid changes in society and their effects on their lives. Thus professional and personal coaching has been found useful and even a necessity in recent decades. Some other factors that have increased the need for coaching include:

• Downsizing: Both business changes and lifestyle changes can create issues that coaching can help with.
• Specific skills: A lot of work changes today require specific skills and high productivity that coaching can help with. Coaching can hone the skills of people to their specific requirements by achieving clarity around their roles, where they are at and where they need to go to.
• Gain personal control of their lives: More people today want more control over their lives and coaching helps deliver that.
• Word of mouth: People talk about their experience with coaching and this has made people aware of how it might help them and made coaching more popular.

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