ADHD Parent Support & Coaching

ADHD Parent Coaching & Support in Columbus, Ohio and Virtually

Parenting a child with ADHD can feel exhausting, confusing, and lonely. The Wear Your Own Hat Parenting Lab helps parents understand their child’s brain, respond with more confidence, and support their family without losing themselves in the process.

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Parenting ADHD Kids Shouldn’t Feel This Hard

You’ve tried the reminders. The charts. The consequences. The deep breaths. The late-night Googling.

Sometimes things work for a minute. Then the battles start again.

Maybe mornings are rough. Homework turns into a shutdown. Screens are a constant fight. Your child melts down over something small, and suddenly everyone in the house is overwhelmed.

You love your child deeply. And you are tired.

The risk is not just that your child keeps struggling. The risk is that you start believing you are failing as a parent.

You are not failing. You need a different lens and the right kind of support.

A Brain-Friendly Approach to Parenting ADHD Kids

I’m Christine Kotik, ADHD coach, former educator, and founder of CK ADHD Coaching & Consulting.

I don’t believe in fixing kids. I help parents understand what is really going on beneath the behavior so they can respond with more clarity, compassion, and confidence.

The Wear Your Own Hat Parenting Lab is built around one core belief:

You cannot sustainably support your child if you are completely depleted, dysregulated, and disconnected from yourself.

That’s why this program supports both your child and you.

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What Makes This Different

Most ADHD parenting support focuses only on the child’s behavior.

This program looks at the whole family system.

Using my ME HAT framework, we explore how to:

Mind your energy and rhythms
Understand when your child, and you, are most likely to struggle.

Establish boundaries that work
Create structure without constant power struggles.

Harness strengths
See your child beyond the challenges and build from what works.

Attend to your whole self
Recognize that parent regulation matters too.

Take time for what lights you up
Stay connected to yourself, your child, and your family life beyond the hard moments.

This is practical support with room to breathe.

When You Understand ADHD Differently, You Can Parent Differently

Inside this program, you will:

✔ Understand ADHD beyond surface-level behavior

✔ Learn why your child may resist, melt down, avoid, argue, or shut down

✔ Reduce shame for both you and your child

✔ Build realistic routines and systems

✔ Navigate school challenges with more confidence

✔ Learn how to support your child without losing yourself

✔ Connect with other parents who get it

Most importantly, you will stop feeling like you have to figure this out alone.

How It Works

1

Start with Foundations

Join a 6-week small-group coaching experience designed to give you the shared language, tools, and perspective you need to better understand your child. Each week includes short teaching, real-life discussion, and coaching around what is actually happening in your home.

2

Practice in Real Life

You will choose small, doable actions each week. Not a total life overhaul. Not a giant parenting plan. Just practical steps that help you respond differently.

3

Continue in The Parent Lab

After Foundations, you can stay for ongoing monthly support through The Parent Lab. Because ADHD parenting does not happen in neat 6-week increments. The Parent Lab gives you a place to bring the real situations that come up next: school stress, homework battles, emotional blowups, sibling dynamics, transitions, screens, and the moments when you think, “What do I do now?”

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Stories of Change

I know what it's like to parent a child with ADHD and I have ADHD myself. There were moments of unbelievable exhaustion and isolation. Coaching with Christine gave me the support and strategies I needed to keep moving forward. I'm still dealing with ADD and anxiety, but I'm living life more fully every day.
AnneParenting client
Christine helped me stop muscling my way through parenthood and start finding real strategies that work. She has ADHD herself and four kids of her own so she understands family dynamics in a way most coaches just don't. I stopped feeling like I was failing and started feeling like I had a plan.
PaulParent coaching client
This year the school program is not as demanding and the teachers are aware of his coping skills he learned with you and can intervene before disaster strikes. So we are all happy.
Adult Client Mom of 6th grade student
I think that the ability for him to talk with you as a coach who “gets” him has been a blessing. He’s gone into this new school situation with confidence and the willingness to adapt outside of his comfort zone. I know that is directly linked to your encouragement and support.
Katie BMom of HS Student
I believe eliminating physical and mental clutter has really helped me this year. I am hoping today to Christmas-Size my house, which means make room for the decorations. So, here I go! Thanks Christine! Your support is priceless.
Melissa MAdult Client
So, this process is truly connecting me to that part if myself that I felt I lost so many years ago when my husband died. I am remembering how to manage the clutter again, the chaos of ADHD. What’s really interesting is that through this process, I am having realizations about myself that are similar to what I might experience in therapy. But, it’s my discovery.
Shelly GAdult Client
Christine is professional and reliable. I always felt like I could count on her. Also, she is adept at taking my sometimes chaotic situation and reflecting it back to me so that I could see my choices and next steps. It felt like she simplified things for me so that I could move forward.
Dan RAdult Client
Christine helped me to understand how to look at a big project and not get overwhelmed. I think one of the things that will help me create the order and structure in my house is using this coaching to attack the clutter in small quadrants. She helped me realize that I didn’t have to complete a whole project (room) in a day. I developed so much more control over the chaos than I could have imagined. Changes come more easily and it feels good.
Theresa RAdult Client
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The 6-Week Starting Point

Foundations is for parents who want to feel less confused, less reactive, and less alone.

Possible weekly themes include:

✔ What is actually going on with my ADHD child?

✔ Why does everything turn into a battle?

✔ What works when typical parenting strategies do not?

✔ How do I handle school support and advocacy?

✔ What does my child need for the future?

✔ How do I support my child without losing myself?

This is not a lecture series.
This is a coaching-based support space where things start to make sense.

The Parent Lab: Ongoing Support

After Foundations, you may choose to continue in The Parent Lab.

This is where we move from learning to living it.

Each month includes a rotating theme and space for real-time coaching. Topics may include:

✔ Mornings and routines

✔ Homework and motivation

✔ Emotional regulation

✔ Screens and technology

✔ School communication

✔ Sibling dynamics

✔ Parent burnout

✔ Transitions, holidays, and summer

✔ Building independence over time

You can stay as long as the support is useful.

Local and Virtual Support

CK ADHD Coaching & Consulting is based in Columbus, Ohio and serves families across Central Ohio and throughout the country virtually.

Christine brings experience as an ADHD coach, former educator, parent, speaker, and Professional Certified Coach. Her work is grounded in understanding ADHD, executive function, nervous system regulation, and the lived reality of families trying to do their best.

✔ What is actually going on with my ADHD child?

✔ Why does everything turn into a battle?

✔ What works when typical parenting strategies do not?

✔ How do I handle school support and advocacy?

✔ What does my child need for the future?

✔ How do I support my child without losing myself?

This is not a lecture series.
This is a coaching-based support space where things start to make sense.

You Do Not Have to Keep Parenting from Survival Mode

Your child does not need a perfect parent.

They need a supported parent.

If you are ready to better understand your child, respond with more confidence, and find a way forward that supports your whole family, this is a place to start.

Start with Foundations. Stay for the support.

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