Career coaches for neurodivergent adults
Compare 42 career coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching. They most often work with neurodivergent adults, professionals and students. Most charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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Ash Cross
Ash Cross is a career coach and master's programs admissions consultant. Ash helps grad students, career changers, and senior professionals with resumes, mock interviews, and job searches. Ash spent time at Carnegie Mellon University, where they worked with the MSCF finance program and 16 Master's Engineering programs. There, Ash coached 300+ MSCF students, and all of them landed internships. Ash went full-time with their practice this year and booked 20 clients in the first month.
Benjamin Fitzgerald
Benjamin Fitzgerald is a career coach in New York who helps IT and tech professionals reinvent their careers. He also works as an AI transformation consultant and executive coach. He has 16+ years in senior IT-led business transformation. He moved from analyst to global director in under 10 years at a data science firm. He has supported 100+ IT professionals with promotions, industry moves, and ADHD-focused strategies.
Cristin Downs
Cristin Downs is a career pivot coach for experienced professionals who need a change. Clients come from higher education, K-12, healthcare, nonprofits, the arts, pharma, finance, marketing and media. Cristin has held more than 40 jobs across more than a dozen industries and has worked as a recruiter, talent sourcer and hiring manager. Most of Cristin's early professional experience was in the theatre. The work covers strategy, resumes, LinkedIn, interview prep and offer evaluation.
Declan Katwala
Declan Katwala is a career and life coach based in Bristol. He helps university students, emerging professionals and employees who face change, new roles or career decisions. He has worked for more than a decade across education, non-profit and private healthcare settings. He holds a certificate in neurodiversity coaching and uses DISC profiling to explore communication style. He also coaches people from underrepresented backgrounds and works with organisations.
Josh Mandell
Josh Mandell is a career coach who helps people make big career moves, especially in big tech and corporate jobs. He spent seven years at Snap leading partnerships with Amazon and Apple. He now runs a Large Customer Sales team at Wondery, part of Amazon. He has also worked at EA. He has ADHD and also coaches others with ADHD on using it as a strength in their careers.
Kristin Hendrix
Kristin Hendrix is a career and leadership coach who helps professionals make intentional career moves and build leadership presence. She has a focus on women who balance work and home roles. She created the Energizers & Drainers Coaching Method over 20 years. She started leading at 21 with a group of Marines. She also works with executives, working caregivers, tech professionals and neurodiverse clients through her practice, Leadership VITAE.
Mabel Bachini
Mabel Bachini is a career change coach who helps people leave jobs that drain them and build careers that fit who they are. Her main focus is neurodivergent women. She holds an ICF PCC credential and trained as a mindfulness teacher. She uses her own Career Compass Method, a 5 month one-on-one program. She was born in England, lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and started coaching in 2019 after her own career crisis.
Mindful Career
Mindful Career is a psychologist-led career counselling and coaching practice in Canada. It helps people find the right career, land a new job, choose a study path, and move into leadership. The team includes psychologists, career counsellors, strategists and academic advisors. Clients are matched with the specialist who fits their goals and background. Work draws on psychometric assessments, values profiling and personality analysis. The practice offers four named programs, and its services are insurance reimbursable.
Ben Tobin
Ben Tobin is a career, ADHD and leadership coach in Portland, Oregon. He mainly coaches tech and software professionals, including developers, engineers, managers and leaders. He also works with adults who have ADHD and with entrepreneurs. Ben spent 20 years in the software industry as an engineer and as a manager of software teams. He builds an action plan with small steps and keeps clients accountable along the way.
Jess Jarmo
Jess Jarmo is a career and life coach for people with ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety and autism. Jess brings over 18 years in recruitment to the work, along with an MBA in Human Resources. Clients learn how hiring managers think, practice with mock interviews, and build a 3 to 5 year career plan. Jess also lives with dyslexia, anxiety and ADHD, and leads a team of neurodivergent career coaches based in Massachusetts.
Krista Vaught
Krista Vaught is a career and life design coach. She helps higher education professionals and executive assistants find their strengths, decide what work they want, and plan how to get there. She uses design thinking and holds Designing Your Life, Gallup Strengths, and ICF ACC credentials. Her clients include staff who feel stuck in dead end roles and people who want to leave higher ed or stay in a new role. She also coaches highly sensitive people.
Michelle Kevill
Michelle Kevill is a career and life coach for high-achieving neurodivergent women in corporate jobs. She helps clients handle stress, burnout, boundaries, workplace politics and emotional regulation. Before coaching, she worked long corporate hours and burned out. Coaching helped her recover, and she was promoted within a year. She runs the Corporate Glow Up Program and hosts a podcast for neurodivergent women who want to build careers on their own terms.
Gina Robinson
Gina Robinson is a career and life coach in Barre, Vermont. She helps people who want a new job or feel unhappy in their current career. She works with BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent clients, and with anyone who feels they don't fit in. She is a Certified Professional Resume Writer. She coaches through guiding questions and reflective listening. She also helps clients spot limiting beliefs, emotions and fears that get in the way of career choices.
Carrie Jones
Carrie Jones is a career coach and life coach in Minnesota. She helps people get unstuck and grow. Her coaching draws on brain science and nervous system awareness. She works with people who have ADHD, individual contributors, moms, and people who feel burned out. She looks at balance across career, family, community, and health. She is working toward her ICF credentials. Sessions are flexible, so clients can handle new challenges while they stay on their goals.
Elspeth Wadsworth
Elspeth Wadsworth is a career, life and business coach. She helps business owners, start ups and individuals who want more fulfilling work and personal lives. She does not stick to one niche. She treats work and personal life as linked, and coaches the whole person instead of one problem. Her business coaching draws on a background in marketing and business management. She holds an EMCC EIA and a Transformational Coaching Certificate.
Alex Gilbert
Alex Gilbert is a coach and consultant who helps adults with ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences do better at work. She also advises companies on neurodiversity. Alex spent her early career in corporate leadership and development before founding Cape-Able Consulting. She has ADHD and dyslexia herself. She works one on one with individuals and with teams inside organizations. She also gives keynotes and joins panels on neurodiversity in the workplace.
Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills
Barbara Anne Gardenhire-Mills is a leadership coach who works with executives, leaders, business owners and people going through career transitions. Over half of her executive and leadership clients are ADHD or neurodiverse. She has helped more than 2,125 companies, businesses and individuals since 2002. She also works as a nonprofit compliance director in Camden, NJ, and hosts a weekly streaming talk show. Earlier she worked for the SBA and for HUD.
Caitlyn McGinley
Caitlyn McGinley coaches students and professionals in college admissions, executive functioning and career moves into product management. She leads AI Service Transformation at Natera. She is a former Stanford researcher. She has worked in research, clinical, school and workplace settings for over 5 years and has worked with over 800 people on school and work placement. She also helps people get accommodations at work and in school.
Christina Steger
Christina Steger is an ADHD and career change coach who owns Balanced Approach Coaching. She works online with college students, graduate students, young adults and perfectionists. She has spent 3 years in counseling, as a school counselor and in private practice, and holds licenses in both. She also worked in a school specialized for students with ADHD. She is working toward Board Certified Coach status. She also coaches people who support loved ones with ADHD.
Elizabeth Gentzkow
Elizabeth Gentzkow, who goes by Lizz, is an executive, leadership and career coach who also works with adults who have ADHD. She helps high-achieving professionals, executives and entrepreneurs. She is a Board Certified Coach and a Licensed Professional Counselor with a background in Organizational Behavior. She runs Thrive West in Oregon and has 15+ years of experience. Her work also covers teams and organizations, including an 8-week mindfulness program for leaders.
Funmi Oni
Funmi Oni is a London life, career and ADHD coach. She works with professionals, young adults and neurodiverse people. Before coaching, she spent 30 years as a management consultant. She worked at IBM, NatWest and The Royal Bank of Scotland, and she was an IT Director at KPMG. She holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in ADHD. She also works with organisations on neurodiversity at work and in education.
Kadir Buvan
Kadir Buvan is a coach for artists, writers and creatives, and for people managers. He started his practice, Kolam Creative Collective, in 2021. He first coached tech workers on leadership and career, then moved toward creative coaching, writing and facilitation. Before coaching, he worked as a software engineer and then an engineering manager. He also worked on teams at the Wikimedia Foundation. He trained at the Academy of Creative Coaching.
Margreet Adriani
Margreet Adriani is a life, career and ADHD coach who helps high-achieving professionals find balance between work, relationships and health. She has coached since 2013, starting as a lifestyle coach. She holds an ICF certification through UC Davis and a bachelor's degree in Dietetics. She is also a values coach, health coach and personal trainer. She founded Lighten Your Plate. ADHD coaching is one of her specialties.
Maureen Hilton
Maureen Hilton is a career and life coach who focuses on neurodiversity, with deep expertise in autism and Asperger's. She coaches adults, college students and partners in neurodivergent relationships. She also trains coaches, HR teams, recruiters and organizations. She spent over 20 years as a Harvard University administrator in Career Services, Human Resources, Recruiting and Disability Services. She works in Massachusetts and uses CliftonStrengths in her own work.
Oliver Haughton
Oliver Haughton is an Atlanta life coach who works with ADHD and AuDHD adults. He studied community psychology at Georgia State and worked with the Grady Trauma Project and AvitaCare. He is AuDHD himself and was diagnosed as an adult after six jobs in twenty years. He founded ADHDWorks.biz, a career and coaching platform built for neurodivergent people. His clients get a 30-60-90 day plan, a work style assessment, and one-on-one coaching.
Christina Watkins
Christina Watkins is a coach in Long Beach, California. She helps adults with ADHD, career transitions, productivity and daily life skills. She spent 10 years as a career coach and employment specialist for a nonprofit and a government program in Los Angeles. She served two tours in Iraq with the army. She also works with adult children of hoarders, and she grew up in a hoarded home herself.
Funmi Oni
Funmi Oni is a London life and career coach who also coaches people with ADHD. She works with professionals, young adults and neurodiverse people. She spent 30 years as a management consultant and worked with organisations such as IBM and NatWest. She founded Ataraxia Coaching and holds an ICF Associate Certified Coach credential and a Diploma in ADHD. She also works with organisations on neurodiversity at work and in education.
Ginny Johnson
Ginny Johnson is an independent educational consultant who helps high school, undergraduate and graduate students plan for college and graduate school. She runs Pathways to Admission LLC in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Her work centers on students headed into allied health fields such as pre-med, physician assistant, physical therapy and nursing. She has visited more than 500 schools and supported more than 18,000 students. She also advises students with ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences.
Lisa Lawrence
Lisa Lawrence is an executive and ADHD coach who works with high-capacity professionals facing growth, transition or burnout. Her clients include lawyers, executives, founders, engineers and neurodivergent leaders. She began her career as a lawyer, then moved into senior leadership and HR roles at Amazon. She runs Reunion Wellness Studio. Her coaching pairs clear thinking with attention to the nervous system, and she takes on one issue at a time.
Marci Schwartz
Marci Schwartz is an independent educational consultant who leads Thrive College Counseling in Los Gatos, California. She helps teens and their families plan the move to college. Her team focuses on students with autism, ADHD, and other learning differences. They build college lists, guide applications, and teach executive function and college readiness skills. The same team member who does a student's test prep stays on to provide the college counseling.
Ned Snyder
Ned Snyder is an ADHD and autism coach who also does life and career coaching. He works with neurodiverse people of all ages, parents of neurodiverse children, students from K-12 through college, and business groups. He holds a Master's degree in Psychology and has trained in Special Education and Human Services. He has worked as a teacher, a school administrator and in mental health institutions. He holds certifications in ADHD, autism, career, life, CBT, REBT, DBT and NLP coaching.
Paula Michaeldass
Paula Michaeldass is a coach who helps people with ADHD, job seekers and students with career, school and daily focus goals. She has more than 20 years of combined experience in career counseling, ADHD coaching and college admissions. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership and is a National Certified Counselor. She focuses on 2E clients, who are both ADHD and gifted, and on entrepreneurship. She meets clients online or in Duluth, Georgia.
Don Eash
Don Eash is an executive, team and career coach in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He works with individuals and teams at key moments such as new roles, career transitions and team friction. Before coaching, he spent more than 30 years leading teams at Disney, Universal and other organizations. He holds the ICF Master Certified Coach credential and has logged more than 6,000 coaching hours. He also coaches neurodiverse professionals, including people with ADHD or autism.
Joe Henrickson
Joe Henrickson is a Seattle life coach who works with neurodivergent professionals. He focuses on career, relationships and life purpose. Joe left a career in Technical Support in the tech industry and started coaching after 2020. He holds an active ICF Associate Certified Coach credential. He also has autism and ADHD diagnoses himself, so he coaches on both from lived experience. His practice is called Symbiosis Coaching.
Roni Kean
Roni Kean is an ADHD and autism coach who helps neurodivergent adults with work and daily life. She is a certified health and wellness coach with 25 years in HR and organizational development. She knows how workplaces run and where neurodivergent people hit barriers. Her sessions cover executive function, workplace accommodations, self-advocacy, and relationship communication. She coaches clients online across the United States.
Annie Archer-Byerley
Annie Archer-Byerley is a leadership and ADHD coach who works with first-time people managers, senior leaders, and people in career transition. She spent time in a corporate HR department, where she saw leadership development offered only to executives and high potentials. She now brings that kind of development to more people. She also supports disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent leaders. She holds a Hogan assessment certification and a leadership coaching certificate from Brown University.
Scott Garbini
Scott Garbini is a college and career consultant. He helps students and families find the right college or career. He is the owner and lead consultant of Garbini Education and Career Consulting LLC. He works with students who have anxiety, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or who are on the autism spectrum. He also helps LGBT students find schools with strong support services. He coaches families and students on executive function and life skills.
Kat Andrews
Kat Andrews is a burnout recovery coach in Hawaii. She helps professionals, veterans and adult college students who deal with burnout, chronic stress and ADHD-related overwhelm. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach. Her clients include nurses, healthcare workers, IT professionals, first responders and therapists. She also works with career changers and neurodivergent clients who give a lot to others and want a life they do not need to escape from.
Christina Watkins
Christina Watkins is an ADHD, career and life coach in Long Beach, California. She coaches adults on productivity, career transitions and daily life skills. She has a special focus on ADHD and on adults who grew up with a hoarding parent. She served two tours in Iraq with the army. She then spent 10 years as a career coach and employment specialist in Los Angeles. Today she runs an employment training program and coaches the general public.
Carly Coleman
Carly Coleman is a life, career and performance coach in Amsterdam. She helps young adults with career transitions and entrepreneurship goals, expats who want more confidence and clarity, and people with ADHD who want to build executive function skills. She holds ECPC and ICF ACC coaching credentials and has coached in a mental health treatment center. She runs her own practice in the Netherlands and has more than 3 years of private coaching experience.
Jennifer Rickmers
Jennifer Rickmers is an executive, career and ADHD coach in Cibolo, Texas. She helps professionals who are changing careers, dealing with stress, or facing hard decisions. She also coaches people with ADHD and autism on focus, productivity and executive skills. She holds a PhD and is a Board Certified Coach. She is also a Key Performance Indicator Professional and a certified Neurolinguistic Programming practitioner. She writes articles on ADHD myths, setting boundaries and autistic strengths at work.
Victor Chambers
Victor Chambers is a life, career and leadership coach in Utica, New York. He helps thoughtful, capable people who are burned out from living inside systems that don't fit how their minds work. Many of his clients are neurodivergent or work in helping professions. Before coaching, he worked in human services and behavioral health, moving from direct care into supervisory, program management and clinical roles. He holds a Master of Social Work degree.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ash Cross | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Benjamin Fitzgerald | Career change and Tech careers | $250 to $300 per hour |
| Cristin Downs | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Declan Katwala | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Josh Mandell | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Kristin Hendrix | Career change and Job search | $90 to $175 an hour |
| Mabel Bachini | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $140 to $210 an hour |
| Mindful Career | Career change and Job search | $100 to $180 an hour |
| Ben Tobin | Career change and Tech careers | $220 to $270 per hour |
| Jess Jarmo | Career change and Job search | $110 to $200 an hour |
| Krista Vaught | Career change and Career clarity and purpose | $125 to $175 an hour |
| Michelle Kevill | Career clarity and purpose and Promotions and advancement | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Gina Robinson | Career change and Job search | $150 to $200 per hour |
| Carrie Jones | Career clarity and purpose | $110 to $195 an hour |
| Elspeth Wadsworth | Career change | $90 to $175 an hour |
Common questions
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Most career coaches charge $85 to $180 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include career change, career clarity and purpose, job search and interview coaching.
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Last updated September 2026.