ADHD & neurodivergent academic coaching built around how your brain actually works

For college and university students, ADHD coaching builds the systems that make school workable with the brain you have, especially the executive function skills ADHD makes harder: getting started on tasks, managing time, holding details in working memory, and speaking up for what you need. It’s practical work, ideally in weekly sessions, with async support in between so one missed day doesn’t turn into a missed week. You bring the goals and the coursework; the coach helps you build the structure around them.

No. Coaching is practical and forward-looking, built on systems and accountability. It works alongside therapy and medication, and it never replaces them. If you need clinical support, we’ll say so and help you find it.

Because a tool only works if it fits your brain and someone helps you actually use it. We build the system with you and adjust it until it holds. The accountability is the part most tools are missing.

Working alongside someone else, in person or on a call, so that starting and staying on task is easier. It sounds simple. For a lot of ADHD brains it’s the single most useful thing, and it’s the heart of our Brains Like Ours group.

Yes. We help you understand what you can ask for, prepare what you need, and practice the conversation. You lead it, and we make it less daunting.

No. We coach, build systems, and give feedback on the work you write yourself. We never write essays, sit exams, or do coursework. Your degree stays yours.

Sessions are one-to-one on Microsoft Teams, in your browser. Monday to Friday, email or WhatsApp us between sessions and you’ll hear back within one business day. On Saturdays and Sundays, when a lot of coursework actually gets done, send a quick question on WhatsApp and we’ll usually reply the same day: a short answer to get you unstuck, not a full review. Longer feedback and sessions happen on weekdays. Need to move a session? Give us 24 hours' notice and we’ll rebook it. Later cancellations and no-shows count as used, and unused sessions can be rebooked within 30 days.

No. Self-identification is welcome. If these challenges sound like you, that’s enough to start. We aren’t a diagnostic service, and we’ll never ask you to prove anything.

We work with a range of neurodivergent students. John coaches from ADHD lived experience and from shared, affirming values, and he doesn’t diagnose or claim expertise he doesn’t have. If you aren’t sure we’re the right fit, the free consultation is the place to find out.

That’s expected, and the plan is built for it. We design for good days and hard days, so a rough week doesn’t undo your progress or your system.

Yes. A lighter course load often sits next to a job or a family, sometimes both, and each one adds dates and tasks for an ADHD brain to keep track of. We build one system for the whole week, so school and everything around it live in the same place. If a reduced course load is an accommodation you want to ask for, we can help you prepare for that conversation too.

Yes. Everything is online, across time zones. ECS is based in The Hague and works with students in the U.S., the Netherlands, and beyond.

Options run from a single Fit + Focus Session to a full-term package; see the options above. The starter session’s fee counts in full toward a package if you continue. You get pricing in writing before anything begins. Monthly plans are paid at the start of each month and run month to month. We recommend three months, because study skills take time to stick, but you can stop any time before your next month begins. Term packages are paid in two parts, half at the start and half at the midpoint. If none of them fit, we can build a custom ADHD coaching plan around how you work and what you’re studying. No VAT added, subject to change.