Wyatt Fischer, a Colorado counselor who works with adults who have ADHD, has found success using a form of personal coaching to help clients transcend the limitations of their disorder:

"I saw pretty quickly there was no behavioral treatment for students with ADHD," says Fisher, who uses traditional counseling techniques to help clients deal with emotional issues around ADHD such as anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. He uses coaching to help clients to set goals and is now employing a new type of coaching, which he calls Body Double coaching, to help clients with follow through....

"It's almost like a personal trainer," [client Philip Armstrong] says. "That person will make you do three sets of 20 reps to reach your goal. I utilize (the Body Double coach) as a fine tuner. I'll use Gmail, get reminders on a Blackberry, hard print a Google calendar. We will review stuff."

The coach helps him focus on small tasks that fill in the bigger picture. He describes the process as moving from being a person with a shotgun approach to tasks to becoming a sharpshooter, focusing on one project at a time.

"In the old days, I'd write down lists on little pieces of paper. I had no wider vision," Armstrong says. [Source: Daily Camera]