How Much Does ADHD Coaching Cost in the UK?

ADHD coaching prices in the UK vary a lot, and it isn’t always easy to compare one offer with another. One coach charges per session, another sells a three-month package, and a third includes support between sessions that the others don’t. So it’s hard to know what’s normal, what’s good value and what you’re actually paying for.

Here’s the full picture. Below is what ADHD coaching typically costs in the UK in 2026, what makes the price go up or down, how you might get it funded, and exactly what we charge at One Life Coaching (and why).

The short answer

Most UK ADHD coaches charge between £60 and £150 for a session of 45 to 60 minutes, with many sitting around £100 to £120. A programme of around 12 sessions usually costs somewhere between £1,000 and £2,000. There are lower-cost places out there, and there are premium services that cost a good deal more.

These figures come from published prices across the UK in October 2026, including the ADHD UK coach directory, which lists around 70 coaches who each set their own fees. Prices do change, so always check with the coach directly.

Typical UK prices at a glance

Type of coaching	Typical price
Low-cost or sliding-scale places (limited availability)	£25 to £60 per session
Most independent ADHD coaches	£60 to £150 per session
Coaching aimed at executives and senior leaders	£150 to £300 per hour, sometimes plus VAT
Clinic-based or premium coaching	£150 to £285+ per session
Short package (around 4 to 6 sessions)	£350 to £850
Longer programme (around 12 sessions)	£1,000 to £2,000, with some premium programmes over £3,000

What makes the price go up or down?

Two coaching offers with the same price tag can be very different things. These are the differences worth looking at.

Session length and how often you meet

Some coaches offer 45-minute sessions, others a full hour. Some meet weekly, others fortnightly or monthly. A cheaper 45-minute session once a month is a very different offer from weekly support, so it helps to work out the cost per hour and how much contact you’ll actually have across the whole programme.

Training and experience

Coaching isn’t a regulated profession in the UK, so technically anyone can call themselves a coach. Coaches who have invested in recognised training, belong to a professional body (such as the EMCC, ICF or Association for Coaching) and have regular supervision often charge more, as do coaches with ADHD-specific experience or many years in practice.

That said, a higher fee doesn’t guarantee better coaching. And a general coaching qualification doesn’t tell you what someone knows about ADHD, so it’s worth asking about both.

Packages or pay-as-you-go

Many coaches offer a lower per-session price if you book a block. Packages usually work out cheaper and help you build momentum, but you’re committing more money up front. It’s worth asking whether you can pay in instalments (and whether that costs more overall, as it sometimes does), and what happens if you need to pause.

Support between sessions

This is the one people often miss. For a lot of people with ADHD, the hard part isn’t knowing what to do. It’s actually doing it on a Tuesday afternoon when nobody’s watching and there are 47 other things competing for your attention.

Some coaches include check-ins between sessions, shared planning documents or body doubling (working alongside someone so it’s easier to get started and keep going). Others offer the session and nothing else. Neither is wrong, but they aren’t the same thing, so compare like with like.

Who’s paying

Some coaches charge more when an employer is paying, especially when the organisation wants to be involved in agreeing goals and reviewing progress. That extra work is real, so it’s reasonable, as long as it’s clear what you’re getting for it.

Ways to fund ADHD coaching

Your employer

Many organisations will fund coaching, either from a learning and development budget or as a reasonable adjustment. If you manage people, it can help to frame your request around your role. What would be different for you, your team and the organisation if this were working better? A clear, simple request is much easier for a manager to say yes to.

Access to Work

Access to Work is a government grant in England, Scotland and Wales for people with a disability or long-term condition, including ADHD, who are in work or about to start (Northern Ireland has its own scheme). You don’t need a formal diagnosis to apply, and you don’t pay it back. Depending on your assessment, it can fund work-related support such as coaching or coping-strategy sessions, although it won’t pay for adjustments your employer is already legally required to make. The maximum award is currently £69,260 a year.

The honest picture is that it’s slow at the moment. In early 2026, applications were taking an average of around 100 working days to process, and around 66,000 were waiting for a decision, according to the House of Commons Library. In May 2026 the government announced extra staff to clear the backlog by September 2027, and it has said it is reviewing the scheme, so the rules may change. Check GOV.UK for the latest before you apply.

If you do get an award, make sure you have written confirmation of what’s been approved (the type of support, number of sessions and rate) before you book, and check who pays the invoice. Sometimes you or your employer pay first and claim the money back.

Once you have an award, you can usually choose who you work with. Our coaching has been funded through Access to Work before, so if you have an award, or you’re thinking of applying, do talk to us about it.

Paying for it yourself

If you’re self-funding, ask about instalments, and ask whether there’s a shorter way to try the coaching before you commit to a full programme. Some coaches also keep a small number of reduced-fee places.

Private health insurance rarely covers coaching, and NHS-funded ADHD coaching is limited and varies a lot depending on where you live.

Coaching isn’t therapy

ADHD coaching is practical. It’s about how you work day to day: scaffolding your executive function (the planning, prioritising, starting, switching and following through that can feel so much harder than it should), organising your attention and energy, and building systems and conversations that work with your brain rather than against it.

It isn’t diagnosis, therapy or medical treatment, and it’s not a substitute for clinical care. We’re not clinicians and we don’t diagnose. Coaching can sit really well alongside medication, therapy or other support, but if you’re struggling with your mental health, please speak to your GP or a qualified clinician first. When you’re comparing prices, make sure you’re comparing like with like.

If you’d like to understand the difference in more detail, read our guide to what ADHD coaching is and how it’s different from therapy.

Questions to ask any ADHD coach before you book

• What’s the total price I’ll pay, including any VAT, and what exactly does it include?
• How long are the sessions, and how often will we meet?
• What support is there between sessions?
• What coaching training do you have, are you a member of a professional coaching body, and what ADHD-specific experience or training do you have?
• Do you have regular coaching supervision?
• How will we agree goals and know whether the coaching is working?
• Can I pay in instalments? What are the cancellation and refund terms, and can I pause if life gets busy?
• If my employer pays, what (if anything) gets shared with them?
• Can I try a session first to see if we work well together?

A good coach will be happy to answer all of these. If the answers feel vague, that’s useful information too.

How we coach

Coaching is brilliant for insight. You talk something through, see it from a different angle and leave knowing what you want to do. But for many people with ADHD, knowing isn’t the problem. Doing is. You can know exactly what good leadership looks like and still find it hard to put into practice under pressure.

So our coaching is built around implementation as well as insight. We offer structure and gentle accountability, and we keep coming back to what you actually want to do differently. You lead the coaching and we hold the structure around it. We won’t tell you what to do, but we will offer ideas when they might help, drawing on our coaching experience, lived experience, and the research and evidence on ADHD and behaviour change.

A few principles guide how we work:

• Acceptance and self-compassion. Not every difference needs fixing. Part of the work is figuring out what needs to change, what needs support or adjustment, and what you can stop judging yourself for. A lot of people with ADHD carry years of self-criticism and shame, and that rarely helps anyone change.
• Support and challenge. Acceptance doesn’t mean lowering the bar. We’ll gently challenge patterns that aren’t working for you, while keeping the bigger picture in view.
• Simple, not another system. Support between sessions should make life easier, not give you one more complicated thing to maintain.

You can read more about our approach on our ADHD leadership coaching page.

What ADHD leadership coaching costs with us

Our ADHD leadership coaching is a 12-week programme for leaders and managers with diagnosed or self-identified ADHD or executive-function differences. There are two options, and the support you get is the same in both.

• Just you and your coach: £650. The coaching stays between you and your coach. You can pay yourself, or your organisation can fund it, in full or in instalments at no extra cost.
• You, your coach and your organisation: £850. This adds an opening and closing three-way conversation with your sponsor, agreed workplace outcomes and progress indicators you’ve consented to. It’s usually funded and invoiced to the organisation.

We don’t currently charge VAT.

The 12 weeks are built around three four-week Focus Cycles. Here’s what’s included:

• ✓Four 60-minute coaching sessions, one at the start of each cycle and one to close
• ✓Eight 30-minute weekly review and action sessions
• ✓Up to 12 hours of body doubling, one-to-one or in a small group
• ✓Light-touch check-ins and a shared working document between sessions
• ✓Around 20 hours of scheduled support in total

Why we’ve priced it this way

If you’ve read this far, you might be looking at our prices next to the table above and wondering what the catch is. It’s a fair question, because price is often treated as a sign of quality. So here’s our thinking.

We built it to be affordable. Plenty of people with ADHD end up paying for support themselves, especially if they’ve been newly diagnosed, are self-identified, or are stuck waiting on funding. We didn’t want price to decide who gets to have this kind of support, so we designed the programme to be something people can actually say yes to.

It’s a different product from our executive coaching. We also offer leadership and executive coaching, which is priced differently because it’s a different kind of work. The ADHD programme is deliberately structured around shorter weekly sessions and shared body doubling, because that rhythm is often where change actually sticks. The price reflects how the programme is built, not the experience of the person coaching you.

You can try it before you commit. If you’d like to see whether it’s right for you, you can start with one Focus Cycle for £250. It lasts four weeks and focuses on one thing that matters to you: a 60-minute coaching session, three weekly reviews, up to four body doubling sessions and support in between. If you decide to carry on, the £250 counts towards the 12-week programme.

Who you’d be working with

There are two of us, and you can choose who you’d like to work with. Between us you get professional expertise and lived experience.

Alison May, Leadership Coach, Facilitator and Former NHS Leader
Alison is a CMI Level 7 certified coach and EMCC member, with foundation training in coaching supervision and a background in psychology and behaviour change. Before moving into coaching and leadership development, she worked as an NHS Commissioner and Systems Leader, where she was the learning disability and autism lead and specialised in neurodevelopmental services. Her work now focuses on helping leaders step back from the day-to-day, navigate difficult conversations and relationships, build greater ownership in their teams, and turn insight into meaningful action.

Dr Neil McLatchie, Coach, Psychologist and Former University Lecturer
Neil is an ILM Level 5 certified coach and EMCC member, with a PhD in psychology. He spent seven years as a university lecturer, alongside more than a decade of teaching, facilitation and coaching. He brings a strong grounding in behaviour change and executive functioning, alongside lived experience of ADHD. His coaching helps people think clearly, challenge unhelpful patterns and translate what they know into practical action in everyday working life.

Other questions people ask

Do I need an ADHD diagnosis to have coaching?

No, not with us. Getting an adult ADHD assessment in the UK can be a long and frustrating process. Waits can be very long, sometimes years, and private assessments are expensive. So lots of people are self-identified, waiting for an assessment, or not sure whether they want one at all.

We work with leaders and managers with diagnosed or self-identified ADHD or executive-function differences. Coaching is about how you work day to day, not about a label, so you don’t need a diagnosis to get started. You don’t need one to apply for Access to Work either.

How many ADHD coaching sessions will I need?

It depends, because coaching is personal. In the same way that nobody could promise ten sessions of therapy will lift someone’s depression, no coach can promise that a set number of sessions will “fix” anything.

What a good coach should do is work out with you, early on, what you want to work towards. That means defining the outcome, describing what it would look like if you got there, and agreeing how you’ll measure progress. Then they should check in on that progress with you regularly, so you both know whether it’s working. For example:

• “Why can’t I just start the work I know I need to do?” The outcome might be making steady progress on one important piece of work each week, instead of doing it all the night before. You could measure progress by how often you started it on the day you planned to. If this sounds familiar, you might like our article on why getting started can be so hard.
• “I say yes to everything and then I’m drowning.” The outcome might be protecting time for your own priorities and saying no, or not yet, without the guilt spiral. You could track how often you renegotiated a request instead of automatically agreeing. You can read how this worked for one business owner who couldn’t say no.

As a rough guide, many coaches suggest three to six months, often around 12 sessions, because new habits take time to bed in. Our programme runs for 12 weeks, and you can start with a four-week Focus Cycle if you’d like to try it first.

Is ADHD coaching worth the money?

It’s most worthwhile when you want practical change in how you work and you’re able to try things out between sessions. The research on ADHD coaching is still developing, but early studies are encouraging. The best test is a trial session: if you leave with useful thinking and a clear next step, that’s a good sign. You can also read some of our clients’ success stories.

What’s the difference between ADHD coaching and ADHD leadership coaching?

ADHD coaching often covers life in general: routines, home, relationships, study and work. ADHD leadership coaching is more focused. We work with managers and leaders with diagnosed or self-identified ADHD on the difficulties that show up at work.

That might be about leading yourself, such as prioritising, following through, protecting time for strategic work and finding a more sustainable way of working. Or it might be about leading others, such as delegating, building ownership in your team, setting boundaries and having the conversations you’ve been avoiding. If most of what you want help with sits outside work, a general ADHD coach may be a better fit.

Can I get help with the cost if I’m self-employed?

Yes, potentially. Access to Work is open to self-employed people as well as employees, so it’s worth checking whether you’re eligible. Otherwise, ask coaches about instalments or a shorter trial.

If my employer pays, will they hear what we talk about?

Not with us. We never report the private content of coaching conversations. If your organisation chooses the £850 option, we agree together, at the start, what progress information is shared, and only that is shared.

Is the first session really free?

Yes. Your complimentary session is a full 60-minute coaching session, not a sales call, and there’s no obligation to continue afterwards.

Start with a conversation

Everything starts with a complimentary 60-minute coaching session. It’s a real coaching session rather than a sales call, so bring something that’s actually on your mind and get some useful thinking done. It’s also a chance to see whether we’re the right fit, and to ask anything about cost or funding. There’s no obligation to continue afterwards.

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