College Students

You don’t have to be any place special to work with a coach. Coaching can be done:

  • on the phone,
  • in person in Avon Lake,
  • using SKYPE or other video system

Responsibility for the outcome of an your education is a collaborative effort that can involve an educator, office of disability services, a therapist and an ADHD coach.

Whether you are an adult returning to college or a traditional college student, many of you are learning for the first time that you have Attention Deficit Disorder (AD/HD). You are very capable of earning a degree, but any unaddressed attentional difficulties become overwhelming. The struggle to complete assignments and keep up with the college agenda tells you this is impossible. As a result, too many of our brightest students are dropping out of college only because they never learned to think through a task as a person with AD/HD.

Whether you are currently in college or just starting, coaching will make your college experience a positive one. I returned to college after failing out twice in my twenties. My life-long desire to earn a college degree seemed impossible, but many years later I learned about my own AD/HD and developed structures and strategies that fit my learning style. I dared myself one last time to return to college at the age of 50 and graduated with two degrees at the age of 56.

There is no reason to believe that you cannot earn a degree also. You just need a greater understanding of how ADHD affects every aspect of your life. Then you can develop the skills needed to manage the college agenda. It is not difficult. My experience coaching college students has always been very positive. I teach strategies and structures using a planner I developed specifically for ADHD students.

Here is what coaching addresses:

  • Working with your syllabi
  • Organizational skills and management of your time
  • Managing short-term and long-term projects
  • Reading for recall
  • Writing papers
  • Incorporating a work schedule
  • Sport or other extra curricular activities
  • Using a planner to manage all of the above

For adults returning to college

I recommend taking the adult workshop, Coaching Builds Life-long Strategies. Click here to view the coaching brochure or click on the link for adults.

Where to begin

  • Schedule appointments for 3 coaching sessions in my office in Avon Lake, or via SKYPE(video)
  • After the initial 3 sessions are over, you can enlist my help for one-on-one weekly coaching telephone calls to keep you on track
  • Organizational issues in your dorm? Seek the help of a professional organizer at www.napo.net
  • Join a support group at your local college, and if you don’t have one on your campus, ask someone to get in touch with me to get one started.
  • Eat well. Get plenty of exercise. Get a good night sleep
  • Read all you can on AD/HD from reliable sources such as the National Institute of Mental Health, ADDitude Magazine, CHADD website and publications. See the booklist on this site.

To Administrators

Below are some of the topics for A Six-Part Coaching class for you students
Coaching focuses on self-awareness, and structure through the use of Plan For Success: College©, a planning journal that I wrote and published. This planning journal is used in all these sessions and is the structure needed for success. Planning is not just about writing your assignments down, it involves the time-management of completing those assignments. The CD Version of Plan For Success: College© also includes many study skills.

Call and learn what you can do to make AD/HD a positive force in your life.

Support Groups

Join a support group at your local college, and if you don’t have one on your campus, ask someone to get in touch with me to get one started.

Success Stories

This class is helping me out a lot. Thank you for helping me and others to truly understand what is going on and how to deal with it.

(8/03)

Using a planner stopped the chaos in my life. For the first time, I feel in control and have a sense of empowerment.

(5/01)

Mrs. Kubik and her planner helped me to learn how I was using or misusing time. I learned to better organize my mind so I could organize my schedule.

(3/99)

The planner helped me plan out each day so I wasn’t so overwhelmed with projects. I was prepared for my tests and my grades improved.

(1/02)

Thank you so much for helping [my husband] last night! It is such a blessing and answer to prayers that I found you. (I’m sure it was no accident). Thank you for struggling and persevering in your schooling to get where you are. Feel great about the help, hope and knowledge you give to people like me.

(7/04)

Last semester I was in your General Studies class. I want to thank you for everything you taught us, it had a profound effect on my completing last semester. I finished with a 3.8 GPA, six A’s and one B. The previous semester I had only taken three classes and was unable to cope with the struggles of my ADD. Your “Plan For Success” day planner was a key factor in my success last semester. Without it I could not have achieved the grades I received last term.

(11/03)

Opening up your mind is the first step. I finally see the world like most do; it’s a lot to get used to. There’s some anger and regret which is to be expected but there’s a drive that wasn’t there before . . . I’m excited to find out what the other 2/3 of my life will be like when I control my mind and not the other way around.

(10/04)

I became aware of how ADD actually worked. I was able to recognize when I was getting distracted without that awareness. I wouldn’t have been able to even begin to take control of my ADD.

(10/04)