TPP 489: Cindy Goldrich on Helping Kids with ADHD Thrive—Without Losing Yourself
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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I'm Debbie Reber, and this is Full Tilt Parenting. And today we're digging into the evolving understanding of ADHD with Cindy Goldrich, a mental health counselor, certified ADHD clinical services provider, and internationally recognized expert in ADHD and executive function support. Cindy's the founder of PTS Coaching, stands for Pathways to Success Coaching, and the author of Eight Keys to Parenting Kids and Teens with ADHD, a compassionate, research-informed guide that she has just updated. Today, Cindy and I talk about why traditional approaches to ADHD often fall short and how parents can shift from managing behaviors to building skills and connection. We'll also explore why enabling and supporting are fundamentally different, how reduced stigma and a deeper understanding of neurodivergence are reshaping the ADHD conversation, and why focusing on potential and creating low stress zones can positively transform the dynamic in our families.
If you're parenting a kid with ADHD, this is a must listen or a must watch. As always, you can head over to the Full Tilt Parenting YouTube channel if you want to watch our conversation there. Okay, here is Cindy Goldrich on all things ADHD. Hey, Cindy, welcome to the podcast.
Thank you. Thank you. So good to see you after all these years.
It has been a really long time, actually. It's kind of been like eight years, 10 years or something. Listeners, we were part of a focus group in New York City for like a two-day event that was focused on a product in development about ADHD. So we spent a couple of days kind of hanging out and nerding out a little bit. And that was really fun. But now we're going to nerd out about something else. We're going to be talking about the updated edition of your book about ADHD, which is called eight keys to parenting kids and teens with ADHD. And I want to get into that. But before we do, let's kind of set the stage. And if you could take a few minutes to just share a little bit about who you are in the world and how you come to the work that you do.
What is the evolving understanding of ADHD and why traditional approaches fall short?
Absolutely. So I am a mental health counselor, and I am a trained ADHD coach. And the reason I specify the difference is, you know, as a mental health counselor, working with kids, with adults, we didn't really talk much about ADHD back in the 80s and early 90s. But when I decided, hey, I want to really support families, kids with ADHD, I went back and I got trained as an ADHD specialist through a whole different lens of coaching, which I think is so much more appropriate. Not that therapy doesn't have its place, but coaching is really valuable because what coaching does that's different is it's really talking about helping you understand your brain, how you're working. your tools and strategies that you need.
I focus more on education about really understanding having a lens on your child. So even though I started working with the high school and the college kids, I quickly found that, you know what, if parents don't know what parents don't know, I wasn't getting very far with the kids. So fast forward, I developed my own program about 15 years ago specifically for parenting kids with ADHD. That was very successful. So then people started asking me, well, how do I train to do this? I had therapists and educators talking to me. So now I train people around the world to be parent coaches. And then I found, well, you know, my parents were really being very successful. They were going into the schools and talking to the teachers about their kids.
And the reality is the teachers aren't trained in ADHD. Much as we assume that they are, they are not. My daughter's a special ed teacher.
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6 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:28
2
What is the evolving understanding of ADHD and why traditional approaches fall short?
2:28–10:48
3
How did Cindy Goldrich transition from counseling to ADHD coaching and develop her training programs?
10:48–20:05
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Why is reducing stigma and embracing neurodiversity important for families and schools?
20:05–25:03
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What does ‘parent the child you have’ mean and how can parents meet their child’s unique needs?
25:03–32:07
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How can parents shift from enabling to supportive strategies that build independence?
32:07–33:18
Speakers
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