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Your stuckness isn't who you are — it's how you've survived.

ADHD and addiction coaching from someone who’s lived both sides. Together we uncover the unmet needs you’re self-medicating, find healthier ways to meet them, and start making the positive, sustainable changes you deserve.
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About Coaching

All Behaviour Makes Sense…

If you have ADHD and you’ve been leaning on something — a substance or a behaviour — to quiet a chaotic mind, or to push through the moments when your energy drops off a cliff before you’re done, I want you to know: you’re not alone, and you’re not broken.
This isn’t using for the sake of using — it’s self-medicating. Your mind and body are doing their level best, in the moment, to get what they need to make it through the day. What outwardly looks like “self-sabotage” is really an unmet need, being met the only way you’ve found that reliably works. And that’s the thing about those quick fixes: they cost you a lot in the long run, but in the moment, they’re so damn reliable!
When we view addiction — or even procrastination — through this lens, the shame and judgement start to fall away. Instead of ‘shoulding’ on ourselves, we approach change by trying to understand the needs beneath the behaviour, so we can find healthier ways to meet them — ways that actually work long term, and don’t cost us quite so much.
That’s the missing piece we needed all along — meeting the underlying needs beneath the stuckness — and that’s exactly where we begin our work together.
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Personalized Coaching Services to Support Growth, Recovery, and Lasting Change

Explore our tailored coaching services designed to help you overcome challenges, build healthier habits, and create meaningful, lasting transformation.

ADHD Coaching

Getting clear on your goals, tackling what’s in the way, and taking practical, positive action that fits your needs and your life — with someone who gets how your mind and body work.

CRAFT-Informed Coaching

Supporting you when someone you love is struggling with addiction — CRAFT-informed coaching (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) eases conflict, reduces stress, gently guiding them toward change, led by someone who’s lived both sides.

Addiction Recovery Coaching

Partnering with you to shift your relationship with substances or behaviours that no longer serve you — flexible and supported, whatever recovery looks like for you: harm reduction, abstinence, or maintenance.

Meet Diane

Hi. I’m Diane O’Reilly...

I hit my first rock bottom with alcohol at 26, and I’ve stayed sober ever since. But it took another seventeen years — and an ADHD diagnosis at 43 — before I finally understood what had been driving me all along, and was still fuelling restlessness, cravings, and an under-functioning that sobriety alone hadn’t touched.

With that clarity and the hope it gave me, I began the next steps of my healing work — for me that meant trying many things, medication, therapy, meditation, and nutritional support, and finally coaching, which was where I learned through the positive changes I was seeing to start trusting myself again. Learning how to work with my brain instead of against it — making what had felt impossible feel doable — was life-changing.

I loved this work so much I trained as an ADHD coach, and later as a recovery coach, to help people through the same sticky intersection of ADHD and addiction that I know so well, pairing coaching skills with hard-won lived experience, and bringing the wisdom, humour, and strategies that actually fit how your brain works.

Diane O’Reilly

The training behind the lived experience

ADHD Coaching

Addiction Recovery Coaching

CRAFT-Informed Coaching

Why Me

Both sides of the same coin — finally addressed together

Most support tackles ADHD or addiction. I hold both — with lived experience and professional training, and an empathic, judgment-free approach shaped around your life. A safe place to take that first shaky but supported step, in a way that works for you and your needs.

ADHD & Addiction — Both Sides of the Same Coin

Together we unpack how ADHD and addiction feed into one another. Understanding how each shapes the other is what finally makes the goals, habits, and progress you crave actually stick.

Lived Experience + Professional Skills

My training in ADHD, addiction recovery and CRAFT aligns with my own recovery journey — with ADHD, addiction, and family addiction. So this isn’t just theory for me. It’s lived experience and real skills combined, giving you the tools, validation, and empathy you deserve.

Recovery Without Leaving Your Life

No expensive residential rehab, no stepping away from work or family. This is recovery you build at home, day by day — adjusting to your real life one doable step at a time, with steady, tailored support so there’s no stark drop-off (and relapse risk) when you’re suddenly back on your own. Recovery that fits the real world — and your real life.

Meeting You Where You Are

Real change is hard — and to face it, you need to feel safe and in control. Unlike programs that tell you what to do, we start wherever you’re at, never rushing, breaking the hard changes into steps you feel ready for. No judgment — just a safe, supportive space and pace, where difficult change finally becomes doable, one step at a time.

Tailored, Not One-Size-Fits-All

Mine is a holistic and integrative approach, shaped around you and your needs rather than tied to one method. It’s human-to-human and present-moment — sensing what you need and staying open to whatever tools will serve you best.

A Human Who’s Been Where You Are

Not an app or an AI. Genuine connection that sees you — your strengths and your needs — building emotional safety, confidence, and a sense of being back in charge, with tailored accountability and support between sessions, not just during them.

No need to be totally sure, or ready, or even know what to call this place that you’re in — just curious enough to begin.

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What Changes When We Work Together

  • Finally following through on all the things you’d given up on ever being able to do.
  • A sense of being back in charge of your life — and your stuff!
  • ADHD and recovery worked on together, so one stops sabotaging the other
  • Earned self-trust and confidence start to replace shame and self-blame
  • Hard-won insight finally turns into positive action and grounded change
  • Sustainable change that fits into your life, rather than asking you to upend it
  • Recovery that feels less like a monster to slay, and more like something joyful and achievable
  • Setting the boundaries you need to put the focus back on your growth and happiness
  • Personally tailored in-between session support to keep you on track
  • An empathetic partner giving you dedicated, flexible one-on-one time when you get stuck
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The ADHD & Recovery Journal

I share what I’ve learned, and am still learning, along this journey. In passing on what was given to me, I transform that hard-won wisdom into something positive and meaningful for others.
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It’s Time for our Annual Personal, Year End Review…

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My Three Step Journaling Format for ADHD minds…

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A Spiritual Solution for ADHD

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Frequently Asked Questions

From sourcing to delivery, we ensure reliability at every step. Our operations follow strict quality and regulatory standards.
Do I need an official ADHD diagnosis to work with you?
Do I need an official ADHD diagnosis to work with you?
Therapy helps you understand your emotions and how the events of the past are still impacting you. Coaching helps you see what’s blocking you from taking action today — less about the past, and more now- and future-focused. Together we get clear on your goals, break them into doable steps, uncover what’s holding you back, and build practical, tailored systems to support your progress, with accountability check-ins where you need them. Many of my clients value therapy and sometimes do it alongside coaching. What they love about coaching is that it turns that hard-won insight into practical action and progress in the real world.
That’s completely fine! And so much more common than you’d think. You do not need to have a specific label for what’s happening in your life to begin to change it. If a substance or behaviour has become the way you are coping with ADHD, or life in general, and it’s costing you too much, that’s enough of a reason to explore what change can look like. We start where you’re at — not where you think you’re supposed to be!
Yes. Coaching sits perfectly alongside medical care — not to replace it. I’m not a prescriber, but I support you as you weigh up medication, supplements, or both, and importantly — what you want them to do for you! I’m happy to work in step with your doctor, prescriber, or therapist, so you get the wraparound support you need to facilitate the changes and goals you’re setting for yourself.
Absolutely! Through CRAFT-informed coaching (Community Reinforcement and Family Training) I work with families and loved ones — not in the usual ways of “detach with love” or waiting around for rock bottom, but with practical, research-backed approaches that support real change. CRAFT gives you tools that turn your love and support into a gentler, more strategic way of relating — one that moves your loved one toward recovery, while helping you feel more at peace and less worried yourself.
Apps and groups absolutely have their place, but let’s be real, it’s just too damn easy for the ADHD brain to ignore an app! A real person who knows and understands you and your unique needs — and can gently challenge you when you’re working against yourself — makes the difference between ignoring the nudge of a generic app or programme and taking that one next doable step that keeps your momentum going.
Sessions are $165 CAD* per hour. (*plus tax in Canada) How long we work together depends on your goals, but lasting change usually takes somewhere between six months and a year. We begin with an intake month of four sessions — getting to know you, your needs, goals, and challenges — after which we typically drop to three sessions a month. That eases down further, as you need, once you start to build momentum and gain confidence in the new habits and tools we’ve put in place for you.
Often it isn’t that you failed — or even that the person you worked with did. It’s that only half the picture was being addressed. If your ADHD went unaddressed while you worked on recovery, or the other way around, that’s a pretty big piece missing! Part of our work is exploring why the last approach didn’t land — getting specific about the needs that weren’t met, or what exactly about it didn’t fit for you. From there, we co-create customised tools and approaches, shaped around how you, your life, and your mind actually work.
All sessions are online over Zoom, keeping things flexible and convenient for your busy life. I’m based in Toronto and coach internationally — I currently work with clients across Canada, the US, and the UK, in just about every time zone. Wherever you are, sessions are just as warm and personal over Zoom — and you get to skip the commute!

What Our Satisfied Clients Have To Say

Sometimes the most healing thing in the world is simply being understood by someone who has traveled the same road.
Diane helped reveal the freedom in recovery. It always seemed too big, insurmountable — but with her pragmatic, compassionate approach, it became manageable. Recovery is no longer a monster to be slayed or a shameful part of me. I’ve actually become excited about it.
— G.M., N.S.
I was struggling to understand how my ADHD and alcohol were connected — Diane’s coaching helped me see how they fed into each other. I now feel more confident and in control of my choices. If you’re struggling with both, she’s the one to guide you through it.
— P.G., ON
Life became extremely busy after our session — largely due to the spectacular success of the strategies Diane gave me to get unstuck. I had major breakthroughs in just about every area of my life.
— A.V., UK
When I first came to Diane I was dealing with alcohol use disorder, anxiety, and depression — it was overwhelming. She helped me find achievable goals and get back to the things I'd been avoiding, one small step at a time. It wasn't instant, but I got there, and I've stayed there.
— LB, Edmonton
Diane is an extraordinary coach on sobriety and ADHD — her care, insight, and ability to truly listen are the cornerstone of her craft. I'd recommend her a thousand times over; the investment pays off in knowing yourself at the deepest level, and turning that into real, practical action.
— R.B., Ontario
Diane's knowledge of ADHD, personal and professional, gave us real strategies to change how our family functioned. We focused on what mattered, grew closer, and I felt safe enough to actually open up and grow. I highly recommend her to anyone looking to make lasting change.
— Heidi F.