About KDHD Coaching
What is ADHD Coaching?
ADHD coaching is a collaborative process that helps clients gain deeper awareness of themselves and their unique challenges. Unlike therapy, psychiatry, or counseling, where the professional typically guides the client toward broad or predefined goals, ADHD coaching is client-driven. This means you decide what is discussed and what goals you want to pursue.
The coach’s role is to support you in reaching your desired outcomes by helping you build on strategies that already work for you. ADHD coaching is all about using your creativity, resourcefulness, and self-knowledge to better understand yourself and your environment.
When clients shift their perspectives on their challenges, they often uncover new insights and, more importantly, their own solutions. These self-generated solutions are empowering and long-lasting. One of the key benefits of coaching is that it equips you with a framework for solving future problems independently.
The coach’s role is to support you in reaching your desired outcomes by helping you build on strategies that already work for you. ADHD coaching is all about using your creativity, resourcefulness, and self-knowledge to better understand yourself and your environment.
When clients shift their perspectives on their challenges, they often uncover new insights and, more importantly, their own solutions. These self-generated solutions are empowering and long-lasting. One of the key benefits of coaching is that it equips you with a framework for solving future problems independently.
Who I Work With
KDHD Coaching supports clients who want practical, evidence-based strategies, compassionate guidance, and a coach who understands the lived experience of ADHD. My work focuses on two groups that are often overlooked or misunderstood.
Families and Students
I partner with parents and their children to deepen understanding of ADHD, strengthen executive functioning, and create systems that support school, home life, and emotional well-being. Families often come to me when homework has become a daily battle, routines no longer work, or they want help preparing for transitions like middle school, high school, or college. Together we rebuild confidence, independence, and structure so students can thrive.
Sorority Women and College Students
Many college women juggle classes, leadership positions, chapter events, jobs, and social life while also trying to manage ADHD. I support sorority women who want to stay organized, keep up with academic demands, set healthy boundaries, and reduce the constant feeling of being behind. Coaching provides a place to slow down, understand how their brain works, and build habits that make college feel manageable rather than chaotic.
My Approach
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in research and real-life experience. Whether I am helping a family navigate the school system or supporting a college student who is trying to balance a demanding schedule, my goal remains the same. I help clients understand themselves, feel empowered to make decisions that support their brains, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Families and Students
I partner with parents and their children to deepen understanding of ADHD, strengthen executive functioning, and create systems that support school, home life, and emotional well-being. Families often come to me when homework has become a daily battle, routines no longer work, or they want help preparing for transitions like middle school, high school, or college. Together we rebuild confidence, independence, and structure so students can thrive.
Sorority Women and College Students
Many college women juggle classes, leadership positions, chapter events, jobs, and social life while also trying to manage ADHD. I support sorority women who want to stay organized, keep up with academic demands, set healthy boundaries, and reduce the constant feeling of being behind. Coaching provides a place to slow down, understand how their brain works, and build habits that make college feel manageable rather than chaotic.
My Approach
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in research and real-life experience. Whether I am helping a family navigate the school system or supporting a college student who is trying to balance a demanding schedule, my goal remains the same. I help clients understand themselves, feel empowered to make decisions that support their brains, and move forward with clarity and confidence.
Academic & Professional Life
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Katherine (Katie) Karayianis is the founder of KDHD Coaching and Academic Consulting. Diagnosed with ADHD and dysgraphia as a young child, she experienced firsthand the frustrations and stigma of learning differently. For many years she wished she could be “normal,” but over time she came to recognize that her ADHD was not a weakness, but one of her greatest strengths.
Her neurodivergent brain fueled her creativity, energy, curiosity, and passion for understanding how people learn, particularly how sleep, stress, and environmental factors influence academic performance. Katie earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Maryland, College Park. During her undergraduate studies, she served as a research assistant in several psychology and neuroscience labs, where she deepened her interest in cognitive science and education. She also joined the Beta Sigma Chapter of Delta Gamma in the Spring 2017 semester, where she held multiple leadership positions in addition to her academic and extracurricular commitments. She went on to complete a Master’s in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. Her graduate research explored how sleep, stress, and educational technologies impact learning across the lifespan. Katie is also a Certified ADHD Life Coach (CALC), having completed the CALC Training Program through the International ADHD Coach Training Center (iACT). This specialized training allows her to integrate evidence-based coaching practices with an ADHD-informed lens that supports clients in developing sustainable strategies for growth and self-advocacy. After years of academic research, Katie returned to her original passion: helping students with ADHD recognize their strengths and take ownership of their learning, growth, and future success. Having personally experienced the challenges of navigating the education system, she understands how overwhelming it can be for families to secure the accommodations and support their students need. Inspired by her own journey and the advocacy her family had to undertake on her behalf, Katie now offers educational consulting services alongside ADHD coaching and tutoring. She supports families by attending 504 and IEP meetings, reviewing documentation, and advocating for the services and accommodations students are legally entitled to receive. Her goal is to help families feel empowered, informed, and confident as they navigate the school system. |
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Publications
- Karayianis, K. A. (in preparation). The moderating effect of attention: Examining children’s learning from AI-assisted dialogue while watching television programming.
- Scruggs, X., Dier, S., Schlaupitz, C., Karayianis, K. A., Lukowski, A., & Bohanek, J. (2024). What does this mean for our future?” An application of Uncertainty Management Theory to mothers’ narratives about the diagnosis and birth of their child with Down syndrome.
- Lukowski, A. F., Karayianis, K. A., Kamliot, D., & Tsukerman, D. (2022). Undergraduate student stress, sleep, and health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Presentations
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Personal Life
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Katherine lives in Los Angeles, California. In her free time, she enjoys swimming in the ocean, reading at the beach, doing jigsaw puzzles, and being silly with her friends. She laughs often, soaks up the California sunshine, and loves reconnecting with her community of family and friends.
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Social Media
Katherine’s professional Instagram offers insights into what it’s like to live with ADHD, practical strategies she uses, and how coaching can empower individuals with ADHD to overcome challenges and reclaim control of their lives. Follow her @kdhdcoach to learn more!
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