Course Overview

Every client is unique, but what happens when your client thinks, communicates, or processes the world in ways that differ significantly from what you expect in a coaching conversation?

Coaching Neurodivergent Clients invites you to rethink what effective coaching looks like. Rather than learning a particular coaching model or focusing on individual neurodivergent diagnoses, you’ll explore how to adapt your coaching to the person in front of you.

Through the lenses of neuroscience, Christian faith, and the ICF Core Competencies, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of neurodivergent experiences, examine your own assumptions, and learn to create greater psychological safety and authentic partnership.

This isn’t just about learning to coach neurodivergent clients. It’s about becoming a more curious, flexible, and responsive coach who can better serve every client.

Through experiential exercises, reflection, discussion, and coaching demonstrations, you’ll experience a different approach to learning while developing your own coaching practice.

Recommended Prerequisites: To get the most out of this course, we strongly recommend that you have foundational training and understanding of the ICF-aligned definition of professional coaching, the 8 ICF Core Competencies, and the ICF Code of Ethics. This foundation will help you fully engage in the learning experience and contribute meaningfully to class discussions and activities.

Coaching Neurodivergent Clients - Coaching the person in front of you, not the label

  • Course Length: 7 weeks

  • ICF Education Hours: 10 hours

  • Attendance: Live attendance required; 1 absence maximum

  • Weekly Commitment: 1.5 hour live class + 2-3 hours reading/reflection

  • Format: Live via Zoom

  • Instructor: Crystal Wagner, PCC

  • Prerequisites: Education in ICF Competencies & Ethics strongly recommended.

  • Price: Starting at $182/month

  • Course Length: 7 weeks

  • ICF Education Hours: 10 hours

  • Attendance: Live attendance required; 1 absence maximum

  • Weekly Commitment: 1.5 hour live class + 2-3 hours reading/reflection

  • Format: Live via Zoom

  • Instructor: Crystal Wagner, PCC

  • Prerequisites: Education in ICF Competencies & Ethics strongly recommended.

  • Price: Starting at $182/month

Is This Course Right for You?

Whether you’re already coaching clients with ADHD, autism, or other neurodivergent characteristics, or you simply sense that traditional approaches don’t fit every client, this course is for coaches who are curious, flexible, and willing to stretch.

Coaches Working with Neurodivergent Clients

You’re already coaching individuals with ADHD, autism, or other neurodivergent characteristics and want to better understand their experiences and how to support them.

Coaches Who Want to Expand Their Capacity

You recognize that traditional coaching approaches don’t always fit every client. You want to become more flexible and responsive without compromising the ICF Core Competencies.

Coaches Willing to Rethink Their Approach

You’re curious about how your own assumptions, expectations, and preferences shape your coaching. You’re willing to stretch beyond familiar approaches to develop deeper partnerships with your clients.

What You’ll Accomplish in This Course

By the end of seven weeks, you’ll understand neurodivergent experience more deeply, see your own assumptions more clearly, and know how to adapt your coaching while staying aligned with the ICF Core Competencies.

  • Understand neurodiversity through neuroscience-informed, strengths-based, and Christian perspectives.

  • Recognize how differences in communication, sensory processing, nervous system regulation, and executive functioning may influence coaching.

  • Examine your own assumptions and expectations to approach clients with greater curiosity and empathy.

  • Cultivate psychological safety and co-create coaching conversations that honor each client’s unique needs.

  • Adapt coaching models, methods, and processes while maintaining alignment with the ICF Core Competencies.

  • Recognize when additional resources, professional support, or referrals may benefit your clients and your coaching practice.

Course Breakdown

Over seven weeks, you’ll move from understanding neurodivergent experience, to exploring how regulation and executive function shape coaching, to adapting your approach with confidence and discernment.

Weeks 1–2: Understanding Neurodiversity & Deepening Partnership

Explore neurodivergent culture, identity, and lived experiences. Examine how psychological safety and authentic partnership create conditions for meaningful coaching conversations.

Weeks 3–4: Regulation, Executive Function, & Client Growth

Understand how nervous system regulation, sensory processing, and executive functioning influence a client’s capacity to engage in coaching and move toward meaningful change.

Weeks 5–7: Coaching with Flexibility, Confidence, & Discernment

Challenge conventional expectations of what a coaching conversation should look like. Explore how to adapt your coaching approach while honoring the ICF Core Competencies, navigate ethical considerations, and develop a more flexible, responsive coaching practice that supports each client’s unique needs.

Required Course Materials

Required texts for this course will be posted after the new year.

Upcoming Courses

All sessions meet live via Zoom with recordings available. You’ll learn alongside a small cohort and share the journey with fellow coaches.

2027

Term 2

Classes begin in May

DAY: Thursdays
TIME: 5:00 – 6:30 PM Eastern
DATES: May 5 – June 17
INSTRUCTORS: Crystal Wagner, PCC

Tuition & Payment Plans

Choose the payment plan that fits your budget and start your coaching journey now.

Full Payment

$500 / full pay

NO monthly payments

2 Payments

$265 / monthly

$530 total investment

3 Payments

$182 / monthly

$545 total investment

All payment plans include a $15 monthly service charge.