Testimonials

Pamela Milazzo, B.S., JD, ACG
Westfield, NJ
EmpoweredADD@yahoo.com

I attended the ADD Coach Academy from September 2002 through May 2003 and received my coach certification in August of 2003.  I had decided to become an ADD coach as I prepared for retirement from thirty years of college teaching, most of which I had done at the two-year college level.  My teaching experiences had convinced me that many very bright and otherwise capable students were not succeeding in the two-year college environment because they had undetected learning disabilities and AD/HD.

I found the program at ADDCA to be very interesting and helpful to my coaching plans.  Not only did I learn a great deal about AD/HD and how it affects a person cognitively, but also I was made aware of the psychological and personal toll that undetected and untreated ADD can exact.  I learned how to help a client understand AD/HD, seek diagnosis, and then begin to plan for a more fulfilling life after seeking treatment for the condition. 

The organizer and instructor of the course, David Giwerc, was unfailingly enthusiastic and encouraging as we completed our course of study.  I especially appreciated his emphasis on helping clients think in positive and self-rewarding ways – something that I have learned and modeled in all aspects of my life.  Another thing that I enjoyed and felt was a good learning tool was working with other students in “buddy coaching” situations and in in-class practical applications of what we were learning.

All in all, I am pleased to recommend the ADD Coach Academy for those seeking a comprehensive approach to working with individuals who think they have ADHD or have been diagnosed with it.

Anne R. Peterson, ACG, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Columbus State Community College
Columbus, Ohio 43215

The ADD Coach Academy taught me that in order to really know AD/HD, I had to know my own AD/HD.  This was a valuable lesson!

David Giwerc is a truly wonderful individual who clearly cares deeply for people.  Training with David has prepared me to coach clients with the utmost care, respect, and passivity.  I feel very fortunate to have him as a mentor.

J.K.

Going through the ADDCA experience is a truly unique and empowering experience. 

ADD Coach Academy encompasses many facets of coaching the ADD
individual.  ADDCA has provided me with a warehouse of information, insight
on the ADD brain, updated research, personal stories and role plays.
David Giwerc is a highly skilled instructor, who sets the pace for a friendly,
teamwork approach. His innate ability to coach and facilitate the group is
an inspiration to us all. As a facilitator, he makes sure that every idea
is looked at during our brainstorming sessions. He has respect for each
individual's uniqueness.

The ADDCA's curriculum has not only taught me about The Human Engine, it's
functioning, cognition, modes of processing information, and an
understanding of preferred & dominant modalities but it also has given me
the feeling of support & confidence needed to start my business.

This class is conducted on a special phone bridge line. I like to think of
it as bridging the gap between my coaching skills and an understanding of
the unique ADD mind!

A. Saccarelli, ACG
Willow Grove, PA.
 

As a lifelong learner who's experienced innumerable seminars, workshops and training, I place the ADDCA program at the top of the list in providing great value for its students. The need is great for professionally trained AD/HD coaches and ADDCA is fulfilling this need with excellence and dedication. The classes and labs are bursting with up-to-the minute information about AD/HD. It's presented in ways that show coaches-in-training how and when to use the information to educate clients and advocate on their behalf.

The training is thorough and covers all aspects of AD/HD from the global to the specific. In all ways, it is respectful, compassionate and rigorous. I heartily recommend ADDCA to coaches who want the best in AD/HD training.

T. Bennion, ACG, MA
Certified Professional Coach

During the past year, I participated in Attention Deficit Coach Training
through David Giwerc's program, ADD Coach Academy. Previous to taking part
in this curriculum, I spent seven years as a multi-sensory remidiator,
working with ADD individuals facing specific language, perceptual and
organizational challenges. Despite my knowledge/experience base, I found
ADDCA's curriculum extremely valuable. It addressed modalities, research
findings, neurology, medication and titration, including concepts and
strategies which could realistically and effectively be implemented to
enable individuals with ADD to enrich their lives. The training
additionally, required that its participant take part in role-plays, a
crucial component in acquiring the strategies and skills necessary in ADD
Coaching.

E. Gilbert, ACG
W. Bloomfield, MI.
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"Going to the ADD Coach Academy has been a wonderful journey for me! I started out with an interest in helping my son, by furthering my knowledge of ADD. What has grown from that is a new career, new friends, and a wealth of information to share with others. It has truly been a life changing experience for me!"

Pat Woolen, ACG
Montgomery, Alabama

The ADD Coach Academy showed me there is much to appreciate about my own ADD, and taught me how to pass that positive awareness on to my clients.
ADDCA gave me a process for getting a diagnosis, treatment, and knowledge
about my type of ADD and my preferred mode of learning. In turn, I am
prepared to guide my clients through their own process of living successful,
joyous lives.

V. Monahan, ACG
Seattle, WA

For many years I searched for a professional career that would fit a very strict personal criterion:

A profession of high integrity and standards.
An opportunity to work with people, assisting them to reach their highest potential.
A chance to work for myself, from my home.
A great salary potential.
A career that would make me jump out of bed in the morning with enthusiasm and energy.
A professional community that would supports me as I develop my skills.

As I diligently searched for such a career, I found coaching. I interviewed many coaching schools before I found the ADD Coaching Academy. Being ADD, I realized that I could help myself while I learned to help others. This is how I met David Giwerc, the president and founder of ADDCA. In him, I found the ultimate mentor to help me create the profession of my dreams. David uses his knowledge of ADD and combines it with the skills of a Master Coach. Our classes are exciting and insightful. He inspires his students, and his methods are easy to learn and understand. I will always be grateful to David Giwerc for developing such a needed program for the millions of people with ADD.

Kristi McClanahan, ACG
PeachTree, GA
kristimcclanahan@email.com

Since I started with ADD Coach Academy -

I have gotten a solid start on a new career as coach
I gained knowledge and strategies that help my family of 3 ADDers/1 non-ADDer function better
I do not have ADD but the classes coach me too!

Sue Lovell, ACG

Studying under David Giwerc and the ADD Coach Academy has given me profound insight into the inner workings of the ADD/ADHD mind. With this knowledge I have been able to teach health care professionals how to coach their clients as well as successfully coach my own clients to higher levels of life effectiveness.

Patrice Lynn, ACG
Freedom Focus
ADHD Education & Coaching
Sacramento, California

"ADD Coach Academy has been invaluable to me in establishing a specialty as an ADD Coach. I've not only been able to utilize the knowledge I've gained in my own life, but have formed my whole "Thrive with ADD" coaching and teleclass practice for clients around the lessons I've learned in ADDCA. I wholeheartedly recommend this training for anyone considering coaching AD/HD adults."

Bonnie Mincu, ACG
"Thrive with ADD" Coach
Bonnie@bonniemincu.com

This is the best decision I ever a made to my personal growth. I am proud to be an associate coach at The ADD Coach Academy. I will gladly share more experiences to others who may find themselves puzzled. After screening with David and/or Marla, feel no hesitation to contact me personally.

"At any moment, the idea of knowing oneself is hidden behind what we think we are not."

Frank Coppola, ACG
fcoppola@523.com

Client Testimonial

It's really hard to imagine where my life would be right now if I had not discovered ADD Coaching. I'm fortunate to have been diagnosed, even if it was at the late age of 32, and I am equally fortunate to have discovered David Giwerc, an entrepreneurial coach who lives nearby. I wonder, if only this disability were identified years before, where would my life be now?

David initially helped me identify my 'preferred modality' of all these years -- I discovered I'm not the abhorrent-authority hating melancholy thinker identified years ago. Rather, I truly am a 'flaming' cerebral thinker requiring kinesthetic motion and a 'right-livelihood' needed to express my many emotions. For most of my life, I really struggled to make sense of who I am. Finally, ADD Coaching has allowed me to identify my many strengths including my ability to communicate making the complicated simple and meaningful.

After getting diagnosed, I quickly raced to read the latest books on my non-linear thinking cerebral cortex. I found comfort in hearing my own personal struggle identified -- particularly when it came to relationships. I found even greater comfort in someone who understood me ... quickly... and who was willing to partner with the old miserable me. David uprooted my downward thinking and low self-esteem and continues to foster trust and belief in who I am and what I aspire to do.

As a believer in Chinese fortune cookies, I once read "Progress is taking on NEW problems." Before coaching my life circled the same old worn path of mediocrity. I often felt that I had spent much of my time swimming up-stream only to discover the tide I was swimming against was in my own thinking. David has helped me and my business, Videos For Change Productions, begin to flow in an amazingly clearer path. It is a miracle of sorts just to get my own body to do what my mind generally refuses-- like throwing out boxes of stored papers and meaningless robbers of energy. I am more than amazed at the many, many positive results I've experienced in less than six months -- I am grateful.

One of the first things David did was visit me in my home office. He left in my office a phone headset for me to borrow saying, "Your gonna like this." I immediately said a few pleasant things to myself like, "I can't wear this. This isn't me.... I don't deserve this." Fortunately, I got past my thoughts and discovered what it must feel like to be an air-traffic controller with so many projects swirling in the sky. I experienced a sense of power and began to feel freed-up and in-charge. That truly is the power of ADD Coaching, to be unraveled and forward moving.

I now see my life as having two parts. Part ONE: Pre-diagnosis, filled with fear, doubt, anger and depression. Part TWO: post-diagnosis where coaching helps take the pressure off so I can function optimally. Things are exciting! Fun! And I enjoy being more in-charge of me. My future is

filled with opportunity and sometimes fear, yet I'm now able to get my body to do what my mind has always wanted to do. And I'm experiencing success. There are still areas I look to grow, yet it's nice to know I face them with a raving fan constantly in my corner. That's all I needed was one person to believe in me.

It seems criminal at times to be having so much fun doing what I'm doing. Coaching with David Giwerc is a partnership in taking on one life challenge after another. It has made such a difference I only need to look to the quality of my personal life, my marriage, my passionate profession of choice and my many relations to recognize change. David has taught me that ultimately, I control but one thing: the power of my own thoughts. In Part TWO, it's a choice I optimally embrace each and every morning.

Mike Camoin
Videos For Change Productions
(518) 489-2083
www.videosforchange.com

Mike Camoin is a successful independent filmmaker. his award-winning documentary "Inside the Blue Line: Leadley's Legacy" is presently touring film festivals across the U.S.A. founder of Upstate Independents, Inc. a rapidly expanding network for aspiring media artists in Albany, NY, Camoin is a leader in the independent film movement in the greater northeast. entrepreneur and owner of Videos For Change Productions established in 1995 recently developed three divisions including development of educational programs, digital fiction-feature films and streaming media on the World Wide Web.

Video Testimonials

"Me, My ADD Coach and I" is a must see for anyone who had ADD or works with ADD adults. Information-packed, the video is the best vehicle I have ever
encountered for education people about ADD and how to work with it.


Kate Kelly RN
ADD Coach
Co-Author of "You Mean I'm not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?" and the "ADDed
Dimension"

In my experience, I have found that most teens with ADD have not had this
challenge adequately explained to them. David Giwerc's video, "Me, My ADD
Coach, and I" can be used to begin that dialogue, so necessary for
students to understand both themselves and the steps they need to take to
be successful in school.

Jean Davenport
Learning Skills & Reading Specialist
Study Skills & Tutoring
Woodberry Forest School
Woodberry Forest, Virginia
teaching for 29 years

Me, My ADD Coach & I is a very solid coaching video that offers a lot of
information without getting bogged down with details. I recommend it to
anyone who wants to learn more about ADD and coaching.

Nancy Ratey, EdM, ABDA, MCC
ADD Coach