“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver, poet

These words inspire the professional ADHD coaching practice of Karen Roertgen.

Karen offers a specialty coaching practice that includes ADHD education, the development of practical skills, and emotional regulation to overcome ADHD challenges.

Karen’s integrated approach offers you the opportunity to discover how your unique brain works, and how you can overcome your ADHD challenges. Her clients report her to be insightful, creative, compassionate and fun. Her joy is to see you engage your life with courage, confidence, and competence. Always monitoring for her clients strengths, interests, or talents, Karen is laser-focused on putting these front and center for you in the coaching session.

She teaches practical skills (including executive function, social skills, mindfulness, environmental support, movement/exercise, and communication) which give you improved ways of moving through life. When working with families, her background in family systems and ADHD coaching, enables her to help them build strong family structure and functioning for each family.

Karen’s comprehensive approach is a direct outcome of her systemic interests and training in ADHD coaching, neuroscience, nutrition and exercise, family systems, ecology, and parenting education. Her coaching is grounded in the principles of positive psychology, Neurolinguistic programming, human development and neuroplasticity. Karen works extensively with issues of diversity in gender, race, and ethnicity, and with families of adoption and non-traditional families. She coaches individuals, couples, and families and offers training/ consultation for schools, businesses, and parents.

Ms. Roertgen’s professional qualifications include over 200 hours of ADHD Coach training, including family-specific training. Karen is a graduate of the ADD Coach Academy, has AACC certification, and Master’s-level certification in Neuro-Linguistic Programming. She is a professional member of both CHADD and the International Coach Federation. She is certified in Collaborative Problem Solving and is a Certified Parenting Educator for seven parenting programs. As a former licensed professional counselor, Karen utilized her coaching and counseling training to create a distinctive private practice devoted to working solely with people/ families living with ADHD. She has a master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and previously earned two doctorates in the medical field.

Karen interests include running her small farm, hanging out with family and friends, hiking and biking, learning, poetry, and working with people from diverse segments of society on issues of common good. She lives in Pepperell, MA.

Karen welcomes clients of all ages and affiliations.

To learn more about ADHD coaching coaching with Karen, please contact her at:

Phone: 612-437-6394

Email: coachingnewconnections@gmail.com