ADHD & Executive Functioning Coach
Amy Orlando, MSOT has over 10 years of experience working in public and private schools and has extensive experience working with clients with ADHD and autism of all ages.
Amy is passionate about using the healthcare coaching model where the client is an expert in their own life. While Amy may suggest solutions to challenges, she understands the path to behavioral change comes from finding solutions for oneself. She utilizes evidence-based techniques such as active listening to identify and ask powerful questions and uses insight-building activities to help individuals reflect on their strengths and challenges which leads to increased self-awareness, independence, and self-sufficiency.
Amy also has vast experience teaching interoceptive awareness (being able to understand how your body is feeling) to help clients further understand how they are feeling and to utilize appropriate strategies.
Amy believes that her occupational therapy (OT) degree has been an invaluable asset that has made her the coach she is today. Occupational therapy focuses on helping clients identify strengths and
barriers to participation in life activities. This training has helped her understand that independence and well-being come from a “goodness of fit” between the person, their environment, and their occupation (i.e. school, job, volunteer job, etc.).
When coaching clients she uses this lens to ask specific and pointed questions to understand how all these facets are interwoven to make a person who they are. Her coach approach focuses on gaining insight and developing functional and actionable goals to help a client achieve increased independence.
Education and Training:
Amy received her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in Psychology and her Master’s at Tufts University. Amy is a certified and licensed Occupational Therapist and is certified through the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) program.