This page explains what anti-cult coaching is, what deprogramming means, how ADHD shame and masking factor in, and how this work differs from therapy, self-help, and standard ADHD coaching.
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Identifying the beliefs, rules, and scripts that were installed in you by external systems — and deciding which ones you actually want to keep. Not therapy. Not spiritual work. Applied clarity. You look at what shaped you, where it came from, who it served — and then you decide what happens next. Nobody tells you what to believe. Nobody sells you a new belief system to replace the old one. You just get better at seeing what’s been running you.
Not a compound. Not Jonestown. The Anti-Cult framework uses “cult” to describe any system that operates with doctrine, punishment for dissent, a promise it doesn’t keep, and a structure that benefits from your compliance — regardless of whether it’s a religion, a workplace, a family dynamic, wellness culture, productivity culture, or the American Dream. When you understand how cult mechanics work, you start seeing them everywhere. That’s the point.
Coaching that starts from a different premise than most. Instead of trying to optimize you for the systems you’re in, it helps you examine the systems themselves. Most coaching asks “how do we make you function better?” Anti-Cult coaching asks “what are you functioning for — and did you ever agree to it?” That distinction changes everything about what the sessions look like and what they produce.
ADHD and neurodivergent adults who have tried the standard approaches — therapy, coaching, productivity systems, mindfulness — and found that they treat the symptoms without naming the cause. People who are tired of being asked to function inside systems that were never built for their brain. People who have felt the rules tighten and started asking who wrote them. People who don’t need to be motivated — they need to be oriented.
ADHD is heavily conditioned — not just in the medical sense, but in the shame, masking, and performance layers that get built on top of it over decades. Most ADHD coaching tries to get you functioning better inside neurotypical systems. Anti-Cult coaching looks at which parts of your ADHD struggle are actually the ADHD — and which parts are internalized shame from being told you’re broken for 30 years. That’s a different diagnosis, and it leads to different work. There’s also a separate practice — bADDass Coaching — specifically for neurodivergent adults who want symptom-focused, mechanism-first ADHD coaching. Same coach. Different entry point.
No. Self-help asks you to fix yourself. Anti-Cult coaching asks who told you there was something to fix, and why that story was useful to them. Self-help sells you systems. This work questions whether the systems were ever yours in the first place.
No. Coaching and therapy are different disciplines. Therapy focuses on processing the past and treating mental health conditions. Coaching focuses on the present and forward — examining patterns, building awareness, making deliberate choices. Many clients are in therapy and coaching simultaneously. Different tools for different jobs.
bADDass Coaching is symptom-focused — for ADHD adults who need help with executive function, burnout cycles, masking, and the day-to-day reality of a neurodivergent brain. The Anti-Cult Coach is systems-focused — for anyone who has started asking not “why can’t I function?” but “why does this system require me to function this way?” Same coach. Different entry point. Different work.
Most coaching models assume neurotypical brains and neurotypical goals. If you were given planners, accountability check-ins, and habit stacks — and none of it stuck — it probably didn’t fail because you failed. It failed because it was the wrong diagnosis. This work starts by looking at why the other approaches didn’t work. That’s often where the most useful information is.
$150 per 60-minute session. Packages: Uncover — 4 sessions · Unlearn — 8 sessions · Unmask — 12 sessions. The discovery call is free. This month, any session or package you choose comes with one extra session added. No strings.