
There isn’t one answer that works for everyone. Your strengths, routines, relationships, and everyday supports all have a place in your Shield.
Through ADHD Wellness Shield™ hypnosis, coaching, and education, we explore practical tools and personalized supports that fit your brain and your life.
Hypnosis and coaching offer ways to explore familiar patterns, practice more compassionate responses to shame and self-doubt, and build strategies for everyday challenges.
We build on what already helps and choose one manageable next step—without trying to change everything at once.
Your Shield is personal. We begin with what matters most to you.
One of the biggest problems I see when people try to manage ADHD on their own is that they focus only on external systems, like planners, apps, and reminders, so the underlying mental clutter driving the distraction, the overwhelm, and the unfinished projects never actually gets addressed.
This becomes an even bigger challenge because the subconscious mind holds on to years of frustration, shame, and the belief that something is wrong with you, so those old feelings keep sabotaging your progress no matter how many new systems you try.
Conventional approaches like productivity apps and organizational hacks can help for a little while, but the results rarely last, because these surface solutions were never designed to reach the mental junk drawer underneath.
The ADHD Wellness Shield™ works on three levels,
so that change actually holds:
Hypnosis and coaching work directly with the subconscious mind, right where the shame, the self-doubt, and the old stories live, so we can build your Wellness Shield at the deepest level instead of layering another app on top of the same struggle.
My passion is helping you see what I already know about you: your ADHD brain is not broken. It just needs the right tools, so that your creativity, energy, and quick thinking finally work for you instead of running the show without your permission.

Before you and I ever sit down together, my book Unleash Your ADHD Warrior can start the work, so that you walk into coaching already seeing yourself differently.
I wrote this book so that you stop viewing your ADHD traits as flaws to fix, and start recognizing them as the raw material of a warrior mindset, the same intensity, creativity, and drive that have been labeled as problems your whole life.
Inside, you'll find the same foundational shifts I use with my private clients, so that you can begin turning distraction into focus, impulsivity into decisiveness, and overwhelm into momentum, long before your first session even begins.

The Cluttered Mind helps you clear the mental clutter that's driving the chaos, so that your mind has room to think clearly again. Unleash Your ADHD Warrior helps you reframe the fight itself, so that you stop battling your brain and start leading it. Together, they lay the groundwork for everything we'll do in coaching.

If you have tried everything and are nervous that nothing will ever stick, the ADHD Wellness Shield™ is built for exactly that fear, so that instead of one more program that fizzles out, you get a personalized approach designed around how your specific brain actually works.
Your program will be custom-designed based on you, because no two ADHD brains look the same, and no two paths to thriving with ADHD should either.
I'll teach you the tools inside the ADHD Wellness Shield™,
so that thriving with ADHD stops feeling like a constant uphill battle.

How to quiet the mental noise, so that starting a task doesn't feel like climbing a mountain every single time.

Why traditional productivity systems fail so often for ADHD brains, so that you can stop blaming yourself for the ones that didn't work.

How to release years of shame around missed deadlines and unfinished projects, so that you can finally move forward without dragging the past behind you.

Why willpower was never the answer, so that you can stop measuring your worth by how hard you try.

How to build routines that actually fit your brain, so that consistency feels natural instead of exhausting.

What to do when focus slips or old patterns creep back in, so that a hard day never has to mean starting completely over.
What Others Are Saying About Me
I've struggled with this all my life. I thought I was "lazy" at least that is the message I received. Now I know and can use my gifts and learn to manage my world better.
J.M.
I realize my space looks like my head feels. I had to begin to as Deb says jokingly how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time and her other one inch by inch life is a cinch. I'm beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel with her help.
J.J.
I was skeptical at first. I had anxiety since I was a kid. After learning hypnosis, the 4Rs, and other techniques. I'm Free!
George S.

This process begins with you, so let's take the first step together.

Not ready to talk yet? Start with my books instead, so you can begin unleashing your ADHD warrior tonight.

Deborah McKenna, CH Author | Hypnotist | Life Coach Serving In-person in Peoria, Illinois and online
Results may vary from person to person. We guarantee the very best service using current information and appropriate techniques for your situation. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy are not meant to diagnose or treat any disease, but rather it is intended to provide information, education, and motivation that will help you live to your best potential and guide you toward being more effective in helping yourself.
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