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Women & ADHD

Alex Bellitter: Coaching vs. therapy for ADHD

Women & ADHD

Katy Weber

Education, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.9 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Episode 208 with Alex Bellitter


“People can feel like, ‘I don’t think this is an internal thing I’m trying to work through. I feel like I’m trying to navigate my environment, and I don’t have the tools, education, and resources to do it.’”


Alex is the Senior Manager of Coaching at Shimmer, an ADHD community and coaching platform that’s redefining what support can look like for ADHD brains.


Alex does not have ADHD herself, but she’s spent years working with neurodivergent kids, adults, and now leading a team of over 50 ADHD coaches at Shimmer. She brings a background in coaching psychology, clinical psychology, and health and wellness to her work, and she’s passionate about delivering strengths‑based, evidence‑informed support that actually feels good to ADHDers.


In this conversation, we talk about:


  • What coaching psychology is and why it’s such a powerful fit for ADHD
  • The difference between therapy, coaching, and “healing” work, and how they can complement each other
  • Why so many of us are misdiagnosed with depression first and how overwhelm, executive dysfunction, and chronic frustration can get mislabeled
  • The ebb and flow of ADHD symptoms across the lifespan, hormones, menopause, grief, and “temporary neurodivergence”
  • How Shimmer structures its coaching, body doubling, community, and AI tools to be genuinely ADHD‑friendly and shame‑free
  • The promises and risks of AI for neurodivergent people — and what “good guardrails” actually look like


If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re “struggling enough” to count, questioned what’s “normal,” or felt confused about where ADHD ends, and environment, hormones, and capitalism begin … this episode is for you.


Website: linkedin.com/in/abellitter

Instagram: @shimmer.care


Links & Resources:

Shimmer.care

Episode 191 with Christal Wang

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they were given the diagnosis and they were shown the DSM and they can see the symptoms and like,

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okay, that sounds like me, but it's not shown how it applies to their life of what does ADHD

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and finance looks like. Oh, my impulsive spending is related to my ADHD, mind blowing. And if someone

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had helped them make that connection or provided that education, it would have changed how they were approaching it.

0:27.4

Hello and welcome to the women and ADHD podcast. I'm your host, Katie Weber. I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 45, and it completely turned my world upside down.

0:39.5

I've been looking back at so much of my life, school, jobs, my relationships, all of it with this

0:46.4

new lens, and it has been nothing short of overwhelming.

0:49.8

I quickly discovered I was not the only woman to have this experience, and now I interview other

0:54.7

women who, like me, discovered in adulthood they have ADHD and are finally feeling like they

1:00.6

understand who they are and how to best lean into their strengths, both professionally and

1:06.1

personally. So before we get started, just a quick reminder. After this episode is over,

1:10.3

make sure to head over to women and ADHD.com, our education and advocacy help for neurodivergent adults

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like you. At women and ADHD.com, you'll find all the resources you need to help you better

1:20.9

understand your brain so you can thrive. You can book a free consultation with any of our

1:25.4

fantastic team of certified ADHD coaches.

1:28.7

At Women in ADHD.com, you'll also find tons of free infographics, recommended self-tests.

1:34.4

My self-guided course, hey, it's ADHD, and much more.

1:37.7

Okay, here we are at episode 208 in which I interview Alex Belleteer.

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Alex is the senior manager of coaching at Shimmer, an ADHD

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community and coaching platform that's redefining what support can look like for ADHD brains.

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You might remember Shimmer from when I interviewed their founder, Crystal Wang, in episode

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191. I'll put a link to that episode in the show notes if you want to hear more about Shimmer.

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