I spent 17 years on stimulants before I understood what was actually wrong.
I'm a Certified Health Coach in New York. I work with high-performing adults with ADHD on nervous system regulation — and a large part of that work is with people reducing stimulant medication under their prescriber's direction.
How I got here
I grew up in New York City, diagnosed with ADHD early, handed a prescription, and told to get on with it. For years I did — and by most metrics, it worked. I became an elite ski racer. I built companies. I performed.
What nobody saw was the internal cost. The chronic tension. The emotional crashes. The inability to rest. The growing suspicion that I couldn't function without medication — and the quiet dread of what that meant.
After three burnouts and 17 years, I finally asked the question nobody had asked me: what is the medication actually doing to my nervous system over time? The answer changed everything.
I worked with my physician to taper off stimulants and spent two years rebuilding my regulation capacity from the ground up — using neuroscience, somatic practice, nutritional psychiatry, and behavioral psychology. What I built held in a way nothing before it had.
PKJ Coaching exists to give other high-performing adults with ADHD what I didn't have: a guide, a framework, and a container to do this work — without figuring it out alone over two decades.
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Training and verification
I'm a graduate of Health Coach Institute's Advanced Health Coach program — an NBHWC-approved health and wellness coach training. The badge and the verification link both point at the issuer's public assertion page.
The work is grounded in polyvagal theory, somatic neuroscience, nutritional psychiatry, and behavioral psychology — adapted for practical application in a coaching context, not a clinical one.
What I do
Nervous system regulation, executive function scaffolding, and burnout recovery for adults with ADHD. The gap I fill is implementation — a prescriber managing medication doesn't have time to build daily systems, and a therapist doing depth work doesn't have a mandate for task initiation and calendars. Between those two is where most of my clients live.
What I don't do
I don't diagnose. I don't treat. I don't provide medical or mental health advice, and I don't advise on medication of any kind. If clinical material surfaces in a session, the coaching pauses and I send the client back to their clinician — that's a stated part of my agreement with everyone I work with.
I am not a licensed therapist, physician, or medical provider. PKJ Coaching is not a licensed medical practice.
Bonding Health
I'm also the founder of Bonding Health, an ADHD emotional regulation app that delivers 15-second somatic resets — Qiks™ — for real-time regulation between sessions.
The two fit together deliberately: coaching is where you build the capacity, and the app is where you use it at 2pm on a Tuesday when everything is too much.
Two doors, and a free one before either
Sit in on the free live session this Thursday and feel the work before deciding anything. Or book a Nervous System Audit — a real working session that maps where your dysregulation sits. Neither costs anything.
Booking a podcast or press appearance? Everything a producer needs is here. Referring a patient? Scope and boundaries for clinicians.