Petra Earnshaw

COACHING

ADHD coaching for parents and adoptees

ABOUT ADOPTION ATTUNED COACHING

Adoption touches many lives, and every story is unique. Whether you are an expectant mother considering adoption, a birth parent, an adult adoptee, a prospective adoptive parent, or an adoptive parent, you carry experiences, questions, and emotions that deserve space, understanding, and respect.

Adoption Attuned Coaching offers that space: a supportive, non-judgemental environment where you can explore what adoption means to you and how it continues to shape your life.

What is Adoption Attuned Coaching?

Adoption Attuned Coaching combines the principles of coaching with a deep awareness of adoption-related experiences and dynamics.

It recognises that adoption can bring both love and loss, belonging and questioning, stability and uncertainty, often all at once. Coaching provides an opportunity to process these realities while focusing on your present goals, values, and well-being.

At the heart of this work is a tri-spective approach, which honours the experiences and perspectives of everyone within the adoption constellation: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. This perspective helps create understanding and compassion across all parts of the adoption experience.

As your coach, I bring both professional training and a lived understanding of adoption’s lifelong impact. My role is to listen, reflect, and help you find clarity, confidence, and practical ways forward, at your own pace and in your own way.

How I Work

Each coaching session is centred around you: your needs, your experiences, and your goals. Together, we will:

  • Create a safe, compassionate space where your story can be heard without judgement.

  • Explore patterns and perspectives that may have developed around adoption and identity.

  • Identify strengths and strategies that support your wellbeing and relationships.

  • Develop tools for emotional regulation, self-compassion, and self-advocacy.

Coaching can help you make sense of where you have been and where you want to go, whether that means navigating complex family dynamics, understanding your story more deeply, or simply finding calm and confidence in daily life.

Who I Work With

I offer Adoption Attuned Coaching for anyone touched by adoption, including:

  • Expectant mothers considering adoption

  • Birth parents processing their experiences

  • Adult adoptees seeking to understand their stories and identity

  • Prospective adoptive parents preparing for the journey ahead

  • Adoptive parents wanting to support their children and strengthen family connections

Each person’s experience of adoption is different, but no one needs to walk that path alone.

Moving Forward

If you would like to talk about whether coaching could support you, you are warmly invited to book a complimentary Discovery Call. It is an opportunity to ask questions, share what is on your mind, and explore what coaching might offer you.