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Barbara Lipscomb
ADD ADHD Coach, Life Coach, Family Coach
Children and adults with ADD/ADHD and creative/divergent learners face a unique set of challenges. Coaching is a highly effective means of helping non-traditional thinkers fully realize their potential and excel in all aspects of life.
About Me
Barbara Lipscomb is first and foremost an educator who has been educating and coaching people with different learning styles since 1980, when she began her career in special education. Barbara works from a deeply felt and researched model, one that guides her to understand that all learning takes place within the construct of important relationships. She is adept at creating relationships with people in which their unique learning needs can be assessed and they can work cooperatively with her toward maximizing their strengths and achieving success.
Barbara combines her professional background as a Special Education Teacher, Vice Principal, Corporate Trainer and Executive Assistant to Professional Academic and Creative Writers with extensive study and teaching of creative/journal writing to serve her students and clients in ways that meet their particular learning and personality styles and individual needs.
In addition to her regular coaching clients, Barbara gives back to the community of at-risk kids in the Santa Monica area as the Director of Smart Partners tutoring program for the Virginia Avenue Project. The Virginia Avenue Project is a free, after-school program that uses the performing arts in conjunction with one-on-one mentoring to help under served children realize their full potential. Barbara plays a critical role in meeting the emotional, learning, social, and socio-economic needs of these children.
Reviews
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Barbara has 4 reviews.
Barbara Lipscomb is powerfully insightful. She is also playful, funny, and has a soft touch. Working with her doesn't feel like 'work'. It feels like a conversation between compatible equals gaining perspective and understanding, together. Barbara listens wisely, and helps her clients understand themselves so they can proceed with their lives prepared, not just for what's 'out there', but for what's inside.
J.W., Adult Client
Barbara has had a huge impact on our family. She has helped our daughter get clear on her goals and helped her break down these goals into manageable steps. Prior to this she was feeling confused, frozen and overwhelmed. My husband and I had started to feel very ineffective. It's been helpful to have someone outside our family dynamic help clarify what we all want and to establish a more straight forward way for the three of us to communicate. We have seen our daughter flower and be more self confident in the few months she has been working with Barbara. I would highly recommend her work.
Nancy Park, parent of 25-year-old client
As the father of a client, I can't accurately measure how much Barbara has helped my family. I can only say that she has made a profound positive difference, and that I'm grateful beyond words.
Roderick Spencer, parent of client
As an educator, Barbara’s many gifts include her special talent for teaching to multiple intelligences...Barbara’s success with motivating and inspiring people to empower themselves to do their best, I feel, comes from her belief that each student has something unique to offer... Barbara has a palpable sense of joy in sharing her students’ successes, and yet always lays the accomplishments squarely in the laps of her students, to whom she gives full credit for accomplishing things they might not have known they were capable of.
As someone whose depth of experience ranges from public (middle and high) school teacher to high-level administrator in the field of special education, Barbara’s diverse expertise enabled our son to achieve a stellar academic first report card, and, equally important, to successfully integrate socially...
Loren Segan, Parent of client