The website (and your comments) go on about 'the science' and 'evidence based' I cannot find a single resource on your website or in your comments to back that up. Why is that? If there's evidence and that's a core part of your branding, where is it???

As I have commented so so so many times in this thread, 'coaching' is a predatory scam. It's unregulated, not at all evidence based, and it's preying on those of us who need better access to proper medical and disability-related supports.

It's so great there's a couple of staff listed on the website who do apparently have degrees that would allow them to practice as proper allied health professionals. Where I live, someone could be risking their proper license by working as a 'lifestyle coach'. It's a violation of professional ethics. Is that not a problem in the US? I know y'all generally let nurses refer to themselves as 'doctor' (and let them run urgent care centres with no actual doctors on staff which is insane to me), so is this just normal there? I'm not just being snide, I'm genuinely asking; are the standards for medical care that low? Why not just be licensed then? If there's mental health professionals as staff, why is shimmer so hellbent on skirting regulatory bodies?

One staff member on the website, Xenia Angevin, is described as a psychologist on the website but she doesn't appear to be a clinical psychologist and it feels like you're trying to present her as something she's not. She isn't a clinical psychologist as far as I can find. Bit predatory. It's a bit like lying to sell something (well, she has an MBA!). There's a handful of staff who do have some further education (most of it not at all relevant to psychology or therapy) but it's not clear what (...if any) the educational and regulatory standards actually are or what those standards actually mean for the actual coaches. You keep trying to dress it up to make it look like the coaches are actual professionals and they're just not.

I think it is an utter disgrace to try push this scam as 'evidence based' and you should all be ashamed for preying on (allegedly) your own fellow ADHDers.

I am trying to express how appalled I am in a way that at adds to the conversation per the rules but it really is challenging because of how unscrupulous you (and other coaching scams) are. It is distressing how often 'evidence based' and 'the science' appears on the website with literally no evidence or science to be found. None! Evidence based is also a thought terminating cliche, particularly in the neurodivergent disability spaces where it's often pushed hard core to justify abhorrent things like the Judge Rotenberg Center electrocuting Autistic kids for not taking their jumpers off fast enough, but that's a rant for another day. Give us this alleged evidence so we can read and evaluate it ourselves! The audacity of slapping 'evidence based' and 'the science' all over the website with literally none is genuinely gobsmacking. I know I have said that like five times but come ON, it's cartoonishly evil!

To my fellow ADHDers, my (utterly brilliant) clinical psychologist is about the same cost as this and he's qualified, registered, regulated, and actually practices as an allied health professional so as well as having a great education and professional standards, he can interface with other healthcare professionals if and when needed.

Other allied health like occupational therapists are also worth seeing; they're professional problem solvers and strategists who are also qualified, registered, regulated allied health professionals who can help you discover and implement strategies to help you manage. If this shimmer thing sounds good to you and you don't want to do talk therapy, seriously, find an OT who works with neurodivergent adults and see them for a few months.

Disability support workers are also an amazing resource; they're qualified, regulated, and are my go-to for when I need assistance directly with something (rather than learning and implementing mechanisms).

YES there are MASSIVE issues with the various regulatory bodies, but they're genuinely worlds apart compared to these snake oil salespeople bald-faced lying about evidence based practice while refusing to even try providing any evidence and intentionally avoiding regulations that protect practitioners and clients. I strongly urge you all to avoid propping up the scam 'coaching' industry, especially when they're priced as high as actually qualified, registered professionals practicing within their scopes of practice. You can still see an OT or psychologist via telehealth if that's what you prefer!