Elana Kanter, M.A.T.
ADHD & Executive Function Coach
Elana Kanter provides neurodiversity-affirming and LGBTQIA+-affirming coaching for young adults and adults navigating ADHD, executive functioning challenges, and major life transitions. She takes a holistic, individualized approach to helping clients develop practical strategies that make academic, professional, and everyday life feel more manageable.
Neurodiversity-affirming and LGBTQIA+-affirming coaching means creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space where you are accepted as you are, while also helping you build practical skills and strategies that work for your individual needs. Elana works collaboratively with each person to understand how they think, learn, communicate, and function best. Rather than viewing these differences as something to “fix,” affirming coaching focuses on understanding your differences, strengths, and challenges and finding approaches that work with your brain and your life.
Elana helps clients build confidence, independence, and skills, while celebrating the small wins along the way. Coaching may address topics such as:
- Executive Functioning Skills (organization, task initiation, etc.)
- Daily Living Skills
- Interpersonal & Social Skills
- Goal Setting
- College & Career Skills (meeting deadlines, interviewing, etc.)
- Adulting & Transitioning into Adulthood
- Managing Competing Demands
- Self-Advocacy
Elana is particularly passionate about supporting individuals who have spent years feeling as though they are struggling to keep pace with expectations that were not designed with their strengths and needs in mind. Her goal is not simply to help clients become more productive, but to help them build systems, skills, and self-understanding that support greater independence, confidence, and quality of life.
Elana is a Certified ADHD Life Coach (CALC) and holds a Master of Arts in Teaching degree (MAT) in Elementary and Middle Special Education. She has a diverse background in teaching, tutoring, educational consulting, and coaching children, adolescents, and adults through work in schools, inclusive summer camp programs, nonprofit organizations, and private practice.
Elana has experience supporting individuals on the Autism spectrum and individuals with ADHD, learning differences, and other neurological differences. Throughout her career, Elana has developed individualized academic, executive functioning, and social-emotional goals; supported I.E.P. and educational planning; advocated for students and families; and helped clients identify strategies that work with – not against – their individual strengths and needs.
Elana also presents and facilitates workshops nationally on education, executive functioning, and neurodiversity-affirming support for students, educators, therapists and other professionals. This includes leading a collaborative session at the National School Boards Association’s annual conference on leveraging social-emotional learning to promote educational equity, and a workshop for the Independent Educational Consultants Association. She has also received a citation from the Governor of Maryland for exemplary work supporting individuals and families affected by life-threatening illnesses.
Elana believes that meaningful progress does not require becoming a different person. With the right strategies, support, and understanding, individuals can build lives that work for them.
Please feel free to contact Elana at ekanter@parkaireconsultants.com with any questions or requests.