Barbara Lipscomb Coaching

Specialties

Barbara Lipscomb is first and foremost an educator who has been providing help for ADHD 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 context 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 has given back to the community of at-​risk kids in the Santa Monica area as former Director of Smart Partners tutoring program for The Virginia Avenue Project, a free, after-​school program that uses the performing arts in conjunction with one-​on-​one mentoring to help underserved children realize their full potential. Barbara has played a critical role in meeting the emotional, learning, social, and socio-​economic needs of these children…

History

Established in 1997.

Barbara’s excellence, compassion and intuitive nature as an ADD /​ADHD coach can be credited to her many-​faceted personal and professional background and experiences.

Meet the Business Owner

Barbara L.

Business Owner

Since 2007, Barbara has utilized her vast personal and professional experiences via Barbara Lipscomb Coaching to serve children and adults dealing with AD/​HD, executive functioning issues and/​or people who are creative/​divergent learners and thinkers. In her many lives prior to Barbara Lipscomb Coaching, she has served creative /​divergent minds as a Personal Assistant to creative and academic writers; in the Los Angeles and Santa Monica/​Malibu Unified School Districts as well as at Vista School teaching elementary through high school aged students, and as Vice Principal. She has taught students dealing with emotional and learning differences; and worked as a Trainer in Corporate America. Barbara earned her teaching credentials in General Ed, K-​12 and Special Ed, K-​12. Barbara became responsive to special needs children as a child when her 17 month old brother became profoundly deaf.