Sell Paid ADHD Coaching Q&A From Your Bio Link

An ADHD coach sells paid Q&A by putting a Brillay Paid Question behind the bio link: the follower pays first, types one executive-function problem — an app pick, an accommodation wording, a routine that collapses — and the coach answers privately in writing. No calendar, no package; diagnosis and medication questions get declined and refunded. Paid Questions let a follower pay upfront to ask one private question, and you send one written reply on your own time — no live call or scheduling.

No monthly fee, you only pay a small platform fee when you get paid. 8% platform fee when a follower pays for work, 5% platform fee on tips and goals. Card processing is separate. pricing

Many adults diagnosed later in life bring coaches small questions about routines, planning, accommodations, and tools before they are ready for a longer package. An estimated 15.5 million U.S. adults, or 6.0% of the adult population, had a current ADHD diagnosis in 2023, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published October 10, 2024 (CDC MMWR 73(40), 890–895). Within that group, 55.9% received their ADHD diagnosis at age 18 or older, per the same CDC report (CDC MMWR 73(40), 890–895). Do clients diagnosed in adulthood keep bringing you small, specific questions before they are ready for a longer coaching package?

Which ADHD questions can a coach answer in one message?

The ones with a bounded answer: which reminder app to try, how to word an accommodation request, why a morning routine keeps collapsing on step three. Each is a single executive-function problem a coach can answer in writing, without a diagnosis, an intake history, or a scheduled session on anyone's calendar.

CHADD, the national ADHD advocacy organization funded by the CDC to run the National Resource Center on ADHD, defines the practice around exactly those targets:

"ADHD coaching is a practical intervention that specifically targets the core impairments of ADHD such as planning, time management, goal setting, organization and problem solving."

CHADD says ADHD coaching can happen by email or text, which makes a private written answer a familiar format for one clearly scoped question. CHADD states that ADHD coaching sessions can happen "in person, online, by phone, by e-mail or by text message depending on the client's preference". A paid question is that same text format, narrowed to one message in and one answer back.

Where does ADHD coaching stop and diagnosis begin?

It stops at assessment. An ADHD coach works on planning, timing, and follow-through; deciding whether someone has ADHD, and treating it, belongs to a licensed clinician. A coach who blurs the two is not offering a narrower service — they are offering a different one they may not be permitted to sell.

Understood.org, a nonprofit resource on learning and thinking differences, draws the line in one sentence:

"ADHD coaches aren't necessarily mental health professionals, and they may or may not be licensed or have a degree."

The same Understood.org article states that ADHD coaches "are not allowed to assess, diagnose, or treat ADHD or any other mental health issues" unless they separately hold that license. For a paid-question listing that means one visible scope line — strategies and structure, not assessment, not medication — written into the offer description so the client self-selects before paying.

How does a Paid Question work on Brillay?

One executive-function question in, one written answer back — the client pays upfront, and no session gets booked in between.

Brillay's Paid Questions page lists exactly two fields the creator sets: the price and how fast the coach commits to replying.

Because the client can only send text, the format fits questions that don't require a document, a screenshot of a calendar, or a recording. Those need Custom Work, which accepts a client's attachment at order time.

Does an ADHD coach need a PAAC credential?

No — no credential gates the offer itself. Brillay sets no certification requirement for listing a paid question, and the ADHD-specific credentials that do exist are issued by a professional association rather than a government licensing board. What a coach may legally offer is still governed by their own jurisdiction's scope-of-practice rules.

The Brillay side is the simple half: coaches of any credential status and audience size can list a paid question from the first follower who asks one — no audience threshold, nothing to apply for. The credential that does exist is ADHD-specific. The Professional Association for ADHD Coaches (PAAC) issues credentials based on coaching hours actually delivered, and its credentialing requirements state that "a CACP credential must have 60 ADHD Coaching hours, 90% of which must be paid" and that "a PCAC credential must have 250 ADHD Coaching hours, 90% of which must be paid" (PAAC, Credentialing Requirements). PAAC also states that it does not itself provide ADHD coach training.

PAAC's published requirements state those hour totals and the 90%-paid rule but do not address asynchronous written Q&A, so track paid answers separately and confirm with PAAC before counting them. A listing should name the credential a coach actually holds — CACP, PCAC, or none — never a clinical qualification that no coaching credential confers.

What should one ADHD question cost?

Price the scope, not the minutes. We found no authoritative published benchmark for the price of a single asynchronous ADHD coaching question, so the only concrete figure available is Brillay's example starting range for a written reply, laddered upward as the question demands more judgment rather than more of the coach's time.

For a paid expert answer, test a price around $20–$35 and raise it when the question requires more judgment or a more detailed written response. Everything in the table below is a proposed scoping model, not observed market data, a quoted rate, or an earnings claim.

Start with one price for one clearly scoped question and watch which of the three shapes clients actually buy; the price is editable, so treat the first number as a test. More on packaging a recurring question is in how to turn a repeated question into a paid offer.

Which ADHD questions should go to a prescriber?

Anything about the medication itself. Dose changes, side effects, whether to start or stop a stimulant, and what to do about a prescription that cannot be filled are prescriber questions, not coaching questions — and they arrive constantly, because filling an ADHD prescription has been unreliable for years.

Among U.S. adults with current ADHD who reported taking a stimulant medication, 71.5% had difficulty getting their ADHD prescription filled because it was unavailable, per CDC MMWR data collected October–November 2023 (CDC MMWR 73(40), 890–895). A coach can help someone rebuild a routine around an unmedicated week; a coach cannot advise on the prescription itself.

A third of this audience is also outside formal treatment entirely: 36.5% of U.S. adults with current ADHD received no ADHD treatment in the previous 12 months, where treatment meant counseling or therapy from a mental health professional or a prescribed ADHD medication, per the same CDC report (CDC MMWR 73(40), 890–895). For that person, one clearly scoped written answer can be a lower-commitment first step than a coaching package or booked session.

Remote help is already familiar to a large minority of this audience, which is why a text-first offer does not feel foreign: 30.8% of U.S. adults with current ADHD had used telehealth to receive counseling or therapy for ADHD at some point since March 2020, per the same CDC report (CDC MMWR 73(40), 890–895).

How do you answer a workplace accommodation question?

Answer it with wording the client can send, plus the cost fact that defuses their manager's objection. In our view this is the ADHD ask best suited to a text format, because the deliverable is a paragraph rather than a conversation, and the blocker is usually the client's belief that the request will be seen as expensive.

It generally is not. In the Job Accommodation Network's employer survey covering January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2024, 872 respondents — 61% — said the accommodation their employee needed cost nothing, while 466 (33%) reported a one-time expense with a median cost of $300 (Job Accommodation Network, Costs and Benefits of Accommodations). JAN is the technical assistance service funded by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy.

A good paid answer here contains three things: the specific adjustment requested, one sentence on the executive function it restores, and JAN's 61% no-cost figure for the client to cite. It must not contain a claim about whether the client legally qualifies for protection — that is a legal question, not a coaching one.

What else belongs on an ADHD coach's page?

Five other offers can sit alongside Paid Questions on the same Brillay page: Custom Work, Personalized Videos, Tips, Goals, and Brand Collaboration Inquiries. Each is switched on individually, so a coach can run one offer or all six, and none of them books an appointment.

Custom Work covers anything needing a file or a recording — reviewing a drafted accommodation letter, or a recorded walkthrough of a task-management setup — with a price you set and a delivery time of up to 5 days, both fixed on the listing before the client orders.

Personalized Videos fit short recorded nudges for someone starting a hard week rather than strategy answers. Tips let followers send a one-time thank-you, with nothing for you to deliver and no membership for them to join. Goals can fund a build such as a printable planner. A Brand Collaboration Inquiries form routes outreach from reminder and focus apps into a separate inbox with budget and timeline fields.

Coaches outside the ADHD niche run the same pay-first structure with different scope rules — see selling paid life coaching advice without booking a call and, for a mindset-adjacent niche, how manifestation coaches price a paid question.

How do you launch an ADHD Q&A offer?

Pick the one question your DMs repeat most, write a scope line that names what you will not answer, set a price and a reply time, and put the link where clients already ask. Nothing else is required: no booking calendar, no clinical credential.

Brillay is a separate page you share as the paid destination for the same questions already in your DMs. Clients do not need an account, there is no follower minimum, and creators can receive payouts in 41 countries.

The scope line does most of the work: "executive-function strategy only — no diagnosis, no medication questions" helps clients choose the right offer before paying and lets you decline out-of-scope questions and refund them. Coaching questions about careers rather than ADHD strategy are covered in Brillay's guidance for career coaches.

Frequently asked questions

Can an ADHD coach answer medication questions?

No. Dosing, side effects, and prescription problems belong to a prescriber; Understood.org states that ADHD coaches "are not allowed to assess, diagnose, or treat ADHD or any other mental health issues" without a separate license.

Do I need a PAAC certification to sell paid ADHD questions?

A coach can list a paid question on Brillay regardless of their certification status, though scope-of-practice rules in a coach's own jurisdiction still govern what they may offer. PAAC's own thresholds are 60 ADHD coaching hours for a CACP credential and 250 for a PCAC, 90% of which must be paid hours; that page does not state whether asynchronous written answers count, so confirm with PAAC before logging them.

Can a client attach a screenshot of their calendar?

Not to a Paid Question — the client sends text only, and the coach replies in writing. Use Custom Work for a question that depends on seeing a calendar, a letter, or a task board; clients can attach a file at order time.

Do I set the number of follow-up messages?

No. Word the listing as one question and one answer.

What does Brillay charge?

Brillay's only charge is the platform fee quoted near the top of this page, and it applies only to questions that actually got paid. Card processing is separate: Stripe's published US pricing lists 2.9% + $0.30 for a standard domestic online card transaction (Stripe pricing).

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