Neurodiversity-Affirmative & Strengths-Based

Working With Your Brain, Not Against It
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You Are Not Broken
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My work begins with a truth that many people need to hear more than once: your brain is not broken.
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ADHD is not a personal failure, a lack of effort, or something to be fixed. It is a different way of experiencing, processing, and responding to the world. A neurodiversity-affirmative, strengths-based approach means stepping away from deficit models that focus only on what is hard, and instead recognising the creativity, sensitivity, insight, determination, and resilience that so often sit alongside ADHD.

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In our work together, we take time to understand how your particular mind works. We look at where things flow more easily for you, where friction shows up, and how your environment, expectations, and past experiences may have shaped the way you see yourself.

A big part of this work is gently unpicking shame. Many ADHDers have spent years being told they are lazy, careless, too much, or not enough. Coaching offers a different story, rooted in understanding, compassion, and respect. This is not about becoming someone else. It is about learning how to live in ways that fit who you already are.

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Part of being neurodiversity-affirmative is recognising that many of the struggles ADHDers face do not live inside them, but in systems, expectations, and environments that were never designed with their minds in mind. Together, we gently shift the focus away from “What is wrong with me?” and towards questions like “What am I being asked to do here, and at what cost?” This helps move difficulty out of the realm of personal failure and into a wider, kinder understanding of fit, support, and belonging.

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