Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. It's something I hear from many of the people who find their way here.

Some have spent sessions explaining giftedness or neurodivergence to the person who was supposed to be supporting them.

Others felt that their sensitivity, intensity, intuition or way of thinking was being treated as something to reduce rather than something to understand.

And some simply left with the familiar feeling:

“They still don't quite get me.”

As a gifted and autistic person myself, I bring lived understanding into the relationship as well as professional experience.

That doesn't mean I will automatically understand every part of your experience or that coaching replaces clinical support where that's needed.

But it does mean you can bring your complexity into the room.

You don't have to spend all your energy translating yourself before we can begin.

No. I am not a psychotherapist, psychologist or counsellor.

I am a coach, mentor and healer. My work is informed by specialist training and professional practice alongside my lived experience as a gifted and autistic person.

For many of the people who find me, that lived understanding matters.

They've experienced what it's like to seek support and find themselves explaining their neurodivergence, giftedness, intensity or sensitivity before they can even get to the thing they came for.

Here, you don't have to spend the whole session translating yourself first.

My work isn't a replacement for psychotherapy, psychological assessment, psychiatric care or other clinical treatment.

You may choose to work with a licensed therapist alongside our work. If I believe your needs fall outside my remit, I'll tell you and encourage you to seek appropriate clinical support.

Therapeutic coaching is the term I use to describe my holistic approach to coaching.

We don't only talk about what's happening or try to understand why.

Depending on what you need, we may work with your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, body, relationships and environment - looking at what happens in real time and what might help you respond differently.

My approach is trauma-informed and can draw on somatic, nervous-system, relational and parts-based approaches alongside practical coaching. For those who are open or curious, there can also be space for intuitive, spiritual and energetic work.

We go deep and we go wide.

The aim is to understand how your particular system works, what supports it, what works against it, and how insight can become something you can actually use in your life.

Therapeutic coaching can feel deeply personal and therapeutic, but it remains coaching rather than psychotherapy or clinical treatment.

We work with how you think and how you feel - so you have more choice in how you respond.

This isn't only about talking through a pattern until you understand why it's there.

Many people who come to me already know why.

They've analysed it. Read about it. Talked about it. Sometimes for years.

The question becomes: what do I actually do differently when the pattern is happening?

We work with the mind, body, nervous system, relationships and environment so that insight can become something more usable.

You might begin to recognise an old response sooner, understand what your system needs and find yourself able to respond in a way that feels more helpful, conscious and empowered.

This work isn't only about the why. It's about the how.

This is something I hear often.

Many people arrive with enormous self-awareness. They've done therapy, coaching, personal development or spiritual work and can explain their patterns in considerable depth.

But insight hasn't necessarily changed what happens when the pattern is activated.

In this work, we go deep and we go wide.

We work both top-down and bottom-up: with your conscious and subconscious mind, and with the information held and communicated through your body.

I also take a systems approach.

That means we don't look at you or your past in isolation. We consider your environment, relationships, capacity and the wider system you're living within - noticing what supports the way you're wired and what repeatedly works against it.

From there, we can identify practical changes that may alter how you experience everyday life.

For people who are spiritually open or curious, there can also be space for intuitive, energetic and spiritual healing.

I hold this aspect of the work gently. Nothing is imposed.

Many gifted and neurodivergent adults have spent years separating their intellectual, emotional, embodied and spiritual selves in order to fit into conventional spaces.

Here, those parts don't have to be separated in order to be taken seriously.

Change looks different for everyone, but it usually starts showing up in ordinary moments.

You might notice that:

• a conversation that would normally escalate doesn't go the same way

• you recognise overwhelm earlier, before it completely takes over

• you recover more quickly after an emotional spike

• decisions feel clearer and less mentally exhausting

• you spend less time replaying conversations or questioning yourself afterwards

• your boundaries become easier to recognise and communicate

• you trust your own responses, needs and choices more

• you feel more able to work with the way you're wired rather than constantly trying to override it

Some shifts can happen surprisingly quickly. Others develop through consistent, ongoing work, particularly when we're working with patterns that have been there for a long time.

The aim isn't to become someone who never gets overwhelmed, triggered or uncertain.

It's to have more awareness, more choice and more ways to support yourself when you do.