Navigating Neurodiversity
Embrace your neurodivergence
Build upon your strengths
Create strategies for you, your family, and workplace
My name is Leigh
As your coach, I will support you in shaping a life which feels authentically yours, where your journey is guided by your goals.
I can help you to
- Fully embrace your neurodivergent identity
- Craft powerful, practical strategies to tackle your challenges
- Balance your energy to reduce episodes of overwhelm
- Re-frame your childhood labels, ditching beliefs which no longer serve you
- Be ‘present’ at home, work or college, by achieving a balance between your neurodivergent needs and the commitments you have to others
- Take back control of what it looks and feels like to be you
Choose a program
Thrive
Re-frame your lived experience, improve self-regulation, and thrive
Shape
Embrace your identity, harness your strengths, and reshape your world
Bespoke
Navigate your unique neurodivergent journey with tailored 1:1 coaching
Why not book a discovery call?
This is a no commitment call to help you work out whether you want to work with me, what that might look like and which programme is right for you.
For me, it is an opportunity to understand where you are right now, and where you would like to get to through coaching.
My book: The Undercover Autistic
Whether you self-identify as Autistic, or have a formal diagnosis, coming to this realisation can generate a lot of questions and new challenges. In a culture where Autism is still poorly understood, and timely support difficult to access, this book provides a detailed look at the impact of identification and strategies to help.
Here Leigh examines her journey from euphoric highs to crashing lows. She knows what it is like to have lived one life pre-diagnosis and be confronted with a whole new perspective on that life. She understands the effort carving out a new path demands, and the time and energy involved in reconnecting with one’s personal history.
Post-diagnostic support is often limited and expensive, Leigh’s book shares lots of ideas which may help you move forward if formal support is not readily available to you.
Coaching vs surfing the internet
When you first discover the possibility you might be neurodivergent you may turn to the internet to find out more.
The problem with the Internet is that it is not only time consuming to research, but the content can be of variable quality, and sometimes the internet is an upsetting and ill-informed place.
- You will come across people, indeed entire organisations, who believe neurodivergent people need to be ‘cured’
- You will come across people peddling miracle supplements with no clinical proof of efficacy
- You will come across posts that may trigger you
By contrast, coaching is is a relationship tailored specifically to you. It focuses on where you are at right now and it aims to deliver support which moves you forward to where you want to be.
Still not sure?
You’ve been recently diagnosed, or self-diagnosed. Do any of these feel familiar:
- While it feels a relief to know, now you want to move forward with a fresh and positive perspective
- You want to know what you can proactively do to better support yourself in your workplace
- You are adjusting to life away from your childhood home (perhaps going to University) and recognise new strategies and systems might help you
Things I can help with
- Life feels overwhelming or exhausting a lot of the time and you want to improve your wellbeing
- You find socialising exhausting, pushing yourself to attend events, and you want to be able to manage this without having to cancel or change plans
- Your desire to fit in hinders your ability to make decisions that prioritise your own wellbeing
- The diagnostic process has left you feeling negative about this new label and you want to reframe it by understanding yourself in the context of your strengths, not just your challenges
- Now you’re diagnosed, people are telling you to ‘drop the mask’, that it is ‘bad for you’, but you don’t know what the real you is anymore, and it doesn’t yet feel safe to ‘unmask’
- You’ve got a diagnosis and while you know it is correct, you feel invalidated by others and want to gain clarity on what neurodivergence means for you
- Your work place feels overwhelming and this is stopping you participating in the way you want to
- You want to have reliable strategies which work for you, even in those moments when you feel most challenged
- You have felt overloaded by your senses for as long as you can remember and want to manage overwhelm and boundaries
- You have lots of ideas and plans, and want support to begin executing them
- Family members or colleagues are having difficulty understanding your diagnosis and you want to encourage them to support you more effectively
Is someone you know is identifying as neurodivergent?
- Your co-worker has been recently diagnosed as neurodivergent and you’re wondering how you can best support them in the workplace
- You have neurodivergent people in your family, and life sometimes feels out of control, reactive and stressful. You want ways to bring the family together
- Your child has recently received a diagnosis. You are feeling overwhelmed by what this might mean for them now and in the future, and you want to be able to support them, and yourself, as effectively as possible
If any of these feel familiar, you are in the right place
My clients have been where you are now.
I have been where you are now.
I can help you shape a life which feels real, which builds upon your strengths and skills, takes account of your experiences, and supports the challenges being neurodivergent in our society can bring.