The Diagnosis Translation Lab:
6 Week Intensive
A high-touch, short-term coaching container for adults newly diagnosed* with ADHD, Autism, or AuDHD who want to actually function differently, not just understand themselves better.
*Or newly self-identifying
This is not therapy
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This is not “processing your diagnosis for months.”
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This is a structured, hands-on process to help you translate your diagnosis into real-world changes in how you work, communicate, and live.
Who this is for
You’ve recently been diagnosed or self-identified and:
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You’re rethinking everything about how your brain works
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You’re questioning your past, your habits, your identity
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You’re overwhelmed by advice that doesn’t actually fit your life
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You want practical ways to function at work and in daily life
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You’re tired of guessing what’s “wrong” and want clarity that leads to action
What you’ll walk away with
By the end of this intensive, you will:
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Understand your brain in a clear, usable, non-pathologizing way
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Identify the specific patterns that are actually impacting your life
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Build custom systems that work for you (not generic productivity advice)
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Make informed decisions about workplace disclosure, accommodations, and boundaries
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Have language to advocate for yourself clearly and confidently
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Stop second-guessing yourself and start making intentional, aligned choices
How it works
Duration: 6 weeks
A focused, structured container designed for momentum and real change.
Phase 1: Deconstruction
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Make sense of your diagnosis without getting stuck in it
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Break down what your diagnosis actually means for you
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Map how your traits show up in your real life
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Identify your highest-impact friction points
You leave with:
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A practical neuro profile + clarity on where to focus
Phase 2: Translation
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Turn insight into systems that actually work
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Redesign how you approach time, energy, and tasks
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Identify what is a skill issue vs an environment mismatch
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Build systems aligned with your capacity, not against it
You leave with:
A personalized operating manual + 2–3 core systems
Phase 3: Implementation
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Apply this in real life, not hypothetically
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Test systems in your actual day-to-day life
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Navigate real situations as they happen
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Script and prepare for key conversations (work, relationships, boundaries)
You leave with:
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Working systems, not just ideas + a clear next-step strategy
What’s included
1:1 Coaching
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6 private sessions (60 minutes each)
High-Touch Async Support (Monday to Friday)
This is where most of the real change happens.
You’ll have access to ongoing support between sessions for:
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Real-time problem solving
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Decision support (“What do I do in this situation?”)
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Communication scripting (emails, conversations, boundaries)
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Adjusting systems as you test them
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You are not left to figure things out alone between sessions.
Custom Tools & Resources
You’ll receive structured tools you can keep using long after we finish:
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Personal Neuro Profile
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Friction Mapping Tool
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Workplace Navigation Framework
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Accommodation Decision Support Tool
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Energy & Capacity Tracker
Investment
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$2,400 CAD (+HST)
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Payment plans available.
What this is (and isn’t)
This is for you if:
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You want clarity that leads to action
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You’re willing to experiment and try new approaches
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You want support applying this in real situations
This is not for you if:
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You’re looking for open-ended emotional processing
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You want passive support without making changes
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You’re not ready to apply what you’re learning
A note on approach
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You don’t need to be “fixed.” You need a way to work with how your brain already functions.
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This process is about alignment, not correction. And alignment requires honesty, experimentation, and change.
Next step
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Apply to work together. If it’s a fit, we’ll move forward. If it’s not, I’ll point you in a better direction.
Burnout Recovery Lab
3 Month Intensive
A 12-week, high-touch coaching container for neurodivergent adults who are exhausted, overextended, and done trying to “push through.”
This is not about coping with burnout. This is about getting out of it and building a way of working that doesn’t put you back here.
Who this is for
You might be a fit if:
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You’re constantly exhausted, even when you rest
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Work feels heavier than it “should” and you can’t explain why
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You’re struggling to focus, initiate, or follow through
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You’re questioning your capacity, your career, or both
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You’ve tried productivity tools, breaks, and boundaries and nothing has actually stuck
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You suspect your burnout is connected to being neurodivergent in environments that don’t fit
What you’ll walk away with
By the end of 12 weeks, you will:
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Understand the actual drivers of your burnout (not just surface symptoms)
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Rebuild your energy and capacity in a way that’s sustainable
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Identify where your burnout is coming from:
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Restructure how you approach work, time, and demands
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Make clear decisions about what stays, what changes, and what goes
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Have systems that support your brain instead of constantly fighting it
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Know how to prevent relapse instead of cycling back into burnout
How it works
Duration: 12 weeks
A structured process that moves from stabilization → redesign → implementation.
Phase 1: Stabilization (Weeks 1–4)
Get out of immediate survival mode
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Assess current capacity (not ideal capacity, actual capacity)
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Reduce invisible load and unnecessary demands
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Identify burnout patterns and triggers
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Introduce low-effort supports that create immediate relief
You leave with:
A realistic baseline + reduced pressure + space to think
Phase 2: Rebuild & Redesign (Weeks 5–8)
Stop returning to the same conditions that caused burnout
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Map energy patterns and constraints
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Identify structural mismatches (role, expectations, communication)
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Redesign how you work: tasks, time, and priorities
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Build systems aligned with your actual capacity
You leave with:
A redesigned way of working + clear boundaries and priorities
Phase 3: Implementation & Protection (Weeks 9–12)
Make changes real and sustainable
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Apply changes in your real work and life
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Navigate conversations (boundaries, workload, expectations)
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Build relapse prevention strategies
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Create a long-term plan that protects your capacity
You leave with:
A sustainable system + a clear strategy to avoid burnout cycles
What’s included
1:1 Coaching
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10 private sessions (60 minutes)
(Weekly at the start, then spaced for integration)
High-Touch Async Support (Monday to Friday)
You’ll have ongoing access between sessions for:
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Real-time decision support
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Navigating difficult work situations
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Adjusting systems as you implement them
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Communication support (what to say, how to say it)
Custom Tools & Frameworks
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Burnout Pattern Audit
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Capacity & Energy Mapping Tool
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Workload Reality Check Framework
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Boundary & Communication Scripts
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Burnout Relapse Prevention Plan
Investment
$3,200 CAD (+HST)
Payment plans available.
What this is (and isn’t)
This is for you if:
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You are ready to make real changes, even if they feel uncomfortable
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You want practical support, not just validation
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You are willing to experiment and adjust how you work
This is not for you if:
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You want passive support without changing your environment or habits
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You are looking for therapy or trauma processing
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You are not in a place to take action yet
A note on burnout
Burnout is not a personal failure.
Recovering from it does require changing something real.
Not just how you think.
How you work, what you tolerate, and what you carry.
Next step
Apply to work together!
If it’s a fit, we’ll move forward. If not, I’ll point you somewhere better suited.
The Life Transition Package
3 Months
A 12-week, high-touch coaching container for neurodivergent adults navigating major life changes and needing a way to function in what comes next.
This is not about “getting through a transition.”
This is about rebuilding how you operate so your next chapter actually works.
Who this is for
You might be a fit if you’re navigating:
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Starting a new job or stepping into a bigger role
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Changing careers or questioning your current path
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Returning to school or entering post-secondary education
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Perimenopause or menopause impacting your energy, focus, or capacity
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A broader identity or life shift that’s changing how you see yourself and your future
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What used to work for you… doesn’t anymore
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You feel destabilized, uncertain, or out of sync with your life
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You’re second-guessing your capacity or direction
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You don’t want to just “figure it out as you go” again
What you’ll walk away with
By the end of 12 weeks, you will:
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Understand how this transition is actually impacting your capacity, identity, and decision-making
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Get clear on what needs to change vs what you’ve been trying to force to keep working
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Build a way of operating that fits your current life, not your past one
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Develop systems for focus, energy, and follow-through that reflect your reality
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Make grounded decisions about work, school, or life direction
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Navigate this transition with clarity instead of constant self-doubt
How it works
Duration: 12 weeks
A structured process that moves from stabilization → recalibration → integration.
Phase 1: Stabilize & Orient (Weeks 1–4)
Understand what’s actually changing and what it’s costing you
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Map the transition: what’s new, what’s lost, what’s uncertain
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Identify pressure points (capacity, expectations, identity shifts)
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Separate internal challenges from external demands
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Reduce immediate overwhelm and decision fatigue
You leave with:
Clarity on what’s happening + where to focus
Phase 2: Recalibrate (Weeks 5–8)
Stop trying to use old strategies in a new context
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Redefine capacity, priorities, and expectations
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Identify what needs to be rebuilt vs released
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Design systems for time, energy, and execution that match your current life
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Explore decisions around work, school, or direction
You leave with:
A realistic, updated way of operating + clear decision pathways
Phase 3: Integrate & Execute (Weeks 9–12)
Make this version of your life actually work
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Apply systems in real time (work, school, daily life)
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Navigate key conversations and decisions
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Adjust based on what’s actually working
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Build sustainability and forward momentum
You leave with:
Working systems + confidence in how to move forward
What’s included
1:1 Coaching
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10 private sessions (60 minutes)
(Weekly at the start, then spaced for integration)
High-Touch Async Support (Monday to Friday)
Between sessions, you’ll have access to support for:
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Real-time decision-making
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Navigating uncertainty and competing priorities
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Adjusting systems as your situation evolves
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Communication support (work, school, personal life)
Custom Tools & Frameworks
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Transition Mapping Tool
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Capacity & Demand Audit
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Identity & Role Shift Framework
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Decision-Making Matrix
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Personalized Operating System
Investment
$3,200 CAD (+HST)
Payment plans available.
What this is (and isn’t)
This is for you if:
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You want clarity that leads to action
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You’re willing to adapt how you operate
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You want support making real decisions, not staying stuck in uncertainty
This is not for you if:
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You’re looking for open-ended emotional processing
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You want to wait until things “settle down” before making changes
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You’re not ready to experiment with new ways of working and living
A note on transitions
Most people try to carry their old way of functioning into a new phase of life and that’s why things stop working. This process is about letting your way of operating evolve with your life instead of constantly trying to catch up to it.
Next step
Apply to work together!
If it’s a fit, we’ll move forward. If not, I’ll point you somewhere better suited.
What is Coaching and What Can it do for ME?
ADHD coaching is a collaborative relationship designed to help you work with your brain—not against it.
It’s not about “fixing” anything—it’s about building tools, structures, and mindsets that actually respect how your brain works so you can live in alignment with your values.
A lot of folks with ADHD and/or Autism aren’t disconnected from what they care about—they just get blocked, overwhelmed, stuck, or burnt out trying to navigate a world not built for them. Coaching creates space to untangle those blocks and experiment with new approaches that make life feel more doable (and ideally more joyful, too).
There’s no single way ADHD coaching is “supposed” to look. The approach I use is flexible, trauma-informed, and pluralistic—meaning we adapt our work together based on what actually supports you. Together, we explore your goals, your capacity, your patterns, and what gets in the way—and then we build strategies that are customized, realistic, and rooted in your values.
How ADHD Coaching Helps
Depending on your needs and preferences, ADHD coaching can support you in areas like:
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Time management and prioritizing when everything feels urgent
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Task initiation (a.k.a. starting the damn thing)
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Reducing overwhelm and avoiding burnout
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Building routines and systems that work with your energy, not against it
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Following through on projects and habits without shame
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Setting boundaries and saying no
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Understanding how ADHD shows up in your relationships, work, creativity, and daily life
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Letting go of internalized judgment and redefining what success means to you
The Way I Work
I pull from a variety of evidence-informed approaches depending on what you need:
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Executive functioning support – for planning, prioritizing, organizing, and regulating emotions
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Psychoeducation – to help you understand your brain, contextualize your patterns, and reduce shame
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Values-based coaching – rooted in Acceptance and Commitment Coaching, to help you move toward what matters even when things feel hard
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Cognitive-behavioral strategies – for challenging unhelpful thought loops and shifting how you relate to your experiences
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Emotional intelligence & interpersonal skill building – to navigate social dynamics with more awareness and intention
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Self-efficacy & experimentation – where we co-create small, doable experiments to try between sessions and reflect on what works
We don't just talk about what’s not working—we get curious, try stuff, adapt, and build a toolkit together. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, but there is a way forward that feels more aligned with your real life, not your idealized LinkedIn version.
Coaching Is Goal Oriented
Coaching is a structured, goal oriented conversation using a methodology where you are given space to question current thoughts, beliefs, behaviours, and your approaches to certain situations, problems, or experiences, with the intention to shift your perspective and mindset in order to reach your desired outcomes.
Coaching Evokes Awareness
Coaching is about paying attention. The science on human achievement is clear, paying attention, being aware, and living our lives intentionally, are the overarching themes in what leads to a satisfying life.
Coaching is about evoking awareness and insight and exploring beyond your current thinking. Coaching helps you identify factors that influence current and future patterns of behaviour, thinking, and emotions. It is an invitation to generate ideas about how you can move forward and discover/determine what you are willing or able to do.
Coaching helps people pause and take inventory. Coaching can support you in finding clarity, figuring out what you want, sifting through the noise and deciding what's next.
Executive Function Coaching
(The Human Way)
My coaching approach is shaped by the work of psychologist Russell Barkley, who described executive functions as the self-directed actions we use to set goals and follow through on them over time—especially in social contexts. Basically: it’s the behind-the-scenes brainwork that helps us plan, organize, regulate emotions, start things, finish things, and adapt when things change.
Some common executive functions include:
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Inhibiting distractions
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Regulating emotions
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Problem-solving
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Organizing information or spaces
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Starting tasks
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Shifting gears when plans change
A lot of the folks I work with struggle with things like time management, finishing projects, starting things that feel overwhelming, or adapting to changes in routine. That’s not a personal failure—it’s often an executive function challenge. And it can absolutely be supported.
In coaching, we work together to figure out where you want more support and create tools, systems, or habits that actually work for your brain. You’re the expert in your own life—my role is to help you experiment, reflect, and adapt so that the support fits you.
Each week, we check in on what worked, what didn’t, and what you learned from trying. We keep tweaking until you’ve got something that feels sustainable—not perfect, but doable.
Because support shouldn’t feel like another thing to manage. It should feel like a relief.
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Coaching is Based in Scientific Research
Coaching methodology is rooted in neuroscience, specifically around neuroplasticity and the discovery that the human brain can rewire and change, as well as the research behind Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT is based on a model of the relationships between cognition, emotion, and behavior. The three aspects of cognition are the focus of CBT: automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions, and underlying beliefs.
Circumstances/Beliefs --> Thoughts --> Emotions/Feelings --> Actions --> Results
Automatic Thoughts - Our circumstances and/or beliefs lead to our thoughts which shape our emotions which lead to our actions.
For example:
When someone cuts you off on the highway you might think "what an as*h@le! They think they're so entitled! I can't believe they would do something so dangerous!! No one knows how to drive anymore!" And you feel enraged and frustrated, so you lay on your horn and gesture to them, indicating your displeasure. They gesture back at you. You tell the story later when you arrive at the office all amped up. OR, someone cuts you off on the highway and you think, "Oh good thing I'm paying attention, maybe they're a new driver or they're running late for something important." You feel glad that you were on the ball and grateful there was no accident. You move on and almost instantly forget it happened.
Cognitive Distortions - You may already be familiar with some common cognitive distortions, also known as errors in logic or logical fallacies.
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Dichotomous thinking: Things are seen regarding two mutually exclusive categories with no shades of gray in between.
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Mind reading: Assuming the thoughts and intentions of others.
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Fortune telling: Predicting how things will turn out before they happen.
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Minimization: Positive characteristics or experiences are treated as real but insignificant.
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Catastrophizing: Focusing on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely, or thinking that a situation is unbearable or impossible when it is just uncomfortable.
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“Should” statements: Concentrating on what you think “should” or “ought to be” rather than the actual situation you are faced with or having rigid rules which you always apply no matter the circumstances.
Underlying Beliefs - Beliefs are the hidden scripts that run our lives. Long term, your beliefs determine your destiny. You may not even be aware of of some of the core beliefs you have because they are so deeply engrained, you simply see them as the truth. Our beliefs come from our parents, upbringing, friends, religion, culture, and society at large. But our beliefs are a choice, and they can be change. Some examples:
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I'm not good at math and never will be
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Marriages never last, and the ones that do are unhappy
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I can't be truly happy until I reach my goal weight
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I'm not good at managing people
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Women should have children
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People will only like me if I'm agreeable
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People are inherently bad
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I need to be perfect to be worthy of love
Coaching is distinct from therapy in important ways (see below), but does follow a similar, practical, collaborative approach to achieving desired goals.
A Flexible, Evidence-Backed Approach
My coaching style is integrative and flexible, which means I pull from a range of evidence-based approaches depending on what you need—not a one-size-fits-all model.
Some of the frameworks I often use include Acceptance and Commitment Coaching (ACC), Cognitive Behavioral Coaching (CBC), and other tools that support reflection, behavior change, and nervous system regulation. These approaches give us a solid foundation—but every session is personalized, because no two brains (or lives) are the same.
We decide together what’s useful. Sometimes that means experimenting with structure and accountability; sometimes it means unpacking beliefs or practicing new ways to respond to stress. The process is collaborative, responsive, and always centered on what’s actually helpful for you.
ACC, in particular, shows up a lot in my work. It helps us focus on values-based living—getting clearer on what matters to you, and building skills to navigate the discomfort that can come with doing things differently.
The goal isn’t perfection. It’s support that feels human, grounded, and doable.
The Power of Being Listened To
Research has shown time and time again that there are benefits from simply being in a conversation where someone is actually listening to you. We've all had conversations with friends, family members, or partners where we are sharing our thoughts with them and they are not really paying attention or they jump right to giving advice that isn't useful and demonstrates even further how little they understand what you're going through.
Studies have shown that speakers partnered with good listeners leave the conversation feeling less anxious, more self-aware, and they also reported higher clarity about their attitudes on the topics discussed. Speakers also reported having great insight, self-knowledge, and cognitive flexibility. All of those benefits, just from being listened to.
Coaching Reduces Burnout
A study cited in a journal article from the Journal of Occupational Health Psychology in 2020 found coaching as an intervention to address burnout in primary Care Physicians "significantly reduced burnout, job stress, turnover intentions, improved psychological capital, job satisfaction/engagement, and job self-efficacy by the end of the coaching intervention."
Coaching helps coachees avoid and navigate burnout by improving confidence through reframing challenging situations and seeing new possibilities. Coaching can also help build self-compassion through reflection, and also improve compassion for others.
Coaching Works
"Coaching in organization and leadership settings is also an invaluable tool for developing people across a wide range of needs. The benefits of coaching are many; 80% of people who receive coaching report increased self-confidence, and over 70% benefit from improved work performance, relationships, and more effective communication skills. 86% of companies report that they recouped their investment on coaching and more."
Curious what people I've worked with have to say? Check out my testimonials page!
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Coaching is NOT
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Coaching is not therapy
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Coaching is present and future focused, therapy typically focuses on the past
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Therapists are medical professionals who diagnose and treat mental health issues. Coaching can compliment therapy, but a coach CANNOT diagnose or treat a mental illness.
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If you're looking for a neuro-affirming therapist or counsellor, specializing in Autism and ADHD, I recommend Dori Zener & Associates
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Coaching is not training
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Training is meant to teach someone a particular skill or competency or impart a specific piece of knowledge (eg. PowerPoint, Excel, organisational history, or time management)
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Coaching increases awareness about attitudes and behaviours, which can improve the impact of training, but the coach does not “teach” or “train” a coachee
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Coaching is not mentoring
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A mentors is passing on wisdom and information from experience and acquired expertise and in this way, acts as a teacher
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A coach intentionally does not provide advice and seeks to encourage self-reliance and resourcefulness
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Coaching is not consulting
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A consultant provides solutions and is expected to, and responsible for, gathering information and advising
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A coach is responsible for holding space for a coachee, asking questions, and facilitating a space where an increase in self-awareness can take place
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Therapy, training, mentoring, and consulting are all important and valid tools for growth and development, but they are distinct from coaching.