I came to coaching just as "life coaching" was taking off, and I was determined not to become a life coach.

 

I wanted to train rigorously in the tradition of applied positive psychology and use coaching to support autistic people. I have sat on the other side of counselling, therapy, CBT, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Each has its place in the seasons of our cognitive and emotional life, but positive psychology coaching is what resonated with me most.

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I am autistic and have ADHD (AuDHD), identified in adulthood, and I know from the inside what it is to rebuild a life around a diagnosis that arrives late.

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I am completing a PhD in Educational Research at Lancaster University on neuroinclusion in universities, and I hold an MSc (Merit) in Applied Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London and a Postgraduate Certificate (Distinction) in Autism from Sheffield Hallam University and the National Autistic Society.

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Alongside coaching, I teach, train, and consult. I was one of a small team of Lead Trainers for the National Autism Trainer Programme run by AT-Autism and Anna Freud, the children's mental health charity. I am an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Research in Autism and Education at University College London, and Fundraising and Impact Measurement Lead for the Autistic Girls Network.

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Before any of this, I spent more than twenty years working internationally in media, the not-for-profit sector, and education, much of it on the continent, with organisations including UEFA, the European Commission, the European Union Youth Orchestra, and the British Council. I speak Portuguese and French.

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I bring all of that, the research, the practice, and the experience, to short periods of focused, goal-oriented coaching: enough time to make something shift, not so much that it becomes another thing you have to keep up.