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If you've been living under pressure for a long time, you may have heard — from others, or from the voice inside your own head — some version of "just push through". Keep going. Don't make a fuss. Get it done. It'll be fine. Sometimes that works. For a while. But for many people I meet, "just pushing through" has stopped working. In fact, it's often part of how they got here. What happens when you push through for too long Pushing through is useful in short bursts. It's how w

If you're autistic, ADHD, or both, you may have had experiences of therapy that didn't quite land. Maybe the pace felt wrong. Maybe the therapist didn't get it. Maybe you left more exhausted than you arrived, and weren't sure why. You're not alone, and it isn't your fault. This is a short, honest post about what I've learned — through training, practice, and life — about what can make therapy work for neurodivergent adults, and what often gets in the way. Why therapy can feel

If you're caring for someone you love, you'll know that it rarely looks the way it does in leaflets. There are good days and exhausting ones, moments of real connection and moments where you don't know how you'll keep going. Most of it is invisible to the world around you. This post is for carers — particularly those of you caring for neurodivergent or learning-disabled family members, although much of it applies to anyone in a long-term caring role. I write from experience a

If you've been thinking about getting support, you may have come across both counselling and coaching and wondered which one is actually for you. The two can sound quite similar, and there is genuine overlap — but they're not the same thing, and knowing the difference can help you choose. Here's how I think about it in my own practice. Counselling, in a nutshell Counselling is a space to explore feelings, experiences, and patterns — what's happened, how it has shaped you, and

Starting counselling is a big step. It's completely normal to feel a mix of things before the first session — curiosity, relief, nervousness, maybe a bit of "what on earth have I got myself into". All of that is welcome. This is a short, honest guide to what usually happens, so you can arrive knowing a bit more about what to expect. Before the session We'll usually have had a short free call before your first session, so we've already heard each other's voices and you know wh

If you've been looking for a therapist and come across the phrase "neurodiversity-affirming", you may be wondering what it actually means — and whether it matters. It's a phrase that can sound a bit clinical. But at its heart, it's about something simple: the belief that being autistic, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic, or otherwise neurodivergent is not a problem to be fixed, but a way of being that deserves understanding, respect, and space. What it means in practice Neurodiversit