Reach your full potential with personalized support for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Embrace your neurodiversity
1 in 36 affected
An estimated 1 in 36 are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the United States alone.
Approximately 1% of the world's population has ASD. That's 75 million people.
Within that group of people are a wide variety of experiences and presentations of ASD.
It is overwhelming and exhausting finding one’s way through a world that is not set up for neurodiverse people.
However, studies across the board show that the support of a professional coach for people with ASD greatly improves a person's quality of life.
Individuals are able to better cope with the strain of navigating a world not set up for them. Across all spheres of life they are able to embrace their neurodiversity and live more authentically.
Signs of masking burnout
- Chronic fatigue
- Stress
- Sensory overload
- Emotional disregulation
- Breakdown of relationships
- Career stagnation
- Isolation
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Executive functioning atrophy
There is hope
Autism burnout stops life
Master new skills
The right coach can help you:
- Avoid reaching Autism Burnout
- Improve your executive functioning
- Read people and situations better
- Mitigate sensory overwhelm
- Effectively Self Advocate
- Set and achieve your goals
- Confidently communicate yourself
- Develop effective listening skills
Mask to survive
The silent sufferers
Neurodiversity advocate Ethan Lisi describes being neurotypical vs neurodiverse as just two different operating systems that experience the world in their own way.
ASD is not a disease to be cured but rather a unique perspective to be embraced.
However, our world is only set up for neurotypicals, which means neurodiverse people constantly have to navigate a different operating system to the one that comes natural to them.
This has serious impacts on their well being.
Autism is not a disease
Being a master at masking comes at a high cost
Up to 50% of adults with ASD have High-Functioning Autism. This definition simply means they are able to live independently.
However these people are often the silent sufferers.
Each day they face an internal struggle to operate as a neurodiverse person in a neurotypical world.
In an effort to integrate into a neurotypical world, they suppress their neurodiversity.
This behavior is called masking and it comes at a high cost.
Up to 94% of people with ASD engage in masking behaviors.
It is thought that as a result of masking, up to 80% of people with ASD experience Autism Burnout at some point in their lives.
Autism Burnout grinds life to a halt because it negatively impacts a person's psychological, social, physical and emotional wellbeing.
Let's work together
I specialize in coaching adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and have a deep, personal and professional connection to ASD.
With over 10 years of experience in leadership and professional skills development, along with ASD-related qualifications and a professional association with the Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE), I bring both extensive experience and access to leading experts in the field.
My dedication to helping clients embrace and navigate their neurodiversity has established me as a trusted coach in this specialized area.
Pricing
I’m on a mission to support neurodiverse adults in their professional and personal lives wherever they are on their journey with ASD. I want you to thrive because of, not in spite of, your neurodiversity. I bring a practical, neuro-affirming approach to help you find your way.
Got a Formal Diagnosis? Let's work together.
Adults diagnosed with autism often wonder what to do next. You've spent your life adapting, knowing something was different but not quite pinpointing it. Now that you have a diagnosis, you may feel it makes sense of many past experiences. But what now?
While support for children with autism is plentiful, adults with established lives often find resources geared toward early intervention a bit "too little too late." However, that's where I come in. We'll address the challenges that led you to seek a diagnosis in the first place and help you navigate your new perspective on yourself.
Getting the Most Out of Your Autism Coach
To get the best results from your autism coaching:
- Formal Diagnosis: Understanding your specific type of autism helps tailor the support you receive.
- Mental Health Professional: Regular sessions can assist you in processing your thoughts and feelings about autism.
- Autism Coach: I focus on practical accommodations to improve your daily life with the option to add daily support check ins.
No Diagnosis or Mental Health Professional yet? Let's work together.
If you don't have a formal diagnosis or a mental health professional, we can still work together. My first priority is to help you connect with the right people through my network of trusted professionals.
One Time Consultation
- Need to come up with a plan now you've received your diagnosis, let's do it together
- Face to face session or virtual
- 90 minute session
$300 per session
In-Home Sessions
- Face to face sessions
- 60 minute sessions
- Ad hoc voice memo and text support
$220 per session
Virtual Sessions
- Online video conferencing
- 60 minute sessions
- Ad hoc voice memo and text support
$170 per session
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How it works
My journey with Autism
fourth addition to our family of three. Holden began developing normally up until around just before his second birthday. To abbreviate a very frightening, painful and protracted story, he stopped talking, responding to his name and was no longer able to cope with the sensory input of being in the world. We knew something wasn’t right.
In 2021 our son at the age of three was diagnosed with ASD. We were living in the UK at the time. For all the wonderful things there is about the NHS and living in the UK in general, support for ASD is not one of them. If you plan on having a heart attack, cancer or a traumatic injury, you want to do it in the UK because the world class care they offer for acute events means you will survive it. Not to mention you won’t go on to live the rest of your natural life crippled by medical debt. But if you have any chronic condition, like ASD, you’re in for a tough, lonely ride.
So, after 15 years of living and working in the UK, my husband and I packed up our entire life in 6 weeks and moved back to Dallas, Texas so that we could get help for our son. I put myself on sabbatical from my consultancy and I spent the next 18 months devoted to setting up our new life in Texas. Our sole focus was getting our children settled and our son the help he desperately needed.
For me, the illumination of my ever elusive purpose began to dawn with the birth of my son, though I did not yet know it. Fast forward over 5 years later and I can see how all my experiences and skills, both professional and personal, going right back to early career choices, have led me right where I am. My journey of learning about and experience with neurodiversity started years ago in the professional realm. But the first hand experience of having a son with ASD has crystalized my vision and connected me to my true purpose.
I’m now on a mission to support neurodiverse adults in their professional and personal lives so they can thrive because of, not in spite of, their neurodiversity.
I’d always wondered about my purpose. I, like most people, lived life trying my best where I found myself, content enough in the way things were going. But I’d also always carried this nagging sense that I wasn’t quite connected to my true calling. Close friends can attest to my turning circles with this over the decades; round and round I’d go like a cat who can’t quite find just the right spot in the sun to curl up. Sure I tried along the way to push on different doors when the sense of dissonance became too pressing to ignore, but doors were sticky, an alternative path never totally clear and I could never quite put my whole heart in it anyway.
Most of life seems like stumbling from one chance encounter to the next. Swept forward by the inertia of the natural momentum created by daily choices from the mundane to the significant. Choices of matriculation, marriage, moving, career and kids. Taking this path or that path. Joining this social group or that one. By turns is can seem random, disconnected, passive and especially in midlife, boring. That is until something comes along and illuminates the path you’ve travelled thus far. Its epiphanous light cast along the paths you've taken suddenly makes sense of the happenstance. Themes are revealed. Patterns form, the myopic turns to clarity. Once seemingly scattered encounters morph into serendipitous events.
With this perspective the path forward is lit with a new sense of agency and confidence. A deep sense of self is solidified. The pieces click into place. And thus, a purpose is formed.
My entire career, whether in financial services, information technology or “other” has always focused on learning and development. I didn’t know it was a passion when I started my career some 20 years ago. It sort of grew in strength along the way. So much so that in 2019 I formed a UK based consultancy with a business partner entirely devoted to professional personal development. Everything was going swimmingly.
In 2018 our family welcomed our second child, Holden. He was a long awaited and longed for
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