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Neurodiversity Coaching

Neurodiversity Coaching with The Owl Centre Charity offers a supportive space to explore your strengths, tackle challenges, and build strategies that actually work for you.

At Owl, we celebrate different ways of thinking that will allow you to flourish and thrive.

Our Approach

We believe that every individual has unique strengths, challenges, and aspirations.

Our coaching and mentoring approach is:

Personalised

Every programme is tailored to your specific needs, goals, and learning style.

Evidence-Based

We use proven coaching methodologies and techniques backed by research and best practices.

Collaborative

You are the expert on your own life. We work together as partners in your growth and development.

Action-Oriented

While reflection and insight are important, we focus on translating understanding into concrete actions and measurable results.

Holistic

We consider all aspects of your life and how they interconnect, ensuring that changes in one area support overall wellbeing and success.

For Adults

Whether you have a formal diagnosis or identify as neurodivergent through personal experience, coaching can support you in understanding and embracing how your brain works. Neurodiversity coaching offers a safe, affirming space to explore your strengths, challenges, and goals with a trained coach who also has lived experience of neurodivergence.

Through virtual sessions, you will develop a deeper understanding of your neurotype, identify strategies to support your wellbeing, and build confidence in advocating for your needs. Coaching is solution-focused and practical, helping you find real-life ways to thrive. Above all, your experiences will be listened to, validated, and celebrated – supporting you to live authentically and with self-acceptance.

Neurodiversity Coaching for Adults

For Young People and Families

Neurodiversity coaching is also available for parents and carers of neurodivergent children and young people. This support can be particularly helpful when a young person is not yet ready to engage in coaching themselves.

By working with a coach, families can learn about neurodiversity and discover practical, everyday strategies to create a calm, supportive, and inclusive home environment. Coaching can help parents better understand their child’s behaviours and needs, feel more confident in their parenting approach, and strengthen relationships within the family.

When families work together with curiosity, compassion, and understanding, everyone benefits.

Neurodiversity Coaching for Young People and Families

In The Workplace

Many workplaces are designed with neurotypical needs in mind. For neurodivergent individuals, this can lead to daily challenges – feeling misunderstood, overwhelmed, or even inadequate in environments not built with their needs in mind.

Neurodiversity coaching can help you explore how your brain works best and what adjustments might support you to thrive at work. With a greater sense of self-awareness and empowerment, you can begin to make changes that support your performance, wellbeing, and job satisfaction.

Coaching sessions can also include your manager if desired, providing a space for open dialogue and collaborative problem-solving. Together, you can create a more inclusive working environment where everyone’s strengths are recognised and supported.

Neurodiversity Coaching In The Workplace

Here are the main reasons people access Neurodiversity Coaching:

Workplace and Career Support

  • Managing work relationships and office politics
  • Developing executive function skills for task management
  • Navigating workplace accommodations and disclosure decisions
  • Career transitions and finding ND-friendly employers
  • Building confidence in professional settings

Daily Life Management

  • Developing organisational systems and routines
  • Time management and reducing chronic lateness
  • Managing overwhelm and preventing burnout
  • Creating sustainable self-care practices
  • Household management and financial planning

Social and Relationship Challenges

  • Understanding social expectations and unwritten rules
  • Improving communication skills in personal relationships
  • Managing social anxiety and rejection sensitivity
  • Building healthy boundaries with family and friends
  • Dating and romantic relationship navigation

Identity and Self-Understanding

  • Processing a late autism or ADHD diagnosis
  • Reducing masking behaviors and embracing authenticity
  • Building self-acceptance and addressing internalized shame
  • Understanding personal strengths and challenges
  • Developing a positive ND identity

Educational and Learning Support

  • Study skills and exam strategies for ND students
  • Navigating university accommodations
  • Managing academic overwhelm and perfectionism
  • Career planning and choosing ND-friendly paths

Parenting and Family Dynamics

  • ND parents managing their own needs while parenting
  • Supporting ND children when you’re also neurodivergent
  • Managing family relationships and generational misunderstanding
  • Balancing family responsibilities with self-care

Emotional Regulation and Mental Health

  • Managing meltdowns, shutdowns, and emotional dysregulation
  • Addressing anxiety, depression, and trauma related to being ND
  • Building resilience and coping strategies
  • Processing grief around late diagnosis or missed opportunities

Meet our Neurodiversity Coaching team

The Owl Centre’s experienced neurodiversity coaches help you harness your unique strengths, manage challenges, and create systems that fit your individual needs – all in a judgment-free environment where you can be authentically yourself.

Ready to stop masking and start flourishing? Your neurodivergent brain is capable of extraordinary things.

Rhiannon Daniels

Occupational Therapist and Neurodiversity Coach Specialising in Mental Health

  • Working with adults and parents aged 18+
  • Occupational Therapy informed coaching
  • Expertise in neurodiversity and sensory processing
  • Experience with co-occurring mental health needs (anxiety, depression, emotional regulation, trauma)
  • Access to work coaching and support
  • Crisis management
  • Support for parenting, identity and life transitions
  • Over 8 years of NHS experience working in mental health and neuropsychiatry
  • Member of HCPC, RCOT and EMCC
  • Sessions offered online via Zoom
  • 45 and 60 minute sessions available
Rhiannon Daniels - Occupational Therapist and Neurodiversity Coach Specialising in Mental Health

Katy McDonald

Neurodiversity Coach specialising in Autism

  • Expertise in autism, and a knowledge and understanding of ADHD
  • Experience in assessing children and adults according to the DSM5 diagnostic criteria
  • Experience coaching children and adults with neurodiversity
  • Post-diagnostic support
  • Neurodiversity coaching for parents, and how to support their child
  • Implementing a range of interventions within the school environment to support neurodiversity, for example Attention Autism, Zones of Regulation, music interaction, social and friendship skills, social thinking and sensory circuits
  • Support for staff to provide an inclusive/classroom environment, including a sensory curriculum
  • Experienced in providing an alternative provision via tutoring for those not currently accessing school
  • Neurodiversity coaching within employment
Katy McDonald - Neurodiversity Coach - The Owl Centre

Claire Murphy

Neurodivergent Coach specialising in ADHD, Autism, Emotional Regulation & Neuro-Affirming Practice

  • Live experienced led
  • ADHD & Autism Coaching for Adults
  • Emotional Regulation & Burnout Recovery
  • Workplace Coaching (Neuro-Inclusion & Executive Function Support)
  • Navigating Relationships, Identity & Self-Worth
  • Health, Sleep, and Lifestyle Planning for ND Individuals
  • Strength-Based, Trauma-Informed, Neuro-Affirming Approach
  • Working with adult 18+
  • Sessions offered via Teams
Claire Murphy Neurodiversity Coach

Sarah Jakeman

Life Coach

  • Experience in working with children, young people and adults
  • Over 20 years experience working with children and young adults with neuro differences.
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  • Positive intelligence coachin
  • Sessions offered onlin
  • Access to work coaching/support
  • Member of Association for Coaching® (AC)
Sarah Jakeman - Life Coach - The Owl Centre

Stephanie Rosilio

ADHD & Neurodiversity Coach & Executive Coach

  • A member of the ICF and I am ICF Accredited (ACC)
  • Specialisms:
    – Working with Adults, aged 18yrs+
    – Expertise in ADHD and strong understanding of Autism and I work with Autistic adults
    – Access to Work Support
  • Sessions offered in person or online (Zoom or other)
  • 60min sessions as standard – flexibility offered, where appropriate
  • 8 years coaching experience
  • Parent of neurodivergent family
Stephanie Rosilio ADHD & Neurodiversity Coach & Executive Coach - The Owl Centre

What to expect

In your first neurodiversity coaching session, you’ll begin by getting to know your coach and identifying what you’d like to get out of the sessions. You might want to build confidence, improve self-understanding, explore ways to talk about neurodiversity, or address specific situations in your personal or professional life.

If you’re unsure where to begin, your coach will guide you through the process at your own pace. The approach is always flexible, supportive, and tailored to your needs.

How Many Sessions Will I Need?

Everyone’s journey is different. As a starting point, we recommend six sessions to give you time to explore your goals and develop useful tools and strategies. In the final session, you and your coach can reflect on your progress and decide what’s next.

You may feel ready to move on, wish to take a break and return later, or decide to continue with further sessions. The process is entirely led by you.

Start your coaching journey

To discover more about our Neurodiversity Coaching services and to find out how we can help you today, get in touch with The Owl Centre Charity.