get to know me
I come from a background of marketing and communications, with 10+ years in progressively senior positions within creative industries and corporate environments.
After a wallop of burnout (or, series of wallops, if we’re being honest), i took a leave from work to unpack a new diagnosis of ADHD and what that meant for me. diving into how my brain works has completely changed where and how i focus my days, my time and my energy.
I’ve learned how to embrace the beauty of how my creative brain works, while developing strategies to accommodate the bits that, well, kinda piss me off sometimes. I believe that it’s possible to live a life that is just a little bit easier each day, through practical problem-solving and radical self-acceptance.
One of my big joys is gardening, and I love the process of getting my hands into the dirt and learning as I go. I’m working on a small community garden project, and i’m so fortunate to have access to a small yard for learning to grow vegetables and lots of pollinator-friendly flowers. I also love to cook, watch wayyyyy too much gardening television and love video games (currently tending my farm in Stardew Valley and blasting intrusive thoughts in Psychonauts2).
what i do
I work with clients as an ADHD & well-being coach, using an integrated and whole-person approach to support. I want to help my clients to find more ease and joy in their lives, using techniques in mindfulness, holistic health support, accommodations and executive functioning support. Together, we’ll celebrate your strengths, build strategies around your challenges and stock your ADHD toolkit.
Whether your goals are big (starting a business) or small (eating your damn breakfast), I’m here to support you and your brain to reach them.
ADHD is not a deficit of attention, but rather a surplus of it, with difficulty directing it where it needs to go.
- Edward Hallowell Dr.
what to expect
We are all different, and our needs are as varied as our fingerprints. what works for me might not work for you. By unpacking where ADHD comes to life for you, we can identify ways to support you to reach your goals, better organize your life and feel a little bit better in the day to day. Coaching isn’t about me giving you advice; though you can expect lots of fun tidbits, learnings and silly jokes from me.
Our work together will be tailored and personalized to you, and with your big and small goals in mind. I won’t dump a bunch of homework on you (unless you’re into that), and i won’t tell you to stop drinking coffee (unless you want to).
Over the course of our work together, we'll experiment with strategies to support your goals, do a bit of learning and unpacking, have a few laughs, and shift our mindsets around neurodivergence and self-care & community support.
values & considerations
I don’t believe in operating from a deficit or pathologizing model of understanding ADHD. i’m not here to fix your brain, or my own, because we don’t need fixing. We’re not broken. But many of the expectations that we place on ourselves, and that society places on us, are simply not supportive to our nervous systems. They’re designed with neurotypical brains in mind, and with productivity and capitalism as the highest goals. What parts of these expectations can we bend, soften, restructure to better support our well-being? How can we live in ways that are more neuro-affirming and easier on ourselves?
I also recognize that many of these systems are functioning as designed, through histories of, and present day, white supremacy and colonialism. It’s impossible for me to support clients without recognizing and holding space for different lived experiences, and especially for the different realities for Black, Brown & Indigenous peoples. My unpacking of my own presence and existence within white supremacist structures is a life-long journey, and i hope to hold space in a way that is trauma and lived-experience informed, and culturally educated and embracing.
I am happy to work with clients who are either medically or self-diagnosed, or questioning ADHD / their own executive functioning. I am not a medical professional licensed to diagnose ADHD, but I am a trained and certified Health & Life Coach (CHC, CLC) and am currently qualifying for Professional ADHD Coach (PAC) certification.
services
discovery call - free
20-30min, free, get to know each-other, make sure
the ~ vibes ~ are correct.
1-1 coaching
????1 month partnership - $400
- meet weekly, 50 min each
????3 Month partnership - $1200
- 12 sessions - 50 min each
????6 Month partnership - $2200
- 24 sessions - 50 min each
group facilitation
????1 time group learning session - $400
- 2 hour learning session for up to 5 people
- learn about executive functions, sensory accomodations
and recognize and celebrating strengths.
????1 month group learning series - $1600
- get your pals together and let's connect
- learn about executive functions, sensory accomodations
and recognizing and celebrating strengths.
something else? let's chat!
i'm available to provide my expertise and knowledge about neurodivergence, neuro-affirming workspaces and group culture and marketing/branding communications strategy.
available to small orgs, non-profits & mutual aid groups who are:
working to make volunteering more accessible to folks with different support and access needs, OR:
looking for support with branding, marketing, communications or project strategy
I am writing to you and living in 'the head of the lake' in what is now known as Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. This place, on Turtle Island, is the traditional territories of the Erie, Neutral, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Mississaugas. The land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant; a commitment to shared and reciprocal relationships with the land and with each other. To this goal, i am personally committed, and I am striving to live with goals of collective liberation and decolonization at the forefront of what i do. i absolutely love the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer and her books, "Braiding Sweetgrass" and "The Serviceberry". She speaks about the Dish With One Spoon, and about our vital connections to each other and to the earth.
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