About me

I’m Ali, a late-discovered AuDHD therapist and coach. My special interest is studying what makes other people tick, but it took me until my 50s to finally understand why I’d always felt so different, and what to do about it.

My path here has been anything but straight. I walked away from a career in corporate financial services to spend a decade running pregnancy yoga classes and baby groups, immersing myself in the profound, messy, identity-shifting experience of becoming a mother.

All the while, I was living it too. Reparenting myself while trying to do things differently for my highly sensitive daughter. Living with a partner who has ADHD. Navigating the invisible labour of supporting elderly parents who are almost certainly neurodivergent themselves, just without the language or the diagnosis. I was surrounded by the very thing I hadn’t yet named in myself.

Then perimenopause arrived, and with it, a kind of unmasking I hadn’t asked for but couldn’t ignore. The neurodivergent self I’d spent decades managing, minimising and hiding started getting louder. The old strategies - high masking, pushing through, disguising my limits from others and from myself - stopped working. I had to find a different way.

I had studied Psychology since uni but I had never identified with labels, other than deep feeler, big thinker, HSP and INFJ. I thought I was too loud, impulsive and scattered to be Autistic. I thought I was too introverted, inflexible and structured to have ADHD. Turns out you can have and be both. When viewed through an AuDHD lens, the chaos and contradictions of my life finally made sense.

After a lot of reading, researching, community building, soul searching and self acceptance, I’ve found way of being in the world that honours how I’m actually wired. A more authentic version of myself that lets me show up fully for the people and things I care about without burning out.

Now I help other highly sensitive or neurodivergent women do the same, especially those navigating big transitions: hormonal, relational, professional, personal. The moments when the mask slips and something truer is asking to be lived. If that sounds like where you are, you’re in the right place.