Meet Tasha: Your Neurodiversity Coach
Hello, I'm Tasha, and I’m delighted to welcome you to my corner of the neurodiverse world. Living with Tourette’s, OCD, ADHD, Anxiety, Dyspraxia and Autism, I have experienced first-hand the unique challenges and strengths that come with being neurodivergent. I share my home with a wonderfully neurodivergent family, including children who also navigate life with these conditions and use my professional and personal experience to support adults and parents of neurodivergent children with ADHD, Autism and Tourettes or a combination of all of these.
Living in a Neurodiverse Household
Life in a neurodiverse household is never dull. With children at home who also have Tourette’s, OCD, ADHD, Anxiety, and Autism, I’ve developed a deep well of personal experience in managing day-to-day life. I understand the intricacies of juggling multiple neurodivergent needs and the importance of tailored strategies that can make a significant difference.
My Journey with Neurodiversity
My journey towards self-awareness and understanding began with coaching. I had spent my whole life undiagnosed and not understanding why I was different to others. It wasn't until I reached my 30s and my daughter started to display signs of these conditions that I started to recognise them in myself. I had spent years of misdiagnosis, going through mental health services and never being able to improve my symptoms. This lead to years of anxiety, confusion and ill health. It was through coaching that I gained invaluable psychoeducation, learning about my conditions, how they all impact each other and developed effective strategies and tools to manage them better.
Coaching helped me learn about the appropriate services I could access that would actually make a difference. Through a multi-modal approach of psychiatry, medication, coaching and sensory integration support I finally understood my conditions and started to gain better control of them and embrace myself for who I am.
For so many years I had been so lost, burnt out, overwhelmed and confused. Coaching was the most pivotal part of my journey, and was the first time I had experienced any kind of intervention that had actually made a difference and validated my experience.
Through this, I found self compassion and worked to undo the burnout that years of masking, hiding and suppressing my neurodivergence had caused. This is what inspired me to become an accredited ICF coach, passionately supporting other individuals with neurodivergence, and specialising in intersectionality of conditions that are the most difficult to navigate. Its hard enough when you have one neurodivergent condition, but trying to figure out life when you have more than two that work against each other can be a lonely and confusing experience.
My Coaching Philosophy
As a coach, I am dedicated to providing support that is rooted in empathy and understanding. I’m particularly passionate about helping adults who have been diagnosed later in life, as well as those who need additional support managing their neurodivergent conditions after already knowing they are neurodivergent from childhood.
I also have a keen interest in working with parents of neurodivergent children, especially when the parent is also neurodivergent and have a keen interest and specialism in coaching individuals with intersecting neurodivergent conditions, particularly the experience of intersectionality between Autism, ADHD and Tourettes Syndrome.
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