Understanding your brain and needs
We can look at ADHD, autism, AuDHD, sensory needs, masking, energy patterns, identity, confidence, and the moments where things stop making sense.
Deep Coaching | Neurodivergent adult & parent coach
Neurodivergent Adult & Parent Coach
Angela Smith · Neurodivergent Adult & Parent Coach, EMCC Global Foundation Accredited, Trauma-informed | Neurodivergent-informed | Person-centred approach
A calm, supportive space for neurodivergent adults and parents who feel overwhelmed, stretched, burnt out, or unsure of the way forward - including people who are diagnosed, self-identifying, or exploring ADHD, autism, AuDHD, and broader neurodivergence.
Realistic - not based on ideal routines that don’t stick
Flexible - shaped around your actual life, energy, and capacity
Validating - you won’t need to explain or justify your experience
Practical - focused on what genuinely works, not what should work
How I can support you
Support that starts with your real life
Together, we can explore your patterns, strengths, challenges, energy, environment, and the systems you are trying to live within. The aim is not to force ideal routines, but to find practical, sustainable ways of living, parenting, and working that fit how your mind and body actually work.
You do not need a formal diagnosis to be welcome here.
Overwhelm, burnout, and regulation
We can build strategies for emotional regulation, recovery, boundaries, and pacing, especially when daily life or parenting has been asking too much for too long.
Executive function and daily life
We can work with organisation, focus, motivation, planning, follow-through, routines, transitions, and the practical systems that need to hold up in ordinary life.
Parenting and self-trust
We can explore parenting neurodivergent children, school decisions, home life, confidence, and trusting your own instincts when the expected path does not fit.
Parent coaching
For neurodivergent families
Support with meltdowns, routines, transitions, school decisions, parenting stress, and finding responses that make sense for your child and your family.
View parent coaching page →Adult coaching
For neurodivergent adults
Support with burnout, focus, masking, boundaries, confidence, executive function, and building a life that feels more sustainable in and beyond work.
View adult coaching page →My approach
Reflective, practical, and shaped around you
My approach combines coaching, mentoring, psychoeducation, lived experience, and professional training within a trauma-informed, person-centred framework.
Sessions are supportive and collaborative. We can slow things down, name what is happening, understand the patterns underneath, and turn that understanding into small, realistic steps that feel possible in your actual life.
I always check in before sharing any lived experience, and only do so where it feels relevant, helpful, and appropriate for you.
What coaching can include
- Coaching for reflection, clarity, goal support, and self-trust
- Mentoring and practical guidance where it feels useful
- Psychoeducation around neurodivergence, patterns, capacity, and needs
- Strategies for overwhelm, burnout, regulation, and executive function
What coaching is
- A supportive, reflective, practical space to understand yourself and find what works.
- A collaborative process shaped around your life, needs, energy, and capacity.
What coaching isn’t
- It is not therapy, and it does not replace therapeutic, medical, or crisis support.
- It is not diagnosis, and I do not assess or diagnose ADHD, autism, AuDHD, or any other condition.
About Ange
Training, lived experience, and real life
This work is personal to me as well as professional. I bring coaching training, counselling skills, ongoing learning, and lived experience of neurodivergence, parenting, and taking a different path through family life.
I am an accredited coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council Global Foundation (Foundation level), working within a trauma-informed, neurodivergent coaching approach.
I’m a mum to two neurodivergent sons, and my journey into this work began through parenting: trying to understand behaviours, navigate challenges, and make decisions that did not always fit the expected path. One of my sons has been home educated for many years, which brought both rewards and challenges.
Later in life, I was diagnosed as AuDHD. That understanding brought a clarity I had been searching for for years, helping me make sense of my own experiences and my children’s. Alongside this, I was also diagnosed with Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder, deepening my understanding of how closely connected our physical and neurological experiences can be.
You’re not coming here to be “fixed.” You’re coming here to be understood, and to find what works for you.
A non-judgemental space
Somewhere you can be completely honest, with thoughtful, reflective questions that bring clarity, validation, and space to trust your own instincts and decisions.
Small, manageable steps
Together we break things down into practical steps, creating change that feels possible, sustainable, and kind to your energy and capacity.
Training & professional background
Qualifications and ongoing development
Alongside my lived experience, I bring professional training and ongoing learning to support my work.
Support feels stronger when it is both professionally grounded and shaped by real understanding.
Coaching & Counselling
- Associate Coach Diploma — ICF Accredited Training Programme / European Mentoring and Coaching Council EQA Foundation
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EMCC Global Foundation Accredited Coach
- Certified Trauma-Informed Coach — Healing Centre
- Person-Centred Counselling & Psychotherapy Training (Children & Young People)
- SEG Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills
- SEG Level 2 Diploma in Counselling Skills
- The Open University / British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Intermediate Course: How to Do Counselling Online
- CPD: Treating Chronic Stress
Neurodivergence & Child Development
- TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Autism
- TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties (ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia & Dyscalculia)
- Working with Autistic and Neurodivergent Clients — Autism Dialogue Approach®
- CPD: ADHD & Autism Relationship Summit
- CPD: AuDHD — The Unique Profile of Autism + ADHD
- MindEd — 25 modules completed in Children & Young People’s Mental Health
Additional Professional Development
Additional training in:
- Safeguarding (adults & children)
- Resilience
- Assertiveness and boundaries
- Conflict resolution
- Mindfulness and group facilitation
A gentle reminder
You don’t have to have everything figured out, do it perfectly, or do it alone.
The first step is a free 30-minute discovery call: a calm, no-pressure space to talk things through and explore whether coaching feels right for you. Ongoing sessions are 60 minutes and take place online: individual sessions £60, or a 4-session package £200.
