Dubai and worldwide
Understand the mind.
Realise the strengths.
I work with neurodivergent people and the businesses, families and schools around them. Twenty years of education, assessment and psychology, turned into strategies that hold up in real life.
Six ways I can help
Pick the one that sounds most like you. If two of them do, start with either. The work overlaps more than the labels suggest.
Business
Neuro-inclusive workplace training, policy and consultancy for organisations that want to keep the talent they hire.
Explore business servicesIndividuals
Assessment, coaching and practical strategy for adults and students making sense of how their minds work, and advocating for what they need.
Explore individual supportFamilies & Children
Assessment, exam access arrangements, parent coaching, school advocacy, and help choosing a school if you are new to Dubai.
Explore family supportSchools
Coffee mornings, SENCO and staff CPD, group process consultation, exam access arrangements and in-school student sessions, built around your calendar.
Explore school partnershipCourses
Self-paced online training in short, bite-sized sessions, built for workplace teams, educators, parents, individuals and students.
Explore coursesMoving to Dubai
Choosing a school here, or setting up online and home learning instead. All of it can happen before you arrive.
Explore school choiceReveal. Reframe. Realise.
Every piece of work I do follows the same three movements, whether the client is a nine year old, a graduate, or a leadership team of forty.
Reveal
We find out how the mind in question actually works. Formal assessment where that is useful, observation and conversation where it is not. No assumptions carried in from anyone else.
Reframe
We change the story being told about that mind. Difference becomes distinct ability. The person stops being explained and becomes the one doing the explaining, the expert on their own thinking.
Realise
We put strategies in place that hold up on a Tuesday afternoon. Realise carries both meanings here. Realise the strengths, and make them real in the classroom, the home, the office.
Credentials that stand up to scrutiny
Neurodiversity coaching is a largely unregulated field. These are the qualifications that let me carry out formal assessment and write reports that schools and examination boards accept.
In their words
Thank you for everything you have done for F this year. It's been a strange and sometimes unsettling first year in Dubai, and your support has made an enormous difference. He has settled more smoothly than we could've hoped. Thank you for making such a positive impact on his life.
Parent, Arcadia British School, Dubai
The assessment gave us understanding and language we hadn't had before, and a plan the classroom could actually use. It has changed how the school talks about him, how we interact with him and how he talks about himself.
Parent, JESS, Dubai
Before this training, three of our best people were quietly managing conditions we never knew about. All three are still with us, two have since been promoted, and building roles around what someone is good at has become how we manage everyone.
Founder and CEO
Not sure which door to knock on?
Tell me a little about the situation and I will point you to the right starting point, even if that turns out to be someone other than me.