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 choice
These are only examples rather than a list to fit into, and most minds are a mix.
Moving to Dubai with a neurodivergent child?
Choosing a school here is the decision that shapes the next few years, and it is usually made from another country, after a short walk around, or on information gleaned from a website. I can help you choose well before you sign and pay anything, and all of it can happen before you arrive.
If school turns out not to be the answer, I can help you build learning at home instead.
The gap worth measuring
The best schools can tell you exactly what support looks like in an ordinary lesson on an ordinary Tuesday, not only what the policy says.
That is the distance worth asking about, and the schools who answer it well are the ones worth choosing. It is one of seven things worth establishing before you enrol anywhere.
The seven things to establishDifferent thinking is not less capable, just less understood
Most of the people I meet have spent years being told what they cannot do. A child who reads well but cannot answer the question. An adult who runs a department and still cannot start an email. A team that hires brilliant people and loses them within a year.
None of that is a character or culture problem. It is a mismatch between how a mind works and how the environment around it is designed. Once you can see the mismatch clearly, you can do something about it.
Disability is a distinct ability. That is not a comforting phrase to put on a wall. It is the working assumption behind every assessment I write and every session I run, and it shapes the support I put in place afterwards.
I fit around your child's week, not the other way round
Work with children and young people can take place at their school in Dubai, inside the school day, rather than becoming another appointment at the end of an already long one.
For a lot of neurodivergent students, being in a familiar room with a person sitting opposite them makes learning and engagement far easier than a screen does. Face to face is often the difference between a session that lands and one that is simply got through.
I arrange the schedule directly with the school, so there is nothing for you to organise.
- Delivered at the school, anywhere in Dubai
- Scheduled during your child's school day
- Saves you having evening appointments or weekend traffic
- Nothing extra to fit around work or siblings
- Your child stays in a setting they already know
- Arranged with the school directly, not through you
Reveal. 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.