Danielle Dryden
A Psychologically Informed Coach Practitioner
The ASC-ADHD Coach
Coaching for autistic & ADHD adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or inconsistent in daily life.
So you can stop feeling stuck and finally build a life that works with your brain
You can see the life you want, but you can't sustainably access it
You can operate at brilliance level intensity one week, and then crash the next.
This leads to
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inconsistent output
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unreliable routines
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difficulty in sustaining progress
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fear of commitment because you can't trust your capacity
You don't need motivation, you need a system that adapts to your nervous system, not the other way around.
You've spent years masking, over functioning, people pleasing, or perfectionising.
These mechanisms:
distort sense of self
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drain energy
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keep you in roles that don't fit
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make change feel dangerous, even when it's wanted.
You are not starting from zero - you are starting from exhaustion.
You cannot tell what is you and what is a lifetime of coping
So you:
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hesitate to make decisions
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abandon goals when capactiy dips
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feel fraudulant when you succeed
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can't build sustainable habits
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don't know how to ask for support
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feel stuck between potential and burnout.
You are not looking just for productivity hacks.
You are looking for identity, clarity, nervous-system safe structure and a way to live that doesnt collapse under its own weight
"I know I'm capable" & "I keep failing at basics"
"I crave clarity" & "I get overwhelmed by every decision"
This creates, chronic self-doubt, shame spirals, identify confusion, a sense of being "too much and not enough" at the same time
Competing Truths
"I want structure" & "structure suffocates me"
"I want to be seen" & "visibility feels dangerous"
If you are here, you are probably tired of.........
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Feeling inconsistent, unreliable or "too much and not enough"
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Oscillating between hyperfocus and shutdown
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Living in cycles of burnout, recovery and collapse
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Not trusting your capacity
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Feeling misunderstood, even by professionals
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Trying to use strategies that don't work for your neurotype
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Wondering who you are beneath the masking
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Carrying shame for things that were never your fault.
You're not alone.
And you're not imagining it.
Your brain works differently - and once you understand how, everything starts to make sense
Psychologically Informed
Coaching Can Change Your Life
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Clarity & Self Awareness - Understand yourself on a deeper level after years of masking
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Confidence & Self-Compassion - Build an authentic sense of self-worth
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Better Energy & Resilience - Strategies to reduce burnout and manage overwhelm
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Workplace & Career Success - Tools to navigate executive functioning challenges, workplace dynamics, and leadership roles.
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Stronger Relationships - Communicate, connect, and set healthy boundaries without losing yourself.
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Sustainable Growth - Actionable Strategies grounded in Positive Psychology and evidence based practice.
Everything I do is structured around a three‑phase model that supports wellbeing, identity, and strengths‑based self‑understanding.
1. Wellbeing & Nervous System Safety
Before we talk strategies, we stabilise. We reduce overwhelm, rebuild capacity, and create a foundation that works with your energy, not against it.
2. Diagnoses Integration & Self-Acceptance
Whether you're newly diagnosed, self-identified, or still exploring, we make sense of your history, patterns, contradictions and lived experience - without shame, judgement or pathologising.
3. Strengths-Based Trait Understanding
You're traits aren't flaws.
They're patterns with meaning.
We map your strengths, cognitive rhythms and natural ways of being so you can build a life that fits your neurotype.
Why Work With Me?
I am an Autistic ADHDer, a Trainee Coaching Psychologist, and a Practitioner with a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology. Alongside lived experience, I bring extensive professional training across coaching psychology, positive psychology, and neurodivergent practice.
My work blends lived experience with evidence based psychological frameworks to create a space that is:
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ND affirming
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Gentle and low-demand
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Grounded in well-being science
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Strengths based
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Trauma-aware
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Paced to your nervous system.
I don't ask you to fit into a system that wasn't built for you.
This is not productivity coaching.
This is identity, well-being and self understanding - the psychological foundations that make sustainable change possible
Why My Approach Works
Many coaching models weren’t designed with autistic or ADHD adults in mind. That’s why they often fall flat. My approach works because it is:
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Psychologically Informed – I integrate coaching with psychological insight, helping you understand your patterns, emotions, and behaviours at a deeper level.
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Evidence-Based – I use strategies proven to support change and wellbeing, not quick fixes or generic advice.
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Positive Psychology Driven – we focus not just on problems, but on building resilience, meaning, and joy in your everyday life.
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Neurodivergent-Specialist – every tool and method I use is adapted for autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD adults, respecting sensory needs, executive functioning, and lived experience.
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Grounded in Lived Experience – as an autistic ADHDer, I understand the reality of your challenges—and the strengths you may not yet see in yourself.
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This combination means coaching doesn’t just help you cope—it gives you the foundation to thrive authentically.
How the Coaching Journey Works
🌱 Book Your Free Discovery Call
A gentle 20-30 minute conversation where we explore what you are experiencing, what you're hoping for, and whether my approach feels a good fit. This is a place where we can understand your needs and you can ask any questions you may have.
🌿Coaching Formulation Session
A 90 minute, in-depth session where we have the opportunity to map your sensory profile, capacity, executive functioning, burnout patterns, masking, strengths, values and wellbeing foundations. You receive a written formulation afterwards that outlines your personal coaching pathway.
🔄 Choose Your Programme
Once we understand your needs, you choose the programme that fits best. The AuDHD Wellbeing Project. The Executive Functioning Programme or Access to Work Coaching. Each programme is tailored using your formulation so the work is grounded, personalised, and aligned with your neurotype.
"I had coaching sessions with Danielle after I had my ADHD diagnosis in the lead up to my autism diagnosis. She helped me to map my ADHD and autism related traits and strengths in Venn diagrams, plan how to handle certain situations, sort through my approach to managing my traits, start to process what unmasking might look like and to prepare for my autism assessment and process the diagnosis. Danielle was warm, affirming, non-pretentious, easy to talk to and quick to understand my experience and validate it. Working with Danielle helped me feel a lot less anxious and much more in control, I plan to go back to her for coaching periodically in future and I would definitely recommend working with her, particularly for those who may have both autism and ADHD or those struggling with internalised ableism or imposter syndrome (including imposter syndrome about whether you are neurodivergent)."
- Fiona
"Thank you for all your help Danielle! I feel very equipped for the future, thanks to your supportive, compassionate guidance. It has been a pleasure working with you and I can't thank you enough"
Coaching Options
A gentle, structured conversation to explore your needs and see if the journey is a good fit.
FREE
The AuDHD Wellbeing Project
A tailored 12 session coaching programme for autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults who want to feel more grounded, understood and supported. The space is designed to help you make sense of your neurotype, reduce overwhelm, and build a life that works with your brain - at a pace that feels safe, spacious and sustainable.
Price
£999
OR
4 payments of £250 (monthly)
Access to Work Coaching Programme
A 12 week specialist workplace coaching programme designed specifically to meet the access to work
requirements. This programme provides psychologically informed support for autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults, focusing on communication, executive functioning, sensory and emotional regulation, workload management, and sutainable working patterns. Please get in touch with how we can align the programme with your access to work award.
4 payments of £360 (monthly)
OR
£1,440
Executive Functioning Coaching Progamme
A 12 week specialist coaching progamme for autistic, ADHD and AuDHD adults who want structured, psychologically informed support with planning organisation and sustainable
routines. This programme is tailored to your neurotype and grounded in coaching psychology
and neurodiversity affirming practice.
Price
£1,440
OR
4 payments of £360 (monthly)