KNOW. BE. BECOME.
Coaching autistic and AuDHD professionals towards A meaningful, values-led future.
Most people think a later in life autism diagnosis is the finish line. It's not. It's the beginning of becoming.
You've spent your life building a version of yourself capable enough, fluent enough, together enough that nobody looked closer. Then the diagnosis arrived - and instead of answers, it handed you a user manual written in a language you're still learning, for a person you're not sure you recognise.
That's the work I call post-diagnostic becoming:
the process of moving beyond a diagnosis as a clinical event, toward an ongoing, active reconstruction of identity and meaning.
It's not about coping with being neurodivergent, or adjusting to a label, or managing traits more effectively. It's about using the diagnosis as a catalyst from which a person can begin to explore who they authentically are, what they value, how they want to live, and who they are still becoming.
I'm Sophie. A coaching psychology practitioner (EMCC Accredited) who just so happens to be autistic. I specialise in working with late-diagnosed autistic and AuDHD professionals navigating exactly this terrain: highly capable people who are ready to stop managing their lives and start building one, with intention.
I approach neurodivergence as an identity question, not only a clinical one. That distinction comes from lived experience, academic research, and specialist training, and it shapes everything about how we work together, starting with three questions:
Who am I now? Who do I want to become? How do I get there?
That's where we begin.
Why i Do What I do.
When I received my autism diagnosis in 2020 at 28, I walked out of the clinician's office exhausted. I had just spent hours unpacking decades of experience - five years in corporate, four years in teaching, and a persistent, quietly devastating sense that something wasn't quite right, without ever knowing what.
A month later, my report arrived offering more confusion than clarity.
I had expected a roadmap. Instead, it felt like being handed a map with no compass - a document cataloguing what I supposedly couldn't do, rather than who I was or who I could become.
What I needed was support to make sense of it all: my identity, my relationships, my career, my future.
What I got was the assumption that simply knowing I was autistic would be enough.
It wasn't.
I had been coping for 28 years. I didn't want another strategy for surviving. I wanted to stop managing my life and start building one. But I didn't know how.
What happened next reshaped everything and became the blueprint for how I now walk alongside others in their post-diagnostic becoming.
WORK WITH ME
1:1 Coaching
I offer 1:1 specialist coaching for late-diagnosed autistic adults ready for post-diagnostic becoming.
Together, we explore what you truly value, articulate your strengths, and build the clarity you need to make aligned decisions in your life.
This is the bridge between understanding your autism diagnosis/identification and creating the life you actually want.
The Liminal Space: Group Circle
A 5-week peer facilitated circle for late-diagnosed autistic and AuDHD adults who may not feel ready for 1:1 coaching or who prefer to explore their neurodivergence in a supportive online community.
You'll explore identity -related topics, what being neurodivergent means to you, and clarify your values. Many who join go on to deepen and integrate this work through 1:1 coaching with me.