The coaches we train in our AuDHD Paradox Coaching Framework™ are ‘Advanced’, because autism and ADHD are two separate, highly individual, and often, highly contradictory neurodevelopmental conditions, often occurring within the same brain.
ADHD and autism have only been diagnosable in the same person since 2013, but there’s an approx. 50-70% co-occurrence rate.
This means that many people are stuck in limbo, diagnosed with one, living with both, and given strategies designed for half of themselves.
You don't need a diagnosis of either - or of both - to work with someone here. The coaches below will adapt our framework to you, not your labels - and help you to make peace with the tug-of-war in your brain.
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AuDHD Coaching: FAQs
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Coaching is a collaborative process involving the client bringing what they want to focus on, and working towards goals.
Specialisms such as ADHD coaching can mean different things, depending on the practitioner.
ADHD Works’ approach to AuDHD coaching uses our AuDHD Paradox Coaching Framework™.
This involves a flexible structure for sessions, including specific exercises and education around the combination of ADHD and autism.
The aim is to understand how AuDHD is actually showing up in your life, and to find approaches that work with both - rather than ones that help one side at the expense of the other.
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When you're both ADHD and autistic, the strategy that helps one part of you can actively cost the other - so this approach is informed by both.
This is an ‘optional menu’ for coaching that can be used to structure sessions, including psychoeducation, exercises, tools, and strategies.
Areas include relationships, energy management, processing styles, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and communication.
This can also be adapted for use with children and/or teenagers, if the coach works with these age groups.
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The Executive Functioning Coaching Framework™ that we train ADHD coaches on focuses on the gap between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’.
Coaches receive education on how to adapt this to people who are autistic and ADHD, but it isn’t the main focus.
In contrast, the main focus of our AuDHD Paradox Coaching Framework™️ is the contradiction between ADHD and autism.
An Advanced AuDHD Coach who’s trained with us will have learned a whole framework of exercises and coaching approaches built around the specific interaction of ADHD and autism.
This includes specialist skills in areas such as demand avoidance, alexithymia, and monotropism - enabling the coaching to be tailored to you.
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No. Assessment has never been equally available. Women, people from ethnic minority and culturally diverse backgrounds, and anyone who couldn't pay privately have been consistently missed - not because their traits were less clear, but because the systems doing the identifying were built around a narrow idea of what ADHD and autism look like, and read the same behaviour differently depending on who was showing it.
Our framework applies regardless. These coaches won't diagnose you with anything, but they can adapt it to wherever you're at right now. You are deserving of support, exactly as you are.
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Yes - and if you know what you need, it’s worth letting them know. It’s fine if you’re not sure - this can be figured out together.
All ADHD Works coaches are trained to adapt our frameworks to the person in front of them.
In practice that might mean camera off, communicating in writing rather than speech, interrupting any tangents (with permission!), or providing tangible support such as body doubling.
Some coaches have particular specialisms or experience, and some have adapted their practice around their own neurodivergence, including things like AAC use. This will usually be visible on their profiles.
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Yes. Access to Work is a UK government scheme that can fund specialist coaching related to conditions impacting you at work, such as ADHD and/or autism.
Even if your award recommends a different provider, you are normally free to select a coach of your choice to work with instead.
However, there may be requirements about where this coach is based, and the approaches may differ in terms of how fees are repaid.
Some coaches will be able to invoice your employer, who can then claim this money back from Access to Work, for example. This will ultimately depend on your circumstances, and those of the coach you choose to work with.
The national funding programmes for coaching that a practitioner works with are listed on their profiles. You are welcome to ask them more about this when you get in touch, and they should be happy to explain more about their approach and experience of the relevant schemes.
Please note that such schemes can change quickly, and we have answered this to the best of our ability with the information we have - but we do not make any guarantees. Always check the most up to date guidance.
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You contact the coach directly, via the link on their profile, and arrange everything between you.
This link is selected by the coach - it might take you to book a free introductory call, or prompt you to send an email, for example.
You're not booking through ADHD Works - we're not involved at all past this point.
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Yes - AuDHD burnout is covered in our training, and it’s very common after a new diagnosis.
Burnout here isn't just tiredness. It's what happens after a long stretch of running on compensation - masking, pushing through, meeting demands built for a different nervous system.
If you're too burnt out for coaching to be effective right now, a good coach will say so, and be honest about what needs more than coaching.
Our coaches are trained in safeguarding and signposting, in addition to adhering to our Ethical Compliance Framework for ADHD and AuDHD coaching.
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AuDHD is an informal term for being both autistic and ADHD. It isn't a separate diagnosis - you'd be diagnosed with each separately - but the word has caught on because the combination is its own experience, rather than two conditions sitting side by side.
ADHD Works’ Founder, Leanne Maskell, wrote the first published book to treat it as a single experience rather than two separate conditions: AuDHD: Blooming Differently.
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Practitioners set their own rates, which vary by country and experience. Prices are shown on profiles where people have chosen to include them.
Practitioners may also offer discounted or sliding scale rates, and/or scholarships, as detailed on their profile.
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No. The Matching Directory is only for people who have trained with us - it's how we keep the listings consistent and verifiable. We aren't able to list practitioners who have not trained with ADHD Works.
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Assessment has never been equally available. Women, Black and minority ethnic people, and anyone who couldn't pay privately have been consistently missed — not because their traits were less clear, but because the systems doing the identifying were built around a narrow idea of what ADHD and autism look like, and read the same behaviour differently depending on who was showing it.
That's part of why you don't need a diagnosis of either to work with someone here. It's also worth looking for coaches whose experience overlaps with your own — several list the communities and contexts they work in
The coaches listed here have taken part in training with ADHD Works. They are independent professionals - they are not employed by or affiliated with ADHD Works, and we do not handle bookings, payments or enquiries on their behalf.