I’m Annie. I was diagnosed with ADHD at 45, and so much finally made sense, right back to my early teens. The forgotten appointments, the bursts of brilliance followed by the walls I couldn’t climb,
| The constant feeling that everyone else had a manual I’d never been given.
I’ve always spotted the traits in other people before I saw them in myself. That’s how I came to encourage my husband, a police inspector with over 20 years’ service, to seek his own diagnosis five years ago. Watching him thrive in policing, not despite his ADHD but because of it, showed me what becomes possible when you understand how your brain works and stop fighting it.
It also showed me the other side. The paperwork that piles up after a busy set of shifts. The stress of reviews and feedback. The energy it takes to hold it all together at work and still have something left at home. Living alongside the job, I’ve seen how much of this goes unspoken.
After more than 20 years in a corporate career, I decided to make this my next chapter: coaching people in the police, fire and ambulance services and control rooms to understand their ADHD
and build a working life that fits the way their brain works.
WHY WORK WITH ME
WHAT I STAND FOR
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
I'm completing my ADHD coach certification with ADHD Works, on their CPD-accredited Become an ADHD Coach programme, and I'm open about that with every client.
Alongside my training, I've been building my skills through practice and pro bono coaching, which is where the testimonials on this site come from.
A little more about me
Away from coaching, I’m mum to a four-year-old and wife to a police inspector. Policing has shaped our family life for years, from late finishes and changed plans to the days the job comes home with him, so I know what it asks of a family as well as the person doing it.
I still lose my keys, and I still have to work at the things I help my clients with. That’s rather the point: ADHD doesn’t go away, but life gets a great deal easier once you stop fighting it.
I’m based in West London and work with people across the UK online.
