Realistic steps
We can make actions smaller, clearer, and more compatible with your current capacity.
Dasha VasilevaCoaching for life transitionsMenu
Neurodivergent-friendly coaching
Coaching that adapts to your brain, not the other way around.
A flexible, nonjudgmental approach for people whose attention, energy, emotions, or sensory needs do not fit neatly into standard productivity advice.
Not neurodivergent-only
You do not need a diagnosis.
My coaching is neurodivergent-friendly, not neurodivergent-only. You do not need a diagnosis, and you do not need to identify as neurodivergent to work with me.
I have ADHD and sensory sensitivity myself. I know what it can be like to have many thoughts, emotions, and different parts of you demanding attention at the same time. I also understand difficulties with concentration, planning, organization, emotional and sensory overwhelm, and needing time to recover after an interaction that may not look particularly demanding from the outside.
My experience will never be identical to yours, and I will not assume that what works for me will work for you. But I will not treat difficulty following through as a character flaw or a lack of discipline.
When a plan does not happen
We use it as information, not evidence that you failed.
We look at what got in the way, what the experience tells us about how you function, and how the plan or environment could be changed. Maybe the step was too large, too vague, badly timed, emotionally loaded, or simply not something you truly wanted to do.
The goal is not to make you less neurodivergent. It is to understand yourself more accurately and build ways of living and working that take your actual needs into account.
How the work can adapt
Structure should support you.
Flexible ways of processing
We can work with words, images, metaphors, movement, bodily awareness, or another method that helps you think.
Attention to capacity
We take changing attention, energy, sensory load, and emotional overwhelm seriously when making plans.
Optional external structure
If it helps, we can agree on check-ins, reminders, or another form of accountability between sessions.
Choice and pauses
You can pause, change direction, decline an exercise, or suggest a way of working that fits you better.
Progress that counts
We notice small steps and useful experiments instead of dismissing everything short of a perfect result.
My background
Lived experience, with transparent limits.
I do not have a specialist ADHD-coaching certification. This part of my work is informed by my lived experience, formal coach education, IFS-informed learning, and participating in ADHD skills practice groups.
Coaching does not replace assessment, diagnosis, or medical or psychological treatment. You can read more about the boundaries of my role on the scope and consent page.
Read about scope, consent and boundariesA note on evidence
Promising, and still developing.
Early research suggests that structured ADHD coaching may support goal attainment, executive functioning, and everyday functioning.
Read a recent prospective study ↗Bring the brain you actually have.
We can talk about what has and has not worked for you, and whether my approach might be a useful fit.