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ADHD Girls is a social impact company with a mission to empower neurodivergent women with the knowledge & tools to thrive with ADHD & AuDHD and elevate neurodiversity understanding via an intersectional lens Powered by personal lived experiences of ADHD, we work to destigmatise ADHD and support ADHDers via:

Post-diagnosis Support:: Personal and professional development workshops for ADHDers;

Adv

ocacy: Producing thought-provoking digital awareness campaigns and events;

ADHD training: Running ADHD awareness session within education and work settings to improve cultural understanding of ADHD and providing best practice approach to support ADHDers. We work on the basis of the strengths-based approach, recognising that neurodiversity is a cross between the medical model, intersectionality, and the social model of disability.

21/04/2026

AuDHD “treatment”: The belief no one in our field says out loud. 😶

We’ve been confusing inconsistent dopamine regulation with a disorder that requires lifelong medication.

I know this personally.

I received treatment for years before a health crash stopped my hamster wheel. Four years in, I realised I should have started with HRT, not stimulants.

And even then? Both needed to start low and go slow.

That experience changed how I see everything.

Recently, at a conference, I watched practitioners speak confidently about what they were trained to do: Refer. Medicate. Move on.

For some clients, that’s exactly right.

But there’s a woman sitting in your sessions right now who doesn’t need a prescription.

She needs someone who understands her brain isn’t broken. 🧠 It’s under- or over-powered across the month, life pressures, and relational challenges.

And disillusioned practitioners feel the gap. In every session where the framework doesn’t fit. In every client who comes back more lost than before.

That’s not your failure; it’s a gap in your training.

My AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner programme provides practitioners with the gold-standard framework to finally see and adequately support an AuDHD woman: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

If you’ve ever left a session thinking “something doesn’t add up” - this was made for you.

19/04/2026

For those who don’t believe there are s*x differences between men and women, a new study published in Science validated that there are…

At the cellular level in the brain.

Some of the genes showing s*x differences are the same ones linked to brain conditions that affect men and women differently:
⚡️autism
⚡️ADHD
⚡️Alzheimer’s disease
⚡️ mood disorders

This feels like the beginning of stronger evidence supporting why identification and medication to treat mental health conditions needs to be tailored to individual needs.

Check out my video to hear my argument against the current standards of practice inside psychiatry and mental health services: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTzcZRYCN7b/?igsh=MWlnNXM5NDl0ZDBhaA==

Become an empowered AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner in June and understand the new gold standard practice: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

12/04/2026

New AuDHD magazine feature for 🎉
I remember speaking to Sally, the editor, while I was waiting for my cancer screening.

It’s the first time in my adult life I feel like myself, out loud.

I was late-diagnosed as AuDHD (autism + ADHD), after a loooong battle with my clinician.
Being multiple intersectional neurodivergent led to being unseen.

For years, I played the roles I was told I was “good” at:
⚡ The high-performer who holds it all together
⚡ The emotionally attuned one who anticipates what the room needs
⚡ The strategic thinker who can see the big picture and the cracks in the system at the same time

As the eldest daughter, I was praised for how much I could carry.
Not how deeply I could feel.
How much I was masking.
How hard I was working to keep the real me from “disrupting” things.

Unmasking wasn’t always safe.
Having needs felt… inconvenient.
So I controlled what I could until I broke the pattern instead.

And here’s what’s wild: Getting diagnosed didn’t make me smaller.
It made me way more honest.

I stopped trying to fit the definition of “resilient” that was just polite exhaustion in disguise.
And I started crafting a life, on my terms, rooted in clarity, creativity, and actual nervous system softness.

Having needs isn’t a weakness.
And accepting yourself is a gentle revolution towards a version of you who finally feels like home.

Here’s to standing in our own timelines ◡̈

Join our June cohort of the AuDHD women’s advanced practitioner programme: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

Photo credit:

Unmasking TraumaInformed

08/04/2026

A very last minute addition to the conference, I’m pleased to say I’m speaking on the Empowerment and Leadership panel today. It’s the last panel of the day.

I’ll be sharing my thoughts and feelings on how leadership, empowerment, and systemic design come together to unlock the potential of neurodivergent colleagues in the workplace.

If you’re around, come and say hi 😀

03/04/2026

I recently recommended a psychiatrist who I’ve never worked with solely based on the recommendation of someone I trust.

And the result was disappointing. I was so appalled.

This was someone whose sister had a serious case that resulted in treatment usually given to someone who’s bipolar - although they’ve seen so many psychiatrists and they had high hopes to get an expert, definitive opinion.

She had paid over £1K to have a rushed, under-prepared appointment.

And the psychiatrist had turned up having not reviewed the extensive documents that his clinic had asked them to fill in.

Let me be clear, the psychiatrist is kind and very experienced, but he simply did not give the appointment the attention and the exploration they deserved.

It was concluded after the short appointment that the woman does not have ADHD.

I then asked her (as she’d taken my AuDHD course) if she did a DNA test for her sister. She dug around and found the result - ADHD was clearly listed with “Typical likelihood”. We looked at other tests she’d done, and we found more concerning aspects that should most definitely have been considered before prescribing strong “stabilising” psychiatric medication.

This is NOT OK.

This is a question of safety.
If psychiatry isn’t objective or specific and so many are going into appointment being assessed subjectively, then what are our hopes to be supported adequately?

Train with me in June to understand AuDHD in women, whether you’re supporting someone or are one yourself: https://hub.adhdgirls.co.uk/AuDHD-Women-Intersectional-Scientific-Lens

We go into the cells of what it means to be AuDHD, all the way back to the woman she becomes today.

Check out our Google reviews: https://maps.app.goo.gl/CSN1mnAgTCH2nFnM7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

02/04/2026

World Autism Day 2026
I wish I can say I’m happy about where we are.

But we are in a liminal space in history,
Where all the talks about autism acceptance and celebration benefits only those who are doing well.

What about those of us who the label immediately work against us when we encounter difficulties,
In a culture that pathologises emotional intensity in women and girls,
that uses medication to “stabilise” us,
Medication that has an impact on our hormones and then causes depression,
Which they then need to “stabilise” with another medication.

I’m not saying there aren’t situations where this isn’t necessary,
But is there another way?
A trauma-informed, nervous system aware and safety-prioritised way?

29/03/2026

Those raising teens, and those who were young once - thoughts?

This article touched on dating abuse among youth with ADHD and mental health conditions
⚡ 75% reported abuse victimisation
⚡ 62% reported abuse perpetration

I especially appreciate this line inside the article, “It’s underappreciated how difficult ADHD can be for girls and women because the consequences are more internal, said (Stephen) Hinshaw.”

Hinshaw led the Berkeley Girls with ADHD Longitudinal Study (BGALS).
Outside of this survey, I recently heard that a startling 91% of autistic women and girls had experienced abuse in intimate partner relationships.

What would be helpful to understand compatibility early on? I’m looking into nervous system compatibility. Let me know what you think?

27/03/2026

The DSM-5 revision can’t come fast enough. And even then, will they recognise the diversity within each label?

Lately, I’ve been seeing more news around some unforgivable crimes committed by those who the media had highlighted “were diagnosed with ADHD or autism”.

In my practitioner’s training and workplace talks recently,
I included some new evidence around our genetic, epigenetics, and environmental differences that create the diversity within neurodiversity.

👉Why some are predisposed to more severe mental health conditions
👉How some may be protected from it.
It’s a combination of the hand we’re given (genes), what our childhood and especially adolescent years had been like, and our current life, relationships, and support network.
👉 ADHD and autism are not excuses for harm, nothing is

One thing remains clear… there needs to be a greater understanding of how we are going to tackle this divide inside public understanding, care and support.

Grab a copy of my book “Tip of the ADHD Iceberg” to begin understanding this complexity.

Our next AuDHD advanced practitioner training begins in June, feel free to DM me with any questions.

26/03/2026

Yesterday I woke up sooooo early to speak at a very special parliamentary breakfast reception in the House of Commons to raise awareness of ADHD and lived experience stories.

Thank you and ADHD360 for inviting me. It was truly mind blowing to have walked into such a purpose-filled room and meet nearly everyone I’ve only seen online IRL. My heart was full.

Within this room, we shared our human stories of walking the journey in health, education, and social care. So much of it was so emotional, from stories of success, strengths vs needs, treatment, diagnosis, care, co-occurring conditions, hormonal transitions, addiction, RSD, trauma, mental health, love and lost, and more.

We have done so much work, and I’m recognising how we need to come together to create real tangible change.

The current climate is different to what it was 5 years ago. I’m focused on creating something that will support ADHD & AuDHD women and girls who are currently being ignored by the system to rise and create a collective uproar. More soon. 😀

20/03/2026

Two things happened yesterday that made me feel so proud of how far had come.

💝 I received this beautiful photo of 10 year old Clara who helped raise awareness of ADHD in girls at her school fair (watch out world for this budding social justice warrior!)
Thank you for donating this T-shirt to Clara. 😍

💝 I delivered a Humanising Neurodiversity talk at Illumio and covered as much current understanding as I could within the hour. Received a wonderful feedback from my amazing client. 🩷

And this is the tip of the iceberg of what we’re doing everyday, to change public perception of neurodiverse experiences that are increasingly becoming more resonant with people from all walks of life.

Let’s remember that we are all walking each other home.

15/03/2026

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers holding the fort today.

I’ve been thinking a lot about generational lineages, how so much begins and ends with mothers, how our children become our mirrors, how the hardest work we do is often invisible.

Yesterday, my daughter told me I’m an amazing mum and that she loves me. She was worried about “repaying” everything I’ve given her. I told her: “The best thing you can do for me is to be yourself.”

I didn’t grow up with stability. I grew up in a neurodivergent family where love was complicated, where pain and care were tangled up together.

And for some time, I repeated those patterns, but I couldn’t unsee what I saw anymore and began to do things differently.

The most profound work I’ve ever done was learning to love myself, to ask for what I need, and to recognise that I matter. In doing so, I am able to show up for my children in ways I wasn’t shown up for.

Motherhood has taught me that we’re responsible for our own healing - not for overcompensating for someone else’s role in theirs. We can break cycles without carrying the weight of generations that weren’t ours to fix.

To every mother navigating this journey - especially those of you rebuilding what was broken, creating stability from scratch, or parenting while healing your own childhood - I see you. You’re breaking the cycle.

Happy Mother’s Day. 💝

08/03/2026

A team of experts, inc clinicians, academics and “patients” have concluded that “ADHD overdiagnoses” will deny people the care they need.

In this 5-minute interview with LBC radio on Friday, I spoke about:
📣 how we fall off the cliff after diagnosis, with no support
📣 my health crash partly due to the co-occurring health conditions that the prescribing team was oblivious to
📣 how the health systems treat us in parts, when we need a whole-person support

They wanted to speak to me because I wrote an article for them earlier this year to say Wes Streeting was wrong.

I haven’t begun to talk about the dire state of mental health services within the NHS, how women’s agency is taken away when they are distressed, where there isn’t enough trauma-informed support. It upsets me that we don’t see what led the person there.

I’ll link the article I wrote in the comments. What has been your experience in the diagnostics and care system?

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