About me
Specialist ADHD Coaching for Late-Diagnosed Adults
Does this ring a bell?
You have spent decades wondering why everything feels harder than it should. Perhaps you have recently received a formal diagnosis, or you strongly suspect you have ADHD, and you are left thinking: "Now what?"
On paper, you are successful. You mask your struggles beautifully to keep up appearances at work and at home, but privately, you are completely exhausted. You are stuck in a brutal loop: try harder, fail, feel deep shame, and burn out. The traditional to-do lists don't work, and the expensive planners end up abandoned in a drawer.
Here is the truth: You are not broken. You have simply been trying to run neurotypical systems on a beautifully neurodiverse brain.
How I Work: Welcome to The Certainty Lab
I’m Carol, an ADHD-specialist coach and founder of The Certainty Lab. I work exclusively with adults who discovered their ADHD later in life.
General life coaching tells you to try harder. I help you try differently.
My coaching focuses on helping you build a solid, certain base for your life. We do this by weaving PAAC (Professional Association of ADHD Coaches) essentials into our work. Together, we explore how your unique executive functions, situational variability, and "wired-for-interest" brain actually operate.
Without this stable foundation of self-awareness, you will keep burning out. With it, you can accurately curate your environment, build radical self-trust, and advocate for what you actually need.
What is an "Experiment?"
We do don't do rigid routines or boring homework. Instead, we use easeful, low-stakes experiments designed entirely by you to spark interest and bypass overwhelm.
In-Session Activation: We often take the first micro-step together during our coaching call. This means you don't have to struggle to ramp up the energy to get started on your own later.
Light-Touch Reflection: In our next session, we hold success lightly. We look at your experiment simply to notice what worked and what didn't.
Tailored Strategies: Whether it is re-authoring a boring work task to make it feel "naughty and forbidden" to peak your interest, or adjusting your physical space, we design strategies tailored to your day-to-day life.
Ready to break the cycle?
We start exactly where you are today, on the focused days, the chaotic days, and the messy ones in between. If you are ready to gain control, build practical daily skills, and improve your confidence from an authentic ADHD perspective, let’s talk.
Book a free 20-minute discovery call today. It is just a low-pressure, supportive chat to see if we click.
Training, qualifications & experience
Lived Experience Meets Specialist ADHD Training
You don't need my entire life history, but it helps to know that I understand this journey from the inside out:
The Corporate Grind: I spent years in intense corporate environments, feeling quietly confused about why staying organised felt like a gruelling, full-time job.
The VA Transition: I set up my own Virtual Assistant business (littlefish-va.com, which now hosts my coaching practice) and noticed a striking pattern: the vast majority of my clients were brilliant, overwhelmed business owners with ADHD who needed strategic brain support more than admin help.
The Realisation: I trained as a coach and immediately saw that standard, neurotypical coaching tools completely fail ADHD brains.
The Specialism: To serve my clients properly, I invested in advanced, specialist ADHD coach training with the Gold Mind Academy, integrating foundational PAAC insights into my practice.
What My Clients Say
"Carol helped me move from a lifetime of 'trying harder' to finally 'trying differently'. I gained a profound level of self-understanding, a clear explanation for my lifelong reactions, and a massive sense of relief."
"She scaffolds your thinking without directing you, creating a space that is both time-bound and incredibly spacious. It felt miraculous."
Qualifications & Credentials:
ADHD Specialist Coach Training – Gold Mind Academy
Transformational Life Coach Diploma – Animas Centre for Coaching
- (ICF) Accredited Diploma in Transformative Coaching:-Animas Centre for Coaching
- ADHD Specialist Coach:-Gold Mind Academy, ICF Level 2 Certification
I am not here to fix you. You are not broken. I am here because I know what it is like to feel "too much" and "not enough" and I have built a framework that actually works.
Areas of coaching I deal with
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Fees
£45.00 - £570.00
Free initial telephone or online session
Additional information
Simple Pricing:- No Surprises, No Shame
Discovery Call (20–30 Mins): Free
A completely pressure-free conversation to map out your primary frustrations, discuss your goals, and see if we are a good match.
Taster Session (45 Mins): £45
Zero commitment. We take one specific thing that is exhausting you right now and design one practical, easeful experiment you can use immediately. If you choose to book a package later, this £45 is fully deducted from the total.
Pay-As-You-Go Session (60 Mins): £110
No contracts, no packages, no pressure. Ideal for troubleshooting a sudden roadblock, navigating an immediate career hurdle, or as a periodic top-up for accountability and co-regulation.
The Certainty Lab Package (6 x 60 Mins): £570
My signature programme. Over six tailored sessions, we build the stable base of your ADHD needs pyramid to improve your confidence, career, and personal development. Includes between-session experiment tracking.
The Fine Print: There's no VAT, no setup fees, and no automated subscriptions that you will forget to cancel.
Further information
How We Collaborate (Logistics & Accessibility)
Where We Meet: All coaching sessions are held securely online via Google Meet across the UK (unless you prefer a phone call).
ADHD-Friendly Space: Fidgeting, pacing, standing up, or bringing a hot drink to our sessions is warmly welcomed. You do not need to mask your symptoms here.
No-Notes Guarantee: Because working memory can be a challenge when processing big realisations, the Certainty Lab package includes concise post-session bullet points of your experiments and wins. You can focus entirely on the conversation without worrying about taking notes.
