Ellie Kay

ADHD & AuDHD Coach & Mentor for Women in Demanding Roles 
*I take private and access to work clients*

ADHD & AuDHD Coach & Mentor for Women in Demanding Roles

I work with women who are doing their best to hold everything together.

From the outside they often look like they’re coping. They’ve built careers, run businesses, managed teams or spent years trying to keep everyone else happy. Inside they’re exhausted, overwhelmed and wondering why life seems harder for them than everyone else.

That was me too.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 45 after spending 20 years running my own recruitment businesses, managing teams and constantly feeling like I had to work twice as hard just to stay on top of everything.

Since then I’ve retrained as an ADHD coach and now spend my time helping women understand how their brain works, stop beating themselves up and find ways of working that actually suit them.

Most of the women I support have ADHD or AuDHD (diagnosed and undiagnosed). Some run their own businesses or work in leadership roles and others don’t. The common factor is that they all want life to be easier. To stop ending every day feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. And to stop feeling guilt and shame for some of the things they do (or indeed don’t do). 

Together we work on things like:

• Understanding your ADHD or AuDHD and how it affects you personally.
• Managing overwhelm, emotional regulation and burnout.
• Rejection sensitivity and the strong sense of justice and fairness. 
• Organisation, procrastination and getting things done.
• Boundaries, people pleasing and learning to say no.
• Impulsive spending, scrolling and other dopamine fuelled  behaviours. 
• Relationships, communication and navigating work.

My coaching is relaxed, honest and practical. There will probably be laughter and sometimes there might be tears too. I don’t believe there’s one right way to do things. We work together to find strategies that fit your life rather than expecting you to fit someone else’s system.

Alongside coaching, I’m also a workplace mediator, neurodiversity trainer and keynote speaker, so I understand both the personal and workplace challenges that many ADHD and AuDHD women face.

Before coaching I spent over 20 years running recruitment businesses, so I understand the pressures of demanding jobs, leadership and trying to juggle work with everything else life throws at you. 

I’ve also had plenty of life experience along the way, including surviving cervical cancer in my twenties, divorce, building and running businesses, becoming a step mum, navigating perimenopause and sharing life with my autistic husband. Those experiences don’t define me, but they do mean I understand that life isn’t always straightforward.

The women I meet at the start of coaching are usually very different to the women I say goodbye to. Seeing them become more confident, kinder to themselves and happier in their own skin is the best part of what I do.

Qualifications and experience:

• ICF Level 1 Qualified Coach
• EMCC Member
• CPD Certified ADHD Coach
• CMC Registered Workplace Mediator
• Psychology Degree (2:1)
• Over 200 hours of ADHD and AuDHD coaching and mentoring
• More than 20 years running businesses and leading teams

If you’re looking for someone who understands ADHD from both lived experience and professional experience, I’d love to hear from you.

In addition to understanding and managing  challenges I can also help you with your career. My 25 years recruitment experience means I can assist with CV writing, job interview techniques  (confidence and question preparation), as well as how to use LinkedIn effectively. 

• ADHD Women
• AuDHD Women 
• Relationship Coaching
• Business Coaching
• Solopreneur  Coaching
• Career Coaching
• Menopause & Peri-Menopause Coaching

*For Access to Work clients I can look at each case individually.*

Private - I offer 6 x 1 hour sessions at £750 or 12 sessions at £1400 (including access to Coach Accountable Platform).

I also offer singular coaching sessions @ £120 for 1 hour or £80 for 40 minutes (but it is recommended that these are used for top ups only).

Access to work - I offer both 1:1 ADHD & AuDHD coaching and co-coaching with your manager.

Please visit my coaching page for further information and testimonials.

https://www.elliekay.co.uk/adhd---audhd-coaching

Please feel free to email me at hello@elliekay.co.uk

ADHD & AuDHD Coach - with life, career, business knowledge.

ADHDer with experience of autism (husband and other family members)

Also work as a key note speaker, neurodiversity management trainer and workplace mediator.