Navigate life's waters with confidence and clarity
Empowering neurodivergent and overwhelmed individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond — with coaching that helps you find clarity, calm, and your own way forward
Discover Your Wayfinding Skills
Add Tools To Your Toolkit
Build Mental Fitness
Wired Differently
Find YOUR WAY to navigate life with a neurodivergent brain, including ADHD, and executive function challenges.
Anxiety and Burnout
Uncover your wayfinding skills and build your mental fitness to help you notice, name, normalise and navigate your thoughts, emotions and feelings in storms, choppy waters and calm seas.
Professional Coaching
Unlock a deeper understanding of yourself with a trusted sounding board, backed by extensive corporate experience, to confidently navigate personal and professional challenges.
What's the approach?
I follow a holistic, strengths-based and values-driven approach, blending science, coaching methodologies, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques, enriched by both personal and corporate experience.
Why Your Wayfinding?
Open-hearted
I embrace diversity and approach each session with non-judgemental curiosity and compassion.
Seasoned
My broad range of experience enables me to be a thoughtful sounding board, offering valuable perspectives.
Empowering
I have an unwavering belief in you.
Take the first stroke towards finding your way
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Neurodiversity may be every bit as crucial for the human race as biodiversity is for life in general. Who can say what form of wiring will prove best at any given moment."
Harvey Blume
"Boredom is ADHDer’s kryptonite. They are stimulation seekers and need to address the mental emergency, the brain pain, that boredom sets off."
Dr Hallowell
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
Louisa May Alcott
"When we say children with ADHD have a short-attention span, we really mean they have a short interest span."
Russell Barkley
"Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine."
Alan Turing
"The world needs all kinds of minds."
Dr Temple Grandin
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill
"No palm tree is perfectly shaped, yet we marvel at the beauty with which it stands. No sea-shell is perfectly drawn, yet we marvel at the beauty with which it curves. Accept and appreciate yourself as you are today, in your natural state, just like you would a tree in the forest, a flower in the garden or a seashell by the shore. You are the entirety of you. You are whole. And you are beautiful."
Omar Itani
"If at first you don’t succeed, try a few more times, then change your expectations – know where to set the bar and you may need to adjust it."
Late, Lost and Unprepared
"Just as we wouldn’t expect a child with a physical disability requiring a wheelchair to compete in a footrace with typically developing peers, we shouldn’t ask a child with executive dysfunction to independently manage certain tasks and situations before their own abilities unfold. Help the child understand executive functions are brain-based skills and difficulties are not moral or personal weaknesses."
Late, Lost and Unprepared
"A person with ADHD has the power of a Ferrari engine but with bicycle-strength breaks. It’s the mismatch of engine power to braking capability that causes the problems. Strengthening one’s brakes is the name of the game."
ADHD 2.0
"Just as our brains shape us, we can shape our brains."
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
"Neurons that fire together wire together."
Barbara Arrowsmith-Young
"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
Maya Angelou
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Maya Angelou
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
Maya Angelou
"ADHDer’s don’t have a deficit of attention, they have an over-abundance of attention requiring more control than they can cope with."
Dr Hallowell
"Fear and shame are society’s major learning disabilities."
Dr Hallowell
"Associate with dream makers and avoid dream breakers."
Dr Hallowell
"Society is living with a Vitamin Connect deficit."
Dr Hallowell
"Failure is the first step on the way to success."
Dr Hallowell
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
Marcus Aurelius
" I will accept with serenity what I cannot change, have the courage to change what I can, and develop the wisdom to know the difference."
Adapted Serenity Prayer
"Negative thoughts are normal. Don't fight them."
Russ Harris
"When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings, they start."
Dov Seidman
"When we have the courage to walk into our story and own it, we get to write the ending."
Brene Brown
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least failes while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theordore Roosevelt
"I urge you to find a way to immerse yourself fully in the life you've been given. To stop running from whatever you're trying to escape, and instead to stop, and turn, and face whatever it is."
Anna Lembke
"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
Carl Rogers
"Mental Fitness - your ability to use flexible coping skills to manage adversity so that you can thrive. If your mental fitness is strong, you are better able to handle stress, balance your work and family, have healthy relationships and seek help for your mental health when you need it."
PreKure
"The goal of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is to increase psychological flexibility; the ability to contact the present moment and the psychological reactions it produces, as a fully conscious human being, and based on the situation to persist with or change behaviour for valued ends."
Dr. Russ Harris
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
Viktor E. Frankl
"Success isn't about how your life looks to others. It's about how it feels to you."
Michelle Obama
