Human-centred support for neurodivergent adults — helping people feel safer navigating the systems around them.
If things feel heavy, confusing, or harder than they should be, you’re not alone.
Welcome
There’s no performance here — just room to breathe and begin again.
People usually engage privately or through referral.
If that suits you, you’re welcome to get in touch.
I support neurodivergent adults to navigate life admin, systems, and transitions — so they can feel safe, heard, and able to engage on their own terms.
Most systems were not built for neurodivergent minds. They expect people to adapt to them — rather than adapting to real human needs. That mismatch is where overwhelm, shutdown, and loss of confidence often begin.
My work flips that model.
I shape support, services, and training around how each person actually thinks and processes — not how systems demand they should.
That might involve practical guidance, advocacy, or creative confidence-building — but always personalised, always paced, always grounded in what genuinely fits
Hi, I’m Michelle — and I work differently on purpose.
I bring strategic insight alongside lived experience, practical systems, steady advocacy, and creative support.
My role is to slow the pace, scale things back, reduce noise, and help you make decisions that feel steady, safe, and genuinely yours.
I don’t chase or push.
I don’t judge or fix.
I work calmly, intentionally, and with care.
I value clarity, pacing, and consent over performance — always working in ways that respect nervous systems, at every age and stage.
This is a place to breathe, regulate, and steady yourself — and to rebuild gently, at a pace that honours who you are now and who you’re becoming.
However overwhelm shows up — in your body, mind, or inbox — we’ll meet it together.
Whichever type of support you feel ready for, we’ll move with less noise and more steadiness — at your pace and in your own time.
Who I Support adults of all ages including those who:
🧠✨ are Late-identified neurodivergent adults
🤍🗝️ have been spoken over, managed, or decided for
🔥➡️🌱are rebuilding after burnout, power imbalance, or loss of control
🪢✨ Feel pulled by expectations, roles, or unseen pressures
⏳✨ are carrying the quiet belief that they’re “behind” or have somehow failed
My work spans three connected strands of support:
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helping people navigate life and systems easier
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rebuilding confidence through creative expression
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reducing the everyday friction that quietly makes work harder
Support may be practical, creative, or advocacy-led, depending on what helps you feel steadier and more able to move forward.
How I work
I support adults navigating periods of change, overwhelm, or identity shift — especially after long stretches of coping, surviving, or holding everything together.
My work honours human limits, values, and health. I support people as resourced human beings — slowing the pace, untangling noise, and making sense of what’s happening across life, work, and relationships.
Support is calm, consent-led, and paced.
I don’t chase, push, judge, or fix.
Instead, I offer steady guidance that helps people:
• feel heard and understood
• understand their experience more clearly
• rebuild agency, self-trust, and confidence
• find purpose and belonging again, on their own terms
I value clarity, pacing, and consent over performance, and I work in ways that respect nervous systems — at every age and stage.
Work with Me
Advocacy, Access & Stability
For neurodivergent adults when systems become confusing, inaccessible, or overwhelming, and clearer communication is needed.
Support includes advocacy coaching, life-transition guidance, and practical help with forms, digital processes, aand system navigation — particularly during periods of late-identified neurodivergence, unemployment, or long-term sickness.
This can include employee-facing support to help individuals access government schemes such as Access to Work.
Professionals and referrers often contact me when someone needs steady, non-rushed support to be heard, understand their options, and take next steps without pressure or loss of dignity.
People, navigation, systems access, return-to-work support
Creative confidence & expression
Helping individuals build confidence, presence, and self-expression through creative, enjoyable, and gentle experiences that translate into real-world confidence.
Support is offered through 1:1 tuition using music, movement, and voice, in calm, flexible, neurodivergent-affirming spaces.
Sessions are delivered in person and are designed to support a fun and engaging first-time or gentle return to participation — helping people reconnect with expression, enjoyment, and self-belief, without pressure to perform or change who they are.
Confidence-building through creative practice — learning, expression, and regulated exploration that supports real-world life, work, and communication
For community-led and small organisations who need the practical gaps between enquiry, payment, and feedback fixing — so things feel lighter to manage and easier to sustain.
I help spot and fix the operational gaps that quietly cause delays, late or missing revenue, admin stress, and loss of momentum.
This includes:
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clarifying enquiries, sign-ups, and follow-up
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simplifying tools, payments, and admin
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mapping clear, simple customer and participant journeys
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reducing reliance on “the one person who knows how it works”
The aim is organisational clarity — systems and processes that:
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support good decision-making
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reduce risk and knowledge silos
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are manageable for staff, volunteers, and boards
Backend systems that quietly hold everything together — so the work that matters most can stay front and centre.
Support is scoped and priced based on need, pace, and complexity. We’ll discuss this together before anything is agreed.
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My Book – Ship Life
Ever wondered what it’s really like to live and work at sea?
From unforgettable highs to the emotional undercurrents no one talks about, Ship Life pulls back the curtain on life below deck.
It’s raw, honest, funny, and at times, heartbreakingly real. Whether you’re crew, ex-crew, or simply cruise-curious, this is your behind-the-scenes pass to the stories they don’t share at the welcome briefing.
Thinking about working at sea—or just fascinated by life onboard?
Ship Life is your honest, behind-the-scenes guide to living and working on cruise and cargo ships.
From the engine room to the entertainment deck, it offers an unfiltered look at crew life across departments, packed with insights, humour, and real stories you won’t hear at recruitment events.
📚 Perfect for cruise lovers, career-seekers, and the cruise-curious alike.
💬 What readers are saying:
“Interesting, insightful, and informative – a must-read before committing to working on ships.”
“I was so intrigued by it all. It was better than I expected. I couldn’t put it down!”