WORKING WITH NEURODIVERSITY
A training programme for experienced coaches.
Training Overview
There is no shortage of introductory neurodiversity content available to coaches. What is far harder to find is a programme that goes beyond awareness and into the depth of specialist practice: the relational nuances, the clinical frameworks, the specific tools and approaches that coaches actually need when working with neurodivergent clients.
This programme is designed to fill that gap. Created and led by Helena Territt, it is intended for experienced coaches who are already working with neurodivergent clients, or who want to, and who need more than a brief introduction to do so safely, ethically, and effectively. The content covers the relational aspects of working with cognitive difference, which can be applied across all client work, alongside a deeper dive into the specialist models, tools, and approaches required when coaching neurodivergent individuals.
This is not a course about neurodiversity in general - it’s a course about how to coach people whose brains work differently, and how to do it well.
Online Delivery
All content is delivered face-to-face via Zoom.
CPD Accreditation Underway
10 Ă— 2hr Sessions
Live sessions on Zoom, led by Helena.
Who Should Attend?
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must hold a recognised qualification or accreditation in coaching or mentoring. Where a candidate does not hold a formal qualification but has substantial coaching experience (a minimum of 2 to 3 years of regular practice), applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis. To be eligible for a CPD certificate upon completion, participants must attend a minimum of 80% of live sessions and submit the reflective inquiry assessment.
Course Content
Draft Programme Topics
A full module-by-module agenda will be published one month before the first session. As this is currently a pilot programme, some structural changes are anticipated as HATCHED learns the most effective flow and build of the content. A draft list of topics to be covered includes:
The Brain and Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity terminology and confidence, normalising behaviour and reducing shame, how the prefrontal cortex, default mode network, and amygdala may function differently in neurodivergent individuals, and using neuroplasticity to rewire habits of thought.
Emotional World
Emotional regulation and its impact on beliefs and behaviour, managing triggers, tells, shutdown, and overwhelm, coaching through rumination, intrusive thoughts, and amygdala hijack, rejection sensitive dysphoria, and differing responses to pressure.
Executive Function
Working with difficulties in executive functioning using the AFEEMA model, procrastination (can't versus won't), task initiation and shifting focus, mental blocks and paralysis, time blindness, memory difficulties, non-linear thinking, and scaffolding versus willpower.
Relational and Social
Navigating difficulties with recognising social cues and emotions, differences in need for social connection, parallel play and aloneness, perspective taking, verbal processing, and communicating effectively with neurodivergent clients.
Identity and Self
Masking (from unconscious through to conscious safe masking), navigating diagnosis and identity, rewriting self-talk and setting aside 'shoulds', intersectionality and co-occurring conditions, the role of oestrogen in ADHD, anchoring sense of self, and working with scripts and schemata.
Practical Coaching Tools and Approaches
Hacks and strategies and why they often fail with neurodivergent individuals, strengths-based and positive psychology approaches, blending reflective coaching with psychoeducation, somatic work, sensory sensitivities, interoception and proprioception, managing cyclical energy, advocating for needs, and managing difficult feedback.
Course Materials
Worksheets, models, and suggested reading throughout. Practical exercises completed with a learning partner, between sessions.
Delegate Numbers
This programme is for group cohorts of between 6 to 12 participants. Contact us if you have a different requirement.
Assessment & Certification
To achieve certification, participants complete a reflective inquiry essay of approximately 5,000 words on their work with a neurodivergent client.
The programme is currently being submitted for CPD accreditation. Certificates will be available upon completion.
Course Length
10 x 2hr live sessions on Zoom, led by Helena
Practical exercises completed with a learning partner
2 x 2hr Group Supervision sessions included (optional)
By the end of the programme, participants will:
Understand the ways in which standard coaching frameworks can be harmful to neurodivergent clients, and how to modify their approach accordingly.
Be well resourced to coach clients with ADHD, autism, executive function challenges, emotional dysregulation, rejection sensitive dysphoria, and other neurological differences including alexithymia and aphantasia.
Be confident working with neurodiversity, know when to refer and when to continue coaching, how to navigate undiagnosed clients, and what wider support is available.
Training Reviews
Your Trainer, Helena Territt
“I am a qualified ADHD coach and Accredited Coach Supervisor. I was an Executive Coach for years before I got my own ADHD diagnosis and learned how to work differently with neurodivergent brains. Coaches can sometimes become stuck when working with neurodivergent individuals.
Maybe your usual approach just isn’t working, you’ve hit a rupture that you don’t understand, or you feel out of your depth and uncertain about neurodiversity, the language to use and how to approach things differently.
It’s possible to do more harm than good if you don’t know what you are working with, and often it’s more appropriate to refer clients to a specialist. But that’s not always possible or practical, so I really appreciate anyone who recognises that they might be a bit stuck and wants to do the best they can for their client.”
HELENA
Helena is a CIPD Chartered Fellow and the Neurodivergent Leadership Development Training Course is officially CPD certified.
Contact us about Neurodiversity Training for Coaches.
The first cohort of this programme launches in October 2026. As a pilot, HATCHED is offering the full programme at half price for Cohort #01 participants, in exchange for feedback that will inform the development of the programme. It is HATCHED’s ambition to seek the EMCC Global Quality Award for training provision at a future date.
Due to the sensitive nature of the programme, sessions will not be recorded, in order to protect the confidentiality of all participants.
