I am an ADHD coach, writer and reflective thinker who works with smart, sensitive adults who feel out of step with conventional expectations. My clients are often neurodivergent professionals and creatives who appear competent from the outside while carrying a constant sense of being behind, too much or not enough. I specialise in the intersection of neurocomplexity, high sensitivity, trauma shaped patterns and questions of fairness, belonging and self trust.
The focus of my work lies in self relationship and autonomy rather than productivity hacks or executive functioning challenges. I treat ADHD less as a standalone set of issues and work in the intersection where it interacts with ‘relation to self’. I pay close attention to the shame, self criticism and people pleasing and other issues that can flourish in that intersection. Much of my work explores how early lessons about being reasonable, grateful and low maintenance quietly turn into adult patterns of self erasure, and what it looks like to practise everyday self equity without corrupting relationships.
Across coaching and writing I return to a set of interlocking themes, self relationship for ADHD and highly sensitive adults, autonomy and obligation, relational power and fearlessness, trauma, sensitivity and safety, and clean, values aligned relating. In conversation I move between emotional texture, underlying patterns and practical experiments, so listeners gain both recognition and concrete starting points. My aim is to help people move from shame, confusion and obligation towards cleaner choices, fairer relationships and a steadier sense of self.
Tony is an ADHD coach, writer and reflective thinker who helps smart, sensitive adults build a fairer relationship with themselves. He specialises in self relationship, autonomy and emotional wellbeing for neurocomplex and highly sensitive people who feel out of step with conventional expectations. His work turns messy inner experience into clear language, simple frameworks and realistic experiments that make life feel more workable and less like a character test.
Before I became a coach I was a sheep farmer.
- Self relationship for neurocomplex adults
- ADHD, shame and self concept
- High sensitivity and emotional intensity
- Autonomy, obligation and people pleasing
- Relational power and everyday agency
- Trauma informed living and threat sensitive brains
- Clean, values aligned relating
- Fairness, equity and belonging in relationships
- Happily right now versus happily ever after
Thoughtful, often neurodivergent adults, particularly adults with ADHD and highly sensitive people, who are interested in psychology, personal growth and relationships. Creatives, founders, professionals and carers who look capable on the outside yet feel scattered, ashamed or quietly resentful on the inside, and who are drawn to depth, nuance and honest conversations over quick fixes.
Listeners will gain more accurate, compassionate language for their own inner experience, especially around ADHD, shame and sensitivity. They will learn to distinguish fairness from self sacrifice, obligation from clean care, and powerlessness from genuine safety needs. They will leave with simple reflective questions and small, concrete experiments they can use to renegotiate self-talk, boundaries and everyday choices in a way that feels realistic rather than overwhelming.
What does it really mean to build a fair relationship with yourself as an ADHD or highly sensitive adult?
How do early lessons about being reasonable and low maintenance quietly erode self trust over time?
What is the difference between obligation driven relating and what you call clean, choice based connection?
How do trauma and a threat sensitive brain show up in everyday life, not just in big dramatic events?
What are some small, realistic experiments listeners can try if they want more agency and less people pleasing without becoming selfish?
Currently writing a book on the subject of developing clean and equitable self-relationship. I publish regularly through substack, my blog and a LinkedIn newsletter.
I prefer to quietly make a difference in the background as a guest expert within private coaching and professional communities focused on ADHD, neurodiversity and trauma informed practice.
Facilitated small group coaching spaces and workshops for neurodivergent professionals and creatives, focusing on self relationship, boundaries and values aligned work.
Nomadd Coaching
A small but engaged audience across blog, website, substack, email, LinkedIn, and client communities, currently in the low hundreds and growing.
I do not discuss explicit details of my personal or clients’ intimate lives on air, but I am very comfortable speaking about intimacy, power and trauma at the level of concepts, patterns and lived insight. I appreciate a conversational, curious tone and space to unpack ideas rather than rapid fire question lists. If there are particular angles you want to prioritise for your audience, I am happy to shape examples and language to fit.
