About Us

We offer an authentic, fun, holistic, and positive approach to enable you to feel connected, creative, purposeful, and hopeful

Working with us provides a place to belong, unexpected insights, dances of collaboration, and time and space to do your very best thinking: all with a sprinkling of wonder

Kaye set up Positively ADHD to spread the hope that an ADHD diagnosis can be a whole new chapter, wherever you are in your life. She knows it’s possible because she’s been where you are. She always knew that she deserved more, but she couldn't figure out how to get there until she understood her neurodivergence.

If you're longing for a brave, supportive and neuroaffirmative community to uncover your authentic, extraordinary self, then join us. It is a truly transformative and empowering experience to connect with a soulful community of other curious, creative, divergent thinkers and be inspired by others, who are also courageously aligning with their purpose. The world needs your unique gifts!

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Kaye explains her thinking behind the name 'Positively ADHD'

Even when I realised I had ADHD at the ripe old age of 51, I spent many months resisting a formal diagnosis. The medical model which focused on my "symptoms" and all the things I couldn't do made me feel worse about myself, instead of better. I'd already spent my whole life feeling I was broken, I certainly didn't need the medical profession to tell me I was broken too.

I was immersed in my positive psychology Masters at the time, so was reading papers on flourishing, thriving and the importance of meaning. It struck me that I hardly ever came across these concepts in the research I was doing on my newly discovered neurodivergence.

From this positive psychology perspective, the language I was reading around ADHD felt so jarring. I didn't want to be seen as a "patient" with "deficits in attention" or "impairments" in my executive function. Why should I have to switch from the language of "flourishing" to one of "symptoms" just because of my neurotype? It helped me realise the huge power in the words and language we use when we talk about ourselves and others, both around things we find more difficult and the things which come more naturally to us."

Positive psychology doesn't encourage us to focus only on our positive emotions but instead, sees the gifts in all of our emotions. In the same way, Positively ADHD acknowledges the reality that it is much harder living in a neuronormative world, that's not designed with us in mind.

We're here to empower you to advocate for your own needs - at work, at home, in relationships - and to uncover the wonder of you so that you too can start to create a life you love.

Our Values

Inclusive language

We know that the words we use are incredibly powerful. We promise that we will use only neuroinclusive language and offer only neuroaffirmative support. This means we will never think of you as "less than", having executive function "deficits" or "symptoms" of ADHD or other neurotype. If we ever get this wrong, we encourage and value feedback on how to do better.

Intersectionality

We always include an intersectional lens because we know how important it is to fully understand how our unique neurotype intersects with our lived experience. This adds much more nuance to our understanding of ourselves and our path to self-acceptance. We'll help you navigate how your family history, culture, education, gender, sexuality, first language, other disabilities, trauma, and a whole host of other "stuff" intersects with your lifetime of not knowing about your neurodivergence. And then you get to decide how to make sense and talk about your story so far, as well as rewriting and creating your life story from here.

Ethics

We promise to be ethical, authentic and transparent in our work and relationships with you.

If we don't think we're the best people to work with you, we'll suggest someone who is a better fit.

We'll never lie - even white lie - in our marketing. We won't ever say "only two places left on this course" unless there really are. We won't rush or pressure you in to deciding to work with us, or make exaggerated claims. And if we benefit from a recommendation or a referral in some way, we will always let you know.

One step to better

Our commitment to you is that we offer the very best service we can and have an ethos of continuous improvement.

We encourage challenge and feedback from our community and have a daily practice of "one step to better" because we know that big things happen when you make regular, small changes.

Courage

From "cor", the Latin for "heart", courage means to tell all one's heart. We know that it takes a big heart to open up and be vulnerable. And we also know that magic happens when we take that first step towards loving ourselves by uncovering what's in our heart.

We create brave, supportive and safe spaces so that you can start to trust yourself, connect to your mind, body, heart and soul, and stretch beyond what you ever thought possible. As Millicent Fawcett eloquently puts it, “Courage calls to courage everywhere”.

In service of you

Positively ADHD was set up in service of you and the wider neurodivergent community. It's a huge blessing and joy to be able to have a sustainable business doing what we love and believe in. And that means everything.

We offer both lived experience and evidence-based support

We believe that both lived experience and immersion in up to date, evidence-based training is important when seeking out the best neuroaffirmative support. We have a truly holistic approach, which we are able to offer to community members, coaching clients and organisations wanting to support their divergent thinkers.

Kaye, who founded Positively ADHD has lived experience of depression, anxiety, bulimia, psychiatric care, medication and hundreds of hours of neuronormative therapy to "treat" her "symptoms" and CPTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder) - some of it helpful, some of it harmful.

She is therefore passionately committed to an inclusive, positive and hopeful approach to both coaching others and creating a safe and brave community so that people can uncover their creative brilliance.

We believe that transformation is possible through incremental change and the power of active hope

Kaye is a:

· Accredited senior practitioner with the EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council)

· Senior member of ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists)

· Professional member of the ACO (ADHD Coaches Organization)

· Professional member of ADDA (Attention Deficit Disorder Association)

· Master Practitioner in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)

· Volunteer group leader with ADHD UK

· Associate coach with Headstuff ADHD Therapy and Know You More

· Trained laughter yoga leader

Qualifited Nutritional Therapist

Coaching qualifications include:

· MSc in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology from the University of East London (distinction, 2022)

· Certified Specialist in ADHD Coaching Certificate, Gold Mind Academy (due to complete in May 2024)

· Focusing Practitioner Training (due to complete in 2024)

She also is :

· Fully insured to practise coaching, NLP, laughter yoga and nutritional support

· Undergoes monthly 1:1 and group supervision

· Member of several communities of practice

· Follows the ethical code of practice of the EMCC

A curious, learning-loving human, so is often to be found on a course or workshop, or listening to a podcast!

Kaye had over 20 years’ professional experience in universities, colleges and training organisations before realising she was neurodivergent. This included heading up an FE college’s SEN department, managing a team in a university careers department and managing a European-wide project for women returning to work after a career break. She has always been passionate about ensuring everyone has equal access to opportunities, whether working for a trades union or a women's centre.