Natalie Asamoah-Ryan
Accredited Counsellor AccMBACP
Accredited Counselling Therapist
Providing an online counselling space for Neurodivergence (including ADHD) & Grief
A safe space to understand your unique way of being.
My service provides one-to-one support for adult clients, online via Zoom.
Some of the issues people come and talk to me about include: Anxiety, ADHD, Bereavement, Relationships, Stress, Loss, Health Challenges, Confidence, and Trauma.
I have a particular focus on helping clients with inattention ADHD explore their true selves and navigate their experiences of loss, grief and bereavement. This could be losses relating to relationships, status, role, self or a way of being.
Does this sound familiar?
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You've been the capable one, the strong one, the one people usually message or call at 11pm? But now, you're not sure who to contact?
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Everyone keeps saying you're "really lucky!" They don't see the version of you that exists at 2am, arguing with the voice, that now questions everything you have said and what you have done that day.
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You've only recently found the words - ADHD, Autistic, Neurodivergent, Grieving, Burnt out and now you are recalculating your whole life against them.
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A shift has happened: a person, a role, a relationship, a version of yourself you thought you'd be by now. The ground you were standing on, isn't there anymore.
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You've been struggling to deal with what has happened...what is happening. At the moment, this struggle feels like that is all there is.
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You've been holding your inner world and your outer world in two separate hands and you're tired from the effort of keeping them apart.
If any of this landed somewhere, in your chest or your throat - you're not broken and you're not alone this. What is happening for you is not all there is. Let's look at how it could be different together.
Who I work with:
Neurodivergent adults and clients with inattentive ADHD:
Often newly diagnosed or newly self-identifying, doing the quiet, disoriented work of separating who you actually are from coping mechanisms you built to survive not fitting the mould. If a stray comment can disrupt your whole afternoon or your body seems to run on a different clock to everyone else. You're not imaging it and there is a language for this.
In our space together: You don't need to perform. you can come as you are - messy, uncertain and overwhelmed. We'll help you separate your authentic self from the coping mechanisms you've built. There is space to grieve the neurotypical person you thought you should be while embracing who you actually are. Your brain isn't broken, it's wired differently. We'll identify which "ways of holding it together" were actually suppressing your true nature versus those that are genuinely helpful strategies.
People experiencing grief, loss and bereavement
Of a person, a relationship, a role, a job, your health or even a version of yourself you thought you’d be - you’re trying to steady yourself in that disorienting space, where familiar ground has shifted beneath you.
In our space together: Grief is not about death alone - it’s about any significant ending. It’s not linear; it’s a merry-go-round where feelings circle back unexpectedly. You have permission to feel the messiness of it - the pain, the numbness, the anger, the relief, the guilt about the relief - all of it. Grieving well doesn’t mean moving through it quickly or getting “over it.” It means making space for what needs to come next, while honouring what was.
For those that feel like they don't fit in and have been translating themselves for the world
You might feel like something doesn't line up. Like your inner life runs richer and stranger than what you're able to say out loud and the gap between the two is starting to cost you something. You are now approaching the point where something has to give.
In our space together: There is no pressure to explain or label your experience. Let's start where you are. Then move to gently exploring, what helps you feel more aligned, understood and able to express yourself in ways that feel authentic to you.
How I work:
I don't come in with a focus on diagnosis or a box to fit you into. Let's look beyond. I come curious....about your particular story, your particular language for things, the images and metaphors reached for when words alone won't stretch far enough. Often that's where the real understanding opens up.
I think in stories and pictures more than straight lines so if you find yourself explaining your inner world through a scene, a piece of music or using "it's like ...." rather than a sentence. You're in the right room. I will meet you there rather than ask you to translate it into something tidier first.
My Approach
My way of working is person centred and integrative, shaped by training in neurodivergent- affirming practice because what you are carrying doesn't only live in your thoughts. It lives in you, in your body, in the tension you're holding without noticing. And underneath the warmth, there's a rigour: years of analytical based work taught me how to hold a framework steady while leaving room for the fully human, fleshed out parts of you that don't fit inside it.
You don’t need me to have all the answers. You need someone to sit with you, in the uncertainty to reflect back what I’m seeing and hearing and then hold believe in your capacity for change, even on the days you can't see it yourself yet.
