This 24-hour supported exploration by text and voice message might be for you if your school experience has never made sense.

• Do you remember being "the clever one" who was always in trouble?

• Or perhaps the one who did what was expected of you in class, and did really well, but you felt as if you didn’t belong.

• The child who thought differently but struggled to conform?

• The one who succeeded despite your education, not because of it?

• Did your school reports always say you "could do better"?

• Did lessons drive you wild—either too slow and boring, or too fast with demands you couldn't meet?

You know you're a capable person. But you've spent decades thinking you were just:

• Not trying hard enough

• Too sensitive

• Disorganised

• Good at learning things but hopeless at everything else

• A difficult child or teenager

Then your child gets diagnosed with ADHD or autism, and suddenly things start clicking into place about your childhood. Your school struggles. Your work patterns. Your social exhaustion.

You learnt fast but school lessons were a trial. Maybe you were also assigned as "gifted"—which masked everything. Too clever for anyone to notice you were struggling. Too successful for anyone to take your difficulties seriously.

If school felt like a place where your authentic self wasn't welcome, you're not alone. And more importantly, it wasn't your fault.

What if you could finally understand:

• Why you contain such contradictions (brilliant but struggling, insightful thoughts but chaotic life)

• Why your "lazy" is actually something else entirely

• Why you feel everything so intensely

• Why you can hyperfocus for hours on some things but can't focus for five minutes on other things

• Why you've felt "too much" and "not enough" your entire life

What if you could stop blaming yourself?

What if you could finally make sense of decades of confusion—and understand that the problem was never you?

What if there was a name for this experience, and you weren't alone in it?

This is what happened to me.

When I was writing my son Sam's story, I realised that he was both gifted and neurodivergent. And then it dawned on me: maybe I am too. The more I explored, the more it made sense—decades of my own experience suddenly had an explanation.

So now I'm a late and self-diagnosed twice-exceptional adult. I spent years thinking I was failing at being human , that I just wasn't trying hard enough, that something was fundamentally wrong with me.

Understanding twice-exceptionality changed everything.

So what is twice-exceptionality?

Twice-exceptionality means being both gifted and neurodivergent (ADHD, autism, or both).

Have you ever wondered whether you might be gifted? Or have you been diagnosed (or self-diagnosed) with ADHD, autism, or both?

If so, there's something important most people don't know: giftedness and neurodivergence often occur together. And when they do, they create a unique pattern of struggles that most people—including professionals—completely miss.

You might be:

• Intellectually brilliant but struggling with executive function

• Socially isolated because you think differently

• Bored by the pace of teaching but overwhelmed by demands

• Capable of complex thinking but unable to manage basic daily tasks

You likely have what are called overexcitabilities—intensities in how you experience the world:

• Feeling emotions and injustice viscerally

• Noticing sensory details others miss (or feeling overwhelmed by them)

• Having a mind that never stops questioning

• Needing movement to think, or needing complete stillness

• Experiencing existential concerns that others find excessive
  

And maybe school was not your favourite place to be

Many neurodivergent children experience school-based trauma—the cumulative harm that occurs when education systems cannot accommodate the way their minds work. This isn't about occasional bad days or strict teachers. It's about years of being told, implicitly or explicitly, that the way you think, focus, or process information is wrong.

It's about sensory overwhelm that goes unrecognised, social confusion that's punished rather than supported, and academic structures that demand conformity to neurotypical norms.

For gifted neurodivergent children, the mismatch can be even more profound—intellectually capable but struggling with executive function, socially isolated because they think differently, bored by pace but overwhelmed by demands.

The trauma manifests as anxiety, shame, a deep sense of being fundamentally flawed. These children often grow into adults who still carry the belief that they are somehow broken, when in truth, they were simply placed in environments that couldn't see or meet their needs.

What if everything you were told about yourself was wrong?

What if you're not lazy, too sensitive, or failing to reach your potential?

What if you're twice-exceptional—and no one ever explained what that means?

You've spent your whole life thinking you were the problem.

You weren't.

The problem was never you.

School systems weren't designed for minds like yours. That's not your failure. That's their limitation.

I'm a trauma-informed psychotherapist working with parents of neurodivergent children and adults healing from educational trauma. Through my work—and through understanding my own twice-exceptional experience—I've seen this pattern again and again: capable people who've spent their whole lives wondering

I explored my own twice-exceptionality throughly and now I can help you to explore yours too.

✨ What the 24 hour exploration offers

This isn't therapy – it's a 24 hour psychoeducational journey to understand how educational system failures shaped your identity and to reclaim your authentic story.

Drawing from my lived experience as both an educational trauma survivor and a mother who lost her son to these same system failures, I offer a unique perspective on what it means when brilliant minds don't fit conventional structures.

✨ The 24-hour process

• Pre-exploration questions to guide our conversation - I will ask you to complete these ahead of the session.

• Two 2-hour live windows when I'm actively responding in real-time—these are scheduled times when you know I will be by my device, not constant availability. We will negotiate these depending on your time zone and my availability.

• Asynchronous voice and text messaging throughout the full 24 hours - you can’t message too much - it is all welcome!

• Educational trauma framework to understand your experience

• Safe space to explore patterns without judgment
  

  Example:

  Our time runs from Sat noon to Sun noon. I will be actively online from 12.00—2.00 pm GMT on Saturday and again from 9.00—11.00 am GMT on Sunday.
  

• You can send voice messages, texts, or photographs anytime. Yes, anytime!

• If you wake in the night you can message me.

• You can send as many messages as you choose to.

• You can go out for a walk, make your lunch or put the children to bed between reading, listening & messaging.

• You can write notes, journal or research to enhance your exploration as we go.

✨ This is for you if:

• You've always felt like you didn't fit educational systems

• You were labelled as "difficult" or "not reaching your potential"

• You're successful now but still carry confusion about your school years

• You see similar patterns emerging in your own children that are making you wonder about yourself

• You want to understand your story through a lens that actually makes sense

The transformation:

🌿 From: "There's something wrong with me" —> 🌳 To: "The system was wrong for me"

🌿 From: "I was a nightmare at school" —> 🌳 To: "The school didn’t meet my needs."

🌿 From: "I failed at school" —> 🌳 To: "School failed me"

🌿 From: "I don't understand what happened" —> 🌳 To: "I can see the patterns and make sense of my story"

🍃 Investment: £300 £99 for early participants who help shape this offering

I'm close to completing my book on how it takes a village not to lose a child. It is told through my son, Sam's, search for belonging when schools would not respond to his needs nor seek to understand his brilliant mind. This exploration draws from decades of understanding what happens when brilliant minds meet inflexible systems.

🌳 Ready to explore your story?

This is about understanding, not fixing. About validation, not solutions. About reclaiming your narrative from systems that never understood you.

All 24 hour sessions start and end at 6.00 pm BST on Saturdays. Click here to see your time zone.
The first live 2 hours starts at 6.00 pm on the Saturday. You can choose the start-time for the second live 2 hours on the Sunday.

Educational trauma recovery through understanding, not treatment.

⚠️ Please note: this exploration is not treatment nor therapy. If you are concerned about your mental health or think you may have symptoms of PTSD or similar please consult with your GP or a mental health professional.