Hey There
​You'd move mountains for your child - but sometimes it just doesn't feel enough.
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That bright, curious kid that was so fun to be around when they were little?
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Where did they go?
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They're working hard at school, but the results aren't matching the effort. And the anxiety just keeps going up. Or they've gone past that stage and they're just phoning it in. ​Some of our teens? Frankly, being a real a****.
All of which leaves you as their parent lurching from fear to guilt to fury and back again.
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Meanwhile the 'real kid', their best self, the one you've always known - is hiding.
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It's like they've learned it is safer to disappear than to try, and be found wanting.
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Sometimes they come back. A summer away from school - and there they are again. The delighted laugh. The big ideas. Energy to burn. And then September comes, and they fold themselves away again.
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But it can change. ​
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With the right support, the right frameworks in place and someone on your side -
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You can get your summer child back for good.
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Because the truth is - your teen's brain was never broken.
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It was just working in a system that was not made for them.​
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There is a better way. When you understand how your teen's brain actually works and how to work with the system rather than against it, it all feels lighter.
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Fewer arguments. Easier school conversations. And you start to feel like you're on the same team as your teen again.
That's what I'm here for.
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This if for you if...
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Your teen has ADHD or dyslexia
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You miss the real them.
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They're either working themselves into the ground, or they've stopped trying altogether
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School feels like a battleground instead of a place where they're can thrive
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Every conversation (especially at dinner!) seems to end in an argument, an eye-roll or mutinous silence
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Homework has scarred both of you
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You know they're capable of so much more than they're showing right now
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You want to help, but nothing you say seems to land
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You're exhausted from trying to hold it all together and wondering if you're getting it wrong
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You're ready to figure out how to move forward together
Most people work EITHER with parents OR with teenagers.
I work with both.
Teenagers don't exist in isolation. They thrive when the adults around them are supported too.
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And as I've been (am still!) that parent - I know what it's like from the inside.
And I just happen to LOVE teaching teenagers, watching them fall in love with English - sometimes for the first time - and discovering that their brains are just fine thank you.
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If you're not sure where to start, book a call and we'll work it out together
Hi!
I'm Katie
An Oxford-educated English specialist, an Orton-Gillingham trained dyslexia and ADHD specialist, and a secondary school teacher with years of classroom experience, in particular with teens with ADHD and dyslexia.
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But the credential that matters most to the parents I work with?
I'm also a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent young adults. I have sat exactly where you're sitting.
I know what it feels like to love your child fiercely and still feel completely lost about how to help them.
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I'm not here to tell you what you should be doing. I'm here to walk beside you and help you figure out what works for your family.
What this looks like in ten years
It's hard, in the middle of it, to picture where this goes.
So let me tell you what has happened for former clients.
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Somewhere in their mid-twenties, the teens I've worked with come out the other side of something most people never knew they were in. A kind of grief. They grieved the brain they didn't get. They felt that particular shame of being bright and struggling, of watching things come easily to everyone else while they just couldn't keep up. And then, slowly, they came through it.
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I won't pretend life gets easy. It doesn't, and it won't. The things they find hard, they'll still find hard. But they stop carrying it as shame. The can let go of they can't do, or they find a way round it - technology, routines, the right people.
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They're finding their own way to a life that is 'well lead'. It might be a different path to the one their peers are taking, but it's no less exciting, satisfying or fun.
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What's left is someone lighter. More opinionated than they used to be. More willing to take a risk. Curious again, in the way they were as a small child, before all this started.
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It's as though the child you remember has come back. Older, and with far more idea of who they are... but unmistakably them.
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That's the work. And it's where we're heading.
3 Steps to Rebuild Your ADHD or Dyslexic Teen's Confidence
Start here - it's free
Not sure where to begin?
This free guide gives you three practical, parent-tested action steps.
You'll learn how to:
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Step 1: Understand what "surviving" really looks like for your teen (and why it's not attitude or laziness)
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Step 2: Help your teen see they are not the problem and start to shift the story they tell about themselves
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Step 3: Get those around them, teachers, grandparents, friends on your team, with confidence even if those conversations have felt daunting before
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Each step comes with a quick action tip you can use straight away.
C, parent of year 7
"I feel like I manifested you or something."
C, parent of year 11
"I'm so glad I found you. You've made this journey so much easier."
M, parent of year 12
"Your advice has kept our daughter and us grounded. Thank you - keep up this great work that you do."
