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Neurodivergent-Affirming Consulting
Evidence-based lifestyle re-design to thrive with what you have & highlight your personal strengths
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You're here because you want:
Strategies & support for burnout, diagnosis, unmasking, and accommodating for your unique needs.
Coping Strategies
Accessible techniques to immediately reduce pain from burnout, sensory or mental over- or under-stimulation, and emotional dysregulation.
Clear Paths Forward
Living according to your values and goals by creating detailed strategies through or around specific obstacles.
Sustainable Routines
Sustainable day-to-day routines to recharge your energy. Personalized guidance highlighting your individual strengths & accommodating for weaknesses. Structure.
Self-Esteem
Feeling power and control over your life and value as a person. Outgrowing the mask to reveal your true self in safe environments.
Services
Including, but not limited to:
Burnout Prevention
Identifying Triggers. Setting Boundaries. Strategies to Rest & Recharge. Establishing Baseline Health.
Practical Problem Solving
Prioritize & choose your battles. Simple, doable, and actionable steps with a focus on What & How.
Sustainable Systems
Day-to-day routines to make life easier - highlighting your individual strengths & accommodating for weaknesses.
Designing Accommodations
Stop playing life on hard mode (when possible). Turn your "bad" habits into helpful guidelines to work around.
Communication Strategies
Getting what you want more easily by being concise and effective. Code switching. Navigating cultural norms.
Navigating Diagnosis Options
Pros/Cons, Costs, Timing, Potential Impact, Next Steps.
Focus Areas
Neuro-Friendly Lifestyle Redesign
Stop playing life on hard mode. Analyze your existing systems and individual strengths & weaknesses. Always experiment and see what works best for you!
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Career Coaching for Introverts
Blunt and to-the-point advice with full respect from the kid voted "most shy" in public middle school. Former software & ML/AI product manager, project manager in academia, data engineering consultant, research assistant in learning sciences, quantitative social science, & behavioral economics.
- Communication skills: Written. Spoken. Interview prep.
- Troubleshooting work environment issues
- Planning for your future - with a focus on your interests & strengths.
About Anne
Hi, I'm Anne, a late-diagnosed AuDHDer
Coach with 10+ yrs professional consulting & coaching experience, master's in educational technology, and lived experience with burnout, unmasking, purposeful career transitions, being obviously "different," and accommodating for my unique needs.
Read MoreFrequently Asked Questions
1. What's the difference between coaching & therapy?
Therapists and counselors focus on helping you understand the "why" of the past through the present, and coaches focus on helping you with the "what" and "how" of the present to create the future you desire. While therapists and mental health counselors deal with a patient’s mental conditions and processing trauma, a coach never addresses these issues. The role of a coach is to encourage clients to self-reflect, plan for the future through goal-setting, create step-by-step plans for achieving goals, and develop important skills where needed.
Coaching has a very practical focus on helping clients identify and accomplish goals that increase quality of life in areas such as work-related challenges, academic and college support, social and communication skills development, and working towards personal goals.
It’s important to understand that coaching is not mental health counseling. While coaching can positively impact anxiety, depression, and life satisfaction, coaches never diagnose or treat mental health disorders, provide medical advice, or practice therapy. Coaching is never a substitute for counseling, psychotherapy, mental health care, or substance abuse treatment, and it should never be used in place of any form of therapy.
2. Pricing?
$80 USD per hour of remote 1:1 coaching (after free consultation call). In-person coaching possible in Pittsburgh, PA area at increased rates (approved on case-by-case basis).
3. What qualifications do you have as a coach?
Lived experience as late-diagnosed adult with autism and ADHD.
3+ yrs professional experience as a coach and mentor to master's students in Educational Technology and Applied Learning Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University (which I also hold a M.S. in).
8+ yrs professional experience as a consultant or product manager in the technology industry.
Bachelor's in Learning & Organizational Change and Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (econometrics) from Northwestern University.
4. What communication options do you provide for 1:1 coaching?
Choose from any of the following: Video call, Audio-only call, Real-time texting, Email. (In-person only offered on case-by-case basis in Pittsburgh, PA area)
5. What are your values as a coach?
Client is always in the driver's seat. Respect for self-diagnosis. Codesigning safe environments to gradually unmask. Trauma-informed.
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Set up a discovery call -> Create a plan -> Get started with 1:1 coaching!
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UX Designer | Product Designer
I had the pleasure of collaborating with Anne, and I can confidently say that she is an exceptional professional. Her meticulous attention to detail, coupled with her adept feedback skills, consistently lead to impressive, high-resolution outcomes. As a UX designer, I greatly benefited from Anne's insights into user-centricity, prioritization, and adeptly navigating through numerous changes driven by business requirements. Anne's expertise and collaborative spirit truly enhance any project she's a part of.
Chad Stuempges
Product Development
Anne was one of the few candidates who had the chutzpah to correct me in her interview. (I was talking through our deployment process, and she pointed out the missing customer validation -- absolutely on-point.) After joining the team she continued to be the voice for smart direction. Anne partnered with our Customer Researcher on our mid-flight ML project. They researched both the problem being solved and the tools being built to solve it. Their resulting course correction was timely. With their evidence and storytelling, the Development team was very glad to have the correction happen as soon as it did.
Danielle Golinski
Product Management Leader
Anne is a passionate, empathetic, rock star Product Manager who truly goes the extra mile with every project she manages. From the very start of her tenure at Wyndham, Anne was an asset to our team and a lightning-fast learner (of our very complex systems, I might add). She is whip smart, takes initiative (her help had single-handedly saved me from working all night on numerous occasions), and has a customer-first mindset, which is so very important in the Hospitality industry. Her attention to detail is impeccable.
CMU Educational Tech Master's Student
Capstone Project Mentee
Anne is a supportive, constructive, and honest mentor. Her greatest strengths are expertise in the specific field we are focusing on, industry working experience, very detailed. Please keep asking mentees what feedback they would like to hear from you. It's really helpful.
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