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Coaching with Compassion

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From Surviving to Thriving: Coaching for Neurodivergent Individuals--
Families & Professionals

Transforming What We Face Into How We Flourish. Whether you're just beginning to explore neurodivergence, feeling overwhelmed by the journey, or ready to build a sustainable path forward—you don't have to navigate this alone. Together, we’ll turn today’s challenges into catalysts for transformation.

 

Neurodivergent Coaching Can Help You Move from Surviving to Thriving

Neurodivergent Coaching is about uncovering the innate wisdom and power within you and your family. Through our collaborative approach, you'll learn to understand and embrace your and your child’s unique way of processing the world. This deeper understanding leads to a more peaceful and connected life that includes effective communication, stronger relationships, and the confidence to move forward with purpose.ce.​

 

Book a discovery call today to explore how compassionate coaching can transform your journey. Your path to a more fulfilling life starts here!

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Are you feeling frustrated, even overwhelmed, unsure of how to move forward and like what you're doing is never enough?

You're not alone. We help parents and professionals transform overwhelm into confidence, self-doubt into empowerment, and chaos into calm.

 

Through our collaborative approach, you'll discover:

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  • Peace in place of constant worry

  • Confidence instead of second-guessing

  • Connection rather than conflict

  • Manageable routines in place of chaos

  • Community vs a sense of isolation

  • Strategies that finally stick

  • Empowerment over hopelessness

What is neurodiversity?

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Neurodiversity is the diversity of human minds, the infinite variation in neurocognitive functioning among humans. It includes conditions such as ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences, autism and OCD. People who have any of these conditions are "neurodivergent".

 

Within the supportive relationship we build, you’ll embark on a journey to create a life that meets your needs, allows you to be genuinely yourself and is more aligned with your values and strengths.
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Together, we’ll explore what’s within your control to change and uncover the inner wisdom you already possess. This process is about meaningful transformation—where you’ll learn to navigate challenges, make intentional choices, and embrace new possibilities with confidence.
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Join me on this transformative journey to discover and realize your most authentic, fulfilling life. Let’s begin the process of change together!

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Janine Johnston: Coach +
Mindful Self Compassion
Trained Teacher + Mother of Neurodivergent Children

Join me in
creating a life that is more aligned with your needs and intentions!

Who I Work With 

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I specialize in empowering individuals who are ready to make meaningful changes and gain awareness of the patterns that shape their lives. My clients come from diverse backgrounds, are navigating neurodiversity, such as ADHD, dyslexia (and other learning differences), Austism and OCD: neurodivergent professionals seeking ways to thrive in the workplace and personally. I also work with parents of neurodivergent children and teens (as well as neurodivergent parents) seeking clarity about how to respond rather than react to stressors, provide stability and peace and to be more aligned with the highly loving, stable, and supportive vision they have for themselves and their children.

 

​ Let’s work together to uncover your potential and embark on a journey of transformation.

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Solutions Focused, Resourceful Coaching 

Mindful Self-Compassion

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 Building Lifelong Skills

with which to Thrive!

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Let's get started!

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Remember who you are.

Not the shape others have put on

you, not the story they handed you,

not the lies or needs that were

pressed into your psyche.

Not even your own imagined ideas

of what you should be.

But the real you, the wild innate you

that is breathing under all those

should be’s, all those untruths.

Remember the feel of it, the shape of

it. Let it inhabit you, like golden

weeds rewilding the concrete.

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–Brigit Anna McNeill

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Erickson International Professional Coach, ECPC

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Mindful Self-Compassion Certified Teacher

UCLA-Trained Mindfulness Facilitator

International Mindfulness Teachers Association Certified

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Trained

Trauma Resource Institute Trained, Levels I and II

Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT)

MS: International Development Management

BA: Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology

BA: Spanish

Bilingual: English / Spanish

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