Hi, I’m Katherine — a neurodivergent therapeutic coach, educator, author, and fully domesticated human belonging to several cats. I help ADHD and AuDHD brains untangle overwhelm, build gentler systems, and rediscover the parts of themselves that got buried under “performing normal.” Think of me as a cross between a grounding wire, a cheerleader, and a slightly feral librarian who hands you exactly the booklet you didn’t know you needed.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at the tender age of 48, and autism at 52. Finding out about my neuro-wiring was a lightning bolt straight to the soul; suddenly my entire life made sense. The struggles, the big feelings, the inability to do small boring tasks; the creativity, the hyperness, the “oops I built a whole project this afternoon” energy… all of it snapped into place. I dive-bombed into the world of neurodiversity and found my tribe.

My personal path was unusual — or, as I prefer to say, extremely AuDHD typical. I was failed quite spectacularly by the education system, drifted between far too many jobs, reinvented myself several times, and eventually built the confidence to take on big heart-projects: transforming education, making creativity accessible in all its forms, and helping others find their own way home to themselves.

I’m mum to two brilliantly neurodivergent teens and one bearded dragon. We live in a proudly maximalist household that could best be described as: ‘ADHD as f***, maximalist cosy holiday camp.‘ There are colours. There are crumbs. There are cats with personal agendas. We dropped the guilt and since then, we mostly thrive.

Before coaching, I spent 20+ years moonlighting as a creatively motivated pawn in the corporate world, developing educational resources for companies like BBC, Google, GSK, BT, Nickelodeon and a bunch more I can name if you’d like me to look impressive. I basically lived a double life: respectable adult on the outside, swirling neuro-spaghetti brainstorm machine on the inside.

I’m a published author (Follow Your Dreams, Little Inventors) and currently writing Perfect Imperfect, a surreal, emotional rollercoaster of a novel featuring girlhood, disability, parallel worlds, and exactly the number of feelings you’d expect from someone who screams with joy at anything featuring squirrels or any other small mammals.

When I’m not coaching or writing, I’m off making things:

🎨 Illustration
👉 @karuskicolours — whimsical creatures, family portraits and bands in cat forms.

🍰 Baking
👉 @karuskibakes — pastries that double as joy and indulgent extravagance.

📷 Photography
👉 @karuskivision — colour, texture, light, and the odd existential alleyway.

🎸 French pun album covers
👉 @frenchifymysong — your favourite albums, now bilingual crimes of fandom.

I’ve self-medicated with music since forever: obscure Americana, sixties soul, mandolin concertos, glitchy indie, things you can only listen to while staring out of a train window imagining your life as a music video. My nervous system runs on vibes and well-timed bass lines.

I’m also a film and TV obsessive with a taste for the weird, the fantastical, the macabre and the joyfully absurd. If it makes people say, “Why… why does this exist?” I’ve already recommended it to all my friends.

I am a trustee at SWAPA, one of Hackney’s beloved adventure playgrounds, where children hear ‘yes’ more often than ‘no’ and get to climb, build, and rediscover their inner feral goblin without any helicopter parenting. No self identifying grown ups allowed on site, only savvy play workers.

Oh, and I’m originally from France but have lived most of my life in the UK, which means I exist in bilingual puns. I have an unreasonable love of languages and word-play, and spend far too much time learning Japanese, Greek, or refreshing my Spanish on Duolingo (my owl judges me, it’s fair).

My guiding philosophy?
Be curious. Be kind. Make things. Laugh loudly. Honour your inner flamingo.

If we work together, expect warmth, gentle challenge, tiny experiments that shift entire landscapes, guaranteed swearing and puns that arrive uninvited but refuse to leave.