TESTIMONIALS
October 2024
"I’ve had a really great week since the diagnosis. I know it’s early days, but I feel like this huuuge weight has lifted and I’ve cried quite a few happy tears. All my life is starting to make sense and I’m genuinely looking forward to my future. Hopefully this is the beginning of a new, bright chapter for me."
September 2024
"Thank you so much for such a detailed response and so much information - there is a lot for us to read... Thanks again for all your help and for making this a painless process and actually quite an enjoyable one where lots were learnt."
July 2024
"Since we came to see you, life has been so different for XX. Seeing some of her struggles through an autistic lens has allowed us all to respond in a more favourable way, and to be more effective in helping her. She does still find it challenging to put limits in place for herself around exercise, but with the understanding that for her exercise is her way of self regulating, we are able to see this so much more from her perspective rather than an ED lens. I’ve recently been reading more on PDA and can see all the ways that I have inadvertently triggered it in the past through conventional parenting, and have been experimenting with new ways I can help her. The impact on our whole family of coming to see you and receiving the diagnosis for XX is hugely positive.
Her chosen Uni have set up an overnight visit for her next week and are so supportive I feel confident in the move to Uni being a positive experience for her. So as a parent I just wanted to say a massive thank you for helping me to better understand my daughter as she goes through some of her biggest life challenges so far. I think with this deeper understanding of herself and how her brain works, XX feels so much more empowered and resilient and is getting a better grip on how to help herself in tough moments."
May 2024
"This is incredibly comprehensive and useful information...Thank you so much for your time and professionalism".
March 2024
"Thank you so much for this and all your help! Your patience and kindness throughout this process was so much appreciated. You're incredibly good at what you do and I'm so thankful that people like me have you as a resource. I'm hoping this will be a huge turning point for me so thank you so much for everything!"
February 2024
"It was lovely to meet you too – thank you for being generally a really lovely person to talk to and for helping me to now put into context so much stuff."
January 2024
"As a mental health professional, I wanted a multiprofessional assessment which met recognised standards from someone who was going to do a thorough job. I chose Katie because she does an integrated assessment, (over a number of weeks) of both autism and ADHD together rather than as separate assessments.
Both Katie and her colleague, were so warm and welcoming. If I'm honest, it was, at times, an emotionally painful process which brought up a lot of complex emotions but they made the process as safe and gentle as possible. I felt fully supported and accepted and I very much appreciate the time and care taken in relation to both the assessment and report. Thank you so much for helping me make sense of my experiences. It has been such an important step in starting to accept myself."
January 2024
"It was lovely talking to you, it felt very easy and comfortable so that made the time feel a lot less pressured than I was worried about previously."
June 2023
"Katie recently provided training for my team. It was a resounding success. So many team members have got in touch with me to say how helpful they have found it in terms of their confidence and knowledge. As someone with ADHD myself, I would also add that it was a very validating experience for me too."
October 2023
"I can honestly say it’s so worth the long journey which has been difficult, stressful, triggering, painful.
"It’s already lifechanging for me to have received this diagnosis and although this year has been bleak at times I feel hopeful for the future and am looking forward to a brighter 2024.
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"Katie, I want to say that you and the other members of your team made this not only possible but you did it with compassion, kindness, humour and mostly I felt safe, seen & heard, unjudged. I felt taken seriously for the first time in all the years I’ve been knocking at doors asking for help with my mental health and being dismissed. To be able to now say I have a disability and deserve reasonable adjustments by law is life changing. I’ve started being able to forgive myself for not being able to achieve everything I’ve seen all my friends and family achieve.
"Thank you for not being patronising, for listening, for making me laugh, for not making things stuffy and uptight and awkward, for sharing parts of your life and being human. For doing everything you could to make it easier for me to unmask. I am so, so grateful."
October 2023
"Thank you all for everything and encouraging me to be me. Thank you all for helping me understand my childhood. You’re so thorough, it's great and I know it's an accurate result."
December 2022
"I’ve been struggling with certain things for years, despite my best efforts, and I just couldn’t understand why it was such a struggle, why others could do it so easily and for years I’ve been asking why, not only at times when my mental health has been poor but also when I’ve been well and felt good, why were things still a struggle. And now you’ve given me those answers, finally, it makes sense and I understand the why!"
November 2022
"I cannot thank you enough. You have changed my life and understanding of myself and I am eternally grateful. Thank you for making this experience as easy and straightforward as possible."
November 2022
"I would like to thank both you and your colleague for making us feel so welcome, it was lovely how you were so understanding of the situation and putting us both at ease, We also both appreciate the reassurances given and the helpful apps and reading materials you have shared with us."
October 2022
"Thank you so much for all the support and safe space you have provided throughout this journey."
October 2022
"It was a great pleasure to work with you and I appreciate all the effort and time you have put into this."
February 2022
"It was nice to meet you. Thank you for making this as easy as it probably could have been. A doctor with a suitable appreciation of classic Nintendo games is a wonderful thing."