Kristen Birt
Business name: Kristen Birt - Coach & Mentor
Website: www.kristenbirt.com
Email: kristen@kristenbirt.com
Location: Based in Devon, UK - working with clients around the world.
About Me
Many of the people I work with have spent years trying harder.
They've read the books, listened to the podcasts, downloaded the apps, followed the advice, and yet something still doesn't quite fit. They often describe feeling overwhelmed, inconsistent, exhausted from masking, or frustrated that strategies which seem to help other people don't seem to work for them.
Some have an ADHD diagnosis. Others are beginning to wonder whether they may be neurodivergent. Many simply know that something isn't quite working but can't explain why.
I help people make sense of what is really happening beneath the surface.
Rather than jumping straight to strategies, I help you understand how your attention, executive functioning, nervous system, emotions, sensory preferences, energy, environment, and capacity interact. Once those patterns become clearer, it becomes much easier to decide what genuinely supports you and what doesn't.
My approach combines ADHD-informed coaching with my own Whole-Person Clarity Framework - a structured way of understanding yourself before deciding what needs to change.
Why work with me?
Alongside my professional coaching training, I bring over 20 years' experience in senior HR and people development roles, supporting individuals through workplace challenges, career development, and organisational change.
Today I also work as an Academic Mentor supporting Level 7 Master's apprentices, volunteer as a Group Coach with Riding for the Disabled Association and continue to develop my coaching practice under regular supervision while working towards International Coaching Federation (ICF) accreditation.
Alongside my professional experience, I bring lived experience of late-diagnosed ADHD, parenting a neurodivergent child, navigating burnout, and redesigning life around how my brain actually works, rather than how I believed it should work.
That combination means I understand both the personal and practical realities of living and working with ADHD.
My coaching is strengths-led, neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-aware.
I don't believe people need fixing - I believe that when we better understand ourselves, we make calmer decisions, reduce self-blame, and create lives that fit who we are.
I support my clients to explore how different parts of their experience interact, including:
attention and executive functioning
sensory preferences and needs
nervous system regulation
emotions and energy
capacity and overwhelm
workplace and environmental fit
strengths, values and ways of working.
My role is not to diagnose or tell you who you should be - my role is to provide a structured, supportive space where you can better understand yourself, recognise patterns, strengthen self-trust, and develop practical ways of working with your brain rather than against it.
The aim isn't perfection - it's creating a way of living and working that feels more sustainable, more authentic, and genuinely fits you.
Services Offered
1:1 ADHD Coaching
ADHD Coaching for Professionals
ADHD Coaching for Parents
Workplace Neurodiversity Support
