Bio: I run one of the two currently active Intend coworking rooms and its corresponding Telegram-based online community. About 150 Russian-speaking Russians and Ukrainians; mutual support in getting stuff done and troubleshooting personal/professional challenges; big focus on mental health and adapting your environment to your neurodivergent needs. ADHD folks are heavily represented there because coworking for us is a crucial self-management tool.
This experience and many things in my background make me well-equipped to help noisy, scattered, racing and overwhelmed minds move toward clarity. Especially when you have so many thoughts and feelings you don’t know how to even start approaching that gigantic complicated mess.
My approach is influenced and shaped by:
- 5-year Bachelor’s in translation studies (thinking about language and meaning a lot)
- IFS and Focusing
- Tiago Forte’s Second Brain course (yes, it is possible to capture every idea you consciously have and no longer worry about losing them)
- Embracing being a scanner with more ideas and interests than I can ever act on (Barbara Sher’s concept that came before Emilie Wapnick’s “multipotentialite”)
- Constant interest in all things communication: from Eliezer’s A Human’s Guide to Words to improv and LARPing, from community management to instructional design. Also, Street Epistemology, relating games, graphic facilitation and love languages of partner dancing. My last office job was overseeing the creation of a dialogue dataset for teaching voice assistants to play specific characters better in chit-chat mode.
- Managing my AuDHD (autism+ADHD) fairly well and mostly having gotten myself out of apathetic depression, disorganized attachment style and cPTSD (fun stuff like flashbacks and dissociation). Now I can think about my needs without overwhelming shame or my whole body going limp. That required both professional help and tons of self-education.
Ask me about:
- Externalizing your thoughts, emotions and gut feelings, mapping them and relating to them, so that you feel seen, trusted and supported by yourself. We ADHD people have frustratingly little working memory, but thankfully we can use online whiteboards, spreadsheets, modelling clay, dance, dolls and many other things to make sense of our internal experiences and process them
- Building an ongoing parts work practice to maintain this inner trust and support
- Prioritizing things and bringing all parts of you on board with your decision to prevent self-sabotage
- Falling asleep despite All The Thoughts
- Making friends while being socially awkward and/or neurodivergent, or after moving to a new place
- Routines of immersion-first language learning (Refold approach).
- Resting and enjoying your rest without feeling guilty
If you’re interested in 1-on-1 coaching with me…
Book a 15-minute call to find out if we’re a good fit!
