Meet your guide
Certified Neurodivergent Coach. Former Speech Therapist and Audiologist.
"I spent 15 years helping people find their voice. Now I help them trust it."
Her story
Katherine did not always know what she wanted to do with her life. She chose subjects at school that kept options open, played it safe, and discovered speech therapy and audiology through a chance encounter in Grade 11. It was not an innate calling. It sounded interesting enough to pursue. And so she did.
What followed were 15 formative years working in public service, specialising in paediatrics across a wide range of neurodevelopmental conditions. That season shaped a professional identity she wore with quiet pride. It also shaped something deeper: a woman who had learned, through the ups and the downs of being single, building friendships, and navigating the world largely on her own terms, what it actually meant to know herself.
The downs were shaped by something she now recognises clearly: internal pressure. Pressure to perform in friendships and relationships. Pressure to fit in, which often meant masking her true self, her ideas, her beliefs. It left her, for long stretches, quiet and compliant, when underneath she was anything but.
The shift
When Katherine stepped away from her clinical career to begin coaching, she encountered something unexpected: a gap. Not in her capability, but in her identity. Fifteen years of professional life had become a large part of who she understood herself to be. Without the structure, the title, and the daily rhythm, she was starting again.
That experience sits at the heart of her coaching. She knows what it feels like to lose the scaffolding that held your sense of self, and to have to build something truer in its place.
"Those 15 years were formative. I am not only defined as a professional. I am a wife, a mother, a daughter, a friend. I am someone who had to find herself in the quiet spaces between all of that."
Katherine AdamsWhy this work
Through screening and honest reflection, Katherine self-identifies as neurodivergent. She has chosen, deliberately, not to pursue a formal diagnosis. Not because she doubts her experience, but because she knows that a diagnosis does not define a person. What she holds instead is the lived knowledge of what it is to think differently in a world built for neurotypical minds: in professional spaces, in personal relationships, in the daily work of showing up without fully understanding why some things cost so much more than they seem to cost others.
That is what Grounded Growth is built on. Not theory alone. Not credentials alone. But the particular kind of credibility that comes from someone who has sat in the same uncomfortable chair, and found a way to stand up from it.
Today Katherine is a wife, a mother to an 8-year-old boy she deeply loves, a daughter, and a friend who cherishes the individual bonds she builds. She brings all of that into her coaching: the warmth, the honesty, and the hard-won clarity that only comes from knowing what it costs to grow.
Her background
Her professional background is not separate from her coaching. It is the foundation of it.
Formally certified in neurodivergent coaching, equipping her to support individuals and families navigating neurodivergence with a strength-based, person-centred approach.
15 years of registered practice in public service, with deep clinical knowledge of communication, processing, and neurodevelopment across the full lifespan.
Focused work with paediatrics throughout her clinical career, working across a wide range of neurodevelopmental conditions. She understands the child and the family navigating the journey alongside them.
Self-identifies and has navigated neurodivergence personally across professional and relational life. She does not coach from the outside looking in.
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No pressure. No performance. Just an honest conversation about where you are and where you want to go.
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