ADHD Coaching · UK

You don't need to push harder.
You need a different shape.

Unmask. Unlearn. Unleash.

For late-diagnosed adults in corporate and professional life who are done paying the cost of forcing themselves into systems that were never designed for how they think.

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About

There is nothing wrong with you.

I'm Gemma Pezzack, founder of Beyond Linear. For most of my life I carried the tension of feeling both too much and not enough. Outwardly I was succeeding — performing strongly, appearing capable and in control. Privately I was managing exhaustion, emotional intensity, and a mind that never slowed down.

I received my ADHD diagnosis at 40. That moment didn't fix anything. It reframed everything.

The exhaustion wasn't weakness. The burnout wasn't failure. The contradictions I'd carried for decades finally made sense — and the story I'd been telling myself about who I was turned out to be missing some rather important context.

"What if the voice inside your head didn't have to be a critic? What if it could become a coach — even a champion?"

I lead teams in a highly regulated industry. I know what it is to be the go-to problem solver and rapport builder at work, and to come home too depleted to function as a wife, friend, or simply a human managing everyday life. That tension is at the heart of what I do with clients.

What I believe

ADHD is a neurotype — a natural variation in human wiring — not a disorder to be fixed, managed down, or apologised for.
The challenges that come with your neurotype arise from the gap between how your brain works and how the world is set up — not from something being wrong with you.
You don't need to feel grateful for your neurotype every day. You're allowed to find it difficult. Honouring who you are doesn't require performing positivity about it.
You are already whole. You don't need to become someone different — you need permission, and practical support, to understand who you've always been.
Growth rarely happens in a straight line — especially while navigating your neurotype. But when you stop working against your wiring and start working with it, things get easier.
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Individual Coaching

For individuals

One-to-one ADHD coaching for late-diagnosed adults in professional and corporate life. Sessions are grounded in understanding, lived experience, and practical change — not fixing.

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Discovery Coaching

An exploratory programme for those newly diagnosed or recently questioning. We examine how your neurotype shows up across your life — work, relationships, and self — building language and a framework for what you've been navigating.

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Ongoing Coaching Partnership

A structured, sustained coaching relationship built around your specific goals and context. We work on reframing long-held narratives, developing practical strategies, and building an evidence bank of your strengths and progress.

03

Intensive Focus Sessions

Targeted work on a specific challenge — burnout, executive function at work, relationship dynamics, or career transition. Structured, bounded, and outcome-focused, for those who need depth without a long-term commitment.

Pricing, package details, and booking availability coming soon. In the meantime, get in touch to discuss what working together could look like.

Organisations

For businesses & teams

Organisations lose significant value when neurodiverse talent is unsupported. Not through lack of capability — through lack of context. Many of your highest-performing people are operating on hard mode, and neither they nor their managers know why.

Beyond Linear works with organisations to shift that — creating the conditions where neurodiverse professionals can contribute at their full potential, and where managers have the understanding to support them effectively.

Work can be shaped around what your team actually needs: bespoke, proportionate, and grounded in real experience rather than box-ticking.

Discuss your organisation's needs
Executive Coaching for Neurodiverse Leaders
One-to-one coaching for senior professionals navigating the demands of leadership alongside an ADHD neurotype. Focused on sustainable performance, self-trust, and reducing the hidden cost of masking.
Manager Education & Awareness
Workshops and facilitated conversations equipping managers to understand ADHD in professional contexts — not from a compliance lens, but from one of genuine understanding and practical skill.
Team Neurodiversity Workshops
Group sessions exploring how different neurotypes work and collaborate. Builds psychological safety, reduces friction, and creates shared language across diverse teams.
Organisational Consultancy
Strategic advisory on neurodiversity inclusion — from onboarding and workplace design to policy review and culture. Practical, honest, and free from compliance-only thinking.

Tools & Approaches

How the work happens

The coaching draws on a range of evidence-informed approaches and practical frameworks. Nothing is applied as a formula — each client's neurotype, history, and goals shape what tools we reach for.

Narrative Reframing
Working with the stories we've been telling ourselves — often since childhood — about our capability, worth, and difference. Identifying where those stories came from and what it looks like to update them with better information.
The Evidence Bank
A living record built throughout coaching — capturing strengths, moments of capability, and progress. Used to counter the automatic inner critic and create a grounded, factual account of who you actually are.
Executive Function Strategies
Practical, personalised approaches to the areas ADHD most commonly affects at work: planning, task initiation, time perception, emotional regulation, and follow-through. Built around how you actually function, not how you think you should.
Inner Critic to Inner Champion
Developing the internal voice that runs as a background track. Identifying the critic's patterns, understanding where they came from, and building the practice of turning up the volume on a more honest, compassionate, and useful perspective.
Burnout Prevention & Recovery
Understanding the ADHD-specific pathways to burnout — masking, overextension, inconsistent performance — and building sustainable patterns of work and rest that account for how your nervous system actually operates.
Relationship & Communication Dynamics
Exploring how ADHD shows up in professional and personal relationships — communication patterns, emotional intensity, rejection sensitivity — and building tools that create more ease and authenticity.

Detailed resources, frameworks, and downloadable tools will be published here as the practice develops.

Thought Pieces

Thinking out loud

Writing on ADHD, identity, work, and what it means to build a life that works with your brain rather than against it.

Coming soon
Identity
The mask you didn't know you were wearing
On the invisible labour of performing neurotypicality in professional life — and what becomes possible when you stop.
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Work & Performance
Why high-achievers with ADHD burn out — and why it keeps surprising them
Burnout and ADHD have a specific relationship that most performance conversations never name. This is an attempt to name it.
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Late Diagnosis
The grief and the relief: receiving a late ADHD diagnosis at 40
A diagnosis doesn't change the past. It reframes it. That reframing comes with complexity — and it's worth sitting with both sides of it.
Read more →

Full articles and thought pieces will be published here. If you'd like to be notified when new pieces go live, join the mailing list.

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What clients say

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Contact

Let's explore this together

If anything on this site has felt familiar — if you've recognised yourself in the contradictions, the exhaustion, the gap between who you are at your best and what it costs to get there — then a conversation costs nothing.

Use the form to introduce yourself and tell me a little about where you are. I'll be in touch within a few working days.

There is no pressure, no pitch, and no obligation. Just a conversation.

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LinkedIn: Beyond Linear

Email: hello@beyondlinear.co.uk

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