About Gemma

There is nothing wrong with you.

Gemma Pezzack — Beyond Linear ADHD Coaching

Gemma Pezzack · Founder, Beyond Linear

Lived experience Neuroaffirming practice

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.

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What I Believe

The principles that shape the work

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.

Ready to stop working against yourself?

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Individual ADHD Coaching

One-to-one coaching for adults

One-to-one ADHD coaching for late-diagnosed adults in professional and corporate life. This is not a programme with a fixed shape — it is a coaching relationship built around you: how your neurotype shows up, what you are navigating, and where you want to get to.

ADHD coaching and therapy are different things — and for many people, complementary rather than alternatives. Coaching does not diagnose, treat, or work with trauma. It works with where you are now and where you want to get to — practically, collaboratively, and without judgement.

Sessions are 60 minutes, held online or face to face within the South East Wales area, and structured around your goals. The pace, focus, and depth are shaped by what you need — not a fixed curriculum.

"This isn't about fixing — it's about permission."

What we work on

Understanding how your neurotype shows up across work, relationships, and everyday life
Reframing the long-held stories you may have been telling yourself about your capability and worth
Building a Brag Bag — a living record of your strengths, progress, and proof that contradicts the old story
Turning up the volume on your inner champion and challenging the automatic inner critic
Developing a personalised toolbox of executive function strategies that work with your wiring
Addressing ADHD burnout, emotional regulation, and sustainable performance
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Beyond Linear

What ADHD coaching is — and isn't

What it is
Practical and action-oriented
Collaborative and client-led
Future-focused
ADHD-informed and neuroaffirming
Flexible systems, not rigid methods
Strengths-based
Confidential and safe
Accountability with compassion
What it isn't
Clinical therapy or diagnosis
Judgemental or prescriptive
Focused only on the past
Generic productivity advice
One-size-fits-all methods
Problem-focused only
Shared without consent
Shame or criticism

Coaching is unregulated in the UK. Beyond Linear is committed to working within recognised professional and ethical frameworks.

Pricing and availability will be published here soon. Some clients may be eligible for financial assistance — please get in touch to discuss. In the meantime, a conversation about what working together could look like costs nothing.

Access to Work is a UK government scheme that can fund ADHD coaching for employed adults. Many clients are surprised to learn that the cost of their coaching can be fully or partially covered — removing the financial barrier entirely.

The application process is straightforward, and Gemma can help guide you through it.

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Want to know exactly what to expect?

A walkthrough of a 60-minute session and a full six-session block

Including what each session covers, how the arc develops, and what clients say surprises them about the experience.

How coaching works →

The Reframing Wall

When the inner critic speaks,
coaching listens differently.

Click each thought to see how coaching can help you reframe it.

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Recognise yourself in any of these? That's exactly what coaching works on.

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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.

What follows is a rough sequence: the order in which these approaches tend to become relevant as the coaching relationship develops. Most clients find themselves working across several simultaneously.

These approaches are not a curriculum. They are a toolkit. Each session is shaped by what matters most to you in that moment — not by where we are on a list.

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.

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.

The Brag Bag

A living record built throughout coaching — capturing positive feedback, milestone moments, proof of progress, little wins, and lessons learned. Used to counter the automatic inner critic on the days those things feel hardest to access. Read the full piece →

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.

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.

The Brag Bag — Building your evidence bank
Tools & Approaches

The Brag Bag: building your evidence bank

ADHD minds often remember pressure more easily than progress. The Brag Bag is a tool for keeping evidence of who you are when self-doubt gets loud — and a way of making sure that evidence is actually visible when you need it most.

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Identity
The mask you didn't know you were wearing
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Work & Performance
Why high-achievers with ADHD burn out — and why it keeps surprising them
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Late Diagnosis
The grief and the relief: receiving a late ADHD diagnosis at 40
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Testimonials

What clients say

Testimonials will be published here as the practice grows — real words, unedited, from real people. No composite quotes, no summaries, no embellishment.

If you have worked with Gemma and would like to share your experience, please get in touch.

In the meantime, the best way to get a sense of how the work feels is to have a conversation. There is no pitch and no obligation.

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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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Your information will be held in confidence and used only to respond to your enquiry.

How It Works

Four steps to working differently

No hidden complexity. No pressure. Just a clear path forward.

Step 1

Free Clarity Call

A no-obligation conversation to understand where you are and whether coaching feels right for you.

Step 2

Understand Your Patterns

Together, we explore how your neurotype shapes your work, energy, and relationships.

Step 3

Build Practical Systems

We create flexible strategies that work with your wiring — not against it.

Step 4

Ongoing Support

Accountability, refinement, and a relationship that adapts as you grow.

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