How much does a mentoring session cost?

Each mentoring session costs £60.

How long is each mentoring session?

Each mentoring session lasts 1 hour.

How do I pay for sessions?

You can: • Pay session by session. or • Book a block of 8-10 sessions in advance. Payment is taken at point of booking using secure payments through Stripe. You can also use Klarna to split the cost of block bookings into 3, interest free payments over 3 months. Book a session now: https://calendly.com/thinkneurodiversity (https://calendly.com/thinkneurodiversity)

How many mentoring sessions should I start with?

There's no one-size-fits-all answer. You can book by the session or in blocks of 6 to suit your preference. Book your session here: https://calendly.com/thinkneurodiversity

Can I use Access to Work funding for Mentoring

Yes. It's really easy as well: 1. Put me as your chosen provider in your portal 2. I send you an invoice to upload to the portal 3. A2W contact me to confirm the sessions and price 4. I am paid directly by them

Can I join session from my phone?

Yes. If you join from your phone, I recommend downloading the Zoom app for a better experience.

Can I join if I'm self-diagnosed or unsure?

Absolutely, you can join. Our sessions are open to anyone who feels they are relevant, even if you are self-diagnosed or unsure.

Are your courses available only online?

Yes, currently all our courses are offered online to ensure accessibility for everyone, regardless of location.

Oh, That's Why!
8-week course for neurodivergent understanding

An 8-week course for the newly diagnosed and newly aware

An evidence-based course for adults newly diagnosed with ADHD, autism, or any neurodivergent condition(s).

Designed and delivered, combining the latest research, clinical evidence, years of mentoring others, and lived experience.

No psycho-babble, no pop neuroscience and nothing there's no evidence for. Just simple, compassionate, proven information, tools and strategies to help you make sense of what diagnosis means - for you.

Starts: Monday 30th March 2026.
2 hours per week.
8 Weeks total.

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Course fees:
£480 for all 8 sessions.
Payment options:
1) Pay in full on booking
2) Spread the cost over 3 months using Klarna
*not sure what Klarna is? Just click the word Klarna above.

What's covered in the 8 sessions?

The reality is that most of what you'll find about neurodivergence online isn't evidence-based. It's shared opinion, lived experience presented as universal truth, and well-meaning advice that isn't grounded in what research actually shows helps people.

Oh, that's why? It's the phrase I said repeatedly after my own late diagnosis and one I hear every single time I mentor someone new to theirs. That moment of recognition. That sudden reframe of a lifetime of experiences that never quite made sense.

This course is built around that question. And it's built around something else too.

This course is structured around EEES™ , the evidence-based framework I developed through years of clinical partnership, research and hundreds of hours of mentoring work. EEES™ looks at four areas that shape how every human being functions: Environment, Executive Function, Emotional Regulation and Sensory experience. For neurodivergent people, understanding how these four areas interact isn't just useful it's often the thing that finally makes everything click.

Each week is designed around the topics that come up most consistently when I work with people on a 1-2-1 basis, and the conversations we've had on the TALKADHD podcast. Real questions, from real people, at the point in their lives when they most need good answers.

I've combined 17 years of experience, clinical partnerships and research to create the course I wish had existed when I was diagnosed. Not a list of hacks. Not a rebrand. The right information, at the right time, delivered in a way that actually helps you make sense of your own neurodivergence — not someone else's version of it.

My work has reached millions of people. This course is how I go deeper with those who are ready for it.

Every participant will receive a course workbook and journal to help prepare for each week and to track your progress through the course. These workbooks are digital downloads designed to reduce printing that can be completed on any typeof device.

You can learn more about Matt here:

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Week 1 – You mean I've been different all along? This is where we begin. Not with a list of symptoms or a checklist of traits but with the reality of what it actually feels like to find out, at this point in your life, that your brain has always worked differently. For some people that moment brings relief. For others it brings grief, anger, confusion, or a strange kind of numbness that's hard to describe. Most people experience something of all of it. Week 1 is about giving that experience the space it deserves. We look at what processing a new understanding of yourself actually involves, what to expect in the weeks and months ahead, and why this is not the beginning of becoming someone new it's the beginning of understanding who you already are.

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🔍 Week 2 – Why work and life can feel harder after late diagnosis One of the most common and least expected experiences after a late diagnosis is that things feel harder, not easier, for a while. This week we explore why that happens. The strategies most of us have built to manage, compensate and get through have often been invisible to us until diagnosis makes the effort visible. At the same time, the processing load of everything that comes with a late discovery takes up cognitive space that was previously available for just getting on with things. Work tends to surface this first. Relationships often shift in ways that are difficult to articulate. Week 2 is about understanding why because making sense of what's happening is the first step toward navigating it.

🏠 Week 3 – Environment Your environment affects how you think, feel and function far more than most people realise and for neurodivergent people, that effect is often amplified significantly. This week we look at what environment actually means: not just the physical space you're in, but noise, light, structure, predictability, temperature, the people around you and the demands being placed on you. We explore why some environments leave you feeling capable and settled, while others quietly drain everything you have often without you noticing until it's too late. Understanding your environment is not about being difficult or demanding. It's about knowing one of the most powerful levers you have for how well you function and how you feel.

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⚙️ Week 4 – Executive Functions Executive function is one of those terms that gets used a lot and explained poorly. This week we change that. We look at what executive function actually means, the range of cognitive processes that help us plan, start, organise, shift attention, manage time and follow through and why these can be so frequently and consistently challenging for neurodivergent people. Not as a character flaw. Not as laziness. But as a genuine difference in how the brain manages and deploys its resources. You'll come away with a much clearer understanding of patterns you've probably noticed in yourself for years, and why they make complete sense given how your brain works.

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💥 Week 5 – Emotional Regulation Emotions are not a soft topic. For many neurodivergent people, emotional experience is one of the most significant, most exhausting and least understood parts of their lives. This week we look at why emotions can feel so intense, arrive so fast and be so difficult to explain to the people around you. We cover what emotional regulation actually involves, what happens when it doesn't work the way most people expect, and why experiences like rejection sensitivity are real, recognised and nothing to be ashamed of. We also look at what helps not as a list of coping tips, but as an honest, evidence-based conversation about what actually makes a difference and why.

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🌡️ Week 6 – Sensory Sensitivity Sensory experience shapes how safe, comfortable and able to function you feel in almost every situation, and it operates mostly below the level of conscious awareness. This week we explore what sensory sensitivity really means, why it varies so much between individuals and across different environments, and why the goal is never to toughen up or push through. It's to understand your own sensory profile well enough to know what you need and to stop spending energy trying to manage environments that were never designed with you in mind. Goldilocks wasn't difficult. She just knew what worked for her. That's exactly the point.

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🗣️ Week 7 – When things change: using EEES to navigate transitions and advocate for yourself Change is often the moment when everything we've covered in the previous four weeks becomes most relevant — and most tested. This week brings the four areas of the EEES framework together: Environment, Executive Function, Emotional Regulation and Sensory experience. We look at how understanding your own profile across these four areas gives you something genuinely useful a language for what you need that doesn't require you to lead with your diagnosis, justify yourself or hope that someone else works it out. We also look at transitions specifically: why change and unpredictability can hit neurodivergent people particularly hard, what helps, and how to use what you know about yourself to navigate those moments more sustainably.

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🔑 Week 8 – Putting it all together: what does your ND mean to you now? We began this course with a question: you mean I've been different all along? Eight weeks later, we return to it but from a very different place. This final week is not about having it all figured out. It's about consolidating what you've discovered, building a clear picture of what your neurodivergence actually means to you personally, and leaving with something concrete: a way of communicating what you need, at work and beyond, that is grounded in self-knowledge rather than diagnosis. You'll also think about what comes next the kind of ongoing support that actually helps, the communities worth finding, and how to keep advocating for yourself in ways that are sustainable for the long term. This is not the end of the journey. It's the point where you finally have the map.

Course fees:
£480 for all 8 sessions. Each session is 2 hours.

Payment options:
1) Pay in full on booking
2) Spread the cost over 3 months using Klarna
*not sure what Klarna is? Just click the word Klarna above.

Who it's for?

You've just realised that ADHD or autism may answer questions about you.
Your children were diagnosed, seeing their diagnostic reports sounded like you were reading your own biography.
You are on a waiting list for assessment via NHS, Right to Choose or Private routes.
You've just had you diagnosis report and now realise that this is the beginning of a journey that you never expected.

Based on years of mentoring other people Late Diagnosed in adulthood after my own very late life diagnosis.

Below are comments from people who've worked with me.

Matt has some rare gifts!

The neurodiversity mentor space is crowded and finding an exceptional mentor is needles in haystacks.

Matt in short is an exceptional mentor and neurodiversity expert; not self proclaimed but earned through thousands of hours of dedication to people he has helped.

Paul

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Why this works?

✅Built by someone diagnosed after 40

🧠 Grounded in research, clinical partnership and lived experience

🤝 Designed around mentoring, not lecturing

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Who has created this and delivers the course?

Meet Matt Gupwell

This course isn’t just something I built — it’s something I've lived.

Diagnosed with ADHD, autism (with a demand avoidant profile), and dyslexia in my mid 40s, I know firsthand what it’s like to discover a new language for your life at a time when you're supposed to already have it all figured out.

I’m not here to give you Instagram advice or TikTok tips.

I’m here because I’ve spent years working at the intersection of clinical insight, mentoring, and lived experience.

I co-direct Divergence Works CIC, run the co-run the divergenceADHD community support app, co-host the talkADHD podcast, and deliver neurodiversity training and consultancy for global brands, health services, and educational institutions.

My work has helped millions of people make sense of what ADHD and autism mean to them.

But more than that — I’ve sat across from people like you and helped them unpack what a diagnosis means when it arrives decades later than it should’ve. I've been there, lived it and understand why this hits so hard.

This course is the result of everything I’ve learned, tested, refined, and lived. It’s not therapy. It's no coaching. It’s not fluff, or social media memes.

It’s support that makes sense — built for people who’ve lived enough life to know when something finally rings true.

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