Autistic Peer-Support Coaching.
You don’t need to be less autistic. You need support that understands you.
Individual peer-support coaching for autistic adults ready to stop performing, start healing, and build a life that actually fits.
Most autistic people spend a lifetime trying to adapt to systems that were never built for us.You crave structure — and rebel against it.
Masking. Overthinking. Burning out. Starting again.
You don’t need another person telling you to “try harder.”
You need someone who understands the cost of surviving in a neuronormative world — and who can help you find sustainable ways to live as yourself.
That’s what 1:1 coaching with me offers: a space to understand your patterns, your needs, and your nervous system — without shame or performance.
Who It’s For
These sessions are for autistic professionals who need space to be understood, not managed.
I specialise working with:
Academics navigating the pressures of research, teaching, and institutional culture.
Tech professionals and executives balancing innovation with burnout and masking.
Clergy and spiritual leaders exploring authenticity and sustainable service that doesn’t burn you out.
Medical and mental health professionals seeking neuro-affirming regulation, boundaries, and support.
Entrepreneurs and founders building systems that align with their values and energy.
1:1 coaching offers a confidential space to unpack the invisible weight of performance — and to find ways of working that respect your bodymind.
For clients in the UK, sessions are eligible to be fully covered through Access to Work.
For clients outside the UK, sessions can often be company-sponsored or reimbursed through professional development budgets.
What You’ll Get
Each session is collaborative, reflective, and grounded in autistic ways of knowing and relating.
Together, we’ll work on:
Understanding your autistic and sensory needs.
Developing emotional and energy regulation tools.
Navigating burnout, masking, and executive function challenges.
Setting and maintaining healthy boundaries.
Rebuilding self-trust, confidence, and sustainable routines.
Learning to self-advocate in relationships, workplaces, and systems.
This is not therapy — it’s peer-support coaching.
You bring your lived experience; I bring frameworks, tools, and lived expertise to help you find clarity and direction.
What My Clients Say
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My time working with Matthew has been incredibly helpful because he gets it and I don't have to explain Autistic culture or the Autistic brain. I have appreciated his relatability and how he validates my lived experience. His approach feels very supportive, affirming, and encouraging.
Amber, Chicago
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I know that you have single handedly changed the lives of hundreds if not thousands of autistic people across the globe. Your ability to hold space and induce the reflection we all need to examine our lives and beliefs and grow and change and change things for the better, blows my mind. I am frequently, actively and forever grateful that I stumbled across your website in the early days of my autism diagnosis, lost at sea with nothing to hold onto. This community you’ve given me, this lifeline, this group of people I imagine standing shoulder to shoulder with me in life’s struggles and when I’m advocating for myself, is the single most impactful thing that keeps me going and believing things can and will get better. I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart
Lori, Brighton
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I found Matthew at a time when I was experiencing the worst bout of autistic burnout I’d ever been through. What made my burnout worse was not knowing I was autistic at first. I didn’t even know what burnout was. I just knew that something was wrong and that I no longer had the energy to continue being inauthentic and ruled by other peoples responses. I’d wondered vaguely on and off for about ten years whether I might be autistic, but my burnout last year caused me to finally knuckle down, do some in depth research and face the fact that I am indeed autistic. My next question was “what do I do now?” At that point I found Matthew. He has lived up to his life coaching ethos and more.
Ads, Manchester
My Approach
I’m autistic and disabled. Learn more about me here.
I know what it means to perform normality just to survive—and the exhaustion that comes with it.
My work is rooted in autistic liberation:
Unmasking as a sacred act of returning to yourself.
Boundaries as compassion in practice.
Regulation as self-respect.
Community as co-regulation.
This isn’t therapy. It’s not about fixing you.
It’s about helping you finally understand yourself—and giving you the tools to live in alignment with who you are.
Practical Information.
Sessions take place online via Zoom and are designed to fit around your professional and personal commitments.
On-request and by prior arrangement, sessions can be done in-person in London, Manchester, Paris, Bordeaux, or Brussels.
Each session lasts one hour.
We begin with an introductory session (€120) — a space for us both to see if working together feels like the right fit. You’ll have the opportunity to share what you’re hoping to work on, and I’ll outline how I can support you.
If we decide to continue, ongoing sessions are €135 each.
For clients in the UK, 1:1 coaching is eligible to be fully covered through Access to Work, and I can assist you with the application process.
For clients outside the UK, sessions can often be sponsored or reimbursed by employers through professional development or wellbeing budgets.
I hold a number of reduced-fee client slots each month; if my standard fee poses a hardship, please mention it in the contact form and we’ll find a solution together.
Need to cancel or reschedule? No problem. I’m autistic too — I understand that life happens. There are no cancellation fees, and sessions can always be rescheduled.
Working together is a shared investment — of time, money, energy, and regulation. I honour the commitment you make to this process.