Don't let ADHD prevent you getting the best outcome during divorce.
Full support through divorce with ADHD — not just the paperwork. The forms and deadlines. The overwhelm, the loneliness, the anger. All of it.
15 years, Top family law firm. ADHD, myself.
Most ADHD struggles in divorce aren't a legal problem. They're an executive function problem.
You understand the law fine. That was never the issue. What breaks ADHDers is this:
The 30-page forms
Bank statements. Payslips. Pensions. All collated, in order, on time — while you panic about every page.
Your lawyer knows law, not ADHD brains
So you pay £300+ an hour to be chased for documents. That's the ADHD tax.
"Costs implications" is a nudge to them, a threat to you
To your lawyer it's a helpful prompt. To an ADHD brain it causes shut down.
Your lawyer is brilliant at the law. They aren't there to break down court forms into steps your brain can act on or steady your rejection sensitivity dysphoria. I am — alongside them, never instead of them.
What happens without ADHD informed support?
You snap at the professional who's on your side.
You go quiet and stop responding.
You say "yes, on it" — and nothing gets done.
Your lawyer reads that as difficult or evasive. So the letters get longer.
None of it helps. You don't lack understanding — you're struggling with executive dysfunction.
A standard coach can make an ADHD brain shut down harder.
- Some firms now pair lawyers with divorce coaches. Smart move.
- But standard coaching isn't built for ADHD brains.
- Under divorce-level pressure, it can make you shut down harder.
The gap I built Awaken Potential to close.
I sit between your lawyer's expertise and what your brain can actually deliver.
1:1 ADHD divorce coaching
Weekly remote sessions. Rolling four-week blocks or a three-month course.
- Someone in your corner for the whole thing — not just the forms, but the overwhelm, the isolation, the anger
- I'll help translate what your lawyer is telling you, so the legal side stops feeling like a foreign language
- Disclosure and paperwork done — without the shame spiral
- Prepare for lawyer meetings so billed time isn't wasted
- Systems that hold while everything else moves
- Tech and AI to absorb the admin load your brain resists
Not another to-do list
Built for how your brain works — so you get the outcome you deserve, without the ADHD tax.
- You want someone who has your back through the whole thing, not just someone to chase your paperwork
- You have ADHD — diagnosed, self-identifying, or still working it out
- You're divorcing or separating, at any stage
- The forms, deadlines and disclosure are drowning you
This is coaching — not legal advice, not therapy. Alongside your lawyer, never instead.
How it works.
Coaching that fits around your case, not a template dropped on top of it.
Discovery call
30 minutes. Where you're stuck, and what support would actually work for your brain.
Weekly sessions around your case
We work to your real deadlines and disclosure timetable. No generic curriculum.
Systems that outlast the divorce
You leave with ways of working that hold long after the case closes.
I've sat on the other side of the table.
15+ years in family law. Former Partner at a top firm. ADHD throughout.
- • Guided hundreds of clients through divorce from the lawyer's side of the table
- • Knows exactly what the process demands of you — and precisely when
- • Knows how it feels to face that with an ADHD brain, because I have one
- • Certified ADHD coach trained through an internationally CPD-accredited, evidence-based executive function framework
- • Together, that's the bridge between your lawyer's expertise and what your brain can actually deliver
What clients say about working with Sarah.
From Sarah's broader ADHD coaching practice — divorce-specific stories coming soon.
Working with Sarah over the last four weeks has been genuinely transformative. In a relatively short period of time, we've covered an incredible amount of ground — from understanding my ADHD strengths and saboteurs to developing practical strategies for managing RSD, emotional flooding, and reframing perceived criticism.
What sets Sarah apart is her ability to balance self-awareness with action. Together we've explored my goals across finances, career, family, and mental and physical health, using a marathon-not-sprint approach that helped me identify priorities, tackle challenges, and confront the difficult questions I would often avoid. Most importantly, Sarah helped me turn overwhelming ambitions into clear, achievable action plans instead of my usual ADHD tendency to overcommit.
Sarah is friendly, professional, insightful, and consistently keeps me accountable without ever being judgemental. I would highly recommend her to anyone looking for practical, supportive ADHD coaching that delivers real progress.
I'm a law partner who was late diagnosed with autism and ADHD. Since diagnosis, I'm blessed to have worked with two fantastic coaches, one of whom is Sarah. Knowing that Sarah had been a law firm partner with ADHD, I was confident that she'd 'get it'. She did.
ADHD coaching is not, in my experience, like normal coaching. It's a collaborative process about finding the things that work with your brain, rather than finding out how to 'not be so ADHD'. With Sarah I was immediately at ease talking through the nitty gritty of how I would respond to certain things, where I hit my 'road blocks', and which parts of my masking were self-sabotaging. Throughout this process Sarah was a fantastic listener, sounding board and cheer leader.
Working with Sarah has really helped me engage more with what my ADHD means for me, how to fit my work around it — rather than me around the work — and to accept that the ways in which I can work most effectively will look different to others. And that's fine.
I received my ADHD diagnosis in November 2025. I was in an incredibly low place in life with feelings of underachievement, discipline issues, and serious financial instability from impulsive dopamine chasing behaviour. Life was chaotic and deeply unenjoyable, and I had a very bad relationship with myself.
I reached out to Sarah at Awaken Potential partly because of her previous career as a family solicitor, an industry I'm familiar with.
Even though the diagnosis itself provided some relief, Sarah instantly helped me not just accept my ADHD, but help me realise it as something I wouldn't want to live without. The condition can feel very lonely, but hearing Sarah talk about her experiences and thought processes was very comforting.
She gave me really effective, practical solutions for things I'd always struggled with, and helped me turn chaotic work habits into a structured style that I genuinely enjoy now. She also gave me things to think about between sessions that kept the momentum going all week.
Since finishing my 12 weeks with Sarah, I now have savings for the first time in my life, money left over at the end of each month, and I'm performing exceptionally well at work. I'm living a healthier lifestyle, I've learned how to set boundaries, and for the first time I have a fantastic relationship with myself. The idea that this could be achieved in 12 weeks felt unfathomable to me at the start.
I genuinely feel like I can keep building on this work on my own, which is amazing in itself. I also know I can check in with Sarah whenever I need help navigating a new stage of life.
She's got a very happy client for life in me!!
Get the outcome you deserve. Without the ADHD tax.
Talk through where you're stuck — before the next deadline sneaks up on you.
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