01 / BURNOUT
Rest shouldn’t feel like failure.
You get through the week, then need far longer than seems reasonable to recover from it. Slowing down brings guilt. Doing nothing feels harder than doing too much.
Psychotherapy for ADHD, Autistic & AuDHD professionals
Life shouldn’t be this hard when you’re this capable.
You can be competent, successful and deeply tired at the same time. Beyond Here is therapy for professionals who have become very good at functioning — and are starting to wonder what it has cost them.
Online across the UK · Weekly 50 minute sessions · £60–£90
Burnout•Masking•Belonging•Trauma•Identity•Rest•Emotion•Meaning
The hidden contradiction
You’ve learnt how to function. That doesn’t mean it feels sustainable.
A lot of neurodivergent professionals are not struggling because they lack capability. They are struggling because capability has become the thing that hides the struggle.
You may have spent years learning how to meet deadlines, read rooms, compensate for attention, push through exhaustion and become the person people rely on. From the outside, it works. Inside, the recovery cost can be enormous.
Therapy here is not about making you more efficient at tolerating a life that drains you. It is a place to understand the patterns underneath the performance — and work out what actually fits.
“You’re good at coping. Perhaps too good.”
Where this often shows up
The parts nobody sees on LinkedIn.
The problem rarely arrives as one neat symptom. More often it shows up as a set of contradictions: productive but depleted, socially fluent but slightly outside the room, self-aware but disconnected from what you actually feel.
02 / PRODUCTIVITY
What if you’re not lazy? What if you’re exhausted?
ADHD can produce spectacular output and spectacular inconsistency. The gap between what you can do and what you can reliably do can become a source of shame.
03 / BELONGING
You’ve learnt how to fit in. But does it fit you?
Masking can make you highly socially capable while leaving you unsure which parts of you are adaptation and which parts actually feel like home.
04 / BODY
You can’t think your way through everything.
You may understand your history brilliantly and still feel oddly distant from it. Sometimes insight arrived years before the emotions, sensations and needs underneath it were allowed into the room.
05 / TRAUMA
Some survival strategies look a lot like strengths.
Hyper-independence, overachievement, humour, intellectualising and staying useful can all be adaptive. Therapy gives us somewhere to ask what they protect — without treating them as defects.
06 / MEANING
You built a life that works. Does it work for you?
Sometimes the old engine simply stops pulling. Not because you have failed, but because the goals that once organised your life no longer feel like yours.
Beyond coping
Therapy for the person underneath the performance.
Most of what high-performing neurodivergent people get offered is another tool. A better system. A firmer boundary. A new productivity method.
Tools can help. But eventually the question changes. It stops being “how do I keep myself functioning?” and becomes “what is actually worth functioning for?”
We can work with burnout, trauma, relationships, shame, addiction, identity, emotional disconnection, career change, late diagnosis and the quieter question of who you are when you stop organising your life around what other people need from you.
01Curious rather than corrective
02Neuro-affirming without romanticising the difficult bits
03Comfortable with complexity, contradiction and dark humour
04Interested in the body as well as the story you can tell about it
Chris Marshall
Therapist. Researcher. Polymath. Fellow complicated human.
I came to psychotherapy after years spent in high-pressure environments, investment management, behavioural science, coaching and research. I know the strange experience of being very capable in one part of life while quietly wondering why apparently simple things take so much out of you.
I was identified as autistic when I was young and diagnosed with ADHD later in adulthood. That lived experience matters, but it is not the whole proposition. The work is also informed by psychotherapy training on the UKCP route, executive coaching, research into resilience and adaptability, and more than a thousand hours of one-to-one work.
I tend to work well with people who think deeply, notice patterns, get bored by simplistic answers and have already done quite a lot of thinking about themselves. You will not need to make yourself less complicated here.
Psychotherapy training · UKCP route
Level 7 Executive Coach & Mentor
1,000+ one-to-one hours
MSc · Mental toughness & resilience
PhD research · Adaptability under pressure
20 years in high-performance environments
Simple by design
You choose the rate.
Sessions are weekly, online and 50 minutes. Choose the rate that is true for you at the moment. No means test, no awkward negotiation, and the work is the same whichever rate you pay.
£90
StandardHelps keep lower-rate places available.£75
MiddleWhere most people tend to land.£60
SupportedIf price would otherwise stop you starting.Start here
You don’t need to know exactly what’s wrong.
Fifteen minutes is usually enough to work out whether this feels like the right room, and whether I am the right therapist to sit in it with you.
Book a free 15 minute call →No pitch. No package. No need to have the story straight before you arrive.