Michael Dodden, NCPS

Michael Dodden is a UK-based counsellor and coach who supports adults living with ADHD, autism, chronic stress, emotional pain, relationship difficulties, and burnout. Drawing on both professional training and lived experience, he creates a space where people who have spent years masking, overthinking, or people-pleasing can begin to unmask and find more ease in daily life.

He works with clients who are late-diagnosed or still exploring neurodivergence, and with those who feel exhausted from carrying responsibilities at work, within families, or in relationships. Michael combines practical tools for anxiety, executive dysfunction, and emotional spirals with somatic and mindset strategies for chronic pain and nervous system regulation, offering therapy and coaching that aims to be neurodivergent-affirming and grounded in real-world needs.

Michael commonly works with neurodivergent men including tradespeople, creatives, tech professionals, and entrepreneurs, while also welcoming neurodivergent women and non-binary clients, especially those in relationships with neurodivergent partners. He aims to move at a pace that honours each personâs nervous system and life circumstances, providing a warm, grounded, and non-judgemental approach.

He is a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) - a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK - and has five years of experience as a counsellor, along with over fifteen years in personal development coaching. Michael has additional specialist training in neurodivergence, ADHD, autism, trauma, emotional regulation, and chronic stress, and has trained as a therapist, coach, and hypnotherapist. He offers one-to-one work on burnout, rejection sensitivity, identity, career change, and unmasking, inviting people to begin from where they are and find greater clarity and connection.