About Tuesday Coaching
Hi, I'm Vivian (she/her), founder of Tuesday Coaching
I created Tuesday Coaching with a clear purpose: to help neurodivergent individuals, like myself, find their flow state across all parts of life.
My philosophy is simple
We are people before we are pathologies. While labels can offer clarity, they are tools to use and not definitions to contain us. I believe that when we learn to recognize how we naturally think, feel, and move through the world, we can finally build a life that feels like our own.
The name Tuesday Coaching reflects that vision. Tuesday is often thought of as a day when energy peaks, ideas flow, and momentum builds. But your “Tuesday” might not fall on a specific calendar day. It might come after a creative burst, in a quiet moment of insight, or when everything you’ve been working toward clicks. My role is to help you recognize your own Tuesday and co-create a life that moves with you, not against you.
My approach is neurodivergent-affirming and somatic-leaning
I believe our bodies hold the wisdom we need to come home to ourselves. How we sense, react, and move offers powerful clues to our well-being. This belief deeply informs how I work with clients, especially around the topics of self-care and chronic illness. My own healing journey with PTSD has taught me how somatic tools and mindfulness greatly overlap with research-based strategies for managing neurodivergent burnout. I bring that same integrated lens to our work together.
My diagnosis story wasn’t conventional
At 19, during a study abroad program where every student shared the same teachers, classes, and workload, I realized I learned differently. That clarity led me to the Disability Services at my university, where I advocated for an evaluation that confirmed I had ADHD. Yet as informative as that diagnosis was, something still felt missing.
In my 30s, starting a PhD program, I sought out a comprehensive learning differences evaluation. The results confirmed ADHD again, but nothing else, even though the assessor noted that I didn’t fit the typical profile: well spoken, well presented, and punctual. Once again, what I was seeking, wasn’t found.
Only recently did my longtime therapist, who just discovered she was autistic, asked if I had considered that I might be too. I initially rejected the idea. I had studied psychology, written a class papers on autism, and had been formally evaluated. But autism research has greatly evolved. It wasn’t even possible to receive a dual ADHD and autism diagnosis as an adult until 2013. So I looked again, starting with Devon Price’s Unmasking Autism. For the first time, I felt deeply seen. Reflecting on my lived experience and how I feel, process, and sense the world, things started to fall into place. I now identify as ADHD and autistic and feel more whole. Not because anything intrinsically changed, but because I finally have the language and insight to meet my needs.
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
- Audre Lorde
My career has always centered around people & systems
Before coaching, I worked across industries in roles that sat at the intersection of human behavior and operations. I’ve been an artists’ agent and agency owner, a startup consultant, an academic, and a Customer Success Manager in tech. I’ve always had a knack for understanding both the individual and the structure around them, then translating that into more suitable and sustainable systems
I bring research-informed lens to this work
I hold a BA in English from Oberlin College, a Graduate Diploma in Psychology from the U. of Melbourne, and a Master’s of Commerce from Melbourne Business School. My research focused on gender, power, status, learning, belonging, and communication in virtual environments.
My perspective blends lived experience with research. While I started with quantitative objectivism but evolved toward social constructionism and discourse analysis. In other words, research using numbers is important, but I believe our identities exist before we use words to define them. Or, in the words of Anaïs Nin, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” I stay current on qualitative and quantitative psychology because I believe better decisions come from a wider context.
My training and credentials
I’m a Master Certified Life Coach through the Certified Life Coach Institute. I’m also in the process of finalizing my Associate Certified Coach credential through the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the Certified ADHD Coach Practitioner credential through the Professional Association for ADHD Coaches (PAAC). Formal training isn't required to coach, but I see it as an important responsibility for this sensitive and impactful work.
Who I work with
My clients are professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives looking for clarity, alignment, and systems that meet them where they are. Many have spent years masking, pushing through, or trying to adapt to environments that didn’t consider how their minds and bodies actually work. I coach under the belief that you do not need to be fixed. We work to return to your true self, and then let that truth lead the way forward.
At Tuesday Coaching, I support people learning to reconnect with what matters and build a life that feels like home. The goal isn’t perfection, it’s alignment. Momentum will follow.
Thank you for being here. I’m so glad our paths crossed.