AuDHD Women: The Pattern Most Practitioners MissÂ
A 2-hour advanced insight masterclass revealing the hidden patterns conventional models often overlook — from burnout beneath competence and chronic masking to nervous system survival, hormonal influences, and the adaptations shaping many AuDHD women's lives.
Featuring selected concepts from Dr Samantha Hiew's TOTI framework.
What if AuDHD Women's Humanity Has Been Misunderstood?
Sitting across from you in your practice is a woman who has never felt seen.Â
Autistic ADHD women had never fitted into neat boxes. No framework has ever been made to address the wholeness of who she is.
She came to your practice, sat in your rooms, and answered every question carefully - even if it sometimes confuses her. She has learned, long before she met you, that her answers had to make sense to someone else before they were believed.Â
She translated herself, performed competence and wellness while she was drowning, and presented as capable when she was collapsing internally.Â
She left your appointments with referrals that missed the point, or reassurances that felt like dismissal, or diagnoses that named a part of her, while the rest remained invisible.Â
Eventually, she stopped coming because she no longer trusted she would find help.Â
This is the reality for AuDHD women inside healthcare systems right now. It is a systemic pattern, not an isolated problem. This pattern repeats itself in consulting rooms, therapy offices, and psychiatric units across every country, system, and speciality.
The women aren't the problem; the framework is.
If you’re a practitioner, you’ve felt it in the room: something doesn’t fit.
When the model you were trained in doesn't account for what you're actually seeing. A woman sits across from you, already resigned to not being understood.
That feeling is the gap, and this masterclass closes it.
The Pattern Most Practitioners Miss About AuDHD WomenÂ
A 2‑hour advanced insight masterclass to recognise how AuDHD presents in women and decode hormones and neurobiology, and apply a first‑pass TOTI lens in practice.
£397 | Lifetime Replay | Practitioner Guidebook Included
The women in your care may not present the way you were trained to recognise. You're seeing clients who:
- look capable while privately struggling
- cycle between over-functioning and collapse
- fluctuate across hormonal phases in ways that look inconsistent, until you understand the biology underneath.
- mask so well they're routinely misread by systems, families, and sometimes, themselves.
You can feel that something in the current model doesn't fit, and you're right.
The Gap
The gap isn't in the women, it in the framework.
When behaviour is split from context, symptoms from systems, burnout from nervous system physiology, and hormones from neurobiology, you miss the pattern that explains it all.
This masterclass reconnects what training often separates.
What You'll Learn in this Masterclass
In two hours, you'll get a clean, integrated lens for complexity.Â
Instead of another diagnostic tool, it is a way of seeing that transforms your practice.Â
We'll cover:
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Why are AuDHD women still being missed inside every healthcare system
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Burnout beneath competence: What it looks like, why it's invisible, and how to spot it within your first 10 minutes of intake
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Treatment resistance and scenarios that may contribute to thisÂ
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Hormones Ă— neurobiology Ă— stress physiology and how they interact across the cycle and key life phases
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An introduction to the TOTI lens: the framework that reveals what's hidden beneath the surface presentation
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What to change first in your practice: Practical, immediate, and nervous-system informedÂ
This masterclass comes with the AuDHD Women Practitioner Checklist to guide practitioners in understanding AuDHD women through trauma-informed, neuroaffirming, and whole systems guidance..
As most of what shapes an AuDHD woman's life isn't visible, the TOTI (Tip of the Iceberg)Â framework was developed by Dr Samantha Hiew through lived-experience research and interdisciplinary science.
It reveals the hidden layers shaping AuDHD women's presentations - nervous system, hormones, identity, trauma, relationships, environment - in a way that no single-diagnosis model can.
In this masterclass, you'll learn the thinking and foundational visuals behind TOTI.
Full application, case formulation, integration, and supervision are included in the Advanced AuDHD Women's Practitioner Certification.
What You’ll Walk Away With
For Practitioners
- Spot masked burnout beneath high competence within your first 10 minutes of intake
- Map hormones Ă— stress physiology to symptom fluctuation across the cycle and key life phases
- Apply a first-pass TOTI lens to reframe "non-typical" presentations without pathologising
- Update your intake questions to surface chronic adaptation, masking, and identity fragmentation
- Communicate findings clearly across Multidisciplinary Teams (MDTs) to improve continuity of care
Meet Your Trainer: Dr. Samantha HiewÂ
Named a Difference Maker by PBS America and Positive Role Model for Gender by the National Diversity Awards, Dr Samantha Hiew is a keynote speaker, lived experience researcher, and founder of ADHD Girls—a social impact platform transforming how society understands and supports neurodivergent women and underrepresented communities.Â
After being diagnosed with ADHD and autism in her 40s following years of feeling unseen within traditional systems, Samantha began asking a deeper question:
What happens when the frameworks themselves were never designed to fully recognise the lived realities of neurodivergent women?
That question became the foundation for her work.
Blending scientific training with lived-experience research, Samantha developed the original TOTI framework — integrating neuroscience, hormones, trauma, masking, nervous system science, identity, emotional labour, and relational adaptation into a more complete understanding of AuDHD women.
Her work bridges the gap between research, clinical understanding, and the realities many neurodivergent women are actually living.
Sam has spoken to over 100,000 people, trained more than 100 FTSE companies, and led the UK’s first large-scale event spotlighting the lives of AuDHD women and the diagnostic gaps they continue to face.Â
With a PhD in cancer research and a background in science communication, Samantha is known for translating complex interdisciplinary research into language, frameworks, and conversations that create both intellectual clarity and emotional recognition.
Her debut book, Tip of the ADHD Iceberg, supports late-diagnosed neurodivergent individuals in understanding themselves beyond stereotypes, deficit-based narratives, and fragmented models of care.
Through this programme, Samantha brings together scientific rigour, systems thinking, and deeply human insight to help practitioners better recognise, understand, and support the complexity of AuDHD women’s experiences.Â
Who this is For
Therapists, Psychologists, Psychiatrists. Counsellors, Coaches, Occupational therapists, Educators, Neurodiversity practitioners, ADHD, autistic, AuDHD, and Neurodiversity professionals who support others and who recognise themselves in everything written above.Â
Featured In: Science & Stories of AuDHD Women
What our Programme Graduates Have Said
 "Dr Samantha Hiew’s course has been an incredible experience—insightful, validating, and, most of all, a relief. As an Asian woman from a generation where neurodivergence is rarely spoken about or understood, I found in this course a language and framework that made sense of lifelong experiences I had internalised or misunderstood. This course doesn’t just inform—it empowers."
— Hamidah Hashim-Branson, Workplace Inclusion Practitioner
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"The TOTI framework is now an essential tool in how I recognise and support neurodivergent women. Through her openness and vulnerability, Sam made the content deeply relatable. Thank you for holding such a supportive and affirming space, where I felt safe and fully able to engage!"
— Late Diagnosed AuDHD CoachÂ
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"Understanding how hormonal changes interact with neurotransmitters in AuDHD women was eye-opening. It will shape how I support clients, especially through significant life phases and transitions. The biological underpinnings were laid out with such depth and clarity—Sam has done the deep dive I needed to complement my understanding."
— Susanne Bohner, Coach and ConsultantÂ
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"This course is so valuable and impactful, and has had huge benefits for me both personally and professionally.
If you're a coach or therapist looking to support AuDHD women, or are AuDHD yourself, the course is packed with information about neuroscience, genetics, hormones and many other areas that offer vital context for understanding the unique struggles (and strengths!) of this specific neurotype. Alongside the content, the group space created by Sam is affirming, accepting and empowering, offering a learning environment that really reflects and supports the course content."
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- Maddy Winterbrook, Developmental Coach & Integrative Therapist
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"This training was genuinely life-changing and life-affirming. It didn’t just provide information — it gave me language, permission, and deep compassion for experiences I had lived myself and witnessed in the women and families I support every day.
What makes this programme so powerful is the way it weaves rigorous science with lived, embodied human experience. Sam’s depth of knowledge is extraordinary, but it’s her humanity, authenticity, and deep understanding of AuDHD women that makes this work feel so safe, meaningful, and transformative.
The TOTI framework completely shifted how I understand and support AuDHD women — moving away from fixing and pathologising, and towards meaning-making, self-trust, and sustainable care.
This work feels deeply necessary, long overdue, and something that should be embedded across health, education, and community settings.
— Annie Hambley, Psychotherapist & Coach
“This training gave me something I had never experienced before: language, understanding, and what I can only describe as hope.
For the first time in my life, I was given answers and solutions that made sense within the context of my lived experience — not through pathology, but through recognition and understanding.
Sam’s work doesn’t just expand your mind intellectually and enable me to support others; it reaches the places in you that were never previously seen. The programme helped me understand my life, my diagnosis, my family, and myself with a level of compassion and clarity I didn’t know was possible.
This training felt transformative, deeply human, and genuinely life-changing.”
— Late Diagnosed AuDHD Coach
"I came in with solid knowledge of autism and some background on ADHD, and I still learned so much. The metaphor of living with one foot on the gas and one on the brake really stuck with me—it’s such a powerful way to understand the inner push-pull dynamic of AuDHD brains."
— Maaike van der Heide, Burnout Coach
"This training needs to go mainstream. Attending this course has confirmed for me that I’m AuDHD. I’ve decided to embark on a healing journey, then I can start supporting my clients fully. Understanding the connection with menstrual cycles and hormones could make a difference in so many women’s lives."
— Sarah Young, Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist
"I will go as far as to say this course should be mandatory training for anyone working with neurodivergent women. It helps professionals understand the nuances more around the paradoxes (like hyperempathy and high need for connection yet solitude, craving routine but rebelling against structure, etc.). It reminds them of the relevance of intersectionality on presentation and lived experience."
— Dionne Louise Crick, ADHD Holistic Life and Business Coach
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