AuDHD Women: The Pattern Most Practitioners Miss
What conditions would allow her to stop surviving so hard?
Many practitioners are encountering patterns that conventional ADHD and autism training never prepared them to recognise. This 2-hour masterclass reveals the stories that underlie 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 a new clinical thinking guide from Dr Samantha Hiew's TOTI framework that explores the line of questioning to support a woman to come out of survival mode.
Have You Ever Left A Session Feeling Like Something Didn't Quite Fit?
Sitting across from you in your practice is a woman who is intelligent, insightful, self-aware, and deeply motivated to understand herself.
Yet something isn't adding up.
She cycles between overfunctioning and collapse. Burnout keeps returning. Medication helps, but not entirely. Therapy creates insight, but not always sustainable change. Hormonal shifts seem to amplify everything. She looks capable while privately struggling.
She masks so well and is routinely misread by systems, families, and sometimes, themselves.
And the more you try to understand the whole picture, the more complex it becomes.
If you've ever felt that the current model doesn't fully explain what you're seeing, you're not imagining it.
Many practitioners are encountering patterns that conventional ADHD and autism frameworks were never designed to recognise.
The women aren't the problem; it's the framework we use to understand.
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 Women
A 2‑hour advanced insight masterclass to recognise how AuDHD presents in women and decode hormones and neurobiology, and begin to apply the TOTI lens in practice.
£397 | Lifetime Replay | Practitioner Guidebook Included
The Questions Most Practitioners Were Never Taught to Ask
Most training doesn't begin to touch context, systems, nervous system physiology, and interactions between hormones and neurobiology.
These are some of the questions we ask via the TOTI lens:
- Is this burnout, or years of adaptation finally reaching its limits?
- Is this treatment resistance, or a nervous system trying to communicate something important?
- Is this anxiety, or chronic masking?
- Is this hormonal change, trauma activation, autistic overwhelm, ADHD dysregulation - or all of them interacting at once?
- What happens when we stop treating these experiences as separate problems?
This masterclass helps practitioners ask better questions, recognise hidden patterns, and develop a more integrated understanding of AuDHD women.
What You'll Learn in this Masterclass
In two hours, you'll get a clean, integrated lens for complexity.
Instead of another diagnostic tool, it is a way of seeing that transforms your practice.
We'll cover:
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Why are AuDHD women still being missed inside every healthcare system
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Why highly competent AuDHD women are often misread until burnout becomes impossible to ignore
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Treatment resistance and scenarios that may contribute to this
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Hormones × neurobiology × 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 informed
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) 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 and concepts behind TOTI lens.
Full application, case formulation, integration, and supervision are included in the Advanced AuDHD Women's Practitioner Certification.
What Will Change after this Masterclass
For Practitioners
You'll be able to:
- Recognise when burnout is hidden beneath competence
- Ask better questions around hormones, nervous system adaptation, masking, and chronic survival
- Understand why some women appear "treatment resistant" when the real issue lies elsewhere
- See behavioural patterns in context rather than isolation
- Approach complex presentations with greater confidence and less uncertainty
- Begin applying a whole-system lens to formulation and support
You'll leave with a more integrated way of understanding the women who often challenge conventional explanations.
Meet Your Trainer: Dr. Samantha Hiew
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.
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.
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.
Who this is For
Over the years, practitioners have repeatedly approached me, saying:
"I'm seeing these women. I know something is being missed. But I just don't have a framework that explains what I'm seeing."
This masterclass was created for those practitioners.
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.
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