Christine Doyle is an educator, speaker, and companion specialising in the late-identified Autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD experience in women and AFAB adults.
Following over a decade working as a therapist, Christine began to notice a recurring pattern: capable, thoughtful women describing burnout, relational strain, sensory overwhelm, and a persistent sense of being “too much” or “not enough” — without a framework that fully explained their experience.
Her own late identification as AuDHD brought a different lens to that work. What had often been understood as individual difficulty was, in many cases, unrecognised neurotype navigating environments that were not designed with neurodivergent nervous systems in mind.
That shift reshaped her professional focus.
Today, Christine works from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective, centring lived experience and identity integration rather than deficit or disorder-based narratives. Her work explores:
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The psychological cost of being missed in childhood
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Masking and burnout across the lifespan
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Nervous system capacity and sensory honesty
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AuDHD internal conflict and late recognition
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Hormonal transitions and their impact on wellbeing
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Workplace understanding and inclusion
Christine delivers structured 1:1 integration programmes, webinars, and organisational training that translate lived Autistic experience into language leaders, families, and individuals can understand and apply.
Her approach moves away from pathologising frameworks and toward coherence, self-trust, and sustainable alignment.
She is the host of the Unlearning Autism podcast and founder of the Wild Women Community.
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What my clients Say
Don't just take my word for it! Here is what some of my previous clients have to say about their work with me:
1-2-1 Work with Christine
These 1:1 offerings provide structured, reflective spaces for exploring neurodivergent identity, considering assessment, integrating late identification, or deepening understanding as someone supporting a neurodivergent adult.
Purchase my book
HormoneFULL, Not Hormonal is a narrative-led handbook exploring the impact of hormonal transitions on Autistic AFAB people across the lifespan. Grounded in the lived experiences of 101 Autistic AFAB adults, this book brings together verbatim reflections on puberty, menstruation, pregnancy and postpartum, perimenopause, and menopause — stages that are often poorly understood, minimised, or misattributed within both medical and mental health settings.
What I Offer
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EMAIL: christine@christinedoyle.ie
PHONE: 087 687 1002
Blog
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Some small ways I make my space neuro-affirming ✨
When people think about accessibility, they often imagine major adjustments or specialist knowledge. But so often, it lives in the smaller things. The things that help someone exhale. The things that say you do not need to force yourself to fit here.
These are some of the ways I try to create a more workable, respectful, and supportive space in my own practice. Not because I get it perfect, but because neuro-affirming practice is not a badge — it is an ongoing commitment to listening, learning, and adjusting.
And importantly, this should never depend on disclosure. Many people may not feel safe sharing that they are neurodivergent. Some may not know yet. Others may simply know they have preferences or needs that help them access a space more comfortably.
That’s what inspired my latest blog: How to Make Your Business More Neuro-Affirming — a practical guide for service providers who want to create spaces that are more accessible for all. It also includes a growing list of neuro-affirming businesses shared by this community, from hairdressers to dentists, fitness spaces and more.
✨ Read the blog via the link in bio.
✨ If you’d like to add a service recommendation, leave a comment below.
✨ If you’d like support making your own business more accessible, get in touch via christinedoyle.ie
For all the beautifully sensitive souls out there who were told you were “too sensitive” and never got the chance to honour or befriend your sensory system — this is for you.
So many people grew up feeling overwhelmed, drained, reactive, or like the world was simply too much… without ever being given the language to understand why.
The Sensory Companion is a 55+ page digital guide designed to help you better understand your sensory system, how it links with your nervous system, and why experiences like overwhelm, shutdown, “too much,” or wishing the world would just stop can happen.
Inside, you’ll find support to help you:
✨ Understand your sensory profile
✨ Make sense of overwhelm and capacity
✨ Build a personalised low-demand plan
✨ Create a travel plan for more ease and less strain
✨ Complete a home audit to better support your nervous system
✨ Communicate your needs and preferences with loved ones
✨ Build a kinder relationship with yourself
This is not about changing who you are.
It is about understanding yourself more clearly.
Available now for €12
Link in bio.
New minisode 🎙️ My Autistic Musing: On Therapy
We all want therapy to be a safe place. But safety is not just kindness or good intention. It also includes being understood.
When someone’s neurotype is not recognised, therapy can become confusing, misattuned, and at times reinforcing of self-doubt — even when everyone involved means well.
This episode is not about criticising therapists. It is a reflection on a society that continues to other neurodivergence — and how that othering can create avoidable harm for so many people.
It is also why I have largely stepped back from traditional therapy and now offer post-identification mentoring rooted in neuro affirming understanding, language, and support that fits.
Because without this essential understanding, we cannot fully support clients to be themselves — unmasked, different, and valid.
Listen now on Unlearning Autism. Link in bio.
To be Autistic is not to be in a deeply distressed state at all times. That is due to the impact of other things. And that is information. We need to change things.
Episode 14 with @elizafricker_missingthemark is now live
♾️ Link in bio
In episode 14 Eliza @elizafricker_missingthemark talks of the changes she has made in her family to relieve pressure. I think we can all relate to this! A neuro affirming family accommodates and adapts to relieve pressure, abandons what makes no sense and steps into a happier calmer space. What changes have you noticed in your family?
I’ve noticed I’m reaching for my trusted softie more and more these days.
Why did I not know that perimenopause would feel like being right back in puberty.
In waiting for the hot flashes and the absence of bleeding I missed what was right in front of me.
✨The cramps that have me curled up on the couch. Shorter cycles and heavier bleeds.
✨The emotional dips that can arrive out of nowhere.
✨A swelling of rage that feels far bigger than the moment in front of me.
✨Histamine issues back with a bang - reminiscent of my teenage years that had me on operating tables and on injections trying to make the unmanageable, well, normal.
✨An increased need for much more alone time that brings me back to afternoons walking in solitude as a teen, trying to find space to breathe.
✨Days where clothes feel wrong, noise feels too much, and capacity is suddenly gone.
Perimenopause.. I feel like I’ve been here before.
This time, though, there is something different.
Now I know I’m Autistic.
Now I understand my bodymind better.
And that brings a compassion that I didn’t have back then.
Because puberty wasn’t held like that.
It was a time of comparison.
Why are you so sensitive?
Why are you making such a big deal of it?
No one else needs to go on the pill.
Everyone finds periods hard.
And when you hear those messages enough, you start to believe the problem is you.
Autistic perimenopause fun facts:
It (often) starts earlier and lasts longer
If can bring an arrival or intensifying of Autistic traits for many.
It can raise body mind sensitivities such as digestive, histamine and migraines.
It is often a lot more complicated time for a sensitively wired system. Not too sensitive (in the eyes of others), but actually more sensitive than others experience.
Source: HormoneFULL, not Hormonal
And for me, this rollercoaster of hormones also brings something healing.
A chance to meet myself now with the understanding I needed then.
Did perimenopause surprise you too?
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Episode 14 is now live … Eliza’s values of reducing pressure and allowing trust and simplicity back in are the balm I keep listening to .. thank you for your words Eliza.
Episode 14 with @elizafricker_missingthemark is now live
There was so much in this conversation with Eliza that stayed with me, but this part really hit home.
So many neurodivergent adults are carrying more than people realise.
The internal pressure.
The pressure to cope.
The pressure to get it right.
The pressure to hold everything together.
And then the external pressure on top of that — parenting, expectations, systems, noise, pace, demands.
It can become hard to hear yourself underneath it all.
I loved Eliza’s reminder that sometimes support is not about adding more.
Sometimes it’s about removing pressure.
Softening expectations.
Making things simpler.
Letting something go.
Doing it differently.
Choosing what actually helps.
A powerful conversation with the brilliant Eliza Fricker @elizafricker_missingthemark on Episode 14 of Unlearning Autism.
Listen via the link in my bio 🎙️
