What if your life could be more manageable, spacious, restful, values-aligned, and fulfilling?

Hi there, my name is Jey!

I have a PhD in Feminist Studies, 21 years of teaching, mentoring, and coaching experience, and am a personal coach and ADHD coach.

Let’s work together to help you lift a burden or two, feel lighter, and breathe easier.

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How Do I Know If Coaching Is For Me?

Are you tired of feeling lost? Stuck? Confused? Overwhelmed?

Are you tired of being tired?

What if there is another way?

  • You’ve been trying so hard, but it never seems enough and so little seems to be working

  • You feel like you’re spending so much energy just treading water and you feel lost, stuck, or confused about how to move forward

  • You’re feeling run down, burned out and are wondering how people manage it all

  • When you don’t meet the standards, goals, and expectations set by yourself or others, you find yourself falling into a punishing “blame/shame spiral”

  • You’ve been wondering if you’re “neurospicy”, neurodivergent, and/or a highly sensitive person (HSP) and would like to further explore your insights with more guidance

  • You’d like to make more sense of your ADHD, autistic, auDHD, and/or neurodivergent brain and how to work with your unique strengths, needs, and stumbling blocks

  • You want to be a good person and live in alignment with your values, but are overwhelmed with how to actually do so while still living a good life

  • You’re seeking more clarity, ease, and spaciousness in your day-to-day life

  • You’re ready to try something different because a part of you knows that change is possible

Feel lighter; breathe easier

  • Intersectional feminist foundations

  • Anti-oppression, diversity, equity lens

  • Non-judgmental and anti-ableist approach

  • Systems-level thinking and analysis

  • Personalized coaching with clear, practical, and actionable steps forward

  • Clear guidance to explore, identify, and live in alignment with your priorities, needs, and values

  • Structured support to build towards functional daily ease and a sustainable and fulfilling life

Ready when you are

Areas of Specialty

ADHD, Autism & AuDHD

  • Explore how your unique brain and body functions in order to build systems that work with (instead of against) your particular needs, strengths, and stumbling blocks

  • Design collaborative non-judgmental strategies that align with and build toward your values, goals and priorities to address common issues such as:

    • Emotional dysregulation

    • Overstimulation and overwhelm

    • Executive dysfunction

    • Procrastination and perfectionism

    • Stress-based task initiation/motivation

    • Time blindness

    • Being “bad at sleeping”

    • “Blame/shame spirals” & negative self-talk

    • Social anxiety and rumination

    • Difficulties with communication and relationships

  • Explore and experiment with practical “self-accommodations” that are actionable today, reduce day-to-day friction, and bring greater ease to your life

Academia, Career & Burnout

  • Collaborate on and implement academic/work strategies that play to your unique interests and strengths

  • Identify, assess, and get clear on if and how your professional values, priorities, and goals align with your personal values, priorities, and goals

  • Decipher and negotiate the tacit and oftentimes conflicting demands between…

(1) What school/work wants from your life

(2) What you want from your life

  • Understand and navigate the ways school, work, and/or activism can reproduce unconscious compliance to internalized values of “grind culture,” narrow deservingness rubrics, and “all-or-nothing” and “zero-sum” thinking that flatten your complex life experiences

  • Gain confidence in your communication skills and your ability to identify and maintain your personal and professional boundaries that increase daily ease and well-being

Insecurity & “Enough-ness”

  • Feel more confident, and empowered by developing skills and practices to identify, engage, and challenge persistent thoughts and feelings of shame, guilt, and inadequacy

  • Explore how and why these feelings are reproduced and amplified by “invisible” internal belief systems shaped by broader power structures

    • Gain a deeper understanding of persistent negative thoughts and feelings by drawing contextualizing connections to systems and institutions of power

  • Grow your ability to acknowledge, label, and “sit with” difficult thoughts and feelings, allowing them to dissipate

  • Expand your capacity for holding complexity

    • Recognize and challenge binary “all-or-nothing”/”black-and-white” thinking patterns that flatten your life experiences

    • Expand your ability to tolerate and engage with ambiguity, conflict, and uncertainty

  • Build towards a deeper understanding and embodiment of your contextualized self in order to gain a greater sense of calm, spaciousness, and ease‍

  • Dr. Saung was an invaluable asset as I navigated my suspected ADHD and consequential formal diagnosis. Where a psychiatrist starts and stops with diagnosis and treatment, Dr. Saung helped in every other aspect, which was arguably even more helpful. They talked me through what to expect and supported me in identifying how my ADHD plays out in my daily life. Dr. Saung is incredibly knowledgeable, dedicated, and a great supportive expert for anyone navigating ADHD (whether suspected or diagnosed)!

    Katie A.—Coaching Client (Bothell, WA)

  • Jey created an atmosphere that was respectful, genuine, and most importantly, open to questions and ideas. Jey’s guidance and knowledge is outstanding, and the way they present information in a laid back, communicative way makes people feel safe to ask questions about difficult subjects. Without Jey’s analysis, open-mindedness, and authentic interest, I would not have been as successful as I was. They allowed me to find personal connections and understand topics in a deep and nuanced way. I can’t wait to learn more from Jey!

    Anonymous (Seattle, WA)

  • Jey prompted me to explore concepts of care work and self-care that challenged, interrogated, reset, and reworked by previous frameworks and understandings. My thinking was stretched, my beliefs challenged (in the best way!), and my mind blown. I am so grateful for the depth of Jey’s knowledge and the passion they bring to a learning environment.

    Anonymous (Seattle, WA)

  • Jey is the best instructor I have ever had. Jey is gentle, welcoming, kind, and incredible at guiding and challenging you without being pushy. They balance being serious with being lighthearted and funny, and this is notably impressive when it’s with really serious, somber issues. Jey is helpful and excellent at answering questions. This experience has meant so much to me and my beliefs have shifted and my understanding greatly expanded. Thank you so much Jey for being so amazing!

    Anonymous (Bellingham, WA)

  • Jey is an amazing teacher, always has a sharp and thoughtful response to questions/comments, very caring and understanding, and at the same time clear about expectations—all of this contributed to an engaging learning environment that was both powerful and interesting. They are passionate and invested in the process and helped me get to know myself better!

    Anonymous—UW (Seattle, WA)

  • Jey provided frameworks that I will take into my personal relationships, work life, and organizing work. Jey asks us to question everything we learn and always ask why. It blew my mind how much their extensive knowledge base and insightful questions stimulated my learning, not only academic-wise, but also in my personal life and the world around me. It made me think outside the box and allowed me to implement my own understanding of things and what I thought I knew. I always left with my brain buzzing with the excitement of new connections and riveting discussions.

    Anonymous (Seattle, WA)

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Send me a quick message and together, we can figure out how you can feel lighter and breathe easier today!