about renata

Hi, I'm Renata.

I'm a creativity coach for late-diagnosed neurodivergent women who have the diagnosis but still feel lost.

You probably thought getting a name for your experience would help. And maybe it did, for a minute. But then the strategies stopped working. The willpower stopped working. You started looking inward trying to figure out who you actually are underneath all the coping, and you couldn't find much. Just a version of yourself assembled from other people's preferences and ways of moving through the world.

That's not a personal failure. It's what unmasking actually looks like.

I'm AuDHD myself, self-diagnosed in my early thirties. At the time I had a college degree, a ten-year career as a graphic designer, and a life that looked like it was working. After my diagnosis, I started seeing more clearly what I had been doing to keep that life running. And I realized I couldn't keep doing it.

I'm still in the middle of this process. I'm not on the other side of it. And that shapes everything about how I work, because I'm not teaching from a place of having figured it out. I'm working alongside you asking the same questions.

I use expressive art-making not just because art-making is fun and creative, but because when you do it in a guided way, you can access parts of yourself that words can't reach. Things surface that don't come up when someone just asks you directly. Small, true things. Data points that are yours.

My background is in visual art and design. I have a BA in Studio Art and spent over a decade doing creative work professionally. I've also completed training in therapeutic art facilitation with art therapist Youhjung (Thirsty for Art) and the Healing Art Facilitator Training with Katie Goodling (Inner Peace Art Studio). Beyond that, much of what I know about neurodivergence and AuDHD specifically comes from years of research, reading, and living it myself.

This work is not about making something beautiful. It's not about being productive. It's about slowing down enough to notice what's actually happening inside you, maybe for the first time.

No art experience needed. You can start exactly where you are.

— Renata