About

I'm Katy.

I coach other women like me.

I'm a late-diagnosed autistic woman with ADHD. I got here the way most of us do: years of wondering why things that seemed easy for other people took so much invisible effort, then a moment (or a slow unfolding) where it all clicked.

Off-Center is what I built after that.

The background

A steady presence in hard conversations.

I came to coaching after years of supporting people in various ways. Crisis intervention. Homelessness services. People in real distress, in situations where you had to think fast and notice everything.

I'm telling you that to tell you what it gave me: a steady presence in hard conversations, fast pattern recognition under pressure, and zero tolerance for the kind of coaching that's just optimism in a different font.

I changed paths to make my life more sustainable. Coaching gave me a way to do what I’m good at: working with people as they actually are, as a peer, and building around what they need. I do have a master’s in social work with a background in mental health.

The neurodivergent part

We skip the translation layer.

I work with autistic, ADHD, and AuDHD women specifically because that's who I am and that’s who I work best with.

When you bring me a problem tied to being neurodivergent like navigating a late diagnosis, learning to unmask, hitting a wall because the world wasn't built for how you process things, you don't have to spend half your energy explaining your baseline. We skip the translation layer.

I'm not "neurodivergent-affirming" as a marketing line. I'm walking the same path.

The building part

Meet the actual person. Build around them.

I build things. Apps, tools, frameworks, decision kits, custom resources. When a concept needs to live somewhere other than our conversation, I can make it a tool.

This started because I’m always trying to find how I can reach my clients. The first one came from a client who couldn’t easily put everything into words, so I built a small tracker we could use together. It worked. Then I built another one. And here we are.

Meet the actual person. Build around them.

The personal part

I'm a real person. That matters because the work is real too.

I live in East Tennessee. I'm a solo parent. I grew up between music festival circuits and small-town Appalachian life, which probably explains why I'm comfortable with most people and most situations.

I read a lot. I run a separate project documenting Appalachian cryptids (yes, really). I take naps strategically. I have strong feelings about pens, typography and I also somehow run a small sovereign digital nation on a shelf above my washer.

I'm a real person. That matters because the work is real too.

If this feels like the right kind of attention

Let's talk.

Book a free consultation and we'll figure out whether this makes sense.

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The Notes letter

One letter a month. No tracking. No tricks.

Field notes from the practice, sent when there's something worth saying.