Working with your brain: ADHD strategies for creatives with Catri Barrett

In this episode, I’m joined by Catri Barrett, a Trauma-Informed
ADHD Coach and Neurodiversity Educator. We discuss the power of
working with your brain, especially for neurodivergent creatives.
Catri shares her journey of being diagnosed with ADHD in her
thirties and how it reshaped her life and work. We explore common
ADHD challenges like procrastination and decision paralysis,
while Catri offers practical tips to work with your brain’s
natural rhythms. If you've ever felt your ADHD traits are working
against you, this conversation will help you reframe those
challenges and embrace your creative strengths.





About Catri


Catri Barrett is a certified Trauma Informed ADHD Coach and
Neurodiversity Educator who has created wellbeing and development
programmes for global brands and institutions like Lululemon and
Oxford University, and is regularly featured in global media
platforms such as Newsweek, Stylist and Cosmopolitan magasine.


Whether she's delivering one-on-one coaching, facilitating
workshops, or providing workplace training, Catri's goal
remains constant: helping ADHD and neurodivergent adults live and
work with more confidence, ease and joy. 


Combining her lived experience as a late diagnosed ADHD’er, with
evidence-based techniques including positive psychology,
cognitive behavioural coaching, and trauma-informed
approaches,  Catri helps individuals, workplaces
and universities better understand, celebrate and manage
Neurodiversity.





About me


Pascale Côté is a creativity guide, artist, and writer who helps
creatives meet, understand, and express themselves by guiding
them to work *with* their (creative, complex, unconventional)
nature instead of against it. She helps artists, visionaries,
disruptors and earth stewards break free from the vortex of
overthinking and move forward with their bold, rebellious ideas.
Her work challenges conventional norms, inviting creatives to
explore what’s possible when they release outdated narratives and
embrace their true, authentic expression. Pascale believes that
art is a powerful vehicle for both individual and collective
change when it’s grounded in truth—created outside the rigid
systems that stifle our creative spirit.





About the podcast


Creative minds are the architects of a new world, and their art
holds the keys to reimagining our reality. The challenge is,
creative minds often spend just as much time crafting
self-limiting narratives as they do creating their art. Dear
Creative Mind is a space for creative liberation—a pathway out of
the cycle of overthinking, burnout, and stagnation. This podcast
is for artists & creative entrepreneurs where Pascale,
creativity guide, shares grounding meditations, gentle coaching
guidance and heartfelt conversations with inspiring artists. The
podcast explores the real challenges that come with being
creative—overthinking, self-doubt, burnout—and how to navigate
them while staying true to our vision.







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A special thank you to ⁠⁠⁠Alexandra Moreno⁠⁠⁠ for the
original music of the podcast.