Terri Donohue
Terri is an ICF Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with over 3,000 hours of coaching experience and credentials in DEIAA and Equitable Systems Design from the University of British Columbia. Terri specializes in supporting adults with ADHD, Autism, AuDHD, executive functioning challenges, and learning differences, as well as neurodivergent executives and senior leaders navigating building teams.
Her trauma-informed, inclusive approach focuses on mental well-being, emotional regulation, navigating transitions and challenge’s through mind, body, and purpose-driven strategies. Before transitioning to coaching, Terri spent 23 years as an Emmy-nominated makeup artist in the entertainment industry, where she developed strengths in creative innovation and collaborative partnership. Her neuroscience-based philosophy is simple: No two brains are alike. She empowers clients to embrace authenticity while building equitable, neuroinclusive systems grounded in dignity.
Terri is a podcast host, life and leadership coach who partners with organizations on inclusive education and equity systems design, maintains a private ADHD coaching practice, and serves as an ICF mentor coach supervisor.
As a Black neurodivergent woman, Terri is motivated by her lived experience and her commitment to upholding dignity—supporting individuals to embrace their authenticity while building organizational systems where neurodivergent people can thrive.
Terri is like a pianist performing a piano concerto—her expertise and lived experience create the container, but the audience’s energy shapes what emerges, moving through captivating highs and lows that shift something within each person and spark connection between them as they partake in transformation.
Qualifications
International Coaching Federation Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Martha Beck Inc Level 2 Life Coach Training
Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) Credential – University of British Columbia
Outstanding Award of Achievement in Anti-Racism – University of British Columbia
Equitable Systems Design Certificate – University of British Columbia