Narelle Vigor

About

I was assessed as AuDHD at 49, after more than a decade of helping other people work out their careers. Turns out the woman who could map everyone else’s strengths had been running her own working life on willpower, workarounds and an Olympic medal-level amount of masking. And of course caffeine! The assessment didn’t change who I am, but it explained a lot - the burnout, the jobs that wore me down for reasons I couldn’t identify at the time, and the ones where I genuinely thrived.

That’s the lens I bring to my work now. I’m a postgraduate qualified career development practitioner with more than 13 years in career counselling and outplacement, and a professional member of CDAA and CICA, Australia’s peak career development bodies. I work with neurodivergent adults, particularly women in midlife who have been late identified, who want work that fits how their brain actually works, rather than one more strategy for coping with work that doesn’t.

Our sessions might cover making sense of your career history through a neurodivergent lens, working out the conditions you do your best work in, deciding whether and how to disclose at work, asking for adjustments, rethinking a role that’s burning you out, or planning a change from scratch. The practical stuff is covered too - résumés, applications and interview prep that don’t require you to pretend to be someone else.

I’m a career practitioner, not a psychologist or counsellor, so I don’t provide therapy or diagnosis. What you get from me is honest conversation, solid career frameworks and someone who has sat on both sides of the desk and understands why the usual career advice so often misses the mark for us.

Telehealth, Australia-wide.

Works with

Approach

• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
• Coaching

Qualifications

Graduate Certificate Education(Career Development & Counselling), Cert IV Counselling, Cert IV TAE, MHFA