Women with ADHD & Autism are often overlooked, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood. At Sanctum Healthcare, we provide expert, gender-informed assessments designed for the way ADHD & ASD actually presents in women and girls — internalised, masked, hormonally influenced, and often mislabelled as anxiety.
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Many women and girls with ADHD & Autism remain misdiagnosed or misunderstood. At Sanctum, we take a gender-informed approach to assessment, recognising how hormonal fluctuations, masking, emotional internalisation and social expectations affect neurodivergent females.
Our assessments are internationally recognised and designed under the expertise of Dr Asad Raffi, an industry leader in female neurodivergence.
You’ll be welcomed by our clinical coordination team. We’ll guide you through the assessment options, confirm your chosen package, and prepare you with clarity and care.
We collect background and lifestyle insights, including hormonal history, masking behaviours, executive functioning, and emotional patterns unique to female ADHD.
You’ll undergo structured clinical interviews (e.g. DIVA) with a specialist experienced in female neurodivergence, plus optional computerised cognitive testing.
Your case is reviewed by our multidisciplinary team including psychiatrists, psychologists, and hormone-aware ADHD clinicians to ensure accurate diagnosis and differential evaluation (e.g., Autism, PMDD, anxiety).
Receive a comprehensive diagnostic report with tailored workplace/school adjustment letters, treatment suggestions, and lifestyle strategies to support your journey.
We guide you through options for medication, psychoeducation, hormonal interventions, coaching, and support referrals to help you thrive
For women who resonate with both ADHD and Autism traits, and need clarity about where they overlap and diverge. Our assessment is built from the ground up to reflect how ADHD and Autism truly present in women. Every element is intentional and designed to uncover what standard assessments often miss
We apply all seven DSM-5 Autism domains with gender-specific sensitivity, identifying subtle traits like social exhaustion, sensory overwhelm, rigid thinking, and emotional masking that often go unnoticed in women.
Our protocol goes beyond surface-level symptoms. We assess internal restlessness, overthinking, emotional dysregulation, executive function struggles, perfectionism, and burnout — the patterns most common in female ADHD.
We explore how hormonal shifts impact your neurodivergence at key stages: puberty, menstrual cycle, PMDD, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause. Most providers overlook this — we prioritise it.
We uncover the hidden costs of years spent “holding it all together” — from chronic masking and people-pleasing to emotional intensity, sensory sensitivity, and fatigue from constantly trying to keep up.
Our assessment includes validated computerised performance tests and structured interviews to provide objective evidence for diagnosis. This ensures accuracy — especially when your challenges are internal and masked.
You’ll receive detailed next-step recommendations, workplace or academic adjustment letters, and access to our expert support network. Plus, you’ll be invited to join our female ADHD & Autism community for continued connection and guidance.
Our assessments are designed with female neurodivergence at the centre and not as an afterthought. You’ll be seen, heard, and understood in a way that reflects your actual lived experience. We don’t rely on outdated checklists or male-centric criteria; instead, we explore your internal world, emotional cycles, coping strategies, and hormonal patterns, all alongside clinically validated ADHD diagnostics that recognise how the condition truly presents in women.
ADHD & ASD in females isn’t just a milder version of the male experience, it’s often invisible because the system was never built to recognise it.
Most research, diagnostic criteria, and screening tools were designed around how ADHD & ASD presents in boys: external, disruptive, obvious. But for girls and women it can be quiet, internal, and misread, until it causes burnout, breakdowns, or misdiagnosis.
Puberty, perimenopause, postpartum, and even monthly cycles dramatically affect cognitive functioning, energy, and mood, yet few clinicians ever ask about them.
Many women build “coping personas” to hide their struggles, leading to burnout, shutdown, or emotional dysregulation.
Often dismissed as being “too sensitive” or “dramatic,” this is actually linked to ADHD-related difficulty with regulation and rejection sensitivity.
Many women are wrongly diagnosed with BPD, anxiety, depression, or even told they’re just “lazy” or “not trying hard enough.”
At Sanctum Healthcare, we don’t just assess ADHD, we understand the female ADHD experience in all its complexity, nuance, and invisibility. Here’s what makes our approach different and why so many women choose us after years of feeling dismissed, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood.
ADHD and ASD in women often don’t look the way people expect. They’re not usually loud or disruptive; they’re internal. The racing thoughts, the guilt, the constant effort to hold everything together. Many of the women we work with have been told they’re just anxious, too emotional, too sensitive, or have spent years blaming themselves for not being able to cope.
At Sanctum, we don’t only focus on what’s in the diagnostic manual. We focus on what’s actually showing up in your life. Our assessments look at emotional dysregulation and rejection sensitivity, rumination, perfectionism and burnout, hormone-linked symptom spikes such as PMDD, perimenopause and postpartum changes, masking, people-pleasing, cognitive overload, and quiet hyperactivity — the kind that shows up in your mind, not through fidgeting.
Your hormonal landscape matters. Oestrogen fluctuations affect dopamine, which in turn influences focus, memory, and mood. Yet almost no one asks women about their cycle, menopause, or postpartum changes. We do. Every time.
Our assessments explore how your ADHD and ASD symptoms shift across key hormonal stages, including puberty, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause. We don’t treat hormones as an afterthought. We see them as essential.
Sanctum is led by Dr. Asad Raffi — a consultant psychiatrist and internationally recognised expert in female neurodivergence. Our team includes clinicians, psychologists, and support specialists with lived or clinical experience in how ADHD & ASD affects women and girls.
This isn’t generic. This isn’t guesswork. This is evidence-based care, designed specifically for your reality.
Most women come to us feeling exhausted, dismissed, or overanalysed. We change that.
Our clinicians listen without judgement. We believe your story, your symptoms, your intuition — even if others have ignored them for years.
“It wasn’t just a diagnosis. It was validation for the first time in my life.”
— Sanctum Client
Whether you want a fully remote experience or to visit one of our CQC-registered clinics in Wilmslow, Manchester, Liverpool, or London — we make assessment easy, supportive, and confidential.
Our assessments go beyond labels. We consider your:
We don’t just give you a label and send you away. We explain your diagnosis in a way that makes sense — for your work, your relationships, your hormones, and your goals.
Your report will include:
97% of the women we work with say they finally feel seen and understood. During their feedback sessions, many are moved to tears, not from sadness but from sheer relief. For the first time, someone connects the dots: the constant exhaustion, emotional intensity, focus struggles, and the endless need to overcompensate finally make sense.
