Michael James Henderson
Hope-Filled Coaching for Creative People Michael James Henderson
Who Is This For

You carry creativity, faith and neurodivergence, maybe all at once.

You have more ideas than you can hold. Your faith is real but hard to live from. Your neurodivergent mind sees things others miss, but it also makes the ordinary feel exhausting.

You are not broken. You are just carrying something most people do not fully understand.

This is for you.

What I Would Love to Help You With
Creativity

Whether you make art, lead a team, play sport or express yourself in any form, I want to help you embrace what it means to bring your whole self into contact with the world. To stop apologising for the way you create and start trusting what only you are positioned to find and feel.

Faith

Your faith is not separate from your creativity or your neurodivergence. It runs through all of it. I want to help you understand how faith connects and enlarges everything you do, and how to live from that quiet, practiced turning toward something bigger than yourself.

Neurodivergence

Your neurodivergent mind is not a problem to manage. It carries its own form of giftedness, its own tenderness toward what others too easily pass over. I want to help you find ways to let it empower and release you rather than hold you back.

What Coaching With Me Looks Like Michael James Henderson

A conversation between equals, marked by deep listening, honest questions and the kind of accountability that helps you find your way toward a life where your creativity, faith and neurodivergence finally make sense together.

I am an artist, writer and life coach based in lutruwita / Tasmania. I have spent over 25 years making large-scale art installations about identity, sorrow and hope. I have spent over 30 years caring for people, and 15 years as a trained life coach. I live with neurodivergence. I hold faith as a lived, practised thing. I know from the inside what it feels like to carry creativity as both a gift and a weight, and I know what it looks like when those things begin to work together.

I coach because I have lived the questions you are carrying.

What Happens Next

This is not just about coaching. Depending on where you are right now, there are a few different ways I can support you.

01
Free Resources

If you are not ready to commit to anything yet, The Purple Door newsletter is a good place to start. A weekly reflection on creativity, faith and the questions worth sitting with.

02
Life Coaching

If you are ready for a thinking partner, a 1 on 1 coaching conversation could be the right next step. We start with a 20 minute discovery session for $30 AUD, a real conversation to work out if this is right for you.

03
Deeper Support

Sometimes what someone needs goes beyond coaching. If that is where you are, I will always tell you honestly and help point you toward the right kind of care.

Discover Your Next Step

The quiz below will help you work out which of these feels most true for you right now. There are no wrong answers. Just honest ones.