About Fatma
Fatmatu Jalloh is a coach for ADHD, autism and neurodiversity, working with teenagers, young adults and parents. Her background combines scientific training in biology and biomedical sciences and professional experience in regulated pharmaceuticals with a specialisation in autism spectrum conditions and ADHD. She coaches in English and German, online across Switzerland, Germany and Austria and in person in Rheinfelden. She does not provide diagnostic assessment, psychotherapy or medical treatment.
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What the work builds on
The background is in the natural sciences and in a regulated healthcare environment, where evidence is checked carefully before it becomes a claim. Coaching takes the same stance: understand first, then translate it into something that holds up in everyday life.
- CAS in autism spectrum conditions and ADHD — exact wording still to be confirmed Specialist qualification in autism and ADHD.
- CAS in coaching — exact wording still to be confirmed Coaching qualification underpinning how the conversations work.
- BSc Biology Undergraduate training in the natural sciences.
- DAS Biomedical Sciences Postgraduate specialisation in biomedical sciences.
- Regulatory and compliance work in pharmaceuticals Professional experience in a setting where every claim has to be evidenced before it can be made. That care carries over into coaching.
- Coaching in German and English Both are genuine working languages, including for complex topics.
exact wording still to be confirmed.
Coaching is not diagnostic assessment, psychotherapy or medical treatment. Where something else is needed, I say so and point you onward.
From natural science to working with people
My background is in biology and biomedical sciences, followed by several years in regulatory and compliance work in pharmaceuticals. That is a field in which every claim has to be evidenced before it may be made — and in which you learn to tell apart what has actually been shown from what one would like to be true.
That care is why this website carries no efficacy promises and no numbers nobody can verify. It is also why the work with people looks different from what the subject area might suggest: someone who can read complex information carefully can also translate it — into something that is genuinely usable in the day of a sixteen-year-old or an exhausted parent.
That connection is what Bridge & Bloom is about: depth that arrives as concrete, human support, rather than technical language that impresses.
Practical grounding
Alongside the formal training, I have gained insight into school, special-needs education and psychodiagnostic contexts. What that mainly gives is an understanding of how the systems work that young people and their families move through — who makes which decision, what a report means and does not mean, and why processes sometimes take so long.
It explicitly does not make me an assessor. I do not carry out or interpret diagnostic assessments.
The parent perspective
As the mother of neurodivergent children, I also know the parent perspective from family life.
I do not say more than that publicly. My children’s stories belong to them, not to my website. What the perspective contributes in coaching is not a formula but the experience that well-meant advice is often worth very little on a real Tuesday evening — and that parents deserve support without having to justify themselves first.
Languages
I coach in English and German. Both are genuine working languages, including for difficult, technical or emotionally demanding subjects. You choose which fits better, and that may change as we go.
Intercultural experience feeds in where it is relevant to a situation — for instance where different education systems or different family expectations are in play. That does not make Bridge & Bloom a service aimed at international families. Working in two languages is a way in, not a label for who the practice is for.
What I am not responsible for
I do not diagnose, do not provide psychotherapy, do not treat medically and do not advise on medication. I am not an official careers service and not a crisis service.
Where one of those is needed, I say so and point you onward.
Written by Fatmatu Jalloh. Last updated .
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