| About Chantelle
Professional History
Chantelle Knight is the Founder and CEO of NeurodiverseLIFE, a national organisation dedicated to helping transform how systems understand, respond to, and support the broad spectrum of neuro-types across:
Mental Health, Education, and
Policing & Criminal Justice
With over twenty-five years’ experience spanning psychology, education, counselling, neuroscience, and systems development, Chantelle’s work is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach that bridges academic rigour, frontline practice, and lived insight.
Chantelle is widely recognised for advancing the view of neurodiversity as a form of human biodiversity — moving beyond deficit-based and purely medicalised models in favour of strengths-based, trauma-informed and developmentally informed frameworks.
Legal & Educational Foundations
Originally trained through the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX), Chantelle began her professional career in criminal law before moving into family law and personal injury litigation. This solid legal foundation continues to inform her understanding of safeguarding, proportionality, and systemic accountability within public services.
Chantelle later transitioned into education, progressing into senior roles including Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (one of the original ELSAs), Assistant SENDCo, Mental Health & Wellbeing Manager, and PSHE Subject Manager. Within those complex roles, she successfully led whole-school strategies for inclusion, emotional regulation, neurodiversity-informed practice, and safeguarding.
For over a decade, she has also worked extensively as a Neurodiversity Coach and Consultant across:
Education, Criminal Justice, Health, and the Private Sector
Qualifications
Below is an overview of the academic foundations that underpin Chantelle’s professional expertise and practice.
FdA
Education
University of
Portsmouth
PGDip
Clinical Psychiatry
University of
Wales
MSc
Neuroscience Cert.
University of Warwick
Medical School
National Training, Policing & Systems Influence
Chantelle designs and delivers specialist neurodiversity, mental health and applied neuroscience training, across police services, fire and rescue services, NHS trusts, substance use services, alternative provision, youth justice, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the private sector.
She delivers specialist Neurodiversity in Custody programmes across the UK, strengthening safeguarding, reducing risk, and embedding lawful, proportionate and humane practice within custodial environments.
Chantelle has a keen interest in creating interventions that seek to break the school-to-prison pipeline for neurodiverse young people and support those at risk of criminalisation, particularly where ADHD, unmet needs and systemic misunderstanding intersect.
Her work addresses the relationship between executive functioning, reward processing, trauma exposure, substance misuse and the revolving door of the criminal justice system, applying neuroscience to support ethical and sustainable behaviour change.
Curriculum Development & Research Focus
Chantelle is the developer of the E3 Curriculum, a pioneering primary school framework built on a triangulated model of neuro-types, the central nervous system, and executive function. E3 enables schools to teach both to and about all neuro-types through an inclusive, strengths-based and neuroscience-informed approach, that helps embed an early understanding of regulation, difference, and cognitive development.
Another specialist area of Chantelle’s is the impact of female hormonal fluctuations on executive functioning, emotional regulation, sensory processing, and mental health outcomes. Her work addresses the many interactions between oestrogen regulation, dopamine pathways, ADHD presentation, menopause transitions, PMDD and psychiatric misdiagnosis — particularly within high-pressure professions.
Additionally, she is currently undertaking a further MSc in Mental Health, strengthening her research capability and insight at the intersection of neurodiversity, youth justice, mental health and systemic reform.
Publications
In addition to being the CEO and founder of NeurodiverseLIFE, Chantelle is also a multi-published author, having written A Circle in Square School in 2023, and co-written Meno-Wars: Battling the Menopause with ADHD (and its comorbidities) in 2025. Furthermore, she’s currently working on her next book, What Does the Label Say?, due to be released later this year.
A therapeutic children’s story exploring neurodiversity through a young “circle” navigating a world designed for “squares”, supporting conversations about identity, belonging, and difference.
A clinical self-help guide exploring the links between neurodiversity, complex female hormone changes, menopause, and mental health over the lifespan, in both their personal and work lives.
Label Say?
(Pending)
A critical examination of psychiatric diagnostic systems and the wider social, moral, and structural impact they have on individuals, families, and public services over time and across communities.
