This page highlights some of the topics I teach, which can be tailored for different groups and settings. For additional information, please contact me to discuss how I can be of service to you or your organization!
Understanding ADHD, Autism, OCD, and AuDHD
A practical overview of how these profiles affect focus, emotion, and daily functioning, and what actually helps.
Neurodivergence in Women
Why many women are missed or misdiagnosed, how symptoms often present differently, and what late identification can look like.
Neurodivergence Across Cultures
How diagnostic criteria were built, where bias exists, and why some groups face more barriers to identification and support.
What If You Think Something Is Going On?
How to think about diagnosis, when testing may help, when it may not, and what options exist either way.
Skills for Neurodivergent Students
Time Management That Actually Works
Why traditional advice like “just use a planner” often fails, and how to build time systems that match how your brain actually works.
Study Strategies for Different Brains
Practical approaches to getting started, using body doubling, managing your environment, and making studying more sustainable.
Focus Through Fidgeting
How movement, fidget tools, and even the right kind of doodling can improve attention by helping regulate under- and overstimulation.
Dopamine in the Modern World
What short-form content and constant stimulation are doing to attention, motivation, and reward systems, and what helps when your brain feels “fried.”
How Habits Actually Form (and Change)
A practical look at conditioning, reinforcement, and why changing behavior often gets harder before it gets easier.
SMART Goals That Don’t Feel Pointless
How to set goals that connect to personal values and motivation instead of becoming another abandoned checklist.
Motivation (Even When You Have None)
Why motivation disappears, how to work without waiting for it to return, and how to decide what is worth your energy.
Using Flow to Make Hard Things Easier
Understanding flow states and how to use them to approach tasks you normally avoid, especially for creative and neurodivergent thinkers.
Motivational Interviewing for Students
Simple tools for identifying strengths, removing barriers, and helping people move from stuck to moving forward.
The Window of Tolerance
Why some days everything feels manageable and other days everything feels like too much, plus practical ways to recognize and expand your capacity.
Understanding Stress and the Nervous System
How cortisol, trauma, and the nervous system affect thinking, emotions, and behavior, and why stress responses are not character flaws.
The Anger Iceberg
Understanding the difference between primary and secondary emotions and how to communicate feelings more effectively.
How Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors Interact (ABC Model)
A practical look at how reactions form and how small changes in one area can change the whole pattern.
Cognitive Distortions and Thinking Traps
Common ways the brain unintentionally makes situations feel worse and how to respond to those patterns more effectively.
Working Through Defensiveness
Understanding why defensiveness happens and how values-based strategies can help people stay open in difficult conversations.
Applied Coping Skills (Zentangle and Beyond)
Why coping skills need practice before you need them, and hands-on opportunities to try practical regulation strategies.
When to Ask for Help
How to recognize when stress becomes something bigger, what resources exist, and how to access support.
How to Find a Therapist
Understanding therapy types, how to search for providers, how insurance works, and how to find a good fit.
Safety Planning and Crisis Preparation
How to create a personalized plan for difficult moments so you do not have to figure things out while overwhelmed.
Understanding Depression
Signs, symptoms, treatment options, and realistic coping strategies.
Understanding Anxiety
How anxiety works, why avoidance can make it stronger, and practical ways to respond more effectively.
Why “Just Don’t Think About It” Doesn’t Work
Understanding mental suppression and why trying not to think about something often makes it louder.
Sleep and Mental Health
How sleep affects focus, emotion, and health, plus practical strategies for improving sleep habits.
Sleep and Neurodivergence
Understanding differences in sleep cycles, chronic fatigue, and practical ways to manage sleep challenges in school and work settings.
Relationship Balance and Conflict Navigation
How relationships move in and out of balance and how to navigate disagreements without destroying connection.
Communication Styles
Understanding passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive communication and when each tends to show up.
Validation Skills
What validation actually is, why it matters, and how it improves communication and trust.
ACT for Career and Life Direction
Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-informed tools to clarify values, reduce avoidance, and make decisions that align with the kind of life you want to build.
Finding Work That Fits (Holland Codes & Career Exploration)
Using interest profiles, transferable skills, and tools like O*NET to explore career paths that match strengths, preferences, and long-term goals.
Purpose, Values, and Life Direction
How to think about career decisions through the lens of values, environment preferences, and the kind of work and life you want to create.
Practical Life Skills Most People Were Never Taught
Topics may include writing professional emails, resumes and CVs, evaluating sources, interviewing skills, understanding insurance, budgeting basics, healthy boundaries, and everyday self-management skills.
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Why people learn differently and how presenting information in multiple ways improves understanding and engagement.