Speaking Opportunities, Trainings, & Presentations

Need an engaging speaker for your next community, workplace, school training, or professional development event?

Explore a range of available topics or contact me to request a personalized workshop or training that meets your specific needs and goals.

My Approach

I am passionate about mental health, wellness, and empowering individuals through knowledge. As a therapist, I recognize that we share more similarities than differences, which helps me connect with others by normalizing our shared experiences and easing feelings of shame. My goal as a speaker, is to engage my audience with clear and digestible language. Bringing warmth, relatability, and humor I engage in change talk and adopting new insights with the understanding that this can be difficult. I strive to support individual and community goals by empowering them to make positive changes and address any barriers they may encounter or hurtles they have to overcome.

Your Event

I am available to speak to small and midsize audiences on topics related to wellness, psychoeducation, disability, diversity, managing work and personal life effectively, executive functioning, mental health, and more. As a seasoned therapist and speaker, I know how to reach people where they are and engage them in dialogue and perspective taking. Understanding the audience, their needs, and goals are some of the ways I am able to create content that is useful and engaging.

My Experience

I have presented for professional audiences big and small, local government agencies, human resources and management, consumers, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations.

Topic Examples

Disability Awareness / Sensitivity Training

Reasonable Accommodations

Mental Health EducationWorkplace Relationships

Microagression Training

Sleep Hygiene

Returning to Work After a Loss

Balancing Work and Family Life

Service Animals in the Workplace

Mindfulness and Meditation

Inclusive Workplace Best Practices

Understanding Your Subconscious Biases

Understanding Gender & Sexual Differences

Multigenerational Workforce

Organizational Skills Development

LGBTQ+ Safe Zone Training

Gender Parity

Psychological Safety: What is it and how can webring it to the workplace?

Meaningful Mediation

Women in Leadership

Why Movement Matters and How to Get Started

Starting, Breaking, or Maintaining Habits: Making the Commitment to Change (Atomic Habits book included for participants)

Thought Awareness

Preventing and Dealing with Burnout

Boundary Setting

Time Management

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Diversity, Inclusion, & Awareness

What is this all about and why should I offer it?

What Diversity and Inclusion trainings are NOT:

Affirmative Action

A way to censor freedom of speech

A way to discriminate against others

Let’s create workspaces where ALL people can thrive.

Diversity - embracing differences.

Equity - treating everyone fairly.

Inclusion - respecting and including everyone’s voices.

Who Is eligible?

Any person with a physical, mental, or emotional disability in which it is difficult to perform or limits an important life activity (that another person can easily perform). The life activity may only be a problem during certain times. Under the ADA, an individual with a disability is a person who: Has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; Has a record of such an impairment; or Is regarded as having such an impairment. There are no limitations with respect to the kinds of impairments/disabilities this applies to.
Service Animals

Service animals are dogs trained to perform major life tasks to assist people with physical or psychiatric impairments/disabilities. Examples of such work or tasks include guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling a wheelchair, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, reminding a person with mental illness to take prescribed medications, calming a person with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) during an anxiety attack, or performing other duties. Service animals are working animals, not pets. The work or task a dog has been trained to provide must be directly related to the person’s disability. Dogs whose sole function is to provide comfort or emotional support do not qualify as service animals under the ADA.
Emotional Support Animals

An emotional support animal (ESA) is a person’s pet that has been prescribed by a person’s licensed therapist, psychologist, or psychiatrist (any licensed mental health professional). The animal is part of the treatment program for this person and is designed to bring comfort and minimize the negative symptoms of the person’s emotional/psychological disability. All domesticated animals may qualify as an ESA (cats, dog, mice, rabbits, birds, snakes, hedgehogs, rats, mini pigs, ferrets, etc). These animals do not need any specific task-training because their very presence mitigates the symptoms associated with a person’s psychological/emotional disability, unlike a working service dog. The only requirement is that the animal is manageable in public and does not create a nuisance in or around the home setting.
What Do I Need?

Service Animal: It isn’t necessary to possess a letter from a physician that states you are disabled and require a trained service dog, BUT if someone legally challenges a person claiming to be disabled, proof of the disability will be necessary at that point. What you must be prepared to do when in public is confirm you are disabled and provide credible verbal evidence of what your service dog is trained to do. Emotional Support Animal: For a person to legally qualify for an emotional support animal (ESA), he/she must be considered emotionally disabled by a licensed mental health professional (therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist, etc.), as evidenced by a properly formatted prescription letter.