Available Presentation Topics
ADHD, Substance Use & the Developing Brain
An accessible overview of how ADHD can influence impulsivity, reward seeking, emotional regulation, decision-making, and vulnerability to problematic substance use.
When ADHD Looks Like Defiance, Anxiety or Substance Use
Understanding how executive functioning difficulties and nervous system dysregulation can be mistaken for laziness, opposition, or lack of motivation.
Early Substance Use: When Is Outpatient Care Enough?
Helping professionals and parents recognize when experimentation may be progressing toward a more serious concern and how different levels of behavioral health treatment fit together.
Helping Parents Respond to Adolescent Substance Use Without Escalating the Family System
A practical presentation focused on connection, boundaries, emotional regulation, enabling, consequences, and maintaining parental leadership during a difficult season.
From Consequences to Connection
Understanding ADHD, emotional regulation, parent-child conflict, and why repeated punishment does not always create behavioral change.
Substance Use as Coping: Looking Beneath the Behavior
Exploring the role substances can play in emotional regulation, trauma, attachment, social connection, ADHD, anxiety, and avoidance.
ADHD, Recovery & Relationships
How executive functioning difficulties, emotional reactivity, shame, communication, and impulsivity can affect recovery and interpersonal relationships.
Understanding Levels of Behavioral Health Care
A practical guide to outpatient treatment, IOP, PHP, residential care, and therapeutic placement.
Customized Presentations
If your organization is navigating a particular concern, I can also develop customized workshops around the needs of your clinicians, staff, students, or parents.