Speaking and Training
I speak and teach for clinical teams, universities, conferences, and community organizations, bringing research, clinical practice, and lived knowledge into the same conversation.
Every talk is shaped with the people who invite me, so that it lands in the actual conditions of their work rather than in the abstract. These are the areas I return to most often.
What families know about substance use, why their knowledge is so often left out of care, and what changes when it is invited back in. Drawn directly from my doctoral research and from more than 26 years of clinical practice.
Grief that does not follow stages, losses that are difficult to name, and the long work of carrying something rather than resolving it. For clinicians, health-care teams, and public audiences.
Preparation, harm reduction, and integration of psychedelic and non-ordinary states of consciousness, held with clinical care rather than enthusiasm or alarm.
Narrative and collaborative approaches in everyday practice: how the questions we ask shape what becomes possible, and how professional and lived knowledge can inform one another.
I teach and facilitate in university settings and in professional education, working with students, clinicians, health-care practitioners, organizations, and communities. My interest is in making complex ideas usable without flattening the human experiences underneath them.
Tell me a little about your audience, the setting, and what you are hoping the conversation will open up.