Speaking Engagements
For schools, churches, counseling practices, and organizations. Research-grounded, plainly spoken, and built around the questions your audience is actually carrying — not a generic overview of the diagnostic criteria.
Each of these can run as a 45-minute talk, a 90-minute workshop, or a half-day training. Content is adjusted to the audience — parents, educators, clinicians, or a congregation.
What ADHD actually is
The neurobiology behind the symptoms, in language a non-clinical audience can follow. Why it is a disorder of doing what you know rather than knowing what to do.
ADHD in the classroom
For teachers and school staff: what executive dysfunction looks like at a desk, why standard behavior systems misfire, and the accommodations that carry the most weight.
Parenting a child with ADHD
Structure without shame. What the research supports, what to stop doing, and how to protect a child’s self-concept through years of accumulated correction.
ADHD and faith
Why stillness, silence, and contemplative prayer often leave attention-different people feeling like spiritual failures — and how the practices can be adapted without being abandoned.
Shame and treatment failure
For clinical audiences: the mechanism by which shame suppresses executive function, and why treatment plans that ignore it underperform.
ADHD testing for clinicians
A professional-development session on the instrument set, differential diagnosis, and building a testing specialty inside a generalist practice.
Schools and districts — staff in-service, parent nights, counselor training.
Churches and ministries — Sunday teaching, parenting classes, leadership training.
Counseling practices — clinical staff development and consultation.
Conferences and associations — breakout sessions and plenary talks.
Employers — ADHD in the workplace, accommodations, and retention.
Available in person throughout Michigan and virtually anywhere. Half-day and full-day formats available for training audiences.
Speaking fees vary by format, travel, and organization type. Churches and schools — ask; I would rather have the conversation than price you out of it.
Handouts and slides are provided, and I am happy to record a version for staff who cannot attend live.
I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Supervisor with a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Regent University. I conduct ADHD evaluations for children, teens, and adults, teach graduate counseling students, and train clinicians in ADHD testing.
I also have ADHD. That is not a credential, but it does change how I teach it — audiences tend to notice the difference between a lecture about a condition and an account from inside it.
Tell me your audience, your date, and roughly how much time you have. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right fit.
Email a speaking inquiry