About 2E

Trained in both educational psychology (which focuses on learning from the outside in) and cognitive neuroscience (learning from the inside out - in 2E populations!), I am uniquely qualified to assist you.  The experience my path has opened to me includes time as a middle school teacher, a tutor/mentor of twice exceptional children, a provider of translation services for college students with declared disabilties, a tenured professor of educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience, a researcher, and an engineer and lab chief of a functional magnetic resonance imaging laboratory. My doctoral training program permitted me to create a unique and singular combination of special education, educational psychology, pedagogy and curriculum design, neurology, epidemiology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroimaging. I pivoted from academic life and laboratory science when the autism diagnosis changed in the US, impacting autism research.  I created my practice to help families and organizations understand and apply new information from the learning sciences about human functioning and vitality at home, at school, and during learning, and how to maintain wellness and behavioral health. I collaborate with doctors, teachers, and other specialists who support neurodivergence, and organizations invested in caring for children, adults, and families. In indigenous communities, I marry new information with 'time immemorial' so that neurodivergence is recognized as a gift. My tribal language, Anishinabemowin, values the expression of life and relationality as the animation of life and gifts bestowed on each living thing. Therefore, it is always my intention to help my clients animate new information about themselves or a circumstance into behavioral health, learning and quality of life.
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