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Keynotes, workshops, and retreat facilitation for leadership teams, healthcare organizations, and companies that take the long-term performance of their people seriously.
Organizations spend significantly on wellness benefits. Utilization remains low. Burnout continues to rise.
This is not a failure of resources. It is a failure of approach.
Most workplace wellness programming addresses behavior — sleep hygiene, stress management tips, mindfulness apps — without addressing the underlying physiology that makes those behaviors so difficult to sustain under pressure.
In reality, burnout is not a mindset problem. It is a physiological state. Because it lives in the body, shows up in the body, and resolves through the body, telling burned-out employees to eat vegetables and use an app is like asking someone with a broken leg to walk it off.
Research in stress physiology and nervous system regulation has been gradually reshaping how burnout is understood — not as a personal failure or a time management problem — but as a physiological state with specific physiological solutions. Most organizations haven't caught up to that science yet. The ones that do have a meaningful advantage.
Rather than presenting a framework for audiences to receive and forget, my work gives people an immediate, direct experience of what nervous system awareness actually feels like.
Participants leave having encountered their own physiology in a new way — not having been told about it.
That distinction — between information and embodied knowledge — is why this work stays with people after they leave the room.
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— The nervous system is able to move between states again, instead of staying locked in one
— Decisions come from a clearer place — not from a threat response under a deadline
— The emotional charge that used to derail meetings starts to have somewhere to go
— People recover between demands instead of just surviving until the next one
— Presence at work doesn’t cost presence at home
These are not aspirational outcomes. They are what the nervous system is designed to do when it is given the right conditions.
This work is built for:
Healthcare systems and hospital networks — where the people doing the caring are chronically under-resourced and rarely on the receiving end of evidence-based support
Leadership and executive teams — carrying the weight of organizational culture, performance pressure, and decision fatigue, often without adequate recovery
Professional and caregiving organizations — therapists, social workers, educators, emergency responders — whose work demands full presence at the cost of their own care
This work is also for organizations that have already lost good people to burnout — and refuse to treat further loss as inevitable.
Four formats. Designed for the people in the room.
A single-session experience for conferences, leadership summits, or all-hands gatherings. Audiences leave with something they can feel and use — not a slide deck's worth of statistics they will forget. Topics include burnout physiology, nervous system literacy for leaders, performance that doesn't require recovery from itself, and the daily behaviors that support sustainability.
Half-day and full-day formats for teams and organizations ready to go deeper. Participants develop a working understanding of their own nervous system states, build simple and repeatable regulation practices, and leave with a genuinely changed relationship to their own physiology that affects how they work and how they recover.
For organizations committed to lasting culture change rather than a one-time intervention. A structured series builds capacity over time — with format, cadence, and content designed specifically for your organization.
Immersive experiences that combine applied physiology, somatic practice, evidence-based nutrition, and nature-based activity. Designed for leadership teams that need more than a change of scenery. Your team leaves with the kind of reset that actually carries forward.
Licensed Occupational Therapist · Licensed Nutritionist · Certified Nutrition Specialist · Board-Certified Structural Integrator · Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
My work is built on 20+ years of clinical practice across occupational therapy, structural integration, clinical nutrition, and Somatic Experiencing® — an uncommon combination that addresses the whole person rather than a symptom.
A foundation of applied physiology draws directly on current research in nervous system regulation, polyvagal theory, and the stress response — translated into language and experience that lands without losing rigor.
My facilitation is not scripted. I read the room, respond to what is actually present, find the entry point that will land for your group, in this moment — this is my work. It is what makes this approach different from a wellness talk.
What's right for your organization won't look exactly like what's right for anyone else's.
Every engagement begins with a conversation — about your people, how burnout is actually showing up, and what a good outcome would mean for your organization. From there, we design something specifically for you.
The people in your organization are not broken.
They are intelligent humans responding to conditions that have outpaced what the human nervous system was built to sustain without support.
The work is not complicated. But it has to start in the body.
Response time is typically within two business days.