Speaking & Training
Talks, workshops, and facilitated sessions on mental health, identity, and practice, adapted to clinical, academic, and community settings.
When This Work Is Useful:
This work is often useful when something isn’t working, but it’s not clear why.
Ongoing tension within teams that doesn’t resolve through standard interventions
Gaps between stated values and day-to-day practice
Challenges implementing change or sustaining it over time
Burnout, conflict, or fragmentation across roles
Clinical or programmatic decisions that feel stuck or contested
In many cases, the issue is not a lack of effort or commitment. It’s that the situation is more complex than it first appears.
Topics
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Mental health, identity, and social context
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Clinical decision-making and complexity
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Power, ethics, and accountability in care
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Working with difference, conflict, and uncertainty
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Translating theory into everyday practice
Approach
The starting point is to understand the system as it is currently functioning using an integrated DEI, psychoanalytic, organizational behaviour model.
How decisions are made
How roles and responsibilities are defined and negotiated
How communication patterns develop and repeat
How identity, power, and institutional pressures shape behavior
Rather than applying a fixed model, the work focuses on making sense of what is already happening and identifying where change is possible.
I’ve delivered and measured outcomes from numerous one-time anti-oppression training sessions. Ethically, I no longer offer these because the evidence has shown it’s not effective.
My aim is to develop responses that can be used in practice and sustained over time.
How the process works
Work that can be used, not just understood.
Initial conversation
A short meeting to understand the context, what is being requested, and whether there is a good fit.
Information Gathering
Review of relevant materials and conversations with key stakeholders, depending on the scope of the work.
Analysis
Identifying patterns, tensions, and dynamics that are shaping the current situation.
Recommendations
Clear, usable recommendations tailored to the organization’s context and constraints.
Implementation
Support with applying recommendations, which may include facilitation, consultation, or structured follow-up.
Review
Ongoing check-ins to assess what is changing, what is not, and what needs to be adjusted.
What You Receive
- A clearer understanding of what is happening within the organization
- Structured analysis of key dynamics and constraints
- Recommendations that are grounded in actual conditions, not ideal scenarios
- Support with implementation, where needed
Research and Development
This work is informed by my current doctoral research, which focuses on resistance to change, group dynamics, and organizational defenses in human service settings. Ongoing tension within teams that doesn’t resolve through standard interventions.
That research is not separate from the consulting. It shapes how I understand what is happening in organizations, particularly when change efforts stall or produce unintended effects.
It also informs the development of practical tools and frameworks that can be used beyond a single engagement.
Fit
This work tends to be most useful for organizations that:
Are open to examining how they currently function
Are willing to engage with complexity rather than simplify it too quickly
Want changes that can hold over time, not just immediate fixes
If the goal is a quick or purely technical solution, this may not be the right fit.
Practical Details
Work can be structured as short-term consultations or longer-term engagements.
It can take place virtually or in person, depending on location and scope.
Fees vary based on the size of the organization and the nature of the work, and are discussed during the initial meeting.