Your team has the training. I bring the translation.

You've got the policies, the curriculum and the good intentions. What's often missing is the bridge between the people providing services and the people receiving them. I've lived on both sides of that bridge. Let's close the gap.

Who I work with

Community-based organizations, schools and colleges, county and city agencies, clinics and mental health teams, reentry and recovery programs, and companies building more inclusive workplaces.

Ways to bring me in

Keynote or panel (30–60 min) for conferences, graduations and kickoffs.

Workshop (90 min to half day) for staff development, student groups and community nights.

Training series (3–6 sessions) for teams building skills over time.

Mediation and facilitation for community tension, partner conflict and hard conversations.

Program consulting for designing services that actually reach your community.

Training topics

Trauma-Informed Engagement — reaching system-impacted folks without re-traumatizing them.

Emotional Wealth — regulation, accountability and self-leadership that sticks.

Anger, Violence and the Choices in Between — what's underneath, and how to interrupt it.

De-Escalation for Frontline Staff — calm is a skill; we practice it.

Working With Peer Staff — how clinicians and lived-experience staff make each other better.

Culture as Medicine — rethinking the helping relationship so it honors where people come from, not just where we want them to go.

Code Switching and Showing Up Whole — the Corporate OG talk: belonging at work without leaving yourself at the door.

Fathers Matter — engaging dads in family services.

Every session is interactive, rooted in real stories and built so your people walk out with tools they can use Monday morning.

Why me

23 years of community work and 12 years in the mental health field. Peer trainer for clinicians and peer staff. Spoken at USC. Founder of The Seeds LA.

Let's build something your community will actually show up for.