Press & Speaking
Media features, interviews, and speaking engagements
This page highlights selected media appearances, interviews, and speaking contributions connected to my work in neurodivergent-affirming therapy and psychoeducation.
Much of my work focuses on the experiences many neurodivergent adults spend years trying to make sense of without enough context or language — including autistic burnout, masking and unmasking, late identification, chronic overwhelm, perfectionism, nervous system exhaustion, and the long-term impact of adapting to environments that never fully fit.
Across different conversations and settings, similar themes often emerge:
What happens when life stops feeling sustainable?
What changes when experiences finally begin to make sense?
And what does it look like to build a way of living that is more aligned with how your nervous system actually works?
Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (2026)
Why People Are Opting Out of Hustle Culture
I was featured in an article exploring burnout, hustle culture, mental health, and the growing recognition that constant productivity and chronic over-functioning are not sustainable ways of living.
The piece examined how many people are beginning to question cultural expectations around work, performance, and pushing beyond personal limits, particularly as rates of burnout and emotional exhaustion continue increasing.
For neurodivergent adults, these pressures are often intensified by long-term masking, sensory overload, chronic self-monitoring, and environments that require ongoing adaptation simply to function. What is often interpreted externally as lack of motivation or disengagement is frequently the cumulative impact of chronic stress, autistic burnout, nervous system overload, and living too long outside sustainable capacity.
This conversation reflects a broader cultural shift toward recognizing human limits, nervous system realities, and the need for more sustainable ways of living and working.
UnMasked Summit (2026)
Making Sense of Late Discovery and What Comes After
In this presentation, I spoke about the experience of late identification and the complex process that often follows once someone begins understanding themselves through a neurodivergent lens.
For many adults, discovering they are autistic or ADHD does not create instant clarity. More often, it opens a deeper period of processing involving grief, relief, anger, disorientation, identity shifts, and the realization of how much effort was required to function within environments that never fully matched their nervous system.
This process often includes making sense of long-term masking, autistic burnout, chronic exhaustion, perfectionism, emotional overwhelm, and the loss of years spent interpreting understandable neurodivergent struggles as personal failures.
Rather than focusing on rapid transformation, the talk explored what it means to gradually build a more sustainable relationship with yourself through understanding, nervous system awareness, and self-trust.
A Note About This Work
Much of this work happens quietly.
It happens when long-standing patterns finally begin making sense.
When self-criticism starts shifting into context and understanding.
When people realize they were never failing in the ways they believed they were.
These shifts are often deeply significant, even when they are not immediately visible from the outside.
If something here feels familiar, that recognition itself is often where the process begins.
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