My Story

For more than 25 years, I’ve worked in community mental health, crisis intervention, trauma, addiction, and psychotherapy. Throughout my career, I was often drawn to clients whose experiences didn’t seem to fit neatly into existing diagnostic boxes. I kept asking the same question: What are we missing?

That question became deeply personal.

Later in life, I was diagnosed with ADHD and began recognizing significant autistic traits in myself. Looking back through that new lens transformed how I understood my own life—my strengths, my challenges, my periods of burnout, and the countless ways my nervous system had shaped my experiences.

As both a clinician and someone with lived experience, I began seeing patterns that crossed diagnoses. I noticed that people’s ability to think, regulate emotions, communicate, solve problems, and function wasn’t simply determined by motivation or willpower. It depended on how much capacity their nervous system had available in that moment.

That realization led me to develop the Bandwidth Model™—a neuroscience-informed framework that explains how architecture, load, state, variability, and context interact to influence our day-to-day functioning.

Today, my work focuses on helping people understand themselves through the lens of nervous system capacity rather than personal failure. Whether someone is navigating trauma, ADHD, autism, chronic stress, chronic illness, anxiety, or burnout, my goal is to help them replace shame with understanding and build a life that works with their nervous system instead of against it.

I believe that when we stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?” and begin asking, “What is my nervous system telling me?” everything can start to change.lasting work.