Training, Consulting & Speaking

A strengths-based program that helps professionals better understand autism, communication, sensory needs, and individual differences. Participants leave with respectful strategies for clinical, educational, organizational , and community settings.

Let's talk about anxiety, ADHD, trauma, sensory differences, and other developmental health concerns. This program helps participants understand how overlapping needs can affect communication, behavior, and well-being and respond with individualized, compassionate support.

Drawing from published inpatient research, this program examines weighted blankets as a potential person-centered tool for reducing anxiety. Participants explore research findings, safety, individual choice, staff training, implementation challenges, and lessons learned, including what worked, and what did not and what could be done differently.

A compelling exploration of recreational DNA testing, unexpected parentage, identity, and the ripple effects of family secrets across generations. Blending lived experience with professional insight Annette examines what happens when one test changes the story you thought you knew.

Discovery is only the beginning. This program explores the emotional journey from shock and uncertainty toward integration, identify, and a renewed sense of home. It invites participants to consider who they are when their old story no longer fits. Nothing has changed, yet everything has changed.

Designed for therapists and helping professionals, this program examines the emotional and relational impact of unexpected DNA findings. Participants learn trauma-informed, identity-sensitive approaches for supporting clients through shock, grief, family disruption, boundaries, and meaning-making. 

An experiential program exploring how early experiences continue to shape adult relationships, choices, and emotional patterns. Participants have the opportunity to meet their inner child and learn compassionate ways to reconnect, understand and support the child within.

Disenfranchised and ambiguous grief may be unrecognized, unsupported, or without a clear ending. Participants gain language, validation, and practical strategies for navigating grief that does not follow a "traditional path." 

We set out on a reflective journey beyond the stories we have been told to achieve a more authentic understanding of ourselves. Participants explore identity, healing, resilience, and what it means to finally feel at home within themselves.