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Looking for a speaker who blends clinical depth with clear, empowering takeaways? I offer keynotes and workshops on overfunctioning, boundaries, self-trust, workplace trauma, and culturally affirming care. Share your event details, and we will send a tailored proposal.
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Workplace Trauma & Healing Your Nervous System
What discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination do to the body—and what truly helps.
Workplace trauma is often invisible, but its impact is real: sleep disruption, hypervigilance, shame spirals, anger, grief, and identity collapse—especially when power imbalance and gaslighting are involved. In this talk, Steff breaks down how high-stakes workplace experiences dysregulate the nervous system and shares stabilization tools that support clarity, functioning, and self-trust during prolonged stress.
Audience fit: Attorneys, HR/People Ops teams, clinicians supporting professionals
Overfunctioning As A Trauma Response
Overfunctioning often gets mislabeled as “anxious,” “codependent,” or “high-maintenance.” In reality, it’s frequently an intelligent survival strategy shaped by family roles, attachment dynamics, and nervous system conditioning. This talk helps audiences understand why people-pleasing happens, how it shows up in relationships and work, and how to keep the strengths (devotion, leadership, sensitivity) without continuing to pay the cost.
Audience fit: Clinician trainings, mental health orgs, community workshops
Communication Skills - Boundaries that Don’t Burn Bridges
How to speak with clarity and confidence—especially if you freeze, fawn, or over-explain.
Many women were taught to be “nice” instead of direct, accommodating instead of honest. This talk teaches trauma-informed communication skills that help people ask for what they need, say no without over-justifying, and hold boundaries without escalating conflict. Steff offers simple scripts and nervous-system-aware practices so communication becomes clearer, calmer, and more effective.
Audience fit: Teams, women’s groups, leadership audiences, clinician psychoeducation workshops
Culturally Affirming Mental Health Care
Beyond “cultural competence”: how to offer care that honors identity, context, and nervous system reality.
Culturally affirming care isn’t a checklist—it’s a way of seeing. In this talk, Steff explores how culture, gender roles, family loyalty, immigration/first-gen pressure, and “good girl” scripts shape mental health symptoms and coping strategies. Participants learn how to distinguish pathology from adaptation, how to reduce shame around survival patterns, and how to create therapeutic spaces where bilingual/bicultural clients feel genuinely understood—not translated.
Audience fit: Clinician trainings, community mental health orgs, schools/universities, wellness programs, DEI-aligned teams