Bring Dr. Emily to Keynote Your Event!

Dr. Emily speaks at conferences to educators, mental health providers, and businesses.

Get a feel for Dr. Emily’s perspective in the video!

Are you a school administrator, conference organizer, or business leader who loves the idea of celebrating neurodiversity and supporting mental health, but you need some help presenting these ideas to others?

You already know that the needs of kids, families, and educators are complex, but you’re ready to learn more about how neurodiversity intersects mental health needs and how this impacts your organization.

If you are excited about the opportunity to create a more inclusive community where we all better understand each other’s differences, keep reading.

These Organizations Have Learned with Dr. Emily

  • PBSNC

    PBS North Carolina

  • YouTube Kids

    YouTube Kids

  • Fidelity Investments

    Fidelity Investments

  • NCBCE

    NC Business Committee for Education

  • Wake PTA Council

    Wake PTA Council

  • NCAIS

    NC Association of Indepdendent Schools

Speaking Topics

UNDERSTANDING NEURODIVERSITY

Gain an understanding of how a child’s cognitive, memory, and language skills as well as their sensorimotor development impact their behavior, executive functioning, and academic achievement and how to best support them.

HOW ANXIETY IMPACTS LEARNING

Learn how to spot, prevent, and respond to a child’s anxiety, sadness, and anger, identify what trauma can look like, and help kids emotionally regulate in order to ready their body and brain for new learning, whether at school or home.

EDUCATOR

MENTAL WELLNESS

Help teachers become more aware of their own body’s stress response, identify their triggers in, and learn how to strengthen their emotional resilience in order to ready themselves to effectively handle challenging situations.

EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION WITH PARENTS

Learn how to establish and maintain trust and effectively collaborate with the parents of neurodivergent students. I will walk you through tricky (but common) scenarios, such as school or work refusal or accusations from parents, and give you examples of how to respond.

CREATING AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY

Learn all my favorite strategies for building a neuro-affirming classroom community (or workplace!) including how to understand each other’s differences, teaching leadership through strengths, how to respect the need for rest, and how to track goals unique to individuals skills.

PREVENTING & RESPONDING TO NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR

Learn what to say and what to do when behavior happens to reduce a child’s stress and increase engagement, provide accommodations to help kids access schoolwork or chores, and strike a balance between providing support and fostering independence as children and teens grow.

 Meet Dr. Emily

I’m Dr. Emily, child psychologist and former school psychologist and parent, and I’m here to help you!

As a girl growing up in North Carolina, I always wanted to be a teacher. I really loved school. School supplies gave me a thrill and as long as I had an organized pencil box and my Trapper Keeper was in order, life was good. I loved school so much that after college I immediately entered graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in School Psychology. At some point along the way, my passions evolved from teaching all students to helping those who struggle to learn within our traditional education system, especially when it comes to figuring out where behavior comes from and how it interferes with learning. 

Over the last 20 years, I have seen student learning patterns become even more diverse in addition to an added awareness of the trauma kids’ experience and their mental health needs. Standardized education just does not fit the unique learning patterns of every students. I am incredibly passionate about helping parents and educators come together to support our neurodivergent kids who are growing up in a world that wasn’t built for them.

We all agree that there are systemic barriers we cannot change overnight. What we can do is better understand the needs of neurodiverse learners and the relationships we create with them every day to help them access their education and the opportunities in their community.

We can create change from the bottom-up as we understand, nurture, and celebrate all learners, not just the ones who fit the mold. 

Speaking Rates

(not including travel)

Have Questions? I Have Answers!

  • Dr. Emily resides and works in Raleigh, North Carolina and is available for in-person speaking in the surrounding areas. For more details on having Dr. Emily travel to you in-person, contact Dr. Emily’s team at speaking@learnwithdremily.com.

  • Yes! Dr. Emily is currently available for for virtual speaking all over the world. There are some limitations for live trainings due to time zones. Dr. Emily presents live in EST (New York) and only for one hour.

  • I recognize that funding in education is a tricky endeavor. Sometimes school administrators budget for my speaking and sometimes parent groups fund my appearances on behalf of teachers.

  • Dr. Emily’s speaking engagements are not recorded.