Essays and research notes on what I’m working on.
Long-form pieces that sit between clinical theory and plain-language writing. I publish when something is ready, not on a set schedule. Most pieces are thirty to ninety minutes to read, because most subjects worth writing about can’t be compressed much further without losing the thing that made them worth writing.
Coercive Self-Betrayal.
The five-layer model for what happens to good people inside arrangements that quietly keep expecting them to go against their own values. Introduces the Trap mechanism, the novel fourth layer, and the sober-recognition intervention. A slow, detailed read drawn from the work itself.
Read the essay →When you try other glasses.
On late-diagnosed neurodivergence and the feeling of recognition that shows up when a pair of glasses finally fits. Written for the adults who have been running three operating systems at once for decades and are ready to stop.
Why high performers go quiet.
What’s usually going on underneath the resignation letter. Most of the time, it wasn’t really the workload. A short essay for people who have just noticed that the most capable person on their team has gone quiet, and for the most capable person on that team.
The Free Nervous System Scan, two axes instead of one.
A short note on the Free Nervous System Scan: what it measures that single-axis assessments don’t, and early validation results from 900+ participants. Written for clinicians and researchers who want to see the methodology underneath the work.
Twice exceptional, thrice overlooked.
A plain-language explainer on the 2e and 3e profiles, and why the most capable, most neurodivergent adults often end up with the least helpful diagnostic reports. What the compensation mechanism does to a standard assessment, and what to do about it.
The fourth path nobody teaches.
Why coercive self-betrayal belongs in the clinical literature alongside perpetrator, witness, and betrayal injuries, and what it changes about how we work with civilians who don’t fit the soldier template the literature grew up with.
What we mean by unmasking, and what we do not.
Unmasking has become a slogan, and the clinical version is usually quieter and slower, and rarely the uncomplicated freedom the popular writing suggests. A short essay on what the work actually looks like for a late-diagnosed adult who has built their life around the mask.
Want the long-form in book shape?
Sixteen chapters on moral injury in civilian life, out in 2026.