Organizational Consultation

Bridging perspectives brings clarity to complex organizational challenges and opens pathways to meaningful change

Sometimes you know something isn’t working, but it’s difficult to see why—or what would help. Relationships feel strained. The same concern keeps coming up across programs. People are working hard, yet their efforts aren’t connecting in the ways they hoped.

I approach organizational consultation much as I approach supervision: with curiosity about what feels stuck and attention to the different perspectives surrounding it. How does the situation look to staff? To a supervisor? To leadership? What changes when viewed through the lens of neurotype, culture, power, or the environment where the work happens?

When we work together, I’ll help you turn the problem over until something catches the light—a pattern becomes clearer, an assumption shifts, or a place to begin emerges. My role is to bridge those perspectives and help turn that understanding into practical changes.

Who It's For

Organizational consultation is designed for organizations that want:

Help understanding a persistent or complicated concern, whether it involves one supervisory relationship, a particular program, or patterns appearing across divisions or an entire agency.

A fresh perspective on what feels stuck, including help understanding why previous efforts haven’t resolved the issue and identifying a different place to begin.

Stronger connections across roles and perspectives, especially when differences in power, culture, neurotype, or professional experience affect how people communicate, interpret expectations, and work together.

More responsive supervisory and organizational practices, including support with strained relationships, recurring complaints, unclear expectations, or approaches that aren’t meeting staff needs.

Neuroinclusive environments and practices, such as:

applying universal design principles to supervision and everyday work
discussing attention, communication, and sensory needs without making diagnostic assumptions
examining policies and practices for barriers to participation
arranging workspaces for people with different neurotypes
making room for SMART and sensory tools in clinical settings

Stronger connections between education and clinical practice, including developing internship placement programs and understanding barriers to field placements or employment.

I bring experience across:

Clinical practice and community-based care
Supervision, program leadership, and staff development
Neuroinclusive and identity-affirming practices
Graduate education, field learning, and internship supervision
Collaboration among providers, educational programs, and systems of care

My work includes teaching at multiple schools, working with interns from more than 40 schools, facilitating the IHT Intern Fellowship, and contributing to the development of a CBHI course for MassHealth. Moving among these settings helps me bring academic perspectives into the field, field experience into educational planning, and different levels of an organization into better conversation with one another.

What Organizational Consultation Looks Like

Consultation can focus on a specific relationship or concern, or extend across programs, divisions, and whole organizations. You don’t need to know the cause of the problem—or which kind of support will help—before reaching out.

Depending on the scope, my work may include:

Gathering perspectives to understand what’s happening through conversations with the people involved, review of policies and materials, exploration of available feedback, or examination of physical spaces and everyday practices.

Identifying patterns without assuming every situation has the same cause. Several programs may be experiencing difficulties in supervision, while one needs to address power dynamics, another cultural expectations, and another neuroinclusive practices. I help distinguish what needs attention locally from what requires action at a higher organizational level.

Bridging differences in experience, expectations, and power, helping staff, supervisors, leadership, students, or educational partners understand what others are encountering. This includes identifying who has the authority and responsibility to change the conditions contributing to a concern.

Developing practical recommendations with the people involved. I share what I’m noticing, invite questions and perspectives, and help identify changes that fit the setting and address the underlying concern.

Helping put those changes into practice, such as:

working directly with supervisors on communication and relational practices
helping teams clarify expectations and reconsider routines
supporting leadership in revising policies or supervisory structures
recommending changes to physical environments
helping agencies develop internship programs
supporting collaboration between schools and placement providers

Revisiting how changes are working, making adjustments as new information emerges, and identifying additional services or expertise when needed.

My approach is collaborative, reflective, and practical. You bring knowledge of your organization and its history; I bring experience across roles and settings, questions that open different angles, and support for making changes. Together, we can turn the problem over until a pattern becomes clearer or a place to begin emerges.

Getting Started

If a particular relationship needs attention, a concern keeps appearing across programs, or you’re considering a broader review of your organization’s practices, I can help you explore what’s happening and what might move things forward.

Bring what you’re noticing, what you’ve already tried, and what you hope could be different. The scope of consultation can be shaped around the concern, the people involved, and the level of support needed.

Let’s find a place to begin.

Pricing

Organizational consultation is priced according to the scope of the work, the number of people or programs involved, and the level of support needed. Consultation may focus on a specific concern or involve assessment and ongoing work across an organization.

After an initial conversation, I’ll outline a proposed scope and fee so you can consider what fits your organization’s needs and resources.