About the founder
Dad, builder, and the presenter behind No Cure Needed's workshops for school teams. I'm raising an autistic daughter and a daughter with ADHD, and I have ADHD myself.
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My story
When my youngest daughter was diagnosed as autistic, my first instinct was to fix what I didn't understand. My oldest has severe ADHD, just like me, so it felt like one more problem to solve.
The harder I pushed to get it right, the more something else broke: my relationship with my daughter. The more I tried to control what I didn't yet understand, the further apart we got. She started believing her dad didn't love her. That shattered me.
So I stopped trying to fix her and started learning to see her. What I found wasn't a problem. It was a kid who was wired differently and needed a different kind of understanding. And it was a family like mine that needed better resources than the ones out there.
That's why I started No Cure Needed, and why I now teach what I learned to the people who work with kids every day.
What I bring to a room
Raising Neurodivergent Kids, a 388-page manual in 16 modules, and the Safe Space series of sensory storybooks.
60+ school staff trained so far. I'll travel anywhere in Canada, and I bring my own equipment.
Raising one autistic daughter and one with ADHD, while living with ADHD myself. I know this from the inside.
Fourteen years of reading, research, and trial and error at home, turned into something other people can actually use.
What No Cure Needed believes
Autism, ADHD and other kinds of neurodivergence are differences in how a brain works, not defects waiting for a cure.
Meltdowns, shutdowns and refusals are signals of overload or an unmet need. Respond to the cause, not the surface.
A nervous system in overload can't take in instruction. Calm first, then teach.
Kids work with the adults they trust. Every strategy works better when the relationship is intact.
