About Us
Dive Deeper Into Who We Are
Why We're Unique
Who We Are
We work for the whole-
the whole person, the whole community,
and a whole new understanding of what’s possible.
Non-speakers everywhere are expressing themselves with typing and text communication. They are teaching us about their experiences. Their voices, now shared with the world, reveal intelligence, desire for meaningful purpose, understanding, and an inner world that has been overlooked.
As more non-speakers minds become “unstuck”, it makes one truth unmistakable: we had it all wrong, and we can, and must, do better. Our own minds have been stuck too, in misunderstanding, and in the limits of what we've understood is possible.
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Minds Unstuck is part of a movement to change the future for people who communicate differently. We believe in the brilliance inside of us all. Our mission is to help as many non-speakers as possible build lives of purpose and possibility, in a world that understands them for who they are within.​​​
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Minds Unstuck was officially established in 2020, although its roots began over twenty years ago. We are a dedicated, tight-knit team, and we educate, mentor, and guide families and professionals everywhere.
We blend science and soul, through our whole-person, whole-family approach. Our lens integrates the complex pieces, and offers a clear picture for the nonspeaking life.​
The Rhythm System is the name of our multi-dimensional framework that brings six foundational sciences together, along with respectful, innovative practices, into one relationship-centered model. It’s built to guide balance and sustained growth by using our understanding to unlock possibility from within.​​​​
Our goal is to have something for everyone. We offer support through individual, small, and large group sessions. Services can be scheduled on an as needed basis, or within a personalized program that we design based upon the unique needs and goals of each client and their family.
Minds Unstuck is designed to shift norms, expand minds, and build a world where autistic and nonspeaking people are supported from the inside out. When we are understood for who we are within, powerful change becomes reality.​​​
How We Can Help
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How We Do It
Our Unique Approach: The Rhythm System
Built from Understanding for Life-Changing Growth
We blend science and soul, through our whole-person, whole-family approach. Our lens is a uniquely designed approach that brings clarity to the how and why of movement, communication, behavior, and learning. It offers a clear picture for growth in the nonspeaking life.
The Rhythm System is the name of our multi-dimensional framework. It brings six foundational sciences together, and shows that our movements, expression and experiences are fluid, not fixed. They are continuously impacted by the ways that the layers and rhythms of our nervous system interact with the external world.​​​​​​​
Our approach teaches highly effective strategies and a powerful perspective to help every person live with more balance in their body, connection in their hearts, and purpose in their minds, whether child or adult, speaking or non speaking.
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With respectful, innovative practices in one relationship-centered model, it's built to guide real change. Our support is dedicated to help families find their flow, reshape their way of life, and unlock possibilities from within.
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Meet Our Founder
Minds Unstuck Builds Bridges - between the internal and the external, between speaking and non-speaking, and between past knowledge and present change.
“When we are understood for who we are within, powerful change becomes possible – especially when the outside has never told the true story...
At times throughout my life, other people’s perceptions of me left me feeling misunderstood. The advice I was always given was, ‘It’s what on the inside that matters.’ Once I began to work with non speakers, I understood how true and real that is.
Over twenty years ago I worked as a counselor at a summer camp. After the first day, the director decided to reassign my position. The campers in my group could see I was different than them ‘on the outside’, and they were resistant to connecting with me - who I am ‘on the inside’, and what can't be seen. They were young, and didn’t yet have the ‘inside-out understanding’.
I was then placed to work with a group of nonspeaking autistic children in the other part of the camp. This time, without words, and despite outward appearance, there was only pure, authentic connection. Everything changed for me afterwards, and autism became the biggest part of my life.
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​That experience awakened what has become my purpose and commitment: to understand and help uncover the inner strength and brilliance of nonspeaking autistic people, and to teach others to do the same.
I immersed myself in the world of nonspeakers and autism, pursuing all opportunities that would keep deepening my understanding. After finishing my education, I worked in schools, homes and clinics across the country. I sought out mentors, studied the scientific research, and most of all, listened—collecting insight from families and from nonspeaking people themselves.​
The seeds of Minds Unstuck began in 2020. Now, we educate, mentor, and guide families and professionals everywhere. We integrate complex insight and offer it as practical, life-changing perspective.
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With the insight and partnership of countless non-speakers, we want to help transform how the world understands people who communicate differently. My hope and goal is that Minds Unstuck can act as a bridge - a support from one person, and one possibility, to another. We want to help shift the norm, get minds unstuck, and build a world where autistic and nonspeaking people are understood from the inside out."
