Meet Shannon
Neurodivergent Doctor of Occupational Therapy
Shannon is a Doctor of Occupational Therapy specializing in working with Neurodivergent Adults, particularly those late-diagnosed, undiagnosed, or self-diagnosed. Shannon has a special interest in supporting those assigned female at birth (AFAB) as they tend to have a particularly hard time navigating the current healthcare landscape in America and are often marginalized and gaslit by the medical community.
Shannon is deeply neurodivergent-affirming and committed to creating pathways for neurodivergent adults to access Occupational Therapy services. Shannon's love language is developing programs, resources, and ways of knowing that are accessible to the neurodivergent brain. The main goal of everything she makes is to help to remove the shame, judgment, and guilt that gets instilled in neurodivergent people in our modern society simply for being who they are.
When she is not working, you can find Shannon in her garden, delighting in how similar plants are to humans or getting up to any number of nerdy and delightful pursuits with her kids and partner.
Nervous System Specialist
Shannon Wagner, OTD, focuses on the underlying influences Trauma, ADHD, and Autism have on the nervous system and how to use this understanding to create neurodivergent affirming and inclusive employment environments.
My Lived Experience
Alongside my education and training, I also have the lived experience of developmental trauma and ADHD.
I understand how hard it is to move through life with a dysregulated system that can’t tell an emergency apart from a phone call.
I am not sitting on high, studying this stuff and knowing it through academic pursuits. I am in this work with you; I am doing it too. But also, I love exploring this stuff and all the academics. I essentially give you my notes that I made for myself so I could understand why my clients and I were getting our butts kicked by the ‘simple’ things in life.
I have dedicated my career to understanding the nervous system and how neurodivergence impacts our regulation, relationships, and trajectories in this society. I do this by creating environments, resources, and programs that allow you to navigate your own neurodivergence with confidence.