Brandon Tessers | SpeakerHub

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Brandon is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, National Presenter, and Executive Functioning Coach in Illinois. He’s been helping children and adults with their executive functioning for over a decade, and has been doing so as a licensed therapist since 2016. He is focused on helping people close the gap between the way their lives are and the way they want their lives to be, and specializes in working with people who identify as neurodivergent, 'gifted', and/or creative. Brandon is also a national presenter and has conducted professional development for therapists, teachers, and coaches. He founded his own practice in 2020 called Effective Artistry, which provides executive functioning coaching, therapy, and free resources for those in need of support.

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Founder/Clinical Director

Effective Artistry

Degrees (1)

MA in Marriage and Family Counseling

Northeastern Illinois University

2014 to 2016

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Anxiety & Executive Functioning with Neurofibromatosis (NF)

When it comes to anxiety, coping is good. Prevention is better. Join Brandon Tessers (LCPC) for a conversation about anxiety, executive functioning and the struggles that come from being different. Brandon will share useful ways to think of anxiety, teach coping techniques, and provide frameworks that can help locate the source of the anxiety so you can prevent it altogether.

Neurodiversity-Affirming Parenting

This group will provide basic education on topics of concern and help design specific parenting strategies to address the actual, specific concerns that group members bring to the sessions.

You will walk away with an increased awareness and understanding of neurodiversity and executive functioning: what they are and how they impact everything you and your children are experiencing, as well as the ways in which you communicate with each other and interact with each other and the world at large.

We will provide specific frameworks and actionable exercises to help you translate that increased awareness into a different way of being, interacting and communicating. Our aim is to help you and your children develop lives that go more the way you want them to go.

Attention and Intention: How To Align What You Say With What You Mean

Our sensory organs pick up far more data than our brains can be aware of. The process that determines which data comes into our awareness and which is left out is formed over the course of our lives. We simplify by ignoring that which has never caused us problems.
But often those things DO cause problems for others. Learning to pay attention to things that matter to others--even if they haven’t mattered in our own lives--is incredibly difficult and incredibly important. In order to create inclusive spaces and processes, we must be aware of what we’re unaware of.

"What Am I Supposed To Do?": Helping Gifted/2E teens envision futures that fit

Gifted and 2e teens often struggle as they begin to think about and plan for their adult lives. This presentation will discuss some of the underlying reasons these teens may believe there are no good fits for them, or no fits at all. The presenter will teach a specific methodology for helping Gifted/2e teens to envision happy adult lives.

Bridging the Digital Cultural Gap

Digital Validity

Perfectionism and Procrastination: Two Sides of the Same Anxious Coin

There are few things more frustrating and painful than watching
children struggle with perfectionism or procrastination, knowing they are not executing at the level of which they are capable. The good news is that these behaviors are not ingrained. In fact, they are symptoms of something else. Something that can improve. In this presentation, a counselor who specializes in working with gifted children will explore the underlying, root causes of perfectionism and procrastination and their relationship to anxiety, skill gaps, and asynchrony. Attendees will learn strategies to use in helping children overcome these harmful behaviors.

The Neurodivergent Mind and Executive Functioning

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Giving a Presentation at the Queen Bee School District in Illinois

Neurodiversity-Affirming Parenting - Week 1

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Books & Articles (2)

Do I Need to Wear Pants for My Zoom Calls?: Dealing With the Executive Functioning Difficulties of Quarantine

What Is Executive Functioning?

Clients

OpenSesame

Petco - Ability at Petco (Celebrating Neurodiversity Event)

Neurofibromatosis Network (Midwest)

Fusion Academy Oak Brook

Chicago Public Schools

Center for Identity Potential

Maine Township (MainStay)

Chicago Gifted Community Center - Oak Park

Illinois Association for Gifted Children (IAGC)

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG)

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)

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As the Head of School at Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, IL I've had the pleasure of working with Brandon and the team at Effective Artistry. Their practice has been one of our strongest resources in helping us serve the neurodivergent community. They've hed us support student executive functioning with really creative ideas beyond what we've all been prescribed in traditional schools. Our campus and community are richer for the work Brandon has done on motivation, intelligence, communication, and positive goal setting.
Michael Wang
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