You're Not Broken.
Our Mental Health System Is.
Anxiety, depression, burnout, and trauma are rising,
not because people are failing,
yet because the system never taught us
How We Make Decisions.
When you don’t understand your decision-making system, you repeat the same patterns, no matter how hard you try to change.
Start the ConversationThe truth is simple:
The current approach treats symptoms instead of the systems that create them.
That’s why anxiety, burnout, and exhaustion keep cycling back.
When you learn How YOU Make Decisions, you stop recycling yesterday’s challenges and start shaping tomorrow’s outcomes.
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The mental health model focuses on
✓ Diagnosing Patterns ✓ Labeling Symptoms ✓ Medicating Distress
But it does not explain:
→ How your decision-making system develops
→ Why emotions are built unevenly
→ Why behavior gets stuck
→ Why some people regulate and others collapse
→ How trauma impacts development
→ Why adults reenact childhood strategies
→ Why the nervous system gets overwhelmed
Meet Jodee Gibson
Human Behavior Expert | Psychology Professor | Author | Behavioral Health Researcher
I help people understand how they make decisions, consciously and unconsciously, so they can stop repeating old patterns and start creating real change.
I translate complex psychology into practical tools people can use immediately: clinicians, parents, students, educators, leaders, and everyday humans.
When you don’t understand decision-making systems, you're taught to treat symptoms instead of systems.
We Work Upstream
Upstream = Your Decision-Making System
Downstream = Diagnosis
Most approaches help people cope.
I teach people how to make new decisions → often for the first time in their lives, by teaching them how their decision-making system actually works.
The results → Less anxiety | Better regulation | Clearer emotional patterns | Healthier relationships | Fewer diagnoses | More self-trust | Actual healing
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How To Work With Us
Speaking & Conferences
The keynote everyone's talking about | Powerful Stories We Tell Ourselves
Also available to speak at academic, mental health, education, and social work conferences on:
The Missing Piece Developmental Model in Mental Health
Why You're Still Stuck (After Years of Therapy and 'Doing All the Work') Why systems keep failing people
The Student Mental Health Crisis | Beyond More Counselors: Understanding the Developmental Systems Behind Trauma, Emotions, and Healing
For Parents & Families | Breaking the Cycle: Why Your Kids Keep Repeating Your Patterns
For Mental Health Practitioners | Why Our Clients Aren't Getting Better: The Systems We're Not Teaching
Half-Day Workshops
Practical, powerful, accessible learning for real people.
For clinicians, educators, parents, and anyone wanting to understand behavior beyond symptoms and diagnosis — starting with the decision-making system underneath it.
Workshops include:
Upgrade the System, Not the Goal | Understand the systems that shape human behavior, in your practice, in your business, and in your life.
The AMEND Practice™ | A relational approach to helping dysregulated people find their center and heal so they can make better decisions.
NeuroEnlighten method™ | The Science of Behavioral Transformation - what drives change, and why systems matter more than symptoms.
Practitioners who understand. Individuals who heal. Systems that work.
The Impact of Our System-Based Approach
Dr. Joseph Rios • Educational Consultant | Google
Jodee's Award-Winning Book
The foundation of my developmental + systems approach began here.
Healing Your Map | a guide to understanding discernment, trauma and human behavior - released in November, 2022 earned a
2023 IPPY Silver Medal for psychology/mental health.
Available at most booksellers
The Elephant and Willow ProjectOur Mission Beyond This Work
Human Behavior Architects™ teaches the world how to heal.
The Elephant & Willow Project makes sure everyone gets the chance to.
Every engagement helps fund trauma-prevention training for underserved communities.
