Mix Tape MindsAbout Morgana
My route here has been personal: a lifetime of dyslexia, an ADHD diagnosis, and coming to understand myself as autistic. Mix Tape Minds grew from that ongoing process of making sense of a brain that rarely follows the expected track.
Hi, I’m Morgana.
“Support should make more room for who you are—not teach you to disappear more convincingly.”
I know what it is to work hard at things other people seem to do automatically. I know the exhaustion of translating yourself, the relief of finally finding language that fits, and the complicated mix of grief and possibility that can come with late understanding.
I don’t believe one person’s neurodivergent experience stands in for anyone else’s. My lived experience isn’t a shortcut to knowing you. It is part of why I listen without assuming, take sensory and executive-function needs seriously, and stay curious about what actually works in your life.
The early tracks
Long before I understood ADHD or autism, I was already learning what it felt like to move through systems that were not designed for the way my brain worked. Dyslexia became part of my story early. Understanding the fuller picture came much later.
These photographs remind me that late diagnosis does not begin on the day someone finds the right words. The story was there all along.
Experience & perspective
I don’t arrive at this work from a single, tidy career path. I bring the perspective of a learner, educator, employee, problem-solver and neurodivergent person who has spent years navigating very different rooms.
I went to college to become a special education teacher and completed my practicum in Springfield Public Schools. I worked across elementary, middle and high school settings, including with students continuing to receive support after graduation.
Alongside lived experience, I hold a certification focused on neurodivergence. It gives me another framework for understanding access needs, communication differences, executive function and the importance of person-centered support.
My working life has crossed education, banking, property management, customer service, marketing, media and relationship-based roles. Each environment taught me something about systems, expectations and how differently people move through the world.
Our work can combine practical structure, creative reflection, self-advocacy practice and CBT-informed tools. I’m interested in sustainable change: the kind that respects energy, context, access needs and the fact that progress is rarely linear.
My varied background helps me understand that a person may be dealing with school expectations, workplace culture, money systems, housing responsibilities, family dynamics and community access all at once. We can look at the whole picture without reducing you to a diagnosis or a checklist.
I am an enrolled Oregon Personal Support Worker (PSW) with an active Medicaid provider number, alongside a separate private-pay coaching practice. I will be transparent about which role I am working in, how services are authorized and what I am ready to offer.