Johnny is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State and an Affiliate Professor at Antioch University Seattle's Masters in Counseling program, where he developed and now directs the Neurodiversity Certificate Program. With a decade of clinical practice and two decades of work in the field of neurodivergence, his work is focused on moving practitioners beyond surface-level accommodation and toward a substantive understanding of neurodivergent experience across the lifespan. The Certificate Program draws on current research, emerging frameworks within the counseling field, and the perspectives of neurodivergent communities themselves, reflecting a commitment to training that takes seriously what it means to serve neurodivergent clients well.

His approach to both clinical work and teaching is informed by lived experience of neurodivergence, a personal history that shapes the questions he asks in the clinical room, the curriculum he builds in the classroom, and his ongoing engagement with a field still developing the frameworks and language it needs. That vantage point keeps the theoretical honest. Across practice, teaching, and a broader community of practitioners and educators, his focus remains on grounded, practical approaches that begin with how people actually think, learn, and navigate their lives rather than how they might be expected to.