About
I’m Itzel Orduña — a developmental scientist and psychologist. I hold doctorates in behavioral neuroscience and in psychology, and practiced for seven years as a licensed clinical psychologist working with children and families. Brainforest Resonance is the framework that grew out of that path, and this site is its home.
My training crossed levels that are usually kept apart: first the experimental analysis of behavior, then neuroscience, then years of clinical practice — where the lives in front of me kept showing what each way of knowing could and couldn’t see. And one pattern met me everywhere: development disrupted where constraint was imposed, and resuming when constraint was eased. The framework grew from questions that practice would not let me put down.
The framework itself is articulated in [Conceptual Foundations]; the inquiry that led to it has its own telling in [The Inquiry Behind the Framework].
The work now takes form through writing, the doors of this site, and spaces in development — a cohort-based format for adults, and a small community space for children taking shape — within a longer-term vision of a learning ecology. I work from Buffalo, New York. And I share the work’s home with Brownie — an axolotl you can meet at her own door.