The Burnt Toast Project
Catie is a counselor, behavior specialist, trainer, and speaker who helps professionals better understand and respond to human behavior. Her work brings together neuroscience, trauma-responsive practices, relational approaches, and practical strategies for real-life, high-pressure moments.
The goal is to help people understand that we cannot always prevent the smoke alarm from going off—but we can learn to recognize what activated it, respond without adding more smoke, and help the nervous system discover that not every piece of burnt toast is a house fire.
Through practical behavioral health education, The Burnt Toast Project helps educators, parents, healthcare providers, leaders, and other professionals respond with greater compassion, confidence, and the tools to create meaningful change when it matters most.
The Challenge
Through The Burnt Toast Project, I want to make complex ideas about the brain, nervous system, trauma, and behavior understandable, memorable, and useful across professions. I help people move beyond asking, “How do we stop or control this behavior?” and begin asking, “What is happening beneath this behavior—and how can we respond in a way that creates safety, accountability, connection, and meaningful change?”
The Behavior
The Missing Piece
The Solution
Educators, schools, and organizations are facing increasingly complex behavioral health needs, but many of the systems used to address them still focus primarily on managing what can be seen.
The problem isn't that professionals don't care. It's that they're often asked to navigate stress, trauma, dysregulation, and crisis without a practical framework for understanding what's happening—both in the people they serve and in themselves.
The Burnt Toast Project helps interrupt that cycle by addressing both sides of the interaction. I help professionals understand what may be happening beneath another person’s behavior while also recognizing their own stress patterns, triggers, protective responses, and limits.
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Meet Catie
Experience That Matters
Catie brings together counseling, neuroscience, education, and behavioral health to help professionals better understand what’s happening beneath behavior. With a Master’s in Counseling, postgraduate work in Applied Educational Neuroscience, and advanced training in nervous system and behavior-focused frameworks, she brings both education and real-world experience to her work.
She regularly speaks and trains professionals across Texas and has presented at national conferences focused on attachment, trauma, education, and resilience.
Catie Egan
Founder & Speaker
The Burnt Toast Project
Behavior Doesn't Belong to One Profession.
The nervous system influences behavior everywhere. The Burnt Toast Project brings behavioral health education to:
Educators • Parents • Mental Health Professionals • Healthcare Providers • Law Enforcement • Juvenile Justice • Legal Professionals • Human Resources • Organizational Leaders
Behavior Is My Specialty. Understanding It Is the Work.
The nervous system influences how we respond everywhere—from classrooms and homes to healthcare settings, workplaces, courtrooms, and other high-stress environments.
Custom Key Notes
From classrooms to national conferences, Catie brings behavioral health education to the people doing the work. Her speaking experience includes national and state-level conferences focused on education, trauma, attachment, and supporting children and families.
Every organization faces different people, pressures, and challenges. Custom training brings behavioral health concepts into the specific situations your team encounters every day.
Training can be tailored to your organization, audience, and goals—giving participants practical tools they can use in the moments that matter most.
Professional Training
Workshops
Practical, engaging workshops that help professionals understand what’s happening beneath behavior, recognize dysregulation, and respond with greater confidence and compassion. Participants leave with tools they can use in the real-life moments that matter most.
Let's Talk
CATIE@THEBURNTTOASTPROJECT.COM | 940.228.3808