About Dr. Anwuri "Dr. O" Osademe, PsyD

Dr. O

Why This Exists

The library came from the gaps.

Sticky Brain Studio was not a strategy. It was an answer to what kept being missing.

Dr. O trained as a clinician, then spent years in the room with families noticing the same thing over and over: the workbooks that were supposed to help kids often did not sound like real kids. The parent guides skipped the parts that actually mattered. The clinician tools felt like a compliance form. The handouts for adults navigating chronic pain, late diagnoses, or medical grief often did not name what they were actually going through.

She started making the pieces she needed. A story-based workbook for a kid whose brain would not stop scanning. A parent scaffold for the after-school meltdown that was not defiance. A handout for the adult who had just been told their body was going to keep changing. What began as filling gaps in her own practice quietly became a body of work.

The point was never to make more mental health content. The point was to make the specific tools that were missing.

Now that body of work is the Sticky Brain Studio library, plus a clinical practice, a foundation, a provider network, and a growing set of frameworks that clinicians and families are picking up because they name what has always been there but rarely said out loud.

Training & Credentials

A decade-plus in the room.

Extensive graduate training across philosophy, clinical psychology, and clinical psychopharmacology. Every framework she teaches has been sharpened by direct clinical work.

Degrees & education

Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD)

Awarded specialization in integrated behavioral health and neurodevelopmental populations
Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology (MSCP)

Candidate
Two Masters in Clinical Psychology

Advanced graduate training across pediatric and adult populations
Bachelor of Arts

Double major in Philosophy and Psychology

Licensure & practice

Licensed Clinical Psychologist

Home state: Wisconsin
PSYPACT Authorized

Authorized to provide telehealth psychology across 40+ participating PSYPACT states
Founder & CEO

Sticky Brain Studio, LLC and Dr. O Psychology (dropsych.com)
Multi-Setting Clinical Experience

Hospital, community mental health, private practice, and integrated pediatric behavioral health settings

Practice Reach

Wisconsin-based, 40+ states via telehealth

Through PSYPACT authorization, Dr. O provides psychological services via telehealth to residents of participating PSYPACT states. Ask if you are unsure whether your state is currently participating.

Frameworks & Proprietary Work

Naming what was always there.

A growing set of clinical concepts and frameworks that put language on patterns clinicians already see. Built for real use, in real practice, by real providers.

Concept

The Sticky Brain

The concept that names it: brains that get stuck in emotions, thought loops, or behaviors, and that can learn to get unstuck. The organizing metaphor for the whole practice, the workbook series, and the language families and clinicians use to talk about what is actually happening.

Clinical Framework

The F-O-C-U-S Framework

A structured scaffold for ADHD evaluation and clinical reasoning: Function, Other Conditions, Consistency, Unusual Presentations, Supports. Built for clinicians and pediatric primary care providers to hold a fuller picture than a rating scale can offer alone. In development for peer-reviewed publication.

Model

The Contextual Continuity Model

A framework for understanding how identity, environment, and cultural context shape presentation across the lifespan. Currently in strategic conversation with institutional partners for real-world application in equitable mental health care delivery.

Framework

The Sticky Bridge Framework

Companion to the Contextual Continuity Model. Names the specific bridges that hold or break in transitions of care, culture, and life stage, and how clinicians can help build them intentionally.

What She Believes

The stance behind every piece of work.

These are the operating principles you will feel in every workbook, every handout, every session, and every conversation.

Neurodiversity affirming.

Difference is not deficit. Sticky brains are not broken brains. Every resource is written from a stance of respect, not correction. Identity-first language throughout.

Evidence-based, not jargon-based.

Every workbook and framework is grounded in the research literature. Every skill is taught in language kids, adults, and non-specialist providers can actually use.

Culturally responsive.

Real representation, not tokenized. Ogba/Igbo heritage lives in the work through character names, the Foundation, and the way whole-person, whole-context care is built into every framework.

Access as design.

Mental health care is expensive and gated. Every SBS resource, every free download, every YouTube video, and every scholarship exists to widen the front door for the people who cannot walk through it yet.

Sticky brain herself.

Dr. O has a sticky brain. That is not a marketing hook. It is central to how the work gets built and why the resources feel like they were written by someone who has actually lived it.

Whole-person, whole-context.

DSM-5-TR aligned but not DSM-limited. Function, context, culture, and support are always part of the frame, because that is what actually shapes clinical reality.

Family & Heritage

Named for the ones who came before.

The Foundation carries the names of Dr. O's parents, Nnamdi and Nkem.

Dr. O's family background is Ogba/Igbo, Nigerian. That heritage lives openly in the work. It shows up in the names of Sticky Brain Series characters (Chidi, Nneka, Ngozi, Kasiah), in the language of whole-context care, and most explicitly in the Nnamdi & Nkem Foundation, which she founded through Sticky Brain Studio to widen the pathway into mental health care for underrepresented students.

The Foundation is not a marketing arm. It is the reason a portion of every resource sale goes back into scholarships for the next generation of neurodiversity-affirming, identity-responsive providers. It is how gratitude to a family becomes a structural door held open for other families.

Named for Family

The Nnamdi & Nkem Foundation

Merit and representation awards with mentorship, for students entering the field of mental health care. Named for Dr. O's parents. Supported in part by resource proceeds and community donations.

Learn about the Foundation

Currently Building

The work keeps going.

A snapshot of active projects. Because the library is always growing, and so is the work behind it.

In Development

A major partnership publication

Coming soon

Something big is in the works, with a major publisher, for the young readers Dr. O has spent years writing for. Announcement coming when the timing is right.

In Progress

MSCP coursework

MSCP candidate

Currently a Master of Science in Clinical Psychopharmacology candidate. Additional graduate-level training toward prescribing psychology in participating states.

Upcoming

APA 2026 conference session

Independent session presenter

Presenting a session at the American Psychological Association 2026 convention on the F-O-C-U-S clinical reasoning framework. This is an independent presentation, not an APA affiliation or endorsement.

Recently Launched

YouTube channel

@StickyBrainStudio

Free video mini courses for parents and providers. The Homework Battles Mini Course is live now, with additional courses in the pipeline. Following gives you access to everything as it drops.

Working With Dr. O

Ways to connect.

Whether you are looking for clinical care, want to book Dr. O for a talk or interview, or represent an organization interested in licensing, here is where to start.

Dr. Anwuri Osademe. "Dr. O" for short.