Staff Development & Presentations

I have extensive experience training and consulting to social service providers, home-based early-intervention workers, early-childhood educators, group home staff, and other para-professionals.

In my work with these kinds of staff, I focus on:

• • Highlighting the significance of the work they do
  • Developing attitudes that promote the provision of high-quality services
  • Valuing the people they serve
  • Formulating useful interventions
  • Growing as people/professionals

These are many of the presentations/trainings I have given:

For Clinicians:

• • Taking the Couch to School: Transference/Countertransference
  • Listening to Ourselves in Order to Hear Others: Using our Subjectivity in Clinical Work
  • Mutuality in the Transference/Countertransference: Case Presentation with Claire Allphin Ph.D.
  • Professional Boundaries: Integrating Theory & Practice
  • The Confluence of Therapy and Aikido: An Experiential Workshop co-led with Linda Holiday Sensei – See the flyer here.

For Healthcare Providers:

• • Discover, Uncover, and Recover: A Work-stress Workshop

For Social Service Providers and Early-Childhood Educators:

• • Knowing, Doing, and Being
  • Developing Trusting Relationships with Families
  • Working with Challenging Classroom Behaviors
  • Child Development 0-5
  • Professional Boundaries
  • Engaging Parents in Helping their Children
  • Confidentiality & Childhood Behaviors
  • Overview of Assessing Childhood Behaviors
  • Childhood Sexual Behaviors

For Undergraduate Students, Group Home Staff, and Mentors:

• • Professional Roles and Boundaries
  • A Brief, Incomplete, Underdeveloped Perspective on Part of What You Do Here
  • Termination with Clients
  • Adolescent Development