Professional Development

We partner with schools, teachers, and/or school counselors to provide meaningful and intentional professional development and continuing education opportunities. 

• Counseling and play therapy approaches for school counselors to implement with individual students, groups, and classroom guidance
• Counseling and play therapy that can be implemented by teachers in the classroom to enhance classroom management, child-teacher relationships, and SEL
• Mental health approaches that can be implemented throughout the school to enhance social-emotional learning (SEL), academic progress, and school wellness 
• Frameworks, processes, and guidelines for learning support services within schools, including assessments, interventions, learning plans, and accommodations
• Workshops for parents and caregivers of students to promote cohesion between school and home and enhance caregivers' understanding of their child
• Continuing education topics can include anxiety, depression, trauma, disabilities, neurodivergence, academic challenges, bullying, social relationships, life adjustments (changes at home, family, school, etc.), educator self-care and burnout

We partner with mental health professionals, such as counselors, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, play therapists, and marriage and family therapists to provide meaningful and intentional professional development opportunities. 

• In-person trainings
• Live and recorded webinars
• Conference presentations
• Consultation
• Continuing education therapy modalities include person-centered theory, Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), Child-Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT), Child-Teacher Relationship Therapy (CTRT), expressive arts
• Continuing education topics can include anxiety, depression, trauma, disabilities, neurodivergence, life adjustments (changes at home, family, school, etc.), therapist self-care and burnout