LECTURE TOPICS
I prepare custom trainings and lectures for groups of any size. Here is a list of the past lectures I have presented locally, including to schools, hospitals and private groups. To discuss options for your group, please contact me at [email protected] If you'd like to see a list of organizations where I have spoken in the past, please click here
I prepare custom trainings and lectures for groups of any size. Here is a list of the past lectures I have presented locally, including to schools, hospitals and private groups. To discuss options for your group, please contact me at [email protected] If you'd like to see a list of organizations where I have spoken in the past, please click here
Lecture Titles Topics
ADHD: What It Is & What To Do About It. Adolescents, ADHD
Adolescence 101: Preparing Parents for the Teenage Years Adolescents, Teens
Adolescents and Anxiety Adolescents, Teens, Anxiety
Adults and ADHD: Ways to Manage Your Symptoms
and Get the Most Out of Life ADHD
Baby-proofing Your Relationship Couples
Overcoming Test Anxiety for Academic Success Adolescents, Teens, Anxiety
Helping When Hurting: What Every Parent Needs to
Know to Help and Prevent Self Harm and Suicide Adolescents, Teens, Self Harm, Suicide
ADHD: What It Is and What To Do About It
In this 2 hour workshop I discuss what ADHD is and how it is assessed and diagnosed. We discuss issues surrounding the difficulty in diagnosing ADHD and controversies around under or over diagnosing. We discuss research on effective treatments of ADHD, and discuss the role of medication management, behavioral therapy, family therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Parents and teachers are given tips on what they can do to help their child or adolescent with ADHD, and discuss how ADHD can affect the whole family. We discuss how to help children and adolescents with ADHD become successful and develop resiliency.
Adolescence 101: Preparing Parents for the Teenage Years
This workshop was developed as a preventative educational workshop for parents after I found myself working with many parents caught off guard by their child's transition to the teenage years. In this workshop, we discuss the developmental transitions, the effect this has on the relationship between parents and children, the balance of setting limits and having a loving relationship where teenagers can turn to their parents in times of need, and discuss with the audience various topics of concern such as friends, schoolwork, drugs and alcohol, and romantic relationships.
Adolescents and Anxiety
In this workshop, I discuss the different gradients of stress and anxiety in adolescents, and why anxiety occurs through a discussion of temperament, situation, biological basis, and various treatments including mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and Attachment Based Family Therapy, all of which are effect treatments for treating anxiety. In the workshop, parents learn tips and techniques to help their adolescent with the anxiety they're experiencing and learn to identify when they need to seek help.
In this 2 hour workshop I discuss what ADHD is and how it is assessed and diagnosed. We discuss issues surrounding the difficulty in diagnosing ADHD and controversies around under or over diagnosing. We discuss research on effective treatments of ADHD, and discuss the role of medication management, behavioral therapy, family therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Parents and teachers are given tips on what they can do to help their child or adolescent with ADHD, and discuss how ADHD can affect the whole family. We discuss how to help children and adolescents with ADHD become successful and develop resiliency.
Adolescence 101: Preparing Parents for the Teenage Years
This workshop was developed as a preventative educational workshop for parents after I found myself working with many parents caught off guard by their child's transition to the teenage years. In this workshop, we discuss the developmental transitions, the effect this has on the relationship between parents and children, the balance of setting limits and having a loving relationship where teenagers can turn to their parents in times of need, and discuss with the audience various topics of concern such as friends, schoolwork, drugs and alcohol, and romantic relationships.
Adolescents and Anxiety
In this workshop, I discuss the different gradients of stress and anxiety in adolescents, and why anxiety occurs through a discussion of temperament, situation, biological basis, and various treatments including mindfulness, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance Commitment Therapy, and Attachment Based Family Therapy, all of which are effect treatments for treating anxiety. In the workshop, parents learn tips and techniques to help their adolescent with the anxiety they're experiencing and learn to identify when they need to seek help.
Adults and ADHD: Ways to Manage Your Symptoms and Get the Most Out of Life
In this workshop, I discuss the nature of ADHD, and helpful tips and tools to live life with intention. For many of my adult clients with ADHD, I have found that they tend to be constantly putting out the fire in front of them, rather than living the life they really want. We discuss ways for being more organized, managing time better, becoming more efficient in completing to do items, managing distractions, managing strong emotions, and the effect of ADHD on relationships. This workshop will give an overview of helpful tricks, technologies, and tools to get the most out of life and learn how to outsmart ADHD.
Babyproofing Your Relationship
This workshop came about after working with many couples whose relationship had began to deteriorate at the time their first child was born. In my research and reading of the transition to parenthood, I developed this talk incorporating research from John and Julie Gottman's Baby Makes Three and Carolyn and Philip Cowan's When Partner's Become Parents, the approaches to strengthening a couples relationship from Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and the experiences and writings of three mothers from their book, Babyproofing Your Marriage. In this workshop, I discuss the research and the "Three C's to Babyproofing Your Relationship", which are communication, coordination, and cuddling to help couples strengthen their relationship during their transition to parenthood, protect against post-partum depression, and give their child the best gift a parent can give, a strong parental relationship.
Overcoming Test Anxiety for Academic Success
After doing psychological assessments with many teens, young adults, and adults struggling with academics and standardized testing due to ADHD/ADD, learning disabilities, anxiety, and other issues, I found that many of my clients needed ways to manage and overcome their test anxiety to be successful academically. In this workshop, I discuss the nature of anxiety, the brain and body based reactions, and discuss ways to overcome that anxiety through Practice, Affect Regulation, Self Talk, and Strategies (P.A.S.S.). We will discuss how to use techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Based Family Therapy, mindfulness, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy to gain practical skills for academic success.
Helping When Hurting: What Ever Parent Needs to Know to Help and Prevent Self Harm and Suicide
Anxiety rates for adolescents are on the rise, and so is self-harm and suicide. Losing a child is a parent’s worst nightmare. I will explain the potential causes of adolescent anxiety and depression, why some kids self-harm, and factors that can lead to suicide or suicidal behavior. I will discuss effective treatments and how parents can help their depressed children overcome their pain, how to understand self-harming behaviors, the causes of teen depression, how to identify the factors and signs that can lead to suicide and self-harm, how to talk to your child about depression and self-harm, and the various evidence-based treatments that are available and when to seek them.
In this workshop, I discuss the nature of ADHD, and helpful tips and tools to live life with intention. For many of my adult clients with ADHD, I have found that they tend to be constantly putting out the fire in front of them, rather than living the life they really want. We discuss ways for being more organized, managing time better, becoming more efficient in completing to do items, managing distractions, managing strong emotions, and the effect of ADHD on relationships. This workshop will give an overview of helpful tricks, technologies, and tools to get the most out of life and learn how to outsmart ADHD.
Babyproofing Your Relationship
This workshop came about after working with many couples whose relationship had began to deteriorate at the time their first child was born. In my research and reading of the transition to parenthood, I developed this talk incorporating research from John and Julie Gottman's Baby Makes Three and Carolyn and Philip Cowan's When Partner's Become Parents, the approaches to strengthening a couples relationship from Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, and the experiences and writings of three mothers from their book, Babyproofing Your Marriage. In this workshop, I discuss the research and the "Three C's to Babyproofing Your Relationship", which are communication, coordination, and cuddling to help couples strengthen their relationship during their transition to parenthood, protect against post-partum depression, and give their child the best gift a parent can give, a strong parental relationship.
Overcoming Test Anxiety for Academic Success
After doing psychological assessments with many teens, young adults, and adults struggling with academics and standardized testing due to ADHD/ADD, learning disabilities, anxiety, and other issues, I found that many of my clients needed ways to manage and overcome their test anxiety to be successful academically. In this workshop, I discuss the nature of anxiety, the brain and body based reactions, and discuss ways to overcome that anxiety through Practice, Affect Regulation, Self Talk, and Strategies (P.A.S.S.). We will discuss how to use techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment Based Family Therapy, mindfulness, and Acceptance Commitment Therapy to gain practical skills for academic success.
Helping When Hurting: What Ever Parent Needs to Know to Help and Prevent Self Harm and Suicide
Anxiety rates for adolescents are on the rise, and so is self-harm and suicide. Losing a child is a parent’s worst nightmare. I will explain the potential causes of adolescent anxiety and depression, why some kids self-harm, and factors that can lead to suicide or suicidal behavior. I will discuss effective treatments and how parents can help their depressed children overcome their pain, how to understand self-harming behaviors, the causes of teen depression, how to identify the factors and signs that can lead to suicide and self-harm, how to talk to your child about depression and self-harm, and the various evidence-based treatments that are available and when to seek them.
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