TRAINING AND CONSULTING
DBT Skills Training - Ongoing individual, family and group Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Training for children, adolescents and adults.
Crisis Response
for Self-Harming Teens - Facilitate on-going trainings
for National Crisis Clinic's Teen Link Youth Volunteer Program
on how to utilize DBT skills as a method of
stabilizing and assisting teens at risk for self-injury and harm
(2005 - 2007).
Teen Suicide Prevention / Intervention -
YMCA Transitions All-Staff training (November 2005).
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention & Intervention -
YMCA of Greater Seattle (January 2006).
Expressive Arts for Young Adults in Transition -
YMCA Transitions Participant Group (Several art groups and sessions
through 2004).
Family Services Intensive Therapeutic Foster Youth
Expressive Art Group -
Weekly creative art groups for the YMCA Family Services and Mental
Health program (1999-2004).
Art With Heart Community Expressive Art
Groups - Led community expressive
art groups to deepen self awareness and self expression among
teens and young adults. Assisted in developing exercises for
the new Chill & Spill workbook, and facilitated an Expressive
Art Experience for the members of the AWH Board (2003-2006).
Building Effective Clinical Teams - Interactive training on creating more effective clinical teams for the YMCA - FS/MH Family Support Specialist All-Staff meeting (Summer 2000).
Vicarious Traumatization and Compassion
Fatigue: Self Care for Foster Parents and
Professionals Working With Traumatized Youth -
Co-designed and facilitated an experiential training for
YMCA Therapeutic Foster Parent All-Staff, and Foster Care
Conference 2000: Better Skills for Stronger Families in Yakima,
Washington (Summer 2000).
Creative Self-Exploration Retreat - Creative
self-exploration and rejuvination retreat for mental health and
business professionals in the Seattle area (Spring 2000).
Team-Building and Creative Problem-Solving - Program design and facilitation for a 2-day YMCA Family Services and Mental Health Annual All-Staff Retreat held at Sleeping Lady in Leavenworth, WA (Fall 1999).
Building High Performance Teams, Communicating for Results, Value and Role Clarification, Empowered Assistant Series Training (EAS), Relaxation and Stress Management, Dealing Effectively with Change and Effective Leadership - Developed and delivered highly specialized and interactive national training programs which focused on creating stronger networks of effective communication between support staff, technical staff, managers and executives for Executive Counterparts™ (1996-2001). Clients included: Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett Packard, General Motors, Associated Packaging Systems and Ernst & Young.
Stress Management and Deep Relaxation - Program design and facilitation for YMCA Therapeutic Foster Parent All-Staff Meeting (Fall 1999).
Learning How to Quiet the Mind - Program development and weekly PersonalEmpowerment Program facilitation for Shasta County Women's Refuge, and All-Staff Retreat (Fall 1998).
