Workshops and Program Descriptions
Below are descriptions of the workshops that I offer. I can individualize any program to your setting and audience. In addition, I provide consultation for teachers, staff or faculty around any of these issues.
Understanding Eating Disorders
Our relationship with food can be complicated. Overeating or under-eating can be a sign that a person is struggling with anxiety or depression. This workshop is an introduction to understanding anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating. We will explore signs and symptoms of each eating disorder and the ways our culture perpetuates and often fuels these problems. In addition, we will explore the difference between unhealthy eating and an eating disorder and the ways to identify a problem.
How to Help a Friend: Young people often are the first to notice changes in their friend’s behaviors or moods but are often afraid or uncertain about how to approach these problems. This workshop will offer concrete ways to talk to friends about concerns and when and how to get help.
How to Help – Training for Teachers and Staff: Students and parents often look to teachers and staff for support and guidance around eating issues on K-12 and college campuses. We will discuss how to approach adolescents or young adults around these issues, when and how to discuss eating disorders with their parents and where to get help.
Understanding Sexual Assault
Sexual assault is often a wound that survivors silently carry, sometimes for years after the violence. This workshop provides an honest conversation about the problem of sexual assault, dispels common misconceptions around sexual assault, and offers way to help in both support and prevention. This workshop is offered as a mixed gender program but can be tailored to single gender audiences.
How to Help a Friend: A friend is very often the first person that a survivor turns to after an assault and that person can have a profound affect on a survivor’s healing. Many people struggle with knowing how to help and are fearful of saying or doing the wrong thing. In this workshop, participants will learn tools to provide healthy support and comfort to survivors.
How to Help – Training for Teachers and Staff: Teachers and staff may become aware of a sexual assault in their school community through a survivor, through friends who are seeking out advice, or through the initiation of a judicial process. As a clinician and an educator who has worked on college campuses, I am keenly aware of the challenges facing teachers, staff and faculty in navigating this process. This workshop will offer guidance on how to best support survivor students as they manage their lives as students and, in some cases, engage in the judicial process.
Sleep: The Essential Self-Care
Many of our everyday challenges and frustrations are magnified when we don’t get enough sleep. We are often more emotional, more anxious and have poor concentration when we are sleep deprived. Poor sleep can also be a signal that something is going on emotionally that is being ignored. This workshop provides the tools to help participants listen to the signs and signals from their bodies of their own sleep needs. This workshop also provides concrete and fundamental “rules for good sleep” that can be applied right away to improve sleep hygiene.
Ways to Help You and Your Child Prepare for College
Many high school students begin to face the reality of the end of high school and anxiety about what college will be like during their senior year. And for some of their parents, the reality that their child will be embarking on a new journey, in many ways without them, is anxiety producing. While these feelings are completely normal, there are ways to ease this difficult transition. This workshop will provide guidance on managing the transition to college for both parents and rising college students.
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