Workshop:

Monthly Virtual workshop offered to expecting and new parents with infants in their first year of life. 

Workshop includes:

Understanding Infant Attachment for New Families: The important work of relating to our babies

90-Minute Workshop includes:

• Understanding infant attachment and state of research on attachment

• Long term effects of attachment on adult relationships

• Defining attachment and emotional co-regulation

• Managing caregiver stressors

• Facilitating attachment

• Tracking disturbances in attachment

• Supporting your partner around attachment

• Learning infant temperament

• Tools for caregiver’s emotional regulation

Workshop Fee: $125.00* per family 

*Group discounts offered for 5 or more attendees

Goals of Workshop:

As a psychotherapist in clinical groups, we often speak about clients' attachment styles and how they play out in adult relationship and their childhood experiences which taught their attachment style. We discuss their attachment fissures and seek to repair them with new interpersonal experiences to improve overall well-being. As a parent, my understanding of attachment and regulation in infants, helped me tremendously to navigate the challenging first year of life for my child despite being in great mourning for the loss of my own mother. Grief, stress, financial pressure, relationship distress and the pandemic can challenge our efforts to respond consistently to the continuous needs of our infant; this workshop is meant to enhance self-awareness and self-care for parents to aid in healthy attachment. After working with adults for many years who showed evidence of distress in their attachment patterns, it seemed unfair that parents were not given the option to understand the vital attachment needs of children beyond that of meeting the physical needs of infants. 

The goal of this workshop is to give parents the attachment information therapists use regularly in assisting their adult clients in their interpersonal relationships. And, to support, as much as is possible, the coordinated affects and attachment needs of their child in the here and now. The workshop will focus on supporting healthy psychological attachments in infancy for their future adult children while creating a safe environment, without parent shaming and managing expectations of the hard job of caretaking. The workshop is open to all parents but will focus on first year of life. The workshop is 90-minutes long and is offered on a monthly basis. 

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consultations:

Consultations are single 90-minute sessions to explore topics relating to my areas of expertise without the commitment to psychotherapy or the confines to therapeutic treatment. Consultations are meant to provide psychoeducation and to create space to ask questions, get recommendations on next steps and obtain guidance on issues relating to loved ones and others. 

Consultation Areas:

Normative sexual behavior in Children vs. Problematic sexualized behaviors: questions about what is typical and healthy sexual development for children and what is worrisome; how to respond, when to seek help and how to manage your own reactions to sexualized behaviors in children.

Sibling Sexual Abuse: questions about frequency, long term effects and psychological impact of sibling sexual abuse/contact, questions around mandated reporting regarding sibling abuse, what will therapists need to report in NYS and what type of therapeutic treatment is available and effective; how to protect and hold hope for both children and how to facilitate discussions about boundaries and healthy bodies.

Trauma and Child Sexual Abuse: psychoeducation on the effects of trauma and/or child sexual abuse, how history of trauma effects relationships and how to support partners who've experienced sexual assault or CSA. Understanding long time effects, recognizing resilience, what are available and effective treatments, history of CSA and effects on parenting and the neurobiology of trauma.

Mandated Reporting in NYS: consultations for the public and for clinicians on matters of mandated reporting, professional responsibilities of those in the helping professions. What to expect from therapists and case consultations for clinicians struggling with mandated reporting issues within their own practice. Navigating and understanding roles of child abuse investigators and investigations. The art of reporting and how to stay engaged with your clients and with your therapist post report. 

Various Topics in Psychotherapy: to offer context to issues of depression, anxiety, trauma or substance use/abuse; understanding the challenges for loved one who are experiencing crisis, psychoeducation on disorders and clinical presentations, how to recognize signs of distress in others, information on available resources, how to advocate to hospitals, institutions and providers for the wellbeing of family members. Understanding collaborative care and care teams, the role of the caregiver and the ways to care for oneself while caring for another.

Case consultations: for clinicians only, case consultation to provide a single session regarding one or more clients to offer new perspectives, clinical feedback, discussion on transference/counter transference, interventions and strategies to provide stellar clinical services. 

**Consultations are not considered therapy and there is no therapeutic relationship implied. The purpose of consultation is tailored education and information on best practices. They are not legal guidance nor ethical guidance which should be governed by the licensing bodies for helping professions. NYS and NJ mandator reporter responsibilities still apply to all consultations and provider will review all limitations to confidentiality prior to engaging in consult. Provider is not responsible for treatment outcomes.

In my time as a clinical director and psychotherapist, people often reach out to learn more about issues and concerns arising in their families and life. Individuals are often not certain how to proceed or how to understand the behaviors of loved ones and are seeking a trusted professional to provide emotional and psychological context. A consultation can provide specific psychoeducation and information to guide your next steps whether that be to reach out to a therapist, what type of therapy or how to advocate for oneself regarding the emotional needs of you or your family. A consultation can help you get answers to questions you are uncertain on who to ask and how to ask them.

90-Minute Consultation Fee: $400.00