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Psychology Speaker Presentations and Workshops

Our dynamic and award-winning team of mental health speakers covers various topics, tailoring presentations to suit your organization’s unique requirements. We offer Continuing Education Units for select workshops, and in certain cases, presentations can be provided pro bono based on specific needs. Engage with us to explore these presentations and workshops or discuss customized options for your organization.

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For Business

Building Resilience: A Roadmap for Emerging Stronger Through Adversity

This workshop focuses on how individuals can build resilience, “hardiness,” and grow stronger through life’s challenges. Resilience reduces stress, decreases burnout, and improves productivity in all areas of life. It is an essential component of healthy living.

Codependency vs Interdependency

This presentation explains the difference between co-dependent and interdependent relationships. It teaches how to recognize relationship patterns and how to transition to more interdependent relationship styles.

Creating Life Balance

Have you ever felt out of balance between career and family? Between finances and social life? Between parenting and marriage? Between finances and relationships? This seminar helps attendees create life balance by exploring roles, identifying boundaries for balance, and examining the emotional impact of saying “yes” or “no.” The Wheel of Life Activity activity is presented, which allows attendees to evaluate their level of balance, increase awareness, and better address areas of need.

Motivation, Learning, and Change

This presentation explores theories/models of motivation and change and how to apply concepts from these theories/models to self, relationships, and learning. Findings from research are reviewed, and the application of these findings to behavioral change, renewing relationships and learning.

For Schools

Brain-Wise Teaching: Helping Early Childhood Educators Foster Positive Brain Development in Children

Discoveries in neuroscience have shown that the brain is highly adaptable, especially in children. Early childhood educators play a crucial role in children’s brain development. This workshop will give participants an understanding of neuroscience and neuroplasticity, utilizing these insights to foster positive brain development in the classroom.

Home for The Holidays

Do you find time for family and friends during the holidays, or does the hustle and bustle of events and shopping take over? Do old family issues resurface? Does this time of year remind you of a painful loss? Join this workshop to address these issues and create a more fulfilling and connected holiday experience.

Inside-Out Parenting: Raising Emotionally Healthy Children

How do you raise an emotionally and socially healthy child? This workshop addresses this question and incorporates interpersonal neurobiology, positive psychology, expert opinions, and research from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL).

Teens and Addiction: Helpful Hints for Working With Families

The issue of alcohol and drug use can often be overlooked and may even be mistreated. With many teens’ and parents’ responses to questions about alcohol and drug use as “everybody is doing it,” the problems that arise from it are often attributed to some other disorder. Many clients’ substance abuse problems can be masked as mental health issues. A thorough assessment is critical to developing effective treatment and intervention. Attendees learn why adolescents use and why we should care. Discussion topics include the spectrum of Abuse, Current Trends, Signs and Symptoms, and How to Respond.

For Churches

The Neurobiology of Prayer and Meditation

This lecture identifies the positive effects of prayer and meditation on brain firing, specifically focusing on areas of the brain integrated through prayer and meditation, resulting in better mental health.
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Emotional Regulation: Increasing Well-Being

How do you deal with the ups and downs of everyday life? Do you become overwhelmed by strong or negative emotions or push them away and pretend they aren’t there? Learn the importance of emotional regulation and how to improve emotional regulation at any stage of life.

Manage Stress and Increase Well-being

Learn what happens in your body, mind, and brain when you are stressed. Use simple techniques and life rhythms to help you stay calm and increase your well-being.

Neural Underpinnings: Disorders and Clinical Applications

This psychoeducational workshop examines the neural underpinnings of mental health disorders and connects this understanding to clinical application for treatment. This workshop has been presented in mental health clinics, medical clinics, and dental societies.

Postpartum Depression

This seminar defines signs, symptoms, and support models for new mothers. Attendees are taught how to recognize PPD in themselves and loved ones as well as ways to be a support for another mom.

Early-Stage Divorce Support

Divorce is a life stage of intense emotions: anger, guilt, regret, depression, loneliness, fear, shock, and embarrassment. Issues often arise during the early stages of divorce: co-parenting issues, addictive behaviors, communication problems, emotional health/support, extended family issues, financial pressure, and adjustment and relocation issues. This workshop explores effective coping mechanisms for dealing with this life transition.

Halfway Home: The Social and Emotional Battles of Returning Soldiers

Join us for a comprehensive session that delves into the unique experiences of military personnel. We will focus on understanding combat-related post-traumatic stress symptoms following deployment.
This session is designed for therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists seeking to enhance their understanding of post-traumatic stress and tailor interventions to address combat-related traumas effectively.

Importance and Roles of Attachment Styles

Early experiences matter, and they have long-lasting impact on how we perceive the world and how other people perceive us. Join us for a hands-on keynote speaker session, where you’ll learn your attachment style and how it impacts your life.

Keeping Intimacy in Marriage: Restoring the Passion

This seminar focuses on the importance of attending to the connection in marriage. Discussion points are assessing the “state of the union” during different stages of marriage, determining the intimacy needs of each partner, uncovering the barriers that keep us from prioritizing the relationship, and practical strategies for maintaining intimacy in marriage.

Myths about Marijuana and Alcohol

There are separate workshops for parents and their teens. Parents are taught what to look for and what to do if they suspect that their teen is involved with drugs or alcohol. Teens will participate in an open discussion, dispelling myths about marijuana and alcohol usage.