Live webinar September 16, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S
This webinar will focus on the beginning phase of therapy, namely, how to build a positive therapeutic rapport, engage resistant clients, conduct a comprehensive assessment, and develop a treatment plan.
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September 17, 2020
Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., RP.
Gain practical strategies and creative approaches for preparing children for a death, or dying of someone close to them.
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Live webinar September 23, 2020
Amy Gajaria, MD., FRCP©.
This webinar will give guidance to professionals in providing culturally competent clinical care for underserved, diverse, racialized young people and their families.
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Live webinar October 6, 2020
Katy Albert, M.Ed., OCT, BCBA
How can you help when a child seems to lack motivation and doesn’t use the skills they have learned in therapy? This webinar will explore practical techniques to address oppositionality, rigidity and other challenging behaviours in therapeutic settings.
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Live webinar October 8 and 9, 2020
Geraldine Crisci, MSW., RP.
Ms. Crisci is an author, professional trainer, speaker and practitioner.
Learn the effects of early childhood trauma on brain development integrating an attachment and developmental lens and provide a framework for understanding the implications of neglect, chaotic and violent environments on behavioural presentations in children.
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Live webinar October 19, 2020
Michel Jones, MSW., RSW., RP.
Learn how the brainstem, limbic system and the pre-frontal cortex system impact each other and affect emotional response and cognitive distortions along with specific grounding techniques to bring traumatized clients out of the "there and then" to the "here and now” to allow for treatment.
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October 20, 2020
Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., RP.
The focus of this workshop will be on supporting children and youth after a death has happened in their lives utilizing grief support strategies that can be applied in a wide variety of settings.
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Live webinar October 26, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S
Learn how utilize a variety of creative therapeutic techniques to engage children and teens in therapy that will make sessions more meaningful and effective and help them to resolve their psychological difficulties.
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Live webinar October 28, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S and Greg Lubimiv, MSW., CPT-S
This webinar will present the rationale for child-focused family sessions, and will outline the major models and essential skills of child-focused family therapy.
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Live webinar October 29, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S
This webinar will outline a rational for using play-based innovative techniques that engage, assess and treat families while providing a medium for all members to participate and promote positive family interaction.
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Live webinar November 2 and 16, 2020
9:00 am to 12:00 noon.
Scot Cooper, RP.
Examine important concepts, accompanying practices and specific questioning techniques, along with important ways to co-develop plans of action.
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Live webinar November 9 and 10, 2020
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-SP.
Gain an understanding of the theoretical framework of TF-CBT along with creative interventions for each of the eight treatment components and how to effectively utilize TF-CBT in play therapy to treat a range of childhood traumas.
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November 26, 2020
Andrea Warnick, RN., MA., RP., and
Liana Lowenstein, MSW., RSW., CPT-S.,
Learn how to support children and youth who have experienced death with additional complicating circumstances such as the nature of the death (suicide, homicide, substance use disorder), along with ways of identifying trauma symptoms in children and youth.
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Live webinar December 3 and 4, 2020
Ross W. Greene, PhD.,
Dr. Greene is a clinical child psychologist, author and public speaker.
Understand the underpinnings of the six key themes of the CPS model, its refinements over the past 8-10 years, along with practical identification, assessment and intervention tools that can be brought back to and used in diverse settings.
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 Anxiety and the Gift of the Imagination
Date to be confirmed
Robin Alter, PhD., C.Psych.
Anxiety disorders are on the rise and in the time of COVID, anxiety reactions are even more prevalent. Explore a new way to help children understand and manage their anxiety with this successful therapeutic formulation of anxiety along with a clinical model for working with children and anxiety management.
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