Natalie Bunner, LCSW-BACS, CCTP

This training acknowledges what many spend copious amounts of time denying: school can indeed be traumatic. We delve into the reality of the current educational system, recognizing the consistent elements of disruption that impair academic experiences and equipping clinicians with ways to assess trauma’s impact on students’ overall well-being. Grounded in clinical frameworks and real-world application, this training moves beyond theory to provide practical, ethical strategies for responding to trauma while sustaining the professionals doing the work.

This training shifts the focus from preoccupation with deficits to strengths-based practice with neurodivergent children. Using evidence-based research, we examine how restrictive societal expectations contribute to shame and co-occurring mental health challenges in children with ASD, ADHD, and anxiety. We explore how common challenge behaviors can be reframed as clinical strengths and leave the experience with practical assessment tools and session strategies for supporting each child’s individual strengths in the family and school settings.

This training addresses the reality of family conflict on the therapeutic experience. Highlighting the reality of relational disruption after divorce, separation or loss, experience allows clinicians to explore effective ways to assess familial capacity to navigate hardships while being in the therapeutic space. Empathetic and engaging, this training allows mental health professionals to maintain clinical and ethical aptitude while providing compassion and care for the clients in crisis.

Grounded in the evidence-based model of Trust-Based Relational Intervention, this training equips parents, caregivers and pediatric professionals with practical, brain-based strategies to build connection, trust, and emotional safety with the children to which they provide care. Focused on children who have experienced difficult realities and may be additionally impacted by stress, adversity, or neurodivergence, participants learn how to move beyond compliance-driven parenting and instead develop skills that support regulation, attachment, and long-term resilience.

This experience provides organizations with the opportunity to slow down and focus on the ways to find restoration in the midst of chaos. By providing both synergetic and practical resources, we move from the theoretical perspective of Rest to the “deep in your bones” somatic repair that comes from creating safe space for your nervous system to recalibrate.