STARS - Student Therapy and Resource Services

Milestones and the Link to Cognitive Growth in Children - Live Webinar
2025-10-28 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
In 2024, the CDC reported that one in six children is diagnosed with a developmental disability. Research has shown that motor skills afford exploration, provide experience, and agility, which are critical for promoting brain structure and function (Shi, 2022). Despite the correlation between milestone achievement and later intelligence and mental health, the AMA adjusted milestone markers, putting U.S. children further behind. This course will provide professionals working in early intervention a checklist of key milestones to provide targeted interventions, from nutrition and sleep to open learning strategies, to boost motor development!
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages Birth-3 years old.
Highlights

Immediately improve your ability to screen across all five developmental domains to identify key areas of intervention
Practical treatment approaches to improve development of motor milestones you can use the next day
Targeted interventions to improve motor development

Early Detection Of Cerebral Palsy: Best Practices And The Role Of Therapy Providers - Live Webinar
2025-10-28 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
This course will introduce the current best practices in the early detection, diagnosis, and intervention of cerebral palsy. Participants will explore therapists’ critical role in identifying early signs, supporting clinical pathways, and guiding families through the process.
Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to identify evidence-based assessments and tools to support early detection and diagnosis of cerebral palsy.

After this course, participants will be able to describe best practices for occupational therapy and physical therapy within the early detection, diagnosis, and intervention clinical pathways.

After this course, participants will be able to list 2 strategies for providing family-centered care during the early detection, diagnostic, and intervention process.

Animal-Assisted Therapy: Meeting Clients’ Therapeutic Goals One Paw at a Time! - Live Webinar
2025-10-27 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Animal-Assisted Therapy (AAT) is a unique and powerful therapeutic approach that harnesses the positive effect of human-animal interactions.
However, it is more than bringing your pet to work. It requires a complex set of skills, knowledge, and considerations to ensure the safe and effective integration of animals into therapy – ultimately to achieve successful client outcomes.
Join Tara Moser, LCSW, and Certified Animal Assisted Intervention Specialist, as she teaches you how to confidently integrate AAT interventions that produce results even at the very first session! You’ll learn how to:

Build positive attachment and trust with clients
Reduce anxiety levels and induce a sense of relaxation
Support co-regulation between client and animal
Promote self-control and impulse management
Develop self-awareness, compassion, and empathy
Create strong social-emotional communication skills

But that’s not all, you’ll also learn to keep everyone safe, including how to:

Detect signs of stress in animal’s and client’s body language
Select animals that are well-suited for the client’s specific situation
Align your client’s therapy goals to appropriate AAT interventions
Integrate AAT with modalities you already use
Know when to and when not to include animals in therapy
Determine best practices for in-person vs telehealth
And so much more!

Through case studies, video demonstration and dynamic discussion you will leave this program with the skills and confidence to integrate dogs, cats and various other animals into your practice!

Social Anxiety and Perfectionism: Clinical Tools to Let Go of Unrealistic Standards and Build Real Connections - Live Webinar
2025-10-24 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Your clients with perfectionism are in a no-win situation, and it can feel like you’re stuck there with them.
When perfectionism exacerbates social anxiety, your clients struggle to stand up for themselves – to assert their needs in high-stakes situations – and seek assistance from others. Their lives are one missed opportunity after another.
When your clients fail to meet their own unachievable standards, they maintain that being hard on themselves is necessary for success – despite your attempts to soften their self-criticism and educate them on how it impairs performance.
When you highlight their victories, they reset the bar and insist that the standards weren’t demanding enough in the first place.
The toolbox for social anxiety treatment that you already have is incomplete if it doesn’t have strategies to shift perfectionism.
Join distinguished expert Dr. Martin M. Antony for this unique one-day training that provides practical, step-by-step, evidence-based strategies for helping clients overcome perfectionism-driven social anxiety. You will learn to:

Deliver concrete cognitive strategies tailored to create positive change for clients who struggle with unreasonable social standards
Overcome common roadblocks to exposure therapy and utilize exposure exercises to increase social interaction
Connect clients with their values as a source of motivation for shifting both their perfectionistic mindset and their social behaviors

Your clients need your help to address unrealistic standards and build real connections. Get the cutting-edge strategies you need to make a difference in their lives. All with our 100% Satisfaction guarantee. Register today!

#7388 Matching Successful Intervention Approaches with Pediatric Therapy Referrals Live Webinar
2025-10-23 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
Matching Successful Intervention Approaches with Pediatric Therapy Referrals is a web course packed full of intervention techniques. Participants will use a brain-based analysis approach to see where the need lies and what activities will achieve the best rehab outcomes. Goal topics that will be addressed include breath support, mobility, energy level, toileting, fine motor skills, sleep interventions, oral motor skills, nutrition, visual skills, and co-regulation. Course instruction method includes: lecture, picture/graphs, and question/answers.

Instructor: Marti Smith, OTR/L

Sensory, Cognitive, and Motor Planning Interventions to Support Successful Mealtime - Live Webinar
2025-10-23 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Feeding is a complex, developmental process that involves physiological development, oral-motor strength and coordination skills, gastrointestinal system, sensory components, and emotions. Providers and caregivers need to assess supported seating options to ensure postural support and stability to allow children to use oral motor skills and coordination as they eat a variety of food tastes, textures,and temperatures. It is important for the therapy team to educate caregivers and support responsive feeding strategies in a stress-free mealtime environment with consistency. Feeding experiences should foster child engagement with enjoyable mealtime experiences and mutual trust for optimal growth and development.
Highlights

Evidence-based strategies for body regulation and engagement to participate in meal preparation, routines, and independence with self-feeding skills
Strategies to improve body awareness, increase strength and balance skills, as well as motor planning and coordination to support feeding and mealtime routines
Coaching strategies to support parent reflection and participation within sessions to help develop, monitor, and modify activities
Team collaboration to support family mealtime routines with cultural sensitivity in the home and community settings

Abandonment Trauma: Treatment Strategies to Heal Inner Child Wounds and Restore Healthy Attachment - Live Webinar
2025-10-23 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Stuck in self-fulfilling cycles of mistrust, many clients expect abandonment and inadvertently create situations that reinforce those expectations.
As therapists our role is to dive into the heart of those abandonment fears, and help them heal the traumatic childhood wounds impacting their adult lives and relationships.
But for some clients “trusting” is a place where they’ve been hurt before, making deep therapeutic work difficult to get off the ground. Others can be too clingy, looking for you to meet their intense need for reassurance and connection.
That’s why expert Ellen Biros created this training — to provide you a roadmap to navigate the complexities of abandonment trauma so you can offer your clients direction, hope, and the keys to healing.
In just one day, she’ll guide you through the practical and effective approaches you need to build trust with these clients, help them overcome their abandonment fears, and forge a path toward lasting healing and better relationships.
With specific exercises from CBT and DBT you can use right away, you’ll end this course ready to help your clients set healthy boundaries, reduce their exposure to toxic relationships, and reframe the negative thought patterns about self-worth and rejection that have been holding them back.
This training is a valuable addition to any therapists’ treatment toolkit.
So don’t wait.
Register now!

Food Allergies and Pediatric Feeding Therapy - Live Webinar
2025-10-17 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Phoenix)
Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) is defined as impaired oral intake that is not age-appropriate and is associated with medical, nutritional, feeding skill, and/or psycho social dysfunction. Food allergy is a complex immune disorder caused by specific genetic variants in combination with environmental and nutritional exposures, that falls under the medical domain of PFD and can directly impact the nutritional, feeding skill, and psycho social domains of PFD. It is estimated that 33 million Americans have food allergies. 1 in 13 children have food allergies and an estimated 40% of those children have experienced a severe reaction.Professionals working with children with PFD must be up to date on the current recommendations on the introduction of solids (for those with and without familial history of food allergy), have a foundational knowledge of the various types and clinical signs and how food allergies can directly impact oral motor development, feeding skill acquisition, and nutrition. Speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists working with children with PFD are in a unique position to help mitigate the negative impacts that food allergies can have and increase the quality of life of both the child and the whole family unit.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients birth – 10 years.
Highlights

The most current research on food allergies and the implications of introducing solids and advancing oral motor skills
The difference between Immunoglobulin E (IgE) and Non-IgE mediated allergies
Signs and symptoms of reactivity in children when introducing solids
Practical intervention strategies for creatively advancing a child’s oral motor skills with limited safe foods.

Self-Regulation Interventions for Children & Adolescents: Reduce Frustration, Emotional Outbursts & Oppositional Behaviors - Live Webinar
2025-10-17 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
This seminar will help you to better intervene with the challenging child—the one who won’t sit still; doesn’t follow directions; often throws tantrums; or has difficulty waiting for their turn. They may “hit first and ask questions later”. They react impulsively and have difficulty expressing what they need or what is frustrating them. We know this child is intelligent, caring and kind, but their behavior doesn’t reflect these positive qualities. These are the children who confuse and frustrate parents and who overwhelm teachers and peers. They struggle to meet basic expectations and are unable to succeed in school, with peers and at home.
Join clinical psychologist Dr. Ehlert and learn to effectively intervene with the emotional and behavioral dysregulation of children with High-Functioning Autism, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Sensory Processing Disorders. Through hands-on activities and dynamic discussion, you will learn techniques, behavioral strategies, problem-solving strategies and brain training exercises to:

Address the sensory, language and executive functioning processing deficits that trigger them
Increase their self-control, social success, emotional control and task completion
Teach flexibility, tolerance, thinking it through and decision-making
Reduce the frequency and duration of their tantrums and emotional outbursts

Register now. Walk away with proven emotional, behavioral and processing strategies that lead to social and academic success!

Treating Trauma in Neurodiverse Clients: Affirming and Culturally Inclusive Healing for Clients with Autism, ADHD & More - Live Webinar
2025-10-13 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Healing from trauma is a challenging journey, and when neurodiversity is involved, the path can become even more complex.
Many clinicians feel under prepared to navigate this rocky terrain where it’s essential to align with each client’s unique communication and processing styles to guide them forward on their journey toward healing.
Without specialized skills, even your best efforts with traditional trauma interventions may fail these clients who so desperately need your help.
This course, led by Dr. Brandi Walker – a respected clinician, researcher, and advocate – offers you the essential knowledge and tools you need to address the nuanced needs of clients with autism, ADHD, AuDHD and other neurodivergences with confidence.
You’ll gain a deeper understanding of neurodiversity and how it influences the treatment of trauma. Dr. Walker’s expertise will guide you through tailored approaches to assessment, intervention, and culturally responsive care for clients facing diverse and interwoven needs.
This is your opportunity to become a specialist in trauma-informed neurodiversity care and build a toolkit of actionable skills to enhance your practice. Learn to:

Confidently use neurodiversity-affirming and culturally-responsive diagnostic approaches
Identify and confidently support sensory needs, verbal and non-verbal communication styles, co-regulate intense emotions, and address executive skills needed for post-traumatic growth
Choose values-driven, strength-based interventions that honor each client’s context and foster healing and resilience
Adapt CPT, Trauma-Focused CBT, Prolonged Exposure, Neurolinguistics, Written Exposure Therapy, and EMDR to meet the unique needs of clients with autism or ADHD
Address the nuanced needs of neurodiverse clients from BIPOC communities, military families, and under served populations with greater precision and compassion

Register now!

Speech-Generating Device Assessment Demonstration: A Practical Guide for SLPs - Live Webinar
2025-10-10 09:00 - 10:00 (America/Phoenix)
Webinar Takeaways

Describe 3 strategies to elicit optimal client participation in trials
Identify 3 behaviors that are indicators of successful AAC adoption
Identify 3 strategies to use in implementation training after the evaluation

October 10, 2025 | 11:00am CDT
60 minutes | 0.1 ASHA CEUs
Presenter: Ann Bedard, Speech-Language Pathologist / Assistive Technology Specialist
Cost: Free

Changing the ADHD Brain: Moving Beyond Medication - Live Webinar
2025-10-10 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Many of our clients diagnosed with ADHD prefer not to take medication. There are various reasons for this including side effects and concerns with long-term use. In this seminar, you’ll learn more about these concerns, as well as alternative interventions for ADHD.
Viewing ADHD from a developmental perspective, we will consider the apparent increase in ADHD diagnoses over the past two decades. By understanding the way brains with and without ADHD function, you’ll be able to better identify a variety of neurodivergent-affirming strategies to significantly impact the nervous system and better manage ADHD symptoms in your clients.
Not only will you walk away with updates about evidence-based non-medication interventions for ADHD such as computerized cognitive training, mindfulness meditation, and neurofeedback, you’ll also learn a variety of practical strategies that you and your clients can implement immediately and at low cost.
We’ll navigate the vast research on exercise, movement, diet, sleep, disruptive technologies, supplements, and the impact of the environment on ADHD, summarizing the findings and applying the information to “real life”. You will leave this seminar with the tools and knowledge to develop a holistic approach to working with adults and children with ADHD.

Trauma-Related Emotional Eating: Integrative Interventions for Chronic Overeating and Binge Eating Disorder - Live Webinar
2025-10-10 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Trauma creates fertile ground for issues with food.
When does emotional eating become disordered eating? And when does disordered eating become an eating disorder?
Most clinicians are not aware of the overlap between trauma, emotional eating, and eating disorders, missing key interventions that relieve clients’ suffering.
Your clients may be struggling at mealtimes – and if you aren’t asking about their relationship with food, you may unintentionally be reinforcing their shame.
Really – given the high rates of co-occurrence – if you’re doing trauma work, you likely already have clients with disordered eating, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), the most common and most under diagnosed eating disorder.
Not an eating disorders specialist? You can still treat BED! Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW, expert BED psychotherapist, will share with you a comprehensive, evidence-based toolkit of successful interventions that will:

Transform your client’s relationship with food, weight, and body image
Approach trauma and binge eating disorder from an IFS-informed framework, somatic interventions, and more
Integrate the crucial strategies of attuned eating and movement
Root your practice in the tenets of weight-neutral recovery

Don’t let trauma continue to wreak havoc on your clients’ experience of eating. Register now to help your traumatized clients forge a peaceful relationship with food.

Ethical and Legal Challenges of Working with Minors: Tools to Navigate Mandatory Reporting, Documentation, Boundary Issues, and More - Live Webinar
2025-10-10 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Working with minor clients and their families can feel like navigating a minefield.
There can be confusion over changing ethical standards and laws….
Fear that parental factors may cause complications or interfere with treatment…
Anxiety that at any moment we might unintentionally cross a line that could jeopardize our professional license or otherwise put us in legal peril.
As a result, working ethically and legally with children and adolescents requires that mental health professionals have a special set of knowledge, skills, and resources.
So, join Ethics expert Dr. Terry Casey as he shows you how to integrate ethical and legal requirements into your practice and shares the resources and tools you need that will allow you to focus on what truly matters – the well-being of your young clients.
From consent and confidentiality to reporting child abuse and navigating the nuances of divorced parents, he’s shown thousands of therapists how to make ethical decisions with more confidence and less worry.
In this one-day training, Dr. Casey will break it all down with detailed instruction and real-world examples so you know exactly what to do in some of the most challenging ethical/legal situations you face in your work including:

How to strike the right balance between transparency and confidentiality
Determine when HIPAA or FERPA applies
Consent rules and issues involving minors
Ways to navigate boundary issues with minors and their parents
Access to a minor’s records
And so much more!

Get the peace of mind that you are ethically and legally serving the needs of your most vulnerable clients!
Register today!

The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference 2025 Innovations in Psychotherapy Live or Online
2025-10-08 08:00 - 2025-10-11 17:00 (America/Denver)
Here’s your premier opportunity to master skills and access cutting-edge insight directly from the world’s premier trauma experts

As a therapist on the front lines of trauma healing, you’re always on the lookout for the next therapy breakthrough to free your clients from intense suffering.
That’s exactly why this conference was developed — to connect you with the world’s leading innovators, researchers, and clinicians who will equip you with today’s most effective skills to revolutionize your trauma treatment results.
Join us in beautiful Anaheim, CA, or online for four days of world-class instruction that provides the perfect blend of inspiring education with rest and rejuvenation!
Master skills and access cutting-edge insight directly from the world’s premier trauma experts.
Here’s just a sample of the incredible, rarely offered sessions you’ll experience at Innovations 2025:

Alanis Morissette, award-winning singer-song writer, thought leader, and mental health advocate
John and Julie Gottman, developers of the Gottman Method and the world’s leading couples therapy duo
Steven Hayes, co-founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, on healing suffering through the ACT approach
Frank Anderson, the field’s leading IFS trauma trainer and author of Transcending Trauma
Mayim Bialik, actress, author and host of the widely popular podcast “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown”

Plus, groundbreaking workshops from Ramani Durvasula, David Kessler, Janina Fisher, Ellyn Bader, Thema Bryant, David Grand and dozens more of today’s leading trauma innovators!
Whether you’re looking for step-by-step guidance on exactly what to do and say in your next client session … or desperately looking to be refreshed and reconnected with your work …
Innovations 2025 is the place for you!

Creative Arts Workshop for Clinicians: Easy-to-Implement Interventions for Kids, Teens, and Adults Facing Trauma, Grief, Depression, and More - Live Webinar
2025-10-03 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
When words fail, art speaks
Creative therapies have the power to bypass the thinking brain, letting clients dive into their deeper emotions and access personal insights …
… making therapy feel more real and impactful.
And here’s the best part: you don’t have to be an artist.
Working through any awkward moments in artistic expression can actually help clients relax, loosen up, and connect with you on a more genuine level.
Join Dr. Patricia Isis, international art therapy expert, author, and certified teacher of mindful self-compassion to experience the profound impact of integrating easily-accessible expressive interventions into your existing practice with clients of all ages who are traumatized, grief-stricken, depressed, highly anxious, or otherwise struggling with traditional talk therapy approaches.
Through Dr. Isis’ engaging instruction, experiential exercises, and case studies, you’ll learn:

Art-based assessment tools to quickly identify unarticulated thoughts and feelings
Strategies to dispel the fear of art and perfectionism in art – for both clinician and client
How to create an expressive arts therapy toolbox with easily accessible supplies
Creative strategies to foster engagement, connection, and self-empowerment
How to use creative therapies along with ACT, CBT, other mindfulness-based practices, and more
Evidence-based clinical strategies using movement, sociodrama, poetry, sound, and various forms of art media

Register now! Space is limited.
Experiential learning supplies needed:

15 sheets white paper
Pencil with good eraser
Drawing supplies of your choice
Heavy-duty aluminum foil (small roll)
5-10 chenille stems or pipe cleaners
Scissors (optional)
Glue or tape (optional)

The Ten Best-Ever Anxiety Treatment Techniques: Updated Strategies to Help Even the Most Challenging Clients - Live Webinar
2025-10-03 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
It is so frustrating to have used all of the “gold standard” techniques and still not see progress. You’ve already worked through the traditional anxiety interventions but your clients continue experiencing the same nervousness, worrying and panic.
This program was made to help you. Join neuropsychology and anxiety expert, Dr. Janene Donarski as she teaches you practical, evidence-based strategies – the 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques, based on the groundbreaking work of Dr. Margaret Wehrenberg.
You’ll master:

Cutting edge modifications to anxiety techniques that work with even the most difficult cases
The latest tips for treating clients with co-morbid diagnoses
Options to use with groups and individuals that work in every clinical population
How to apply the neuroscience of memory reconsolidation and the default mode network to create successful exposure therapies and reduce rigid, anxious thought processes

With Dr. Donarski’s pragmatic approach, you’ll get a complete set of tools to work with anxiety symptoms that you can immediately use with all clients and confidently apply in clinical practice.

#7481 It’s a Wrap: Introduction to Taping and Strapping As an Adjunct to Therapy - Live Webinar
2025-10-02 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Phoenix)
This webinar will introduce the concept and use of taping and wrapping as an adjunct to therapeutic interventions in the treatment of adults and children with neurologic and orthopedic impairments. The course will introduce the use of static and dynamic taping techniques to facilitate improved alignment and muscle reeducation for function. Materials discussed include: rigid strapping tape, elastic therapeutic tape, and neoprene wraps. The course is intended to familiarize participants in the use of these modalities as an adjunct to treatment and to guide interest for future coursework and learning opportunities. Course instruction method includes: Lecture, Demonstration, Videos, Cases Studies, Answer/Question. (Introductory Level)

Instructor: Patricia (Trish) Martin, PT, Certified Kinesio Taping ® Instructor

Smart but Scattered: Effective Executive Functioning Strategies to Empower Children to Thrive Emotionally, Socially, and Academically - Live Webinar
2025-09-30 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
Children who have lagging executive function skills often have trouble getting started on tasks, get distracted easily, lose papers or assignments and forget to hand in homework….
Often considered chronic underachievers, these children are at risk for academic failure as well as social-emotional and behavioral difficulties.
… YOU can be the one to help them!
Join Dr. Dawson, esteemed expert and author on Executive Functioning, for a transformative training that will empower you to support these struggling kids and teens. Dive into captivating case examples and interactive discussions that translate cutting-edge research into meaningful, practical, and easy-to-implement techniques to help at home and in school.
Walk away with a comprehensive toolkit that includes evidence-based strategies – assessment tools, environmental modifications, cognitive and behavioral skill building techniques – to help students …

Establish effective systems to manage materials, assignments, and responsibilities
Prioritize tasks, manage schedules, and meet deadlines
Mitigate impulsive behaviors and decision-making
Foster perseverance and persistence to reach goals
Build confidence, reduce frustration, and strengthen peer relationships through improved self-regulation
Discover their unique strengths and capabilities

Go back to your office with can’t fail strategies and real-world solutions to help kids overcome obstacles, at home and school!

Assessing Abdominal Pressure and Breathing in Pelvic and Back Pain Patients - Webinar
2025-09-29 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
The diaphragm and pelvic floor are major parts of our core, yet a lot of physical therapists, occupational therapists and athletic trainers do not use these muscles when “core” strength training. Studies have shown a stronger association with breathing pattern disorders and incontinence than physical inactivity and obesity in patients with back pain. In addition, the diaphragm (being a major pressure regulator) also contributes to hernia, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasisrectus abdominus, and incontinence. This course will teach you how to assess breathing patterns and provide pressure management strategies in order to support patients with the previously listed symptoms.
Highlights

Assessment and treatment strategies for immediate integration with these populations
Improve your patients’ core strength by integrating the diaphragm and pelvic floor

The Complete Self-Care Toolbox: Practical Strategies to Reduce Stress, Regulate Emotion, and Enhance Resilience in Clients and Therapists - Live Webinar
2025-09-29 07:00 - 15:00 (America/Phoenix)
Self-care isn’t just a trendy buzzword—it’s a game-changer for improving treatment for anxiety, ADHD, addictions, trauma, and other clinical challenges.
And it goes far beyond quick fixes like spa days or vacations.
Real self-care involves practical, science-backed strategies that tackle deep rooted issues and respect intersecting identities for lasting impact.
And let’s not forget how crucial self-care is for you as a clinician.
When you take care of yourself, you’re not just preventing burnout—you’re also enhancing your effectiveness, strengthening client relationships, and bringing your best self to every session.
Join Dr. Robyn L. Gobin, acclaimed self-care researcher, author, and psychologist, as she transforms self-care from a cliché into a powerful tool for improving client outcomes.
In this training, you’ll gain:

Vital self-care skills for the most common clinical problems
Science-backed, body-centric techniques to amplify emotional stability and wellness
Custom-made self-care blueprints catered to your clients’ distinct needs
Tools to effortlessly weave self-care into therapy discussions
Techniques to ensure self-care is impactful and enduring, underpinned by neuroscience

With real-life case examples, worksheets, and templates, this training is your all-in-one guide to mastering self-care—for your clients and yourself.

School Refusal & Resistance: Strategies that Work When Nothing Else Has - Live Webinar
2025-09-29 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
School refusal can range from subtle to loud and dramatic. It might look like daily stomachaches, missed buses, or quiet withdrawal – or it can escalate to emotional meltdowns, outright aggression, or fleeing school mid-day.
Behind these behaviors are often deep emotional barriers – not defiance, but distress.
You witness parents and educators grappling with uncertainty, desperate to help as students become trapped in a cycle of avoidance – one that fuels anxiety, depression, and academic disengagement.
Led by Susan Haarman, LCPC, a seasoned expert in adolescence, trauma, and school-based care, this course delivers practical, collaborative strategies for addressing school refusal in even the most challenging cases.
In this training, you’ll gain:

Accurate Assessment Tools – Improve diagnostic clarity and select the right interventions for each student.
Personalized Intervention Plans – Utilize templates designed to create effective, individualized school refusal strategies.
Deeper Understanding of Root Causes – Address the role of family dynamics, cultural expectations, and environmental stressors in school refusal behavior.
Evidence-Based Treatment Approaches – Learn how cognitive-behavioral therapy, family systems interventions, and pharmacological options can support school reintegration.
Collaborative Strategies – Work effectively with parents and educators to build a compassionate, non-punitive plan that fosters attendance and emotional well-being.

This interactive training goes beyond theory, delving into real-life case studies and actionable solutions. Through expert insights and practical applications, you’ll leave with a toolbox of interventions designed to help students shift from avoidance to engagement.
Don’t let another student fall behind. Join this essential training and become the clinician who helps turn school anxiety into school success. Register today!

Emotional and Disordered Eating: Trauma-Informed Clinical Tools to Heal Your Clients' Relationship with Food and Body - Live Webinar
2025-09-26 06:00 - 14:00 (America/Phoenix)
When your clients struggle with eating, your first move as a therapist may be to develop plans for specific behavioral changes – a list of things clients can do instead of reaching for the fork or limiting food intake.
But these efforts won’t work over the long term. Emotional eating – and the eating disorders it can become – is rooted in nervous system dysregulation and disembodiment that behavior change strategies alone won’t shift.
The body needs to be included for treatment to be effective. Without it, disembodiment will continue, keeping your clients stuck in the cycle of disordered eating and losing hope in your work with them.
Join Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCSWR, CEDS, specialist in eating disorders and somatic psychotherapy, for this in-depth training where you’ll discover how to integrate the body in treatment in a way that fosters real change in your clients’ relationships with food and their bodies!
Packed with practical interventions, this comprehensive seminar will provide you with strategies to:

Shift from shame to empowerment from the very beginning of treatment
Calm the nervous system and regulate emotions without turning to food
Help clients re-establish body cues for hunger and fullness
Replace the harsh inner critic with self-compassion

Register today to help clients manage what is happening on the inside to build resilience, improve emotion regulation, and establish a new compassionate and forgiving relationship with their body!

Rehabilitation for Growth Plate Injuries in the Young Athlete - Webinar
2025-09-23 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Phoenix)
This comprehensive course is designed for rehabilitation professionals and focuses on adolescent musculoskeletal anatomy and growth plate injuries. The session begins with an overview of bony anatomy, the anatomy of the growth plate, and common injuries such as epiphy seal and apophy seal injuries, along with Salter-Harris fractures. The course will provide an in-depth exploration of growth plate injuries across key joints, including the foot/ankle, shoulder, knee, elbow, and wrist. You will take away valuable insights into injury mechanisms, diagnosis, and rehabilitation strategies to enhance patient outcomes in adolescent athletes and active youth.
The content of this program is germane to children, students and clients ages 5-18 years old.
Highlights

Immediately improve your understanding of the unique aspects of musculoskeletal anatomy in the skeletally immature patient
Clinically applicable strategies for rehabilitation of growth plate injuries in skeletally immature patients that you can immediately implement in the clinical setting

Acceptance & Commitment Therapy Made Easy: ACT for PTSD, Anxiety, Depression & Personality Disorders - Live Webinar
2025-09-23 05:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix)
Are your current techniques just not working?
You’ve experienced the frustration; you have a client who seems to just not break through. You’ve tried your best, but the outcome is the same: he or she progresses for a while, then regresses again.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is the popular transdiagnostic approach that you can integrate into your practice to achieve positive therapeutic outcomes with difficult-to-treat clients.
Join ACT expert and presenter Daniel J. Moran, as he delivers an exercise and intervention-heavy course that will give you the tools you need to more effectively treat clients with PTSD, anxiety, depression or personality disorders.
You’ll learn how ACT weaves mindfulness strategies with cognitive behavioral change strategies to revolutionize client outcomes, as well as discover a variety of ACT techniques for helping clients who are struggling to make difficult behavior changes due to the presence of painful thoughts, feelings and memories.
By shifting client focus to their own values, ACT sets clients up to embrace behavior change that is meaningful to them while simultaneously fostering skills that allow clients to more effectively handle impulsive actions based on current thoughts or emotions.
Sign up today, and Dr. Moran will guide you step-by-step through highly practical, evidence-based ACT skills that you can apply in your practice immediately!

Functional Assessment and Testing Strategies in Pediatric Care - Live Stream
2025-09-21 09:30 - 12:45 (America/Phoenix)
Treating children with any level of disability can present multiple challenges. There can be underlying issues that are not immediately obvious. An in-depth evaluation is required to uncover what might be interfering with function. This course will present how to use the ICF (International Classification of Function) and the use of a systems approach to analyze challenges that a child presents. We will explore case studies of real examples to further clinicians’ understanding of these two systems. Therapists will learn to apply problem-solving techniques using the ICF template. In addition, participants will become comfortable using a systems approach to explore multiple systems that could interfere with function, with a goal of understanding achievable goals for children of all levels of function.
Highlights

Building a systems-based approach for the evaluation process to gain in depth information of multiple factors that can influence performance
Best practice for using the International Classification of Function (IFC)
Determining key priorities for building an appropriate treatment strategy
Utilizing the goal attainment scale to make the outcome measures achievable in a timely manner to showcase the child’s progress
Case studies of children with varying levels of disability to analyze movement disorders and the main treatment priorities

Taping for Posture and Alignment in Pediatrics - Live Stream
2025-09-21 05:00 - 08:15 (America/Phoenix)
This course is designed for the physical therapists,occupational therapists, athletic trainers, and speech-language pathologists who seek a better understanding of how therapeutic taping can be used to effectively influence postural alignment to facilitate a stable base for movement.This course will include demonstrations using two different media: kinesiology taping and Superwrap™ along with an introduction to the use of rigid strapping tape.
Techniques presented will focus on alignment of trunk and extremities for increased function. Course material will focus on basic concepts of theory, assessment, and treatment of the child with cerebral palsy and other neuro- motor disorders in relation to the use of taping and alignment. The course will include lab sessions and case studies to reinforce didactic information as well as a discussion of problem solving to determine the best taping technique and medium.
Highlights

Hands-on lab utilizing kinesiology taping techniques for improved function and alignment of trunk, hand, jaw, and lip closure and increasing length of hamstrings
Practice wrapping techniques utilizing Superwrap™ to facilitate musculoskeletal alignment
Powerful techniques for improved alignment of the trunk utilizing either kinesiology tape or rigid strapping taping

Adaptive Strengthening Activities for Children with Motor Dysfunction Live Stream
2025-09-20 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Phoenix)
Strengthening is a key component of functional movement which is generally decreased in children with neuro muscular deficits. Follow through and practice of strengthening activities can be fun and creative. This encourages children to perform these activities on a regular basis to form lifelong habits to improve and maintain function. This course will examine why children with neuro muscular issues may develop alternate movement patterns due to decreased strength. Participants will also apply adaptive alternatives to traditional strengthening techniques that can be done either individually or in a group setting using both open and closed chain activities. These adaptations will include Pilates, Yoga, traditional exercise, and the therapy ball for simple exercise routines that are fun and motivating. Participants will be able to immediately incorporate the activities presented and discussed into daily treatment sessions.
Highlights

Best practices for strengthening in children with neuro muscular dysfunction
Immediately apply adapted strengthening activities for gross and fine motor deficits

Emergent Literacy - Webinar
2025-09-20 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Denver)
Nationally only 35% of public school students are reading at or above grade level. Literacy starts at birth as the parts of our brain that process language are the same ones that are repurposed to learn to read. Research has found that supporting children through early intervention when brain plasticity is highest can provide the foundation for learning to read before children enter kindergarten. Many parents need extra support in learning how to read to their children in ways that promote motivation and learning. Attendees will learn evidence-based strategies to add to their therapy toolbox and recommended books with which to implement these strategies.
Highlights

Discover strategies to support the building blocks of emergent literacy including phonological awareness, print knowledge, vocabulary, and comprehension
Review the research on the connection between language disorders in early childhood and literacy outcomes in school
Describe how to choose the best books to promote emergent literacy

Children with Severe Impairments - Livestream
2025-09-20 05:00 - 12:30 (America/Phoenix)
Treating children with severe physical impairments, with or without cognitive impairments, presents unique challenges. Many of these children lack head and trunk control necessary to interact with family members, peers, and the environment. Finding effective evaluation tools, including standardized tests, is difficult. Therapists gaining this information will not only be able to better their outcomes, they will be able to carry this information on to family and caregivers to improve long-term functional development.
This course emphasizes evaluation and assessment across the lifespan to meet changing impairments and functional needs. Treatment techniques to address the respiratory system, basic life skills and maintaining postural alignment will be practiced. We will discuss how to set functional goals and workable home programs. This course is designed for physical, occupational and speech-language pathologists who work with this population and want to expand their skills. Participants will identify the challenges of working in various settings and how to set treatment priorities for each setting. Participants will apply realistic functional goal setting techniques to make goals achievable. Treatment concepts will be reinforced through practical demonstrations and interactive lab exercises. Participants, whether attending virtually or in person, will have access to visual demonstrations using a doll, ensuring all can engage with and apply the concepts.
Highlights

Effective assessment and treatment of children with medically complex diagnoses such as cerebral palsy, autism, brain injury, prematurity, heart/lung failure, seizures, and neuromuscular degenerative diseases
Hands-on treatment strategies for development to improve function, posture and mobility using handling, positioning, bracing and weight bearing activities
Using sensory stimulation strategies to promote improvements in vestibular input, tactile, audio, visual, proprioception, and oral motor development
Best practices for the evaluation and testing process to set the most functional and achievable goals
Home programs and parent/caregiver resources to promote long-term developmental outcomes
