Leadership
Public speaker & trainer
- PEN (Parent Engagement Network), BVSD
- Parent Brainstorm Series, BVSD
- Colorado School Counseling Conferences
- Littleton Youth Initiative Task Force
- High School Diversity Day
Leadership Experience
- Former adjunct professor, Adams State University, Arapahoe Community College
- Crisis response team Littleton School District (LPS)
- Counseling intern supervisor
- Counseling program development committee, LPS
- American School Counselor Association
Honorable Mention recognition for program, LPS - Mentoring program director, Littleton Schools
- School at-risk committee chairman Littleton Schools
- Bully-Proofing District Trainer, Littleton School District
- Intervention Team facilitator, Littleton Schools
- 504 Coordinator, Littleton & Bennett Schools
- District School-to-Career program coordinator,Bennett School District
- Safe & Drug Free District program coordinator, Bennett School District
- Crisis plan development, Bennett School District
- State of Colorado Safe and Drug Free Advisory Committee, 1995
- Youth leadership training for Peer Counselors, Bennett
- Peer Counselor Advisor Bennett High School
- National Honor Society Advisor, Bennett High School
- Work Study Advisor, Bennett School District
- At-risk counselor: Educational Talent Search/Upward Bound
Specialized Training
- Brain Focused Strategies for Depression
- Working with Shame
- Internal Family Systems: Jay Earley
- Neurobiology of Boys at Risk: Allan Schore
- Interpersonal Neurobiology: Daniel Seigel
- Trauma Healing Techniques: Peter Levine
- Two chair polarity therapy: John Chitty
- EDMR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), Level I & II
- Family Directed Structural Therapy
- DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy: Skills for Mindfulness, Distress tolerance, Emotional regulation, Interpersonal effectiveness
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Working with the body in traumatic stress
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation: Functional Support
- Organ Energy Systems: Building structures for healthy lifestyles
- Landmark Education: Introduction Leadership Program, Wisdom, Partnership
- Colorado Legal & Ethical Issues for Mental Health
- Integrated treatment for Dual Disorders: Substance abuse and mental illness diagnosis
- Character Education Symposium
- Culture Prep: Diversity training
- Play Therapy
- Attachment, Resilience & Brain Development
- FBA: Functional Behavior Analysis
- Solution Focused Brief Therapy
- Traumatic & Acquired Brain Injury in Students
- CPI: Crisis Prevention & Intervention
- Understanding & Responding to Sexual behaviors of Children
- Danger & Threat Assessment: Evaluating & Intervening with Threatening or Dangerous Students
- CARE: Crisis Reduction & Recovery in Education
- Love & Logic Trainer: Teacher & Parent Educator
- Developing Responsibility: Love & Logic with Kids
- School Discipline and Reaching Apathetic Youth
- Bully-Proofing Your School: Creating Caring Communities
- Interventions with Oppositional & Defiant Youth
- Violence Prevention
- Crisis & Suicide Prevention
- Parents on Your Side: Parents as partners in education
- School-to-Career: Making education relevant
- Reducing the Deficit: Working with ADD/ADHD
- AIDS Volunteer Training
- Control Theory/ Reality Therapy